Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1925, Page 77

FEAT OF RICE UNRIVALED IN ANNALS OF BASE BALL Nerve of Marberry in Ninth Appfoaches Best Ever Shown in Pastime — Puzzling ‘Bunt by Goose Helped Much in Victory. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ANS of ancient vintage and usually blase veteran players who saw F the 1924 world series pronounced it the most thrilling and dramatic they had ever witnessed in the more than 20 years the champions of the two big leagues had struggled for base ba'l's supreme laurels. Now these same critics claim that the present fight between Nationals and Pirates will excel that between Nationals and Gants for dramatic in- tensity and brilliancy of individual effort. In the first game, the Sparkling Walter Johnson made world series history when he pitched one of the greatest games of his illustrious career. In the second game, Victor Aldridge bested Stanley Cpveleskie in one of the keenest pitching duels ever staged in the annual classics. In yester- day's contest Sam Rice and Fred Marberry did much to make that third clash of the series the most colorful ever recorded in the annals of the yearly championship fight. "WASHINGTON, D. C, MARBERRY RESCUES DESPITE SORE ARM By the Associated Press. Fred Marberry, whose relief pitch- Ing saved the game yesterday for the Nationals, went into the box with a sore arm, it was di last night by Manager R fatberry’s right wing has not . 's g been in the be:l of condition for some time, but he performed courageously. “I'll throw the 0'd arm off to save the game,” Marberry told Harris when he was summoned to the mound. - “Fi " immediately struck out Wright.and Grantham and had two strikes on Smith when the Pittsburgh catcher hit his disputed liner to Rice at the bleacher . Then, after a wild sfart in the nintb, he pulled himself out of a bad hole with the bases full. PECK IS PRESENTED CUPFUL OF MONEY SUNDAY . Strategy and Dramatic Play Decide Game : Goslin PLAYED BIG ROLES IN. YESTERDAY’S GAME. SAM RICE. MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1925 Rice’s Catch Unrivaled. Without question that catch by Rice in the eighth inning that kept & tying home run from Earl Smith was the most wonderful fielding feat ever accomplished in or out of a world serfes. And without question Marberry's steadiness while pitching 1n that tense ninth inning excelled by far the performance that won fame for Aldridge in the fifth and ninth in- nings of the game in Pittsburgh on Thursday. Old base ball men, players and writers, searched their memorles for & catch that could rival Rice's, but found none. Clark Griffith, president of the Natfonals, who played base ball when the game was in short trousers and since has followed the sport in rdministrative capacities, declared he had never seen any catch approach- ing it. “It was a catch you are lucky to witness in a litetime,” Griffith said. “I have seen many fine catches by famous outfielders, but Rice’s was far ehead of any of them.” Nick Altrock, coach of the Nation- als, who has been in and around base ball almost as long as Griffith, was rendered almost speechless by Rice's stunt. Congratulated by Mates. In the club dressing room after the game all Nick could murmur was *How did he do {t?” Rice was warm- 1y congratulated by his fellow players when he came to the Nationals’ bench after making the play that ended the eighth inning, and they continued their praise of the feat in the seclu- sion of the clubhouse, too. But all the nice remarks of theath- letes in_the clubhouse were not for Rice. Freddy Marberry certainly got a good measure of them and he de- served all he got, too. For Freddy's rllch!ng arm that went back on him n August was none too good yester- @ay. The cold had affected the wing in th® morning and when the relief itcher reported at the park shortly fore noon his right elbow was pain- ing him severely. But Freddy is a game one and when his boss called upon him to warm up he did not hesitate. And he performed brillfantly in the eighth inning, his first on the hill in the contest. “My arm hurt me a little in that inning,” Freddy remarked after the game, “and it sure did hurt in the ninth. It was the pain that made me so wild.” Nerve Unshaken. The pain, however, did not shake Marberry’s nerve. Those two singles that put Pirates on first and third bases with only one out would have been enough to unbalance an ordinary pitcher. Hitting a man after getting two strikes across end filling the bases would have meant ruin to many pitch- ers of long service. But Marberry evidently has a castiron nerve. - His performance when the sacks were loaded—only one was out and but a run needed to tie the game— was truly indicative of Freddy's fine balance. With Clyde Barnhart at bat the relief hurler worked his way to & two-and-two count, then sent a good pitch to the batter. Barnhart swung and met the ball, only to lift a foul to Ruel. But the most wonderful exhibition of nerve followed. “The first three pitches to Pie Traynor, a dangerous hitter, were wide of the plate. Freddy had to get the next over or force & runshome. He got it over. And with | the following pitch he made the count three and two. Hé heaved another straight in and almost shoulder high. Traynor slam- med this last one, but it sailed to rml McNeely in right-center fleld and the game was over. On that ninth inning alone Marberry will go down in base ball history as one of the gamest pitchers ever to toe the slab. ! Rice and Marberry did not garner ball the glory in yesterday's engage- iment. Another sharing the spotlizht i Was Goose Gogin, who fairly sparkled “4n the seventh inning in taking care ! of Barnhart's loft close to the tem- { porary bleachers baclk of left-center fleld. The Goose had to sprint far to ':et to the ball, and after grabbing it {fell and tufned a somersault against fthe bleacher barrier. But he clung {to the sphere to complete a play that { would have commanded much atten- { dion had not Rice made that marvel- % ous catch an inning later. Any doubt as to the quality of base ball Buddy Myer is capable of play- ing was dispelled by his splendid fleld- ing of Cuyler's slow roller toward third base in the fifth frame. The re- cruit from New Orleans, who is work- ing at the far corner until Ossie Bluege returns to the series, dashed in for a smooth pick-up and got the ball away in a flash to flag the batter at the initial sack. It was a play worthy of a Traynor, a Bluege or any other of the high-class third zackers of both major leagues. Max Carey’s conversion of a single into a double in the fifth inning was too risky to be considered smart base running. The blow to center was but an ordinary onebaser and Rice dld not hurrv his return to Peck. After turning first, Carey hesitated only an instant then sprinted for second. He slid into the bag just ahead of the heave from Sam. It was a flashy bit of basework, but of the kind that gains nothing nine out.of ten times. Unquestionably "the smartest pla of the game was made in the seventh inning and did much to put the Na- tionals ahead. With runners on first and second and one out, Goslin took a healthy swing at one of Kremer's pitches. Then on the next pitch. the £ crossed the_ entire: Pirate in- < @eld and Catcher Smith by laying'' [ I MAREERRY HELD I ITTSRU AB.R. H. 0. A. 301 22 40230 41110 1530120 41113 3101 2 4008 1 301832 136101 110000 .34 3 s 11 AB. R. H.O. A. 5 32 e 1.31 . 4 3 3 is 4 2 1 $88s 1 12 2358 (3 ° Totals L) 3 e o n out. $Daited For Fervason Pittebu Marbe Doubl !&e"fim to ¢ ttaburgh, 11: alls—0f son. 4 . Bmith) ; off Kremer, 3 (Ruel, Bola) bt By Ferswso T ore Grantham, Carey) Kremer 7 Moore. 3 v 8’ (Gosltn, J. Harris. - %1 Mrer) i by Marberry, 2 ‘W’hlt. Grantham) . Ito— OF Ferguson, 6 in 7 innings; off Mr-r. 10 in nings: off . % In 2 ln Hit by piteher—By Fe (Carey): by Marberry (Cuyler). Passed o Winning pitecher—Ferguson. ing piteher - TUmnires — Mr, MeCormick (~. late: Mr, Morlarty (A. L.). first base: N, L), T Me. Gwens (K. L), third base. “Time of same— i down a bunt toward third base. The base runners were away in a flash, and Goslin streaked to first without giving Traynor any chance for a play. Judge’s sacrifice fly and Moon Harris single followed to sew up the game. Only two double plays were made in the game. After Ferguson had passed one batter and hit another in the opening inning, Cuyler lofted to Goslin. Barnhart then socked a grounder to short, and the Peck-Har- ris-Judge combination ended the in- ning. The Pirates turned the tables on the Nationals after Rice singled with one gone in the fifth. Bucky Harris lined directly to Moore, and the latter's toss to Grantham easily doubled Rice. Everybody but the two teams and the umpires :gpnremly knew that Marberry batted out of turn in the elghth inning. McNeely, who had run for Leibold after the latter batted for Ferguson in the seventh, instead of the relief pitcher, should have batted. Marberry’s sacrifice advanced Ruel to the middle station. Had Rice hit to score Ruel instead of bounding to Wright for the last out, the run would have counted. -The rules provide that a player batting out of turn must be declared out before a pitch is made to the succeeding batter, or the out-of- turn batter's effort will be accounted legal. Smith was charged with an error only and not a ball when he let Goslin’s third strike slip by in the first inning. The Goose made second bage when Smith failed.to chase sphere, but after Judge had wetched a strike speed past, the umpires con- ferred, ordered Goslin to return to first and gave Judge a Clean slate at bat. The ruling on the Goose was in con- formity with a ground rule for the games here that limits a batter who swings for a third strike that is miss- ed by the catcher to one base only. Goose Goslin’s hit in the sixth in- ning that became a home run when the ball bounded into the temporary center fleld bleachers would have been a sound triple on the clear fleld here. It was a terrific drive that nelther Carey nor Cuyler could get near. For the first time in the series hits neither singles nor homers were made. Carey, Cuyler and Judge registered two-basers, while Traynor socked a three-bagger. In the Pirates’ fourth, with two on and two_out, Smith was purposely passed. He stood at the plate in his customary portside position to watch the first three wide ones go by, then stepped to the other side of the blatter to look over the fourth one. Twelve yers were used by the Natfonals in the fray, while the Pirates used but 10. The extra Pitts- burgher to ebrak into the game was Bigbee, who batted for Kremer in the ninth. AT e L A’S SELL GLASS, BAGWELL AND SMITH TO PORTLAND PORTLAND, Oreg., October 10 (®). —Purchase of three players from the Philadelphia Athletics was announced today. by President Thomas L. Turn- er of the Portland club of the Pacific €oast Base Ball League. Willlam Bag- ‘well, outflelder and first baseman, who was with Portland early-in the pree- ent season, but who had.to return to Philadelphia under a ruling by Com- missioner Landis, 1s one of the ac- quisitions. The others are Marvin Smith, ortstop, and Tom Glass, right-handed pitcher. BALI_FORNIA LOSES FIRST - CONTEST-IN FIVE YEARS Peckinpaugh was presented with a large silver loving cup full of money, the gift of admiring Washington fans, just before the game started. The presentation was made by the official “Peck testimonial cémmittee,” com- prising Tom Flaherty, Charles Fair- fax, Bfll Goodwin, Sam Steinberger, Mrs. Le Noir, Miss Fay and Miss Talbert. The costly gift, arranged in recognition of Peck's selection as the most valuable player in the American League this season, will help the Na- tionals’ shortstop furnish his new home here. There were s goodly number of Pittsburgh rooters in the grandstand, and they did not hide their lights un- der a bushel when the Pirates forged to the front. Not all the Pennsyl- vanians who came here for the game sided with the Corsairs, however. Elmer Miller and Warren Stanley Krebs, Allentown bankers, yelled themselves hoarse for Washington. Hans Wagner, famous Pirate short- stop of other days, occupied a seat in the press box by right of a newly-ac- quired profession. He is writing an accaunt of each game for a syndigate. One-e; Connolly, the noted gate- crasher, who s reputed to have “bummed” his way into every big sporting event in this country for a decade, was noticeably absent. Meyer Gol'dman, band conducter, found himself in charge of a mys- teriously swelling aggregation of mu- sicians, the faces of many of them un- familiar. An investigation diaclosed a wholesalp “plot” on the part of some musicians to see the game by volun- tarlly jolnilng Meyer’s organization. The colored boys who compose the park’s all-season corps of eoft drink and candy dispensers let it be known vesterday that they feel they are ep- titled to a share of the series money, as well as the players themselves. “Ev’ybody got sumpin las’ yeah but us, which ain’t justice,” one of them said. 4 The frigid winds ruined Billy Smith’s ice cream and cold drinks business, but he made up for it on hot dogs. Hot coffee would have sold well, but only the, telegraph operators in_the press box were fortunate enough to get any. BABE RUTH IMPROVED, IS ORDERED TO HOME By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 10.—As a result of an éxamination by his physi- clan today Babe Ruth was relieved of the necessity of going to a hospital for an extended treatment of an abscess. It was decided that treatment at home would be sufficient. Ruth, who was at- tending the world series, was forced to leave Washington yesterday by the discomfort of the aflment, but his condition had considerably improved today. BLUEGE MAY NOT PLAY AGAIN - IN TITLE SERIES pectos s play mgaimet the Tirates to ag! tes today snd may not get into the world series_again. z While an X-ray taken y revealed no fracture of the ski player has no headache or i beneficial. long_as Bluege out_of the line-up, his third base jon will be -filled by Buddy JOE JUDGE. GOOSE GOSLIN. NATS WIN ARCTIC LEAGUE GAME WITH FLASHY PLAY BY ROBERT T. SMALL. T HE world series reached out today and included the Arctic Zone, and the Washington Nationals, spurred on by President Coolidge, who appeared the most comfortable of the 35000 explorers who exposed themselves to the frigid blasts of the North, went forth to show that they can play as well under the icy fingers of old Boreas as in the beams of the hot Summer suns so closely associated with meteorological conditions in the National Capital. 3 ol i 5 Twice the Nationals’ bark in this third duel of the 1925 series was boarded by the Pirate; twice the Champs were threatened with the yard arm. Once the Corsairs were one plece of siiver ahead. Again they had two cap- tives in their lockers. But, coming from predicament after predicament, the American League champions of the land, the seas and the snowfields forged their way to the front in the “lucky seventh” and then held their advantage against a final Pirate at- tack which sent every Washington rooter home with bis heart still in his mouth. To many this game today, which ‘Washington won from Pittsburgh by the tight score of 4 to 3, seemed the turning point in the series. Tomorrow Btanley Harris may send Walter John- son back against the invaders, with the skull and cross-bones high above them. Then, to, he has Stanley Cove- leskie @s an ace in the hole. The pitching _ situation _strongly favors Washington from this time forward, and it will be a big surprise to some of the best base ball critics following the game it the Nationals do not go on to win two out ef the next three 3 Played Smart Ball. Washington switched its tactics to- day and began to play smart ball. The team looked stupid in that second start Pittsburgh. Today it was once more the resourceful, tricky, un- canny base ball combination which has not logt a crucial decision in the last two years. It dazzled the Pirates time and time again and three times the heretofore errorless defense of the Pirates cracked, even if but two errors were charged in the official score. Poor old Roger Peckinpaugh, most valuable player in the American League, once more contributed to the error column, his fourth miscue in three starts and only bobbles charged to his team. But in other ways ae old shortstop-redemmed himself and received one.of his old-time welcomes from the home-town fans. ‘To those who witnessed -the game it seemed the coldest base ball contest ever played. Rival managers almost PROTEST OF RICE’S CATCH ABANDONED BY PIRATES By the Associated Press. tory in the third world series game on the ground that Sam Rice failed to make a fair catch-of Earl Smith’s eight-inning drive to the centerfield bleachers was abandoned by Bi;l,McKechnie, Pirate manager, after a conference with Commissioner Landis. : C ONTEMPLATED protest by Pittsburgh of today’s Washington vic~ McKechnie, taking up the issue question of fact was involved, no protest could be considered, since the umpire’s éudgment—m this cas¢ that of Charles Rigler—could not be re- versed oft the field. McKechnie Hss Affidavits, The Pirate manager was prepared to submit to Landis the afidavits of two bleacher fans and eyewitnesses to support a contention that Rice did not make a fair catch and that Smith ‘was entitled to'a home run, but after his conference with. Landis. he sald he would drop the matter altogether. Manager Harris of Washington dis- missed the charges by declaring that it was a marvelous and legal catch. [ hand, ice. “The delay in my getting back o e e e hcciong|on the fleld was due to extricating that Rice the ball, then M m the Japs of the fans.' reached in to 1t up, Heé intimated that several spectators Their names are R. I. Ashman of b t to reach.for the ball in his Altoona, Pa., ph Lewis of the k. ; . Experts pointed out that there was iy Washington | ;" Pecedent for reversing the Juds: got on their knees to Judge Landis, lord high commissioner of the national sport, but he would not brook an- other postponeent. The judge ought to take the presidency of the North Pole circuit. If this day was fit for base ball, then Yale and Harvard ought to meet on the gridiron next g Fourth of July. A northwest gale which chilled to the marrow blew straight across the fleld and caused some high and lofty juggling with fly balls. Easy catches became circus chances. Gusts of dust often all but blinded the inflelders. The crowd was a foot ball gathering. It wore its raccoon coate and brought its blankets, its hot-water bottles and its earmuffs. But Judge Landis, with a snow crown sometimes mistaken for hair, avowed that if the day was good Cube enough for him it cught to be good enough for the athletes. And it was. Considering the condi-, tions it was a_truly remarkable game afleld and at the bat. With the excep- tion of Peck's mischance, which cut none of the ice surrounding the situa- tion, Washington was once again the old stone wall. Leon Goslin, wild goose of the Potomac, leaped high in the air {n left field, took down a soaring fly, turned a complete somersault and came up with the ball. But that fleld- ing stunt was as nothing compared to a catch by Sam Rice which robbed scrappy Earl Smith, - the . Pirate catcher,. of & home run in the eighth which would have tied the score and caused no end of trouble. Rice’s Catch a Wonder. As he reached for the drive Rice’s hands disappeared over the low wall of the temporary seats in deep right fleld Rice almost toppled into the oleachers. He seemed in to_the walst, but when he straightened up he tossed out the ball. For a moment there was a deathlike silence over the crowd. Earl Smith continued to circle the bases with happy step. But before he crossed the plate he was wayed aside. The umpires ruled that the catch was fair. In the ninth in- ning the Plrates filled the bases on Marberry, who had relieved Ferguson for Washington, but the winning or tying hit was missing and the turn of the game went back to the Sam Rice catch, which will live in base ball ‘history. The hitting was better today, but again Washington outslugged the sluggers, and this time outplayed them in_the fleld. y Freezing weather was forecast in Washington tonight, but the Arctic serfes will go forward tomorrow un- less stopped by snow. Mr. Coolidge, much as he i8 ‘sald to love the na- jonal game, will not attend the Sun- day exhibition. (Copyright,'1925.) with Landis, was told that since a STRIBLING BEATS HUFFMAN. LOS ANGELES, October 10 (#).— Young Stribling, ' Georgia heavy- welght, - - decisively defeated ' Sailor Eddle Huffman, former Navy heavy- Statements on the play, regarded at the time as one of ‘the-most remark- able defensive feats in’series msiory, weight, in a ten-round fight at Ascot found & wide divergence of opinion. Rice claimed that the ball never 'Speedway Park here today. A crowd left his hands; that he caught it with | o about 25,000 saw the bout. B s M S DEths Weashers 1o right conter. | SCHOOLBOY BOOTS DROP FROM THE 55-YARD LINE of the bleachers in right center. “The only time it left my left hand was when I dropped it into the right a) throw it back to the infleld,” said ment of an umpire deciding a play. In this case Umpire Rigler, at sec- ond ‘base, had ruled Rice's catch fair and Judge FIGURES ON THREE CLASHES IN SERIES (By the Asseciated Press.) STANDING. ‘Won. Lost. Pet. Washingt, ok Fitisbursh.. iz FIRST GAME. Washington, 4 Pittsburgh, 1. SECOND GAME. Pitteburgh, 3: Washington, 2, THIRD GAME, - ‘Washington, 4: Pittsburgh, 3. FINANCES. Third game Total. ttendance . 83T aze. Recqiots’ m_m‘..luflu.n s312.385.00 ‘share’. . 2191385 . 76.884.00 T4.507.43 201.408.60 e i e 5] Sitendance ot tite third Kame of the 184 serie 7, a e i T o 1157200 and the receipte’totuled $405,024 CUBS TAKE SECOND ‘STRAIGHT FROM SOX By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, October 10.—The Cubs made it two straight from their White Sox rivals today by winning the third game of the series, 8 to 2, the first game having resulted in a 2-to-2 draw after 19 innings. The National Leaguers bunched their hits Off the veteran Urban Faber, while the support behind him was eratic, his teammates making four erors, which aided the Cubs materially in their run making. In the very first inning Kane dropped a throw from Faber with an double play in front of him. is paved the way for a cluster of four runs in the first inning. In the fifth inning Mostil and Barrett contributed ‘three more errors, Barrett being responsible for two, and the Cubs scored two more runs. They added two more runs in the eighth by bunching four hits off Thurston. Crouse’s muff of a foul fiy while Thurston was on the hill was not_costly. Sheriff Blake pitched one of the best games of his career, although he walked nine men and hit another. ‘The White Sox were able to touch him for only five hits and were un- able to bunch these. The White Sox Blake bore down in the pinches. Twice the bases were loaded, but the Sox were unable to score. The Sox's first run came in the sixth on a sin- gle, a walk and two infield outs. A base on balls, a stolen base and a single gave them their other run in the ninth. The Cubs collected a,total of 13 hits off Faber and Thurston, Adams having a perfect day with four hits, one a double, and a sacri- { fice In five trips to the plate. Grimm and Jahn also featured in the hit- ting for the Cubs. The scene of con- fiict will switch to White Sox Park, the home of the American Leaguers, tomorrow. Attendance, 13,693. Recelpts, $12,872.10. Commissioners’ share, $1,930,82. Players' ‘pool, $6,664.77. share, §$2,188.25. WHITE AB.B.H. 0. A. E Moatil. 200 411 looper, ST T EHYY 4005842 4 00310 5 23 &3 2 i & B 5 W € 00010 %9 3 230 T E-E.0 3 32 6213 & B. B. H. 0. A. E. 88186380 5 2 2 2 0 0 3103 00 4 338 0.0 4 00 250 310700 4 0.2 0 2 O 35 8138 27 12 1 0 1—2 0 = Thi d: & Taes 9: off Thurs- by Faber, S Iowmes, it on, 4 In 3 innings o (Kamm. - Losing SHEEDY’S CLOUTING GIVES ORIOLES GAME By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., October 10.— Swirling flurries of snow and a plerc- ing north wind brought discomfort to players and spectators allke as Balti- more today drew to within one game of the minor league championship by defeating the Louisville Colonels, 10 to 9, in 11 innings. Misplays were frequent, and the heavy clouting of both teams brought five pitchers into the fray. ‘The Orioles have now won four of the five games necessary to decide the championship. The Kentuckians have taken three contests. Clayton Sheedy, Bird first baseman, ‘was the hero of today’s Arctic strug- gle. With the Orioles three runs be- hind and seemingly helpless in the face of Southpaw Nick Cullop’s fine re- lief hurling, Brainard and Boley man- aged to beat out hits in the eighth in- ning. Sheedy then belted @ fast ball high up into the stands in right fleld for a home run that tied the score. Cullop fanned the next .three batters, but the damage was done. Ben Tincup, the Kentuckians' In- dian moundsman, struck out 13. Balt, AB.H.O.A. _YL'ville AB.H.Q. gbaely Ty mEett i y figs 8l oo [ e ot 13 in “Clean-Up” Roles 'FERGUSON IS MASTERLY AND COOL UNDER STRAIN Barney Is Picked to Show Way to Yde in Today’s Tilt—Goose to Eclipse Ruth’s Home Run Record, Leib Predicts. BY FREDERICK G, LIEB. * . (World Series Scorer, 1922, 1923, 1924. Former President, Base Ball Writers’ Assoclation.) ASHINGTON'S clean-up boys, “Goose” Goslin and Joe Judge, came through yesterday and the Nationals regained the world series lead in onc of the most hectic blue ribbon contests ever thrown on the sporting screen. They will talk of that game until they have whiskers to their knees. There was a lot of good ball, and there were bulls which shouldn't have come up in a world series. Of course, that blustry wind which swept across the field may have upset every one, including the umpires and the scorers. However, to me the outstanding thing was that Judge and Goslin both started to hit. These two slurdi; left-handed clubbers did little hitting in the carly games in Pittsburgh, but they made their bats talk had several opportunities to score, but | here yesterday. Catch Is Doubted. in the seventh with a sacrifice fly. Goslin's homer in the sixth started the decline of Ray Kremer. That was the “Goose's” fourth world series homer, which enables him to tle Ruth’s record for most world series home runs. I look for the “Goose"” to_break that record in this serfes. It always will be a question of doubt as to whether Sam Rice caught that line fly by Earl Smith in the | elghth inning. Rice certainly delayed | bringing back the ball for some time, | if he did catch it, though Rigler, the ational League umpire, apparently was satisfied that Sam caught the sphere, He ruled that Rice held the ball long enough to constitute a legal catch. The play in some respects was a duplicate of the great catch which Harry Hooper, former Red Sox right flelder, made at Fenway Park on Larry Doyle, the erstwhile Glant cap- tain, in the elghth and deciding game of the 1912 world serics. Grantham Failed in Pinch. Hooper made this catch bending back over a low rafling, and some National League partisans always con- tended that as Hooper had his feet off the ground and took the ball out of the lap of the crowd it was not |a legal catch. If one play was the turning point of the game, it was Grantham's failure to hit safely in the fourth inning, when the Pirates had Aleck Ferguson, the young screw-ball pitcher, on the run. Cuyler had opened with a double Judge knocked in Washington's first | and scored on Barnhart's single. Tray- run with a double, and the tying run | nor walked, and both runners moved up on Wright's infleld demise. A hit by Grantham at that time would have knocked Ferguson out, but the Jersey boy got rid of Grantham on a pop fly, and after Earl Smith was inten- tionally passed he struck out Kremer. Ferguson gave one of the gamest exhibitions of world series pitching seen in years. Yesterday we called at- tention 'to this boy's nerve, and he certainly showed it. Nationals Have Blg Edge. Ray Kremer, the defeated Pirats pitcher, did weil considering the poor weather, which was especially severe on a_pitcher who uses a sharp-break- ing drop ball. However, Kremer was reached fairly freely in the sixth and seventh Innings, and would have been hit still harder had Bluege been in the game. Young Myer rather checked Washington rallies in both the sixth and seventh, and I was surprised that “Bucky'* Harris did not use Veach or Severcid as a_pinch-hitter for him when they had Kremer gasping in the seventh. That second Washington gives the Nationals the big edge. Th can send in big “Barney” (Walter Johnson) tomorrow, and he figures to beat either Johnny Morrison, the curve-ball pitcher, or Emil Yde, the left-hander, who will work for Pitts- burgh. Meadows' arm became sore after last Wednesday's hard game, and he {s not vet in shape to hoolk up with Walter in another duel. (Copyright. 1825.) victo WASHINGTON GIVES FANS . SOMERSAULTING FINALE BY JOHN B. FOSTER. n |~ McKechnie, HIRTY-ODD thousand fans stood on their foolish fan heads in a; prehension and concern in the ninth inning of the third game of the world series vesterday and then catapulted forward in 30,000 somersaults when Fred Marberry, the greatest relief pitcher of all time, pitched his team into victory qut of the most dangerous situation into which any pitcher had led himself since this 0'd serics started. _ The finish had all the thrills of the wonderful game of 1924 when \"\«aher Johnson won in that eventful 12-inning contest that settled New York and turned all W ashmg\on_ into a condition of effervescence. No matter what clse Washington may do_in base ball, it certainly stages finishes which start pulses throbbing and shred nerves like a cab- bage cutter. Tie Score Predicted. Washington had gone ahead one run in the seventh. The first hali of | the ninth found Pittshurgh sullen, be- | | cause their early lead had been over- come, but determined, as the game up to the very last stages had been Boing their way. the undemonstrative manager of the Pirates, with one run behind, started the. ninth with a sub- stitute batter for . Kremer. The Pittsburgh pitcher had .gone mighty well, better than many expected, but not better than Pittsburgh expected, as he was figured as one of the win- ners of the series for the Westerners. Bigbee went to .bat.for. him. He lifted.a fly to center field, and Wash- ington fans heaved a sigh of relief that made nearly as much noise as the roaring wind which had howled all the afternoon. Then Moore did the unexpected by batting a single to {left fleld, his first hit of the series. The fans stirred uneasily. Carey laced a single to right and Moore went to third. “Ten to one the score is tled,” shouted a jubilant Pittsburgher. Bases Are Filled. | Cuyler was hit by:-a pitched ball {and the bases were fllled, with only one out. The fans sat aghast with mouths wide open. As base ball goes, the odds were five to one that the score would be tled and almost that much that Plttsburgh would win.. Pittsburgh - expected to see Marberry crumble. He did not. He hunched his broad shoulders a little more in bitter Texas determination and fouled out Barnhart, the man Stan Harris singled and Goslin batted next. Here is where the eminent Goose scintillated and still shines. His Play turned the tide toward Washington. The Pirates were sure that the out- flelder would try agaln for the fence: and played back against them. But the Gocse stood that team on its top- knot by laying down a bunt between third and home that a flying Mercury could not have got, and the bases ‘were full. Judge hit a sacrifice fly to center and McNeely scored the tying run. Joe Harris cracked the ball on the nose and Bucky Harris scored what proved to be the winning run. Meyer batted the ball down the base line, but run into it and was out on his own hit. Marberry in Form. Marberry, “Old Relief and Old Re liable” went to the pitcher's plate for ‘Washington in the eighth and struck out Wright and Grantham in succes- sion with speed that slid by tiem as if the ball were greased. Earl Smith hit next tor Pittsburgh and Arkansas and Sam Rice, now playing right field, ‘went to the bleachers, caught the ball in one hand as he was bending over the boards, lost his balance, but came up smiling and smiled still more when Rigler, National League umpire, said the catch had been made.. Rice did drop the ball. The Pirates were dumb- founded, but the umpire contended that the ball had been momentarily held before it was dropped. Goslin won the game by fine strategy, but Sam Rice saved a tic by a wonderful play. who has driven more runs home for Pittsburgh than any other player this year. The crowd roared with glee and leaned forward until backs were bowed like wheat knocked down by a gale. ‘Then came Traynor, a mighty hitter and a dangerous man to Wash- ington in all this serles. He laced a long fly to McNeely. When Earl grabbed it after a hard run specta- tors fairly pitched - headforemost in glee and muscular relaxation and if the Washington players could have been grabbed at that-particular mo- ment by the exultant 80,000 the chances are the players would have been half denuded of their uniforms. The “original pitchers were Fergu- son for Washington and Kremer for Pittsburgh. The Pirate pitcher lasted through and Ferguson was taken out in the seventh to let Leibold bat for him. It was chubby little *“Nemo” < who accomplished his mission_when ‘he . got the base on balls that Wash- ington so much needed to start the inning. Kremer Gets Cold. Kremer made an unconscious base hit In the sixth and for a long time he stood out on the base line without putting on his sweater. He chilled and || showed it by threshing his back and forth, and somebody on the Pitts- burgh team made a mistake by not taking out a sweater to him to pull over his cold shoulders. And the break of the game came here. Kremer was cold when Leibold went to bat. . He threw four straight baus. McNeely ran for Leibold. Rice. hit hard to left fleld—so hard that Barn- hart stole a three-bagger from him by catching the ball on the -foul lne. The Washingtons were never dan- gerous in the eighth, but the Pitts- burghs were like a horned toad with 40 different horns protruding from as many angles in the ninth until they finally passed out with three men on bases. Two more finishes like this and ‘Washington will have blood pressure that will be powerful enough to lft the pavement in Pennsylvania ave- aue. Pirates Miss Bet. The pitching was excellent by all three pitchers. The great speed of the Pittsburghs was in evidence when they were in the lead. It put them in the lead, but the Washington club again maintained its reputation for having something stored in the giz- zard of their players, which makes them fight harder after the fifth than they do before. Marberry batted out of turn, but ft Wwas up to Pittsburgh to say so and Pittsburgh overlooked a bet. Anyhow ‘Washington failad to score. (Copyright, 1925.) P eathinge s bl ARMY POLOISTS FORCED TO POSTPONE TOURNEY ‘The final match of the annual low goal tournament of the War Depart- ment Polo Association, scheduled yes- terday morning, was postponed on ac- count of a wet field. Should the mes- cury ‘rise sufficlently to make play possible, the match will be played this afternoon. If not, the time will be announced later. The g:h Field Artillery poloists will meet the 3d Cavalry team in the de- clding game. .