Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1923, Page 29

SPORTS THE EVENING 1 TAR, WASHINGTON D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1923., SPORTS Giants Are Far. From Being Impressive in Losing Fifth Game of World Series BUSH MAKES McGRAWMEN LOOK LIKE A WEAK TEAM E. Meusel, Who Gets All of Losers® Trio of Hits, Is | Only Menace to Yanks—Dugan Gathers Four Safeties, One of Them a Homer. BY DENMAN N THOMPSON. EW YORK, October 15—Only a club with moral fiber such as that possessed by the Giants. could be reckoned as having anything B more th;_n the most remote hope for ultimate success in the posi- tion they ogctupied as the world series scene today shifted to the Polo Grounds from the stadium, where the largest crowd that ever saw a -ball game left the greatest sum the Yankees swamp their ri time with three v ictories against tw close the debate. yet recorded at the gate vesterday to see vals, 8 to 1, and take the fead for the first 0, with but a’ single win needed to Any team less richly endowed than the men of McGraw with cour- age, brains and ability could safely be listed as sunk \vé‘lh the sixth game yet unplayed. National leaguers cure the depths of the Gi rash enough to mortg: But should a wholly unexpected | and highly improbable Giant victory ( materialize in the sixth game, It does | not seem within the pale of reason | that it _would more than serve to | Stave off the inevitable. The pitch- | ing ammuuition boasted by the Yanks | in the persons of Jones, Pennock and | Hoyt is so far superior to that in tue | magazine of the Giants, where Nehf alone reproents the only projectile not already proved a_dud, that noth- & shart of a cataclysm’ can enable cGraw to *hieve the record of pil ng three winners in successive Yeéars again and again euchre Hug- £ins out of the honor that eluded him last fall as it did the year before. Appear in Poor Light. At no time since the titular tussles t became intracity affairs here in 21 have the Giants been shown in such a poor light as at Ruppert's rendezvous on the bbath. J. Leslie Bush was the immediate cause. This veteran of more than a decade in the majors, a factor in the winning of league’ banners and world titles for Doth the Athleties and Red Sox be- fore being srabbed in Gotham, turned in the most effective eshibition of flinging t seen in the current con- «lave by limiting the Giants to ex- actly three bingles. E. Meusel alone of McGraw's maul- ers was able to olve the repertoire of | the right-hander, and as the rules do not countenance an_athlete batting more than once in each rotation of nine » men to a team, the blows necessarily were unbunched. Irish contributed & triple, a_double and single in succes- sive appearances. The longest of these, liowed by an field death, saved the Giants from the humiliation of a shut- out. The two-bagger was evolved in the wake of one of the pair of passes Bush vielded. but Bullet Joe at this Juncture disposed of Stengel, home runs gave the (iants their ng margi the first and third And on he only other of sion nts threatened Bush foiled Hank with mates on second and first other side ers comparable only with the fate that befell them the day before. Jack Bent- ley suffered the greatest damage, being hammered for six runs on a half a dozen hits before two innings had been enacted. The Yanks could have quit then without giving any attention to the offerings of Scott, Barnes and Jon- nard, who followed. Yanks Waste No Time. No time was wasted by_the Y in get under way combed for a trio of t the outset on solid popped foul to Gowdy for a starter, but Dugan lined a clean single to right. Ruth waited for a walk and both gal- loped plateward when Bob Meusel lined to the limits in left center for three bases. Pipp cashed his mate from third with 2 long drive to risht that Young had to leap for. Ward then ugging. Betting odds prior to the contest ly would be counted out, but only those to whom nts’ capacity for fighting are unplumbed would be | age the old homestead in backing such a belief. | Yank shunted a safety to left and cleverly pilfered second, where he was left when Schang took a third strike. This served to spur the Giants into ction, and where they had been re- tired in order in the opener, they hung up a marker in the second. Irish Meusel made the tally possible by clouting to the same sector previously picked by Bob, after Young had been retired, and counted while Pipp and Bush were hustling to efface Stengel. Kelly skied to Witt to end it The Hugmen in the sccond returned | to the attack a stered another flock of runs, Joe n proving the -haired boy with a round-trip wallop, produced with r of mat on the runwas fell in the assault and the arried on gainst Jack Scott, his successor, for se their total tallies to seven. th Scott gone, Bush raised his high sticking average for the series by plunking a safety to center. Witt fiddled around and was rewarded with a free ticket, where- upon Dugan did his stuff. Was a Regular Clout. Tt was a bruising bust to right cen- ter that neither Stengel nor Young uld reach, the pill hitting the ound in front of them and bounding on to the outer expanse. Joe easily mpleted the circuit before the bail uld be retrieved and_relayed in, and Witt scoring ahead of him. Kelly then messed up Ruth’s hot smash and McGraw decided Bentley had had enough. Scott ascended the hill to be grected by Bob Meusel with a ond-base jolt to right that sent Ruth to third, the Babe going into i i Bu ndicated the BUSH WAS “RIGHT” Bancroft. Groh, 3b. Frisch, ' 2b. 8l orrmoumususnnll ocoo~coool eoccoowecool 2l conconansnnon sl coecsoncecnss!? £l wewe 0 o 1 t 3 b innis H o H 1 3 o 2 1 1 1 7y *Batted for Barnes ia ei YANKEES, Witt, of . igh " ] ol noooonnunl Bl umoonoouop by ° o0 Three-base hits— 4| smsnvoscnl ° ° ® 8l emvotnson? o ; ° I o1 3401 n‘l‘:&h.lu El'-ul«‘—i lla\nll. . Meusel, leusel. Home run—Dugan. Sto- len base—Ward. Sacrifice—Pipp. Double play —Bancroft to Frisch. Left on bases—Giants, 4; s, 9. Bases on balls—Off Bentley, 8: off Bush, 2; off J. Scott, 1. Struck out—By Bentley, 1 _(Schang); by Bush, 3 (Barnes, 0°Connell, Bancreft) D‘ J. Soott, 1 (Bush): Barnes. 2 (Ward, Ruth): by Jomnard, 1 [t ). Hits—Off Bentley, 5 in 11-3 innings; off J. Scott, 5 in 2 innings; off Barnes, 4 in 8:—’!31:: li eg' ihunlxd‘ rome in %lin:‘i!l: off Bush, § in"9 innings.’ Winaing pitcher— Bus Losing pitcher—Bentley. _Umpires— at first, Nallin ime of game— I Evans at plate. 0'Ds af second, Hart at third, T 1 hour and 53 minutes. the bag with a fine fallaway slide. Pipp then connected for a wicked whack toward right that Frisch in- tercepted, but his heave to Gowdy was widé, and the Bambino slid in under the ‘catcher in safety. A double play followed when Ward lined to Bancroft. The Giants went out, one, two, three, in the third and the Yanks were held scoreless, Bush whifling and Witt hitting into a force play, after Everett Scott singled. 3c Graw's men threatened to no_pur- D in the fourth when Young walked and raced to thfrd on a double to right by Irish Meusel, with two gone, only to have Stengel roll weakly to the box, but the Yanks got busy again and chalked up their eighth and final tally, chasing Scott to the showers in the process. Du- gan started with his third successive safety, a sharp rap Jjust out of Frisch's reach. Ruth followed with a It to right that put Dugan on third. Babe slipped in overrunning the sack and was nipped before he could scramble back on Young's quick heave to Kelly. Bob Meusel then came through with another hit—his third in as many times at bat—a line single to right that registered Dugan. When Scott walked Pipp he was waved out of the pastime, Virgil Barnes taking his place on the rubber and checking the Yanks by whiffing Ward and compelling Schang to hit into a force play.e Young Barnes spiked the biggest gun in Ruppert’'s artillery to halt the Yanks in the fifth, after the Giants Witt Kelly gan's ing scratched a single and advanced a peg on Du- fourth straight hit, a burn- single to center. Barnes then | ococoo. { ! i | {corded to the RUTHIAN GLIDE IS DEPICTED IN FIFTH GAME OF TITLE SERIES N series, even though the southpaw has had but two days’ rest. Sam Jones, who lost a brilliantly Still enother novel kit was re- credit of Altrock and Schacht yesterday when they put on what was supposed to Teprcsent a race between . America's three-year-old, and Papyrus, English champion of ihe turf. which are to meet at Belmont Park next Saturday for a vurse of $100.000 and the in- ternational title. Nick and Al were mounted on hobby horses such as are seen in nurseries and they gal- loped around the track at the sta- dlum to the high glee of the throng. Both “horses” were well winded at the finish. The race w officially announced as resulting in a dead heat. Bentley pitched to Ruth his first time up. Babe fouling one and taking a called strike before he received a pase. Young made a fine play on Pipp's productive long wallop in the opener. he raced mack up the embankment and leaped to spear the pill with one: hand. Irish Meunel. tied with Bob in bat- ting for the first four games. kept abreast of his brother in the averages by duplicating kis triple in the sec- ond and paving the way for the Giants’ only tally, and then by like- wise getting hits on his next two appearances. Stengel msde u desperate effort to get up to Dugan’s drive in the sec- ond, but he failed bv several feet and’ the eighth home run of the set was achieved. Dugan's feat tied the ATTENDANCE MARK SET IN FIFTH FRAY By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, October 15.—Another new record for attendance was set yesterday for world e=eries games when 62,817 persons paid their way inte Yankee Stadium for the fifth game. This number was 387 greater than the former record. established Co- lumbus day at the third game of the geries. in Yankee Stadium. It i certain now that all records r receipts and attendance for any fo: [had proved impotent. With two away | other series will be broken when the through | figures of the last game are known. The total attendance will be more than 300,000 and the receipts more faced the issue with Ruth and fanned | than $1,000.000. him, pitching only one wide ball. The top of the Giants batting or- der failed to make any headway agalnst Bush in the sixth and the real single by Ward and a scratchy affair by Shang who dribbed past Groh falled to get the Yanks anywhere as Scott hit into a forca-out. E. Meusel's third straight hit with one out in the seventh netted nothing, for, although Kelly walked after Stengel dled, Gowdy forced his mate. Neither club got a runner on the lines thereafter. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Oc- tober 15—The Potomac and Shenan- doah rivers both were clear this morning. tudebaker popularity is due to the enthusiastic recommenda- tions of Studebaker own- ers who have had sat- isfying performance and' gratifying economy. ¢ Joéeph McReynolds Bua.. Commercial Auto 14th Street at R B e - - Selling satisfactory transpertation in Washingten fer 35 years and Supply Co. _epes: l ; Yesterday's figures: Attendance, 62, Recelpts, $201,45: Advisory council's share, $30,218.85 Each club's share, $85,620.07. - (Players share in first four games only.) Figures for five games: Attendance, 267,258, Receipts, $324,563. Advisory council, $144,634. Each club, $208,457.76. It was believed Huggins would counter wit! crack | Babe Ruth slides home in safety in second inning on Pipp's grounder to Frisch. * ON THE SIDE LINES BY DENMAN THOMPSON. EW YORK, October 15—It looked as if McGraw would be com- pelled to use his only ace—Art Nehf--in a desperate effort to avoid absorbing the K. O. wallop in the sixth game of the world jnever been to the Yankee Stadiuni. will state that the ground just inside d h pitched decision to the leit-hander is notoriously shy on stamina an. 1 Friday, although yielding but four hits, because one of them was a_cir- { cuit smack by Stengel. This would leave the Yanks with Hoyt and Pen- inock in reserve against an interrogation point for the Giants. | Yecord made by the Giants yesterday of four home runs by one club in a world series and maintained the pace of at least one to a game in the cur- rent show. Ruth's misha the fourth when he slipped and feil after propelling his only bingle of the game, gave the Giants a chance to demonstrate that pays to be vigilant. Young knew he had no chance to flag Dugan at third and so whipped the bail quickly to first where Ruth's stumble made ‘an out by Kelly possible. Witt pulled a typical—for him— piece of base running in the fifth when he singled off Kelly’s glove. He beat the throw to Barnes, rambled right on and leisurely turned, failing to observe that Barnes had fumbled and that the ball rolled all the way to the Giants' dugout. Witt could have reached second if he had his head up and could have scored on the single by Dugan which followed. As it was the Yanks went runless that jround Bush gave Stei a fine chance in the fifth, Casey gathering in his drive only after a sharp sprint out in left center. Ruth _handled himself well in re- tiring Frisch in the sixth. Frankie's clout was a long one. Babe climb- ing up the embankment to get under it.” The drive would have been good for a homer at the Polo Grounds. Pipp and Buskh collaborated in a workmanlike manner to kill off Young in the seventh. Joe got over just in time to take the throw and get the decision from Pep, who slid into the sack. Dugan was stepped for the first time by Barnes in the seventh, rolling to Frisch after compiling four bingles in a row. A safety here by Jumping Joe would have set a world series record. 0'Connel looked very unimpressive at bat when sent up for Barnes in the eighth. The $75,000 beauty proved an easy strike-out victim. Bancroft, who followed, was similarly victim: ized by Bush. VICTORY IS CELEBRATION FOR BUSH AND SCHANG NEW YORK, October 15.—Ye y's world serles something more than victory for Joe Bush, star Yankee twirler, and his battery mate, Wally Schang—it was a celebra- 1 yesterday was the wedding th players, the the eighth for N vast crowded { mtretches of the Yamkee stadium Tooted harder nor was mere en- thusiastic over the Yamkee vie- tory tham their wives. Bush and Schang were married when battery pals with Connfe Mack’s eld Fhiladelphia Athleties. They have been together ever since, xoing to Hoston aix years ago before coming to the Yankees. \Giants Greet Bleacher Friends While Y anks Take Meusely Game LARDNER. For the bemefit of those that ain't BY RING W. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 15. the bleachers has a decided slope down towards the infield. Well, in the first four innings yesterday, the Glant outfielders certainly played an uphill same. They seemed to be always dashing up to the bleacher rail to shake hands with friends. 5 Though the day was too sunny and bright to be just right for Joe Bush's speed he would of scored a clean shut-out if he had been able to fool Emil Meusel. Emil cracked out a triple and two singles and scored the only National League run. His brother Bob was also slapping the pill on the nose, and though Joe Dugan helped himself to four hits, including a home run, why, all and all, it was a Meusely game to watch. Judging from the performance of the Giant pitching staff to date, why if Nehf manages to win his game toda wont be proper to ask who is going to pitch tomorrow, but who ain't? A large number of newspaper men, who have nothing against Mr. Nehf personally, is kind of pulling for him to have some Sam Jones' luck tomorrow. We are anxious to get home and meet the wife and kiddies. Band Plays Big Hit. When it come to play the “Star Spangled Banner” vesterday the bleachers was packed with the biggest crowd that ever stayed away from Ichurch to g0 to a ball game. Speaking about the “Star Spangled Banner,” T have noticed that every time the band gets through playing it practically everybody claps their hands. It begins to look like this song would be one of the outstanding hits of the 'season. Two features of the crowd was very laughable. One was that the most of them brought their overcoats and the other was that probably 95 per cent of the people that came did not have to come. Before the game several players gathered around the handsome umpires |and did a lot of talking. As they had not been no decisions made it is Ihard to tell what the athletes were kicking about unless it was because jthey was such a lot of money in the house and they were not going to get nome of it. From Mr. Bentley's showing they did not seem to be much reason for Mr. McGraw having started him except that everybody else had pitched the day before. Or maybe the little Napoleon wanted to show the fans that they’s something besides the world serious that takes a long time to wind up. The reappearance of Jack Scott come as a big surprise. It was thought that he would of lost interest after Saturday and not come out to any more of the games. The tall southerner furnished even more of a surprise in the third inning by keeping the Yankees from scoring. In the next inning Mac took him out to save him for the third game of next season's first series with Brooklyn. | ) i Newspaper Men Eat at Times. The present series is as full of embarra as to the Giant pitchers. No bevy of admiring fans stormed the press coop to stare at me today, but something happened during Scott's last ailment that was just as bad. Tt must be explained that my seat at the Yank's park is right on the border line, between the newspaper section and the section reserved for Bronx people. One of the last named had asked fifty questions and I had answered them all. as T am very democratic. Well, along come the man that sells hot dogs and he offered some to my Bronxean friend. He took two | and he stretched out his hand towards me with one of them in it. | Well, after all a hot dog is something to eat, which don’t often happen | sments to the newspaper men the hot dog and went to it. In a few minutes, above the roar of the crowd, I seemed to hear some- body calling me. It turned out to be the hot dog salesman, and what he Wwas saving was “Ain’t you going to pay for yvour hot dog?” Well. T hustled around and got 15 cents and pretended like T had ! been intent on my work and had forgot to pay. but several people laughed out loud. It is these kind of things that leaves a scar. The incidence depressed me so much that you will half to read other experts for full details of the game. g (Coprright, 1923.) FO | _SJhe Good-n g to a newspaper man during a world serious, so I says ves, thanks, and took ||| YANKEES’ WO RK IS MUCH BETTER THAN LAST YEAR Have Done Almost Twice as Well as They Did in 1922 Series, While Giants Have Fallen Off in Their Work With Stick. By the Associated Press. N EW YORK, October 15—The In 1922 they .203. This year in batted .316. The Giants, who made 50 hits and batted .309, have made 37 hits and 13 runs The Meusel brothers, Bob of the Yankees and Emil of the Giants, are having a little contest all their ow So far Bob has been at bat twenty two times and made six hits, while Emil, at bat twenty-one times, also has hit six times. In Bob's six were a | double and two triples, while Emil has one double, one triple and one homer. Aaron Ward, the Yankee second baseman, has lected more hits than any other player in the series. At bat twenty times, he has made nine safeties, including a home run. He walked once, stole one base and scored four runs. Ward's batting av- erage is .450. On the defensive side he has handled thirty-one chances without an error, making eleven put- outs and twenty assists, /Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yankees, is 80 overjoyed at the pros- pects of a world championship that he can't keep still. Yesterday, after the Giants had their turn at bat in the seventh, he left the stadium and went downtown o order, it was ru- mored, handsome presents for the Yankee players. It ix likely that Col. Ruppert will heed the advice of his old partner, Col. T. L. Huston, who remark s 2 Priced *30 to *95 The good-natur, smiling and goes man as it does in regular height. / N6 longer nee For the Short Man Suits from $35 to $75. Overcoats, $35 to $95. Topeoats, $28 to $55. time getting fitted it'is home waiting this series, played about tw games last year, when they lost four to the Giants and tied one. made 32 hits and 11 runs and had a batting average of n five games they have made 55 hits, scored 24 runs and REYEM SHOES Meyer’ 1331 F Street erything for the IWell Dressed Mai. Yankees, in the first five games of ice as well as they did in the five scored 18 runs last vear, and and batted .224 this year. |lumbus dey that what New Yorl needs is a larger ball park. Col. | Ruppert said yesterday that the s {ing capacity ‘at the stadlum easily |could be increased to §5,000. | Ruth ability as an outfelder was on display on more than one occasion yesterday. He made four put-outs, two on fGroh, one on Gewdy and one on Frisah, and had to step but a few ! paces to get all of them. When Groh | battea Ruth played clase to.the foul line and short. Groh fWed into his hands twice. He played deep right center for Frisch and short right cen- ter for Gowdy. Crippled Walter Pipp was ajded twice on difficult plays yestorday 'by Bullet | Joe Bush. On two hard-hit grounders | Pipp did the fielding and thien depend- on Joe to cover the bagy Joe did, making both put-outs. ° Ordinarily Pipp would have raced to ‘the bag and made the kflings unaided. Aaron Ward took advantage of old [Hank Gowdy’s arm and Atole the only base that was pilfered in the game. It was of no avail, however, as Schang struck out. | | Thirteen of the Giznts went out on finfield taps, ten went out on long flies, one fouled out and three were struck out “Styled Right” -For the Man Who Knows RIGHT Styles The Carnarvon Overcoat WIDE SHOULDERS — LONG LOOSE STRAIGHT DRAFE—FLY FRONT— BUTTON TEHRU. MADE IN CAMBRIDGE, OXFORD, LONDON BLUE AND PLAIN MIXTURES, FOREBIGN AND DOMES- TIC. s Shop Sketches from a Salesmans Notebook atured Short Man ed short man comes in out the same way— happy, satisfied. For at last he has found his sort of a clothing store—a store that specializes as much in suits for the short suits for the man of d he pay the higher price of the custom tailors—or waste his for his suits. For he can come here, select a Society Brand or a Hecht Co. suit, and before he knows it, for him. And that is why our friend, the good- natured short man, is pleasanter than ever. He has found a Clothing Shop that seems to have been designed exclu- sively for him.