| Show Ott Myer Look no Different From Other Players in Big Fall Classic By Dr WESTBROOK Copyright Chicago Tribune Service POLO GROUNDS Oct 4 The 4 The clU- clU Zen ens stormed the Polo grounds yesterday yes yes- es erday afternoon to witness the performance performance per- per of some more baseball history history his- his tory ory by Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott of f the Giants and Buddy Duddy Myer Mer of the Washington club I These parties were assisted by miscellaneous miscellaneous mis- mis others In arriving at a acore score core of at 4 to 2 after alter recurrent spells spell ot of f excitement The Giants got the lour four our Hubbell pitched according to all 11 the thc beautiful expectations which had ad been created by weeks of acclaim ac ac- claim laim and controversial ballyhoo holding the Senators who were supposed supposed sup- sup posed to be very hard men at bat to toive live five ive hUs including two which were not ot much credit to the authors nor any ny discredit to himself OTT orr BLASTS HOMER IER Ott made four hits in four attempts his its first being a home borne run in round one ne which scored Moore who would not lot have ha been in the way at all If il Myer Iyer hadn't tramped all over o his ground rounder grounder r. r This mishap was only the first of ot three mistakes which pretty thoroughly fouled up tho the prestige of oftie the tie Myer boy who came to town for forthe I the he games with a very fair reputation as iS a ball bail player and a steady hand in emergencies Myer immediately gave himself something to atone for in the first when he kicked Moores Moore's grounder and lost it between his feet an error which landed the Giants' Giants first hitter on first and in a little while staked the Giants to two runs Critz and Terry were harmless but Mel Ott the growing boy from Louisiana bounced one Into the lower right field stands for a n home run scoring Moore amid great public excitement It seemed to be anybody's day but the truculent Mr Myers for after a handsome stop of ot Ryans Ryan's drive in the second he threw wide of Kuh Kuhl l trin trying trying try try- in ing for the putout and Ryan Ran went to second as a posse of ot Senators chased the baseball toward the Washington dugout The contest developed eloped Into a ball game of ot the just-a-ball-game just type In Inthe Inthe inthe the Giants' Giants half of the third There is a popular illusion that world series ball games are super ball games but the statistics stand in the record and many scenes live in the retentive memories of the experts to show that most world series ball games arc are II slightly more than just game if the bunting and music and gala rites are subtracted than the average average- just ball In this third inning In- In nin ninfi ning Critz Terry and Olt Ott singled Critz scoring in the thc process and Stewart Stewart Stewart Stew Stew- art removed himself from view being relieved by Russell who took pretty firm irm charge of a n hard situation when he struck out Davis covered first for fora a putout on Jackson and got ot Mancuso the next hitter on a fly Terry scored from third in the Jackson incident and they went Into the fourth inning with the Giants leading 4 to 0 O. Myer began to beat back from ignominy in the fourth with a 3 single through the box from which he pres pros presently presently scored and established a large gaunt numeral 1 amid the hollow eyed zeroes of the Washington rc record ord THEY LOOK ALIKE Everything seemed to conspire against Myer He lie stretched himself a yard trying to field an unconventional unconventional unconventional single by Mel Ott OU in the seventh seventh sev zev- the ball bouncing off oft Russells Russell's glove and Into the dirt just beyond his reach A moment later he made his third error when he dropped a throw from Sewell and Ott slid around him to second At this instant in instant in- in stant you ou had the traditional hero of the tho ball game Mel Ott who had made four tour hits hils in four times at bat and the traditional goat author of three glaring Blaring faults congregated on on one bag They looked no different from any other ball players player to the naked eye t |
