Show Sultan of Swat Makes I r Great Great Comeback Comeback in 23 Ruth Registers Batting Av Average rage for Year Leads l Yanks to Victory Over Giants in World Series Hits Three Homers This is the sixth of ot 10 stories relating relating re re- re lating the prodigious worlds world's w series te feats ts of the one and only Babe Ruth Nearing the end of his career the Babe abe this y year ar will make his tenth and p perhaps his last appearance in inthe inthe n the classic By EDWARD J. J NEIL Associated d Press Sports Sp Writer NEW YORK Sept The 17 The 17 The Return af t f Ruth Huth a legendary almost historic drama nowadays and apparently needing only unanimous unanimous' opinion that the tb great one is through to start a are revival re- re re revival vival was a magnificent thing at its tn inception eption in 1923 Relegated to th the ball players' players boneyard bone bone- yard dubbed the busted phenomenon non the Babe suddenly braced A Anew Anew new spirit inspired by mild kindly little Miller Huggins suddenly swept over the entire Yankee club An illy disciplined mob of temperamental temperamental tempera tempera- mental stars each playing his own game was transformed into a well well- ordered sincere closely knit team with Ruth the contrite showing the way Beaten off by the Giants in two successive worlds world's series humiliated S the Yankees came back to sweep the American league leacue again in n 1923 1923 with Ruth hitting greatest average he ever compiled along with 41 home runs rons i NOT THE SAME RUTH Into Into the third straight series with L. L L the Giants swept the Yankees and nd this time Ruth was the deadly spear spear- head He rallied such mighty pitchers pitch pitch- ers era as Herb Pennock Waite Hoyt S. S Sam Jones Joncs and Bob Shawkey and ond t his slugging mates Bob Joe Dugan Wally Whitey Witt and 1 Aaron Ward c Ruth hit three home runs runs runs-a a triple a double and two singles singles singles-in in the six games th the Yankees needed to batter 1 down the Giants four games to two Two of his home runs the first he ne eVer r hit in worlds world's series play came in IIi the second game of the series and won it for tor Herb Pennock 4 to 2 His distance e smashes opened his Ls is assault on worlds world's ser series hitting records No one before him hm had hit two homers in n successive times at bat nor n r three home hoine lome runs in iii one series SUBDUED SCOFFERS Today his home run record Is four for or one ser series es made against the St st. Louis Cardinals in 1926 and equaled I by Lou Gehrig against the Cards in n I 1928 The manner of Ruths Ruth's home run hiting hitting hitting hit hit- ting ing subdued the scoffers who had waved farewell to the Babe in 1922 They said then that John McGraw knew the big fellows fellow's weaknesses that Ruth could not hit a low inside curve or a change of pace In the second game off Hughie Me Quillan the Babe smashed a low inside inside in in- side curve into the stands against Jack Bentley he wafted a slow ball baU ballout ballout out of the park 1 LAST LAUGH Again in this series however the first postseason classic in baseballs baseball's history the master mind of the he Giants found Ruths Ruth's second weak weak- ness The first always has been a abase abase base on balls balts something the Giant hurlers fed him liberally after the second game Leading Leadin Penn Pennock 4 t to 1 1 pitching beautifully Art Nehf suddenly weakened weakened weakened weak weak- ened in the eighth Inning Two sin sin- singles and two walks filled the bases and forced in a run Rosy Ryan took Nehf's s place and walked Joe Dugan Du gan an forcing in n the second run to cu cut the Giants lead to 4 Ruth was up with the bases f full ll Ryan curved over two strikes Mr Mr- Graw on the bench saw the Babes Babe's anxiety read rightly that hed he'd no not let another ball past him without taking tak talc in ing a cut Deliberately he ordered Ryan to heave the one next into the dirt Rosy did The Babe took a mighty swi swing Back to the bench he trudged the next batter singled to save th the day It was the last triumph of MOo Mc- Ic mind over Ruthian matter They never met again on worlds world's se- se series series se se- ries fields el |