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Show i THE SALT liAKE TRIBUNE, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1922. Joes Buffets Were I 'xBiillet L L IN WILFRED D. RYAN SCORE OF FIRST GAME Familiarly known as Eoey, who la credited with, winning opening game of 1922 series,. NEW YORK AMERICANS. AB R H FIRSLBATTLE B SB HR TB SII SFSB BB SO PO A -- 11 Buds. We TaMeIt S Former Coaster WJho Put Giants on Way to Victory Bullet Joe, Suffered to Re- main Fatally Long Despite Fusillade of Hits. CatiBd from Page Pm filled the bane on aueceaslva singles by Kelly, Stengel and Snyder. At this point came one of the big moment of ' the game. Smith, crouching down like a golfer about to putt, bided his time until the count stood three balls nd two strikes. The Giants were two uns behind. Bush flung the nest ball straight over. Smith hit to Soott at short, who threw to second, starting a double Play that once more smothered a Giant assault. It was from this setback that McG raw's men Bancroft, Groh, r Frisch, Meusel and Young cam. back in the lghth inning and pounded out the hits id sacrifice fly that brought vlctory-Ithe field the Yanks played perfectly from staFt to finish, 'in a smooth, steady manner. The Giants were different. Their defense was made up of flashes and flaws alike. Young made two errors, one of them costly, but he also won the cheers of the crowd for his catch and throw of Scott's hard liner that came in the fifth inning tilth Yanks on first and second. Young slid to the ground as he caught the drive at his shoe tops, but rising quickly he threw it to second, where a touch of Frisch's foot to the bag was enough to complete a double play, as Bob Meusel, thinking Scotts blow a clean hit, had never stopped racing toward home after leaving second. Bancroft Stars. NEW YORK NATIONALS. Bancroft, I.. Young, rf Kelly, lb. Nehf, p. ninth-innin- Giants- - Game ... 32 Totals 3 11 0 1 0 13 0 0 1 1 5 27 13 3 xBatted for Nehf. in seventh inning; hit into double play. Score by innings: New York Americana Silt Ity&ix ffifehgf, (lUrfit down, tripled to left center, but waa left Summary: Buns responsible for Coats league method) Nehf ; when Frisch skied to Ward. 3. Bases on balls Bush 1 (Groh) ; Nehf 1 (Ward). Struck Bush 1, Bush allowed only one hit, a single by Kelly in the third, rbut the attack broke out Bush 3 (Kelly, Young, E. Meusel) ; Nehf 3 (Ruth, R. Meusel, out afresh in the 'seventh only to be Double choked off by a double killing with the Pipp); Byan 2 (Witt, Buth); Hoyt 2 (Kelly, Stengel). basee full. With Young out, Kelly, Stento to Ward Scott to to Frisch; Young Bancroft; gel and Snyder filled the bases on the plays Snyder successive singles. Earl Smith was sent Pipp; Frisch to Kelly. bases New York Americans 4, on Left In to bat for Nehf, but after fouHng off Passed ball Schang. Thrown out steala half dozen balls, he hit to Scott and New York Nationals 7. was doubled up with Snyder via Ward Buns batted in: Buth, Ward, E. Meusel 2, Buth. Groh, ing and Pipp. - (National),-umpir.in-chie- Jfanks Score. ' j-- Fumbled ground balls Young 2. Wild throw Nehf. Young. Nehf Is Master. Two mns, six hits off Nehf, 24 at hat in 7 innings; three runs, 11 Nehf had the Yankee sluggers baffled, meanwhile,- for five innings. Only three hits off Bush, 30 at bat in 7 plus innings, out in eighth, first and hits were collected off his southpaw third occupied, none out; no runs, one hit off Byan, 6 at hat in two shoots and each of the three big Yankee guns. Ruth, Bob Meusel and Pipp, were innings; no runs, no hits off Hoyt, 2 at bat in one minus inning. picked off- on strikes. Umpires Klem Losing pitcher Bush. Meusel, who singled through short in Winning pitcher Ryan. f, at Hildebrand the, fifth and advanced on Bchangs sac(American plate; league), rifice, was the first Yankee to reach second. Ward walked, but Young dashed at first base;, McCormick (National league), at second base; Owens the for through In to make a sensational catch off American league), at third base. Time of game Two hours and Inning after a line drive, and doubled Meusel offScott's sec- The Yankees broke first run In the sixth Whitey triple by Witt had been a wasted. to deep wallop opened the inning with third between was trapped center, but and home on Dugan's poke to Bancroft. W Snyder tagged him out after a brief dash. went to second on the play and Wugan floored on Ruths hard crack to right. and the Babe Young Juggled the ball continued to second, but was stranded when Kelly scooped up Pipp's ground evnash and beat him to the bag. The Giant defense, a mixture of bad and brilliant plav, cracked In the sevtheir secenth when the Yanks scored ond and final run. Bob Meusel opened to third dashed and with a single to left when Nehf threw the ball out to right sacrifice center on Schang's attempted and Young followed with a fumble of the sacrifice Wards heave. wild pitcher's Meusel, but hoist to Stengel brought in filed out and Scott second. Schang held, Bush forced Scnang to end the inning. factor the The' Giants vaunted punch, that carried the team through to victory in ithe drive for the pennant, produced the winning rally In the eighth and drove Bush, the American leagues premier -- ond. In Pipp skidded to the ground nailing the ball, but recovered Quickly to make the throw. After scoring In the sixth and seventh, the Yankees were held In check by Rosey Ryan, Nehfa successor in the last two Innings. Witt and Ruth fanned In the eighth. In the ninth Pipp, who started the Inwa doubled off first ning after Frisch raced over to grab Meusels smash toward right field. Frisch tossed out Schang for the final out Nehfs slight margin of effectiveness over Bush la revealed In anlysis of the pitching. Besides allowing only six hits to eleven off his rival, the Giants southpaw worked with less effort. He pitched to the plate ninety-on- e times in seven innings, while . Bush made 106 throws until he was taken out in the eighth. balls to thirty-fiv- e Nehf twirled thirty-on- e for Bush and shot over twenty-eigfor the Yankee strikes to twenty-fiv- e star. Outside of base hits, only one ball off Bush reached the outfield, while four were gathered In by Giant outer markers. Fourteen foul strikes were nicked moundsman, from the mound. off Bush, twice the number off ei Hoyt pitched fourteen times in the Bush Retires. while Ryan single Inning he worked. twenty-si- x throws in two The top end of the Giant batting order, chalked up The "boy wonder frames. let loose perwhich had been finding "Bullet-Joe- " seven balls and five strikes, while Rvan but without results, sistently before, balls twirled and nine strikes. battered cannonade that eight started the down the Yanks apparent winning lead. In Bancroft. Groh and Frisch singled but smart fielding by GIANTS rapid succession,Meusel held the runners Ruth and Bob 's to one each on 'these hits. Irish hit bounded over second base and Bancroft and Groh dashed across to tie NEW Oct. 4. The fighting Bush was waved from the power ofYORK, the- score. the ' Giants carried them to hero of Waite pitching Hoyt, and box, the Yanks, In the opening Ross Young. victoryof over the series a year ago, facedredeemed the world series. In opinions exhis game The little after the contest by the rival pressed previous lapses In the field by driving to managers. Witt making the catch, deep left center, man who "The has the best while Frisch scored easily with what wins the most ball games, saidfighters John proved to be the winning In rurf. Hovt of the Giants, between McGraw, manager sucand Stengel rapid whiffed Kelly over of chuckles the victory. delight cession to retire the side. Joe Bush was working fine, although Both Bush and Nehf were effective In I dont he believe had much stuff- on "Bullet although the first five innings, the ball, so I told the boys, after the Joe" was hit a trifle harder and was Yanks made two had to runs, Just try himself from called on to extricate Both were barked up and' meet the ball just to stick out tight places. bet bats. while the Yankees their JFy good fielding, the defense, the "Thats what they did in the eighth were cohslstent-o- n and that proved my belief that Giants wavered into the depth and then Inning but speed. . rose to the heights of utmost brilliance Bush was using nothing admit "I'll that we had the breaks of moments. at critical GrOh and Frisch, whose bats were ac- the game and that the Yanks might have found Bush had five runs but for. some lucky, sentive most of the afternoon, for successive singles in The first in- sational plays. but neither Irish "And, say Pm right proud of my ning with one out, nor Kelly could drive them across. Continued on Pago PoartMa two with Groh. In third, the Again Meu-sel- ht TRIUMPH PLEASES MGRAW - er - sev-iia- al Meu-WA- el &1U11 AND eight minutes. - , run-nS- whiffed on three Pitched, lly Ward threw out Stengel at first Snvder s hot smash took Dugan no hits, d got him at first. No runs, no errors. TH1RD INN1N. Yankees Scott popped to Groh Bush who was robbed of a hit bv Bancroft, toward centook the ball while running a out grounder to ter field. Witt sent out at first. Frisch, and he was nothrown errors. No runs, no hits, took Nehfs grounder and Giants-Pi- pp Bancroft hit to Ward, threw Banwho looped up the ball and long hit croft out at first. Groh cot a filed out Frisch to left for three bases. errors. no to Ward. No runs, one hit. FOURTH INNING. second. Yankees Dugan singled over Bancroft. forced Dugan. Frisch to Ruth stealout Ruth was Pipp fanned, toand No runs, one Bancroft. ing, Snyder hit,' no errors. Giants Scott threw out E. Meusel. Young struck out.sent Kelly a singled flypast to high up Dugan. Stengel Ward. No runs, one hit, no errors. FIFTH INNING. Yankees R. Meusel sent a hot one sacrificed, Schang through Bancroft. Scott Nehf to Kellv. Ward walked. lined out to Young, who made a shoecatch and doubled Meusel at secstring No ond. runs, one hit, no errors. . erGlant-Ke- halls. base run-dow- n. JEFF Judge Jeff Adds Dignity to the Bench , , i' Damon Picks Heinie Groh as Hero of Opening Game By DAMON RUNYON, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. (Copyright, 1922, by Universal Service.) d NEW YORK, Oct. 4. A d little man, with a hat and a bottled-u- p style of batting, along with a bottled-u- p sort of namesuch is hero for today. Not a prepossessing figure as we present him, you may say, certainly no matinee Idol, yet an object of an adoring Interest to 88,000 Manhattan Islander who saw him play a large, fat part In the Giants winning of the first game of the world series from the Yankees this afternoon. The ecoro was 3 to 2. d The little man Is Heine d Groh,, and his bat Interposed a foolish looking little hit Into the proceedings of the eighth inning at the Polo Grounds that seemed to smother the barrage of Bullet Joe" Bush's pitching, which had been gradually dying down from the Inning before. It was one of those hits, a sort of Jab In behind an open'ng blow by "Beauty" Bancroft- - of the Giants, but on top of It came a rushing attack from McG raw's men that carried away a two-ru- n lead for Bullet Joe and with It Bullet Joe himself. It was Heine Grohs third hit of the d day with that bat, and good Interest on the 1150,000 that McGraw paid for Groh, to get him back from Cincinnati. For six innings, "Bullet Joe, waving a pair of red flannel sleeves at the Giants ami shooting from under that scarlet cover vollevs of bewildering speed, help the National leaguer In check. Cleat to cleat with him ewung Arthur of the Giants, Nehf. the was a pitchers battle, tedious, monotonous, with all the Interest hung on that one brief moment when the inevitable break must come one way or the other. bottle-shape- Giants Scott tossed out Snvder. Nehf popped to Ward. Scott nailed Bancroft at first. No runs, no hits, no errors. SIXTH INNING. Yankees Bancroft took Bushs hot grounder and got him at first. Witt hit to left for three bases. Bancroft took Dugans bounder and Witt was run down, Bancroft to Snyder to Groh to 8nyder. Dugan went to second on the Dugan scored on Ruth's single to right, and when Young fumbled the ball, Ruth went to second. Kelly took Pipps grounder and beat him to the bag One run, two hits, one error. Giants Groh walked. Frisch fouled out to Schang. Groh was out stealing, Schang to Ward. Bush struck out E. Meusel. No runs, no hits, no errors. SEVENTH INNING. Yankees R. Meusel singled Groh forhls second hit. Nehf took past Schangs Intended sacrifice and threw fnto center field. E. Meusel went to third and to second when Schang Young fumbled the hall. E. Meusel scored on Ward's sacrifice fly to Stengel, Schang holding second Scott filed out to Stengel, who took the ball In deep left Groh Bushs roller and touched Schang astook he came into the bag. Giants Young filed out to Ruth. Keltv scratched an Infield hit down the third base line. Stengel singled to left, Kelly going to second. Scott knocked down Snvders hit over second and the bases were filled. Smith, batting for Nehf. hit into a double play, Scott to Ward to Pipp. No runs, three hits, no errors EIGHTH INNING. Yankees llvan went Into the box for the Oiante. Witt was a strikeout victim Dugan filed out to Stengel. Ruth also fanned. No runs, no hits, no errors. Giants Bancroft singled over Ward's head, Groh singled Into right and Frisch singled to left, filling the bases Bancroft and Groh scored on K Meusels single over second. Frisch going to third Meusel's blow drove Bush from the box and Hoyt took his place.' Frisch scored on Youngs sacrifice flv to Witt, Meusel holding first. Kellv struck out, as did Three! runs, four hits, no also Stengel. errors. NINTH INNING. Yankees Pipp singled Into center. R. Meusel lined out to Frisch, who doubled Pipp at first. Frisch threw out Schang. No runs, one hit, no errors. V. . old-ti- bottle-legge- . ' FIRST INNING. Witt filed . out to Stengel. Yankee Ruth first at out Dugan Groh threw who got a big cheer on bln trip to the Nehf completely struck out. curves. plate No runs, fooled him with wide no hit, no errors. out Giants Ward threw the Ptch?r-Grofirst, taking the ball behind Into left for hit a Texas leaguer Frisch sinseries. of the the first hit going to gled into left field, Groh ball, ri the passed advanced? E. Meusel fouled out to No runs, Sriitng Young filed to Pipp. two hits, no errors. SECOND inning: out to Kelly, unYankees PIPP wentfanned. He looked R. Meusel assisted. . Schang foolish on Nehfs wide curves. for the field left Into spanked a single out ftrat Yankee hit. Ward grounded one hit, no Groh to Kelly. No runs, Bunch. The National leaguers proved they are a game lot. They kept trying when It seemed useless for them to try any longer, Sitting back on th bench of the Giants, no longer the stormy petrel of the coaching lines, as in bygona years of world series, but a secluded and dignified director of play, John J. McGraw had a big part In tha final drivt. He had his men swttoh their attack to hitting at the first ball pitched by Bush-U- p to that .time they had been attempt- "" ing to wait "Bullet Joe out. Th ad- vantage waa constantly with th pitcher. McGraw sensed the slowing up of "Bullet Joe" In the seventh, when the Giants had tha bases full and could not score. Up in the press stand sat a man watching th twists and turns of baseball fortune on the field below who must have had a thousand memories as hs looked on. This man was Christy Mathewson "Big Six Just back from a long, hard journey out of the valley of the shadow. Back in 1911 Mathewson was with a Giant club that fought against Bullet Jo and lost. Kin years Is a long time In baseball, and many things bav happened since that day. Not far from Mathewson sat Jack Dempsey, his whit teeth gleaming as he nodded to acquaintances. It was a day of notables, with General Perahlngr Judge Keneesw Mountain Landis, A1 Smith and snores of others whoa names mean more or less. In ths stands. It was a world series opening with all ths pomp and much of th circumstance of thes openings, and with baseball fortune playing tha usual strong pranks on th field one the gam got under way. little man with the The bottle-legge- d d bat. for Instance, was not to transact any great deed. Hi expected bottle leg have been ailing during th past season. Soma folks have been whispering behind their hands that McGraw got the worst of that deal when he gave George Burns and 1150,000 for Oroh. McGraw originally developed Oroh from a green hand and traded him to Cincinnati years ago. In Cincinnati th promise thet McGraw saw In Groh blossomed into rip fulfillment. When McGrow came to buy him back again Groh was a bright and shining star. This afternoon, however, those bottle bottle-shape- d legs stood, up bravely, and th Where-for, bat performed wonder. for our hero, which we assuredly series In world game, must have every we nominate without reservation Hein zEarl Smith Ryan, p. . .. -- d bottle-legge- , Bancroft, too, was a hero'lh the field. In the third he ran into center field and with his back to the diamond gathered In a fly from Bush's bat. Later, after hard blow Witts triple, he stopped areturn to the from Dugan and by a quick plate enabled the Giant catcher and third baseman to trap Witt. In the ninth another fine flash by the Giant defense sank the last hope of the Yanks. Pipp had started a comeback rally with a single. Meusel sliced a hard one toward right field, but Frisch, with a fast hop and leap, grabbed it and doubled Pipp at first. Schang was an easy infield out. and the game was over. The Polo grounds were packed. At noon most of the unreserved seats had been filled and the start of the game was two hours off. In the last hour came the reserved seat tlckethoiaers, among them many, notables. enChristy Mathewson was one whose trance thrilled the crowd. Cheers herthe seat in press to his alded his walk stand, as only a moment before they had ' signaled the arrival of General Pershing and Baseball Commissioner soLandis. warm that The day was fair and in shirt many in tnd bleachers sleeves. t right-hand- ...... lean league champions, and the hopes of the Giant fans were at low water when the eighth cam on. Before the eiidSrf that inning, Bullet Joe had gone, Wsltovllovt was pitching for the Yankees and aU 'tKk'wo-calle- d "dope, on the see rtes had been washed away. It Is a brief tale the tale of the Yankee disaster. Singles by Bancroft, the Oroh, Frisch and Irish Meaget," and a sacrifice fly by Roas Youngnseoohnted for three runs and the for the Giants. victory It may strike the casual reader as strange that we have selected the bottlelegged Grab's hit, the second of the as tha heavy blow against the pitching of "Bullet Joe, but that is the wav It appeared to a great many other than this writer. Jit was a lucky sort of a Uck, perhaps the very lurk of the thing, oomlhg after all the great pitching, disheartening "Bullet Joe" a trifle. It was Irish Meusel, brother of the Yankees' Boh, who really crushed "Bullet Joe." If we were selecting an understudy In th hero role to Heine Groh. w would select Wilfred Ryan, called "Rosy" by his associate, for some reason not entirely clear. Baseball nickname are rarely clear. Ryan is a collegian who baa been with the Giants a couple of years, and when hf relieved Arthur Nehf, after Nehf had been taken out for a pinch hitter. "Rosy Ryan pitched wonderful ball. He had to face the heaviest sluggers of the Yankees, including the great Baba Ruth. He fanned Ruth. H held the other In hand, assisted In no small deg gree by a play by Frankie Frisch, a lucky sort of play for tbs Giant. m bottle-shape- ROSS YOUNG Whose sacrifice fly permitted run-ne- r to ecore with deciding tally. - Groh. Receipts Break All World Series Records bottle-legge- bottle-shape- By Universal Sendee. follows: Paid attendance, 36.814. Total receipts. 1119,036. National commission share, Each club's share, $20,236.12. Players' share. $60,706.36. last years figures: First gams: Paid attendance, Total receipts. $103,968. National commissions share, Each clubs share, $17,674.06. bottle-shape- Bush Master for While. "Bullet Joe" for nix Innings had all the better of the battle. In the sixth, Bnlie Ruth swept in a run for the Yanks, and the mot optimistic Giant rooters in the rrovVd felt that It was all over. Thev did not believo the Giants could gjet past "Bullet Joes" harrier of speed. Long and long ego some- philosophical rball plaver laid down an axiom: "You caat hit em when you can't mft 'em.' And for six Innings today thfc Giants rouldnt "see em. as the ball left the hand of Bullet Joe, moving faster and faster as It approached the pfate, until - ' fans NEW YORK. Oct. 4. (Baseball paid 1119,036, exclusive of war tax. to aee the first game of the world's eerie. Attendance and receipts wore (Classified as $17, 655.40. 30,203, $15,894.78. Players share, $53,022.15. Todays receipts broke all records for a world's aerlea gams. The previous high mark was reached at the second game of the series last season, when the total paid admission waa $119,007. , Twin Fails Footballers 1 Score Heavily on Barley flierial to Ths Tribune. e ' TWIN FALLS, Idaho. Oct. 4 Scoring In every period. Twin Falls high school football team. In its second gam of the season, defeated Burley. 41 t 0. One of th largest crowds ever assembled at a hundreds of football game. Including teachers here from eight counties for inwitnessed the defeat ol stitute sessions the Burley eleven. Weather was Ideal. Twin Fa.'ls goal line was never once menaced, although the game was hard Scott, Twin Falls fought throughout. quarter, was an outstanding ground finally It went swishing past their cheats gainer, and with Garrity and Alvord won like veritable bullets. honors for the blue and white. Canine. Another run In the seventh made It Kcrshisneck and Clark were stellar play- seem an absolute cinch for the Amer-i'eof th Burley eleven. 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