Evening star., 1932-09-17
BY EDWARD ]. NEII,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

N yEW YORK, September 1.-THE
Return of Ruth" a legendary.
almost historic drama nova
days and apparently needing
only unanimous opinion that the great
one is through to start a revival, was
magnificent thing at Its inception In
1923.
Relegated to the ball players bone
yard, dubbed the busted phenomenon,
the Babe suddenly braced A new spirit,
inspired by mild. kindly little Miller
Higgins, suddenly swept over the entire
Yankee club.
An nly-disciplined mob Ct tempera-
mental stars, each playing his own
game, was transformed into q well
ordered. sincere, closely-knit team, with
Ruth, the contrite, showing the way.
Beaten of by the Giants in two sue
cessive world series, Inundated, the
Yankees came back to sweep the Amer
ican League again in 1928, with Ruth
hitting 1893, greatest average he ever
complied, along with Al home runs.
Not the Same Ruth.
Into the third straight series with
the Giants swept the Yankees, and this
time Ruth was the deadly spearhead
He rallied such mighty pitchers as Herb
Pennock, Waite Hoyt, Sam Jones and
Bob Shawkey, and his siuging mates
Bob Meusel, Joe Dugan, Wauy P1pp,
Whitley Witt and Aaron Ward.
Ruth hit three home runs, a triple, q
double and two singles in the six games
the Yankees needed to batter down the
Giants, four games to two. Two OF his
hcme runs, the first he ever hit In
world series play, came in the second
game of the series and won 1t for Herb
Pennock, 4 to 2. His distance smashes
opened his assault on word series hit
ting records. No one before him had
hit two homers in successive times at
bat for three home runs in one series.
Subdued the Scoffers.
Today his home run record is four
for one series, made against the st. Louis
Cardinals in 1926, and equaled by Lou
Gehrig against the Cards in 1928.
The manner of Ruths hcme-run hit
ting subdued the scoffers who had
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They said then that John McGraw
knew the big fellows weaknesses; that
Ruth could not hit a low inside curve
or change of pace.
In the second game. of Hughie Nc
Quillan, the Babe smashed a low inside
curve into the stands. His next time
at bat, against Jack Bentley, he waited
a slow bal cut of the park.
McGraw's Last Laugh
Again in this series. however. the first
ST 900 900 post-season classic in base
balls history, the master mind OF the
Giants found Ruth's second weakness
The first always has been base on
balls, something the Giant hurlers fed
him literally after the second game.
Leading Pennock 4 to l, pitching
beautifully, Art Nehf suddenly weak
ened in the eighth inning. Two singles
and two walks filled the bases and
forced in a run. "Rcsy" Ryan took
Nehf's place and walked Joe Dugan
forcing in the second run to cut the
Giants lead to 4 to 3.
Ruth was up with the bases full
Ryan curved over two strikes. McGraw
on the bench. saw the Babes anxiety
read rightly that he'd not let another
ball pass him without taking a cut.
Deliberately he ordered Ryan to heave
the next one into the dirt. Rosy did
The Babe took mighty swing. Back
to the bench he trudged Meusel, the
next batter singled to save the day.
1t was the last triumph of McGrawian
mind over Ruthian matter They never
met again on world series fields.