Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1922, Page 26

Warmouth, Rookie Southpaw, Baffles Hugmen, Fanning Ruth With Nationals Pound Jones for 6-1 Verdict. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. % more than 13,000 spectators L I ¥4 for a glimpse of the Yankees were far from impressed with the team that is to represent the American League in the world series. They saw Lefty Warmouth, a newc admirably supported by Lapan, his the pennant winners to five hits and in the matter of passes and some s! than doubled their opponents’ quota of bingles at the expense of Sam Jones, and crossed the plate half a dozen times. “If they are the champions I'm way one chap expressed it as he filed out of the park, and that just about summarizes the estimate of the Yankees formed by a majority of the fans at the Sabbath set-to. It fs a fact that if the prowess of the Hugmen were to be gauged by their performance in the final affr of the 1922 campaign they would not he rated very high. All their first- string athletes were in the line-up, including Ruth, and the famed Bam- bino proved the softest of the bunch at bat, failing to get a ball out of.the infleld in four attempts and on one occasion fanning ingloriously with the bases loaded, to the great glee of the bugs and the rather justifiable satisfaction of Mr. Warmouth. He stuck 'em right over for the Babe in that notable round, just as he did on the Bam's other appear- ances. Reputations apparently mean noth- Ing to the Southern Association grad- He displaved a_falr turn of speed and a passable hook, and al- though he expericnced some difficulty with his control. the fistful of passes he issued served ouly to give him op- portunities to demonstrate that he could use his stuff with aliens on the bases—a true test of the worth of any recruit flinger. Rookle Cool as Veteran. Although not tall, Warmouth is a sigeable athlete and comported him- Self as coolly as a veteran campaign- er. His performance made a big hit with the fans, who made known their appreciation of his efforts at close of y round. ©Fut, narking back to the Yankees, the fans will do well to consider twice before wagering on their op- ponents in the big Joust llll\E opens Wednesday at the Polo Grounds merely because the American L titleholders appeared so helple: attack vesterday. Thoughtful s tators will take into consideration the fact that the Hugman only the day before had clinched the banner after many months of grueling struggle, during which they at no ne were in a position to let down. With the pen- nant finally theirs the natural reaction caused them to ease up a bit and they can b, excused for not extending themsefves to the limit. when their was nothing at stake. The Hugmen have demonstrated throughout the season, whenever occasion demanded. that they can rise to emergencies and they can be counted on to display an entirely different spirit than that in evidence yesterday when they trot onto the field against the Giants. Game Decided in Opener. 8o far as deciding vesterday's issue was concerned, there was nothing to the engagement after the first in- ning. _Judge opened with a_double that Ruth all but speared with one fin with a leap close to the fence. and singles by Goslin, Lapan and La Motte, walks to Brower. eck and Judge, were recorded as five of the Criffmen checked in at the counting station. Not a very hopeful Jones on the eve of the world series perhaps, but it is significant that, astarting with the second frame, when Sam got his slow ball in good work- ing order, the local cannonading was abruptly halted. Of the half dozen bingles made subsequently only two were bunched—in the seventh round —when Goslin's rather tainted poke through McMillan at third, Brower's real bingle to right and Lapan’s sac- rifice fly accounted for a run. This tally might not have materialized either, but for the fact that Ruth cut off Smith's apparently accurate throw to double up Tu between bas ‘Warmounth Nicked in Fourth. The lone marker Warmouth was nicked for developed in the fourth L when, with two gone. Pipp rifled a| Ruth as home-run king. double past Judge. took third as Brower fumbled and scored on £ Meusel's lazy single to left after)record crop of 59 the season before. Hofmann walked. This was not the only occasion the roungster was in hot water, however. 1n the fifth, for instance, with one ngled and passes were out, Jones handed to Witf and McMillan. sacks ‘jammed and Ruth up! The mettle of Warmouth. lunge resulted in a sky-high foul He took - healthy cuts at the ne;l the tossed his two, hooks straight through middle, and disgustedly bat away, whiffed by a rookie on three pitched balls. Pipp, the pickler, whose bludgeon has been such a_tell- ing factor in the attack of the Hug- men this season, vet was to be reck oned with, but Wally’s best was a pop fly that Judge got under. Two away in the ninth, Jones got: another single. McNally walked and both were permitted to advance un- molested, but Warmouth was strong corralling right to the finish, Harri McMillan's fly to ring down the cur- tain on base ball in Washington until next April. ON THE SIDE LINES Line formed a: the right for the Griffmen after the game. grabbed their pay checks and hiked. Two or three will do some barnstorm- ing, but the majority will vacationize before digging in for the winter. President Johnson of the American League and Vice President Richard- son of the Nationals were among those present. Big Ban is on his way to see the big series in New York. Lapan, as well as Warmouth, made « favorable impression on the fans, ! showing for This was a setting calculated to test the Babe's first They Bases Loaded, While who visited the ball park yesterday omer on the roster of the Nationals, battery mate, from Little Rock, limit one run, despite a.marked generésity loppy support, while the Griffs more going to bet on the Giants,” was the GRIFFS SET NEW MARK FOR DOUBLE-PLAYS—165 Exereding by ten the best pre- vioux mark of 155 double n a meanon, establixked jointly last Year by the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants, big league honors for twin kil in the campaign which ended yesterday went to the National Thelr total of 165 is the highest ever registered in the majors so far as avalleble statistics show. The final totals, which may be regarded ns authoritative, since they are furnished by Irwin Howe, official statistician of the America; ing teamw of the major organt: tions finished with number of double AMERICA) Waxhington, 1 st. NATIONAL. 5 Chicago......159 Louis.....156 Philade) 135 although his work naturally was less conspicuous. Lapan is a short, stocky athlete, and handles himself like a hitter. "He got' no opportunity to ex- hibit his throwing abili Ruth had an anemic day of it at bat. In addition to whiffing with the corgers crowded he rolled to Judge, topped a drive in front of the plate 332 boynded to Harris for a force- | Warmouth and Riee alone of the Griffs went hitless in the final fracas, while Harrls. Goslin, Brower and La Motte cach collected a pair. Members of the Mohawk A. C. sembled at the plate prior to the me and received trophies em- Llematic of the sandlot base ball championship they annexed in the re- cent city series. HOW GRIFFS ARE HITTING 6. Pet. .24 AB. H. SB.RBL 38 116 3 85 4 17 101 11 a2 154 634 149 144 [ Harris Peckinpaugh 164 148 La Motte. 68 | cccoronornoonBRrannten orroniBunlso k2B 83ES! «BZBBIBLRB [ By the Asociutea Prese. W YORK, October 2. into base ball’s hall of base blows. Ruth, with the handicap of a late start, due to hi$ suspension, was un- able to gain on Hornsby from the time he rejoined the Yankees on May 20. The Cardinal clouter had six home runs when the Babe was .re- stored to good standing and finished the season seven ahead of his Yankee rival Williams, who, with Walter Hen- line of the Phillies. holds the un- usual distinction of hitting thiree homers in a single game this season, led the home run sluggers at the time of Ruth's re-entry, with eleven to his credit. The Browns' star collect- ed his homers in spurts, however, while Hornsby plugged away at the fences at a steady, consistent pace. ‘Anaylsis of the home run records shows Hornsby and Walker each hit two circuit blows in a single game. Ruth has performed the ‘feat four times. An odd feature of the team record for the season is that the Phila- delphia clubs, occupying seventh place in both leagues, led each cir- cuit in home run clouting. The Ath- letics, with Walker and Bing Miller leading the assault. amassed 111, | while the Phillies, aided by Cy Wil- liams, Cliff Lee, Parkinson and Hen- line, reaped a harvest of four more, 115. St. Louis clubs were second and New York outfits third in each cir- cuit. Neither team leader, however, touched the mark of 134, established last year by the Yankees. The grand total of 1,054 homers sets a new mark for the “lively ball” ex- ceeding by 117 the recard of 937 for both leagues last season. ‘"Taréyton London Cigarettes . as- | Rogers Hornsby, ame as the first National Leaguer to finish with a mark over 400 in twenty-three years, has succeeded Babe IBrowns_, leading the American Leaguers, was three behind the Cardinal star, with 39. Tillie Walker, chief of Connie Mack’s sluggers, occupied third place, with 37, and the former monarch, Ruth, registered 35 four- IT'S ALL OVER NOW NEW YORK. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. ite, cf. 3°0 0 4 0 0 *McNally 9 0 00 0 0 2 000 00 Mi 200110 40 005 2 0 a1 15 00 10 01 0 0 30 0 4 1 0 A0 2 0 0 4 0 01 o i3 0 0 3 0 ‘0 o o S8 1 0 AB. R. E. AT [] 41 1 a0 0 42 1 5 X 1 3 3,1 ] Peckinpaugh, 30 La Motte, Sb. i 0 1 Warmouth, D! 4 0 o Totals ... 31 6 4 *Batted for Witt in nf 5 th. Two-base hits—Judge, Pipp. Stolen base— Goslin. Bacrifice—Lapa Double plays— Jones ‘to Scott to Pipp; Smith to Ruth to Scott to Ruth; Rice to Peckinpaugh to Har- ris; Hofmann fo Ruth to Scott. Left on base: Washington. 6. Bases on Warmouth, cf by Warmouth, ‘5. of man: ‘mpires—Messrs. Uweny and Time of game—1 hour and 34 minutes. i — AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Passed hall—] Nallin. City, 4-4; Columbus - 8t , 4-10; Louisville, 3-1, Minneapolis, 5-4: Indianapolis, 3-6. HORNSBY SUPPLANTS RUTH AS HOMER KING WITH 42 besides batting himself Hornsby finished the season with 42 circuit clouts, 17 behind Ruth’s Ken Williams of the St. Louis TY TIES THREE RECORDS FOR HITTING DURING YEAR DETROIT, October 2.—Three major league batting records were tied by Ty Cobb during the 1922 season. The Georgian has hit .300 or better in sev- enteen seasons, equaling the record of Hans Wagner: has. 200 or more safe- ties to his credit in ejght seasons and has batted .400 or better in three sea- sons. The .400 feat tles the record of Jesse Burkett. Burkett, however, set the record before the foul strike rule became effective. —_—————— It is interesting to learn that Ruth|son is .401. and Eleanor Smith, the twins «ho have made a great reputation as swimmers, are freshmen at Ohio State. Clese D At the Sign ~* the Moo: Established 1803 'SPECIAL —Our tailoring experts have-been associated with us for yéars. 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Stenzel, Pittsburgh, 409, in . 189 Hughy Duffy, Boston, .438,. in 1894; Jess Burkett, Cleveland, who.won ‘the ‘championship’ in 1895-and 1896 with arks, of .423 and .410; ‘Willie Keeler, Brooklyn, .432," in' 1897, and Ed Dele- hanty.the last of the .400 hitters until the present'day. -~ - -~ > - Hornsby’s average - was .:397 - Jast season, The year previous topped’ the leagiie "with...370. S’ SANDEU': HONORS. DETROIT,. . Qctober. 2.~ Grénnan Cakes of - Detroit - defeated--Ehrman “Trauts of. Cihcignati’ here today, 7 to.5,.and teek-the mational amateur A ‘basé. ball championship. h Y American League, MAJOR CIRCUIT LEADERS FOR THE 1922 CAMPAIGN RUTH'S RECORD. Home Runs—Rutk, New York, 1921 Home RoRI T T ik HOME-RUN STANDING National League batters carried he final shows. The players of this circuit pounded out five round trips, while the League smen falled the pill & sl time, St. Louls carried off the team homors with two of its members wallop- ing circuit drives. These players were J. Smith and Bottomley. Wil- JMams. of. the Phillies. chalked up Ne. 26, while Southworth and Hig- 5 3 Daubert, Of: Carey, Pittsburgh.10 Fournier, St. L...10 atxen Sieisty SEVEN IN SOCCER LEAGUE. Seven teams are enrolled in the the professional soccer league shich plays in Phila- delphia, New York, New Jersey-and ew England. F ment, nevertheless. HISTORY OF SERIES SHOWS STRONGEST PITCHING WINS McGraw’s Best Bets for Title Games Are Nehf and Scott, While Huggins Has at Least Three Hurlers Who Excel Them in Prowess. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. OR the first time since last April the base ball bugs had no today's score to look forward to. Bus they had ample ammunition for argu- And the chief argument among the fans was likewise the chief worry in the rival Giant and Yank camps today. was “Who will be the opposing pitchers in the first world series game?” Which brings us to the question at hand. ... With the discussion today of the relative merits, capabilitics and pos- sibilities of the Giant and Yankee pitching staffs, entrance of an old axiom of base ball lore into the talk cannot be stopped. It This axiom is “Gi® me the pitchers and I can win the world series.” It, came into being when the world series became well enough known not to be an experiment any more, but instead was something about which there could be some reasonable conjecture prior to the event. It pene- trated even some of the thicker skulss of some of the earlier managers that a world series was quite unlike a six-month season of base ball The regular season gives time for correcting early mistakes. The world series 1s flash and go. And who will say that the Yankee pitching staff does not look easily to © better than the Giant pitchers? This is assuredly true so far as any human being can work out the prob- able value of base ball players. Test them mentally, physically, by ex- perlence, by what they have done and by what' they have faced, the Yankee pitchers are much superior to the National League club’s pitchers. And yet it i reported that the big gam- blers are taking all the short-end bets on the Giants they can get. Must be that they figure bats are bet- ter than pitchers. However, let us today look over the history of the world sefies beginning with 1905, and it will be found that the winning club in every year, with the possible exception of 1912 and 1914, had the better pitchers. In 1912 the Giant pltchers were perhaps as | good as those of Boston. although the worst mistake in pitching ‘in the serles was made In the last game when Speaker was pitched for, in stead of being teased to bite at bad ones. In 1914 the Athletics had the of the winning end of it by tactics which were of the sort that the Nas tional League had never seen em- ployed in just that way. Instead of the American League doing the kid- Reds Nose Out Pirates For Second Place in N. L N contest for the world championship. EW YORK. October 2—The pennant-winning New York Giants and Yankees marshaled their boards of strategy today for the opening Wednesday at the Polo Grounds of their second straight The scries this year will be for the best four out of-seven, instead of five out of nine, as a year ago. Saturday’s victory for the Yankees over the Red Sox, clinching the pennant, proved to be the margin by which the Hugmen held the top when the season closed yesterday. They dropped the final contest, when ‘Washington hammered Sam Jones tq the tune of 6 to 1, and the St. Louis Browns, runners-up, ended the season with their third straight triumph over Chicago, 2 to 1 ‘With the National League pennant decided in favor of the Giants the first of last week. chief interest in | the National League's final drive was the battle for second place. Cincin- nati, under the leadership Moran, ousted Pittsburgh from runner-up position on the -final by twice trimming the Pirates. 5 and 5—1. The double setback left the Pirates in a tie for third place with the St. Louis Cardinals, who wound up the season by defeating Chicago;, 7 to 1. Cleveland also upset the standing in the American League on the final day, crowding Chicago out of fourth place by defeating Detroit, 6 to 5. the MoR®man: & of Pat| while the White Sox lost to the Browns. The Tigers held third place by but a single game. The Giant regulars, playing behind a recruit twirler, Johnson, were blanked in the first game of a double- header by Tim McNamara. coilege | rcokie of the Boston Braves. whiic McGraw's substitute aggregation blanked the visitors in the second contest, with Nehf, McQuillan and Scott on the mound. The scores of both games were 3 to 0. McNamara's victory was his second shut-out in a week. Brooklyn falling a victim to his curves a few days ago. 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If the pitchers are the vital neces- sity of a world series, how many have the Giants with which to begin the campalgn against the Yankees this year? There are two class A. One of them is Nehf. The other is Scott. Perhaps some would have expected Barnes or Ryan in preference to Scott, but nefther Barnes nor Ryan has shown quite as much as Scott. despite the fact that Scott has a lame or an ailing, arm, and is likely to be unable to pitch a game through. As & pitcher he is a better man than either Barnes or Ryan. That means as to pitching intelligence. How well his physical ability will last him somcthing else. If he isn't right i may never get into a game. If Barnes can piteh as well as he did_in 1921 or. to put it another wav. if he can have the same success in that had in 1921 with the same sty will be the most mas- terly thing that he has done in buse: ball. Many doubt that he ix capable Ryan is a_curve pitcher who can raise Ned with the lower half of the Yankees' batting order, but not with the upper half. Let him get through two-thirds of a gane in the lead, but with omly a small margin in his favor, and he is still apt to be thrashed. McQuillan m start, but §s likely to be lifted. So. too. 'is Hill. Young Jonnard cum finish a game well The difference between the pitchers with whom the Giants will start in 1922 and those with whom they stari- Tetwern synthetic res and Those of nay ay pitchers. those of pitcher: Of the Yankee staff Bush is th best, and with th nbination f Bush, Shawkcy. Hoyt. Jones a Mays, is much supe - bination the Giants can place in the field. If Mays can retain his good humor. and not entertain a grouch, he can win. It is true that he is mot popular with players. That hasn't anything to do with his ability to pitch. He is smart enough to defeat the Giants if. he will preserve his touchy temper. Nerves Hai or to any cot lcap Shawkey. Shawkey. in a world-series game. i8 too likely to develop nerves. It has been his experience to do that scrt of thing twice. He did it witl Athletics. Connje Mack nev ager (o pitch him when was anything in sight that might embar whey. Hoyt lost to the Giants Just year even when he outpitched his rival. He is in gocd condition and might pitch as well this year. The only thing to militate against Wm would be his overwhelming sire to pitch' the whole game, regardiess of his teammates, in order that he might get even with' the other club, which he doesn’t like one whit. Jones' style should defeat the Giants. This doesn’t seem to be his year, yvet he is a wonderfully good pitcher. If he kept the ball away from his rivals he might thrash them. Match Your Odd Coats . With Our Special TROUSERS $4.65 Save the price of an eatire mew suit. All colors, sizes, pat- terns. EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. N.W. 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