Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29

Yankees Victory would give the McGraw clan
the title. Two were out, Aaron Ward was ON
first and Frank Baker at bat. One of Bakers
old-fashioned wallops would tie the count, per-
hapS win the game.
Baker caught hold of one of Artie Nehfs
pitches and drove fast grounder toward right
field It looked like a certain hit. But Rawlings
in some way or other flung himself at the ball.
succeeding in getting his hand on it, tossing to
Kelly in time to nip Baker at first
Meanwhile, Ward, thinking the ball had gone
to the outfeld, kept Logging 1t for third. But
Kelly, who boosted one of the best throwing
arms in the league, cut loose with fast heave
to Frisch at third and Ward was retired. Aaron
and frankie went end over end as they collided,
but the Giant star managed to hold onto the
ball, nevertheless.
The play of course ended the game and gave
the crown to the Giants. For brilliant fielding,
lightning like action and perfection of execution
1t was q real classic.
ONE of the most exciting moments I ever
~ witnessed was the time big Grover Alexan-
der famed Lazzeri with the bases full in the
final game of the 1925 Cards-Yanks get-t0-
gether The Hugmen we're but one run behind
at the time, it was the eighth inning and the
teams were tied at three wins A hit by Tony
doubtless would have brought the champion
ship to New York Alexander, during those few
tense seconds, was the perSonification of COOL
ness.
Perhaps the most dramatic incident I've seen
in the world series was that rainy afternoon
at Forbes Field Pittsburgh, in 1925, when wal
ter johnson, pitching for Washington, hurled
what was to be his final world series game. In
the mud and rain the Pirates found him tor
Is solid SmaSheS.
The two clubs were tied at three victories
apiece and Johnson was the hope of the Harris
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but one run in Is innings. He looked like good
bet even more so when the Mats got away TO
four-run lead in the first inning.
But the great Walter couldn't cling to the
pace he had set earlier in the series. The
Pirates got eight doubles, triple and six singles
off him that dismal day, winning to z. The
famous Big Train was, indeed pathetic figure
out there on the muddy mound during the lAsg
few innings that afternoon
IRON a spectators standpoint, I douhk IL
there was ever more unsatisfactory ending
than the climax of the 1927 event. Pittsburgh.
beaten three straight games, was making last
stand to prevent four-game rout. In this
series Pitcher John Miljus experienced the thrila
of first being a near-hero, only to have the
game end with him as the goat" Sent in as
relief pitcher in the seventh with the score q
Tie at IS, he neld Inc YANKEES IN check until
the ninth
Then, with the bases filled and no one out,
Miljus rose to great heights only to fall with
dull thud. Amid the plaudits of fandom ne
struck out Gehrig and Meusel. Tony Lazzeri
was up with the bases filed much the same
situation he faced in the series of the year
previous, when Alexander struck him out With
Lazzeri in the hole, sweeping curve eluded
the grasp of the Pirate catcher and the run
that decided the game and series tricked over
the plate
There will always be much discussion as to
whether it was wild pitch or passed ball, Had
Miljus famed Lazzeri, making three straight
strikeouts with the bases filled, it would have
gone down into base ball history as one Of
the greatest pitching feats ever enacted in O
world series. But he didn't And instead Of
emerging from the series a hero he came out
goat" all because of one badly pitched BAN.