Show WORLD SERIES SERIES SERIES' CO COMES AES TO END WITH TRAGIC A CLIMAX NIl Pirate Crew Is Sunk By Long Johns John's Wild Yil Pitch HISTORY RECALLED Yankees Equal Record Made By Bv Boston Against Athletics NEW NE' YORK Oct 8 fly ny By The Associated Press Time The The Yankees and Pirates will split the greatest gre worlds world's series player pool pooh on tee rec ord Thel share hare of the four games games' gam receipts amounts amount to surpassing ln by more than the previous record rc ord cut of divided S l. year car Because of the likelihood that more players will ill be declared in inon on the money moner the individual ual shares hares will not be as great Fi Fig Fig- isred on en a basis ot o 30 20 shares ex expected ex- ex expected of both bolh clubs club each of the triumphant Yankees et and each Pirate By Dy ALAN X J. J GOULD GOULDAs Associated As i Press Sports Editor YANKEE STADIUM New liew Y Yet i Oct 8 By B.-By By The Associated Press The I le stand of a dazed and battered crew of Pittsburg burg Pirates came to an inglorious climax today when a wild pitch by Long John l In the ninth inning with two out and the bases full fuli gave ga the New York Yankees the winning run and the worlds world's championship with a record equating streak 01 ot four successive triumphs Miljus made a gift of the fourth and final game to the American league champions spoiling a a. courageous comeback by the Buccaneers and an wrecking an otherwise sensational re re- re relle lie lle I performance THEN Tl IX COMES fES TRAGEDY TIt Relieving the bespectacled Carmen Hill after the Yankee defense bad had cracked to help heip the Pirates tie tic the score and offset the lead provided by Babe Eabe Ruths Ruth's second home run Miljus had curved his hi way two thirds of the distance to heroic heights when be lao weakened heaving a wild one past Johnny Gooch that enabled Earle Combs to race lace across the plate with the winning run iun It n was an climax anti to an other other- otherwise otherwise wise thrilling stand for Miljus sec sec- Ing log the bases filled with none out out had nad risen men to brilliant heights to fan two of or the heaviest Yankee sluggers Lou Gehrig and Bob The crowd of close to wildly cheering fans knowing that the out out- outcome outcome outcome come of or a worlds world's series hinged on every pitch was as nervously excited as noS Tony Lazzeri strode to the plate PULL FOIL FOR MILJUS There was a feeling Ceding that two-thirds two of the danger past would get out of the hole he had dug for himself l by y passing Combs permitting a hit by Koenig advancing both with witha a wild lid pitch and then Ihen purposely walk- walk walkIng tug tag Ruth With Lazzeri at bat there here arose In the minds of onlookers a II parallel situation in the final game of the series a year ago when Tony was fanned by Alexander with the tha bases full FAMOUS IOUS WILD PITCH This time Ume as a year ago cut cuta a a. wicked drive that went foul In the tho left field held stands Then a ball but bub the next pitch getting out of control flew wide of the he plate Gooch Goods mado a lunge for It but Is 13 only flicked his glove and noel bounced back to the stands as Combs sped aped in standing up with the winning run That single pitch broke up the last lut lingering hopes of the he Pirates badly outclassed at nearly every turn of the tile series senes and sending them down do to the most decisive defeat any National league team has even eien sustained In a t worlds world's series competition RECALLS ANOTHER This was as the he first time a worlds world's series had been literally Jt tossed away th l but it recalled ca and took Its place the famous wild pitch of Jack Chesbro in 1904 1004 that cost the Yankees the deciding game of a a. pen pen- pennant pennant nant race and enabled the Red Sox Box to top the American league It n wa therefore a bit of poetic if also tragic Justice today for the New Yorkers 23 years ears later to win base base- I balls ball's premier title by same method od odi by which they once lost a pennant In dashing through four straight victories to climax the greatest and ace most spectacular season of their his his- history history tory lory the Yankees equaled the he record of the Boston Braves es who scored ored the only other series clean cleon sweep In four games when then they trounced the he Ath Ath- Athletics in ill 1914 Wiley Means the big Oklahoma farmer received credit for the he deciding decidIng decidIng ing Yankee victory but the master of ot the sinker boll ball twirling his first worlds world's series game was as lucky to win the duel he had hart with the tho combined curves cunes of Hill and Miljus SUPPORT SAVES S. HIM 1111 m 1 Wiley has hit hard from the start lie He steadied usually when it came to tho the pinches but only the sensational support of his Infield saved ed him from heavy Y damage through the first halt half haltof of the game and when that defense sagged in the seventh Inning the Pi Pirates PI rates surged through to tie tle the he score Each team scored a run In the open- open opening ng ing In Inning but Ruth caught one of ot Hills Hill's slow curves in hi the the fifth and sent it high bl h and far into the right field bleachers scoring Earlo Earle Combs ahead of Cf c him with n a brace of runs that hat looked big enough to settle the game ame It was a towering drive not riot as much of the shot rifle variety as that the he Babe fired Into the same stands yesterday esterday but still a typical smash and one that thit aroused tho th wildest sort or of f a demonstration STONEWALL STOl INFIELD 1 The Pirates meanwhile were lacing Moores Moore's sinker ball bail consistently but also as consistently getting nowhere because of stonewall ston infield defense put up by Dugan Koenig Lazzeri and ed d g nd off Gehrig Pirate Twice threats double O in IM ihs plays third chok and d fifths fifth Innings but for no apparent rea rca reason son on whatever the Yankees lost their sure fire fielding skill in the seventh Moore himself paved pl way the for forthe forthe the he Pirate rally roily In this timis when on Smiths Smith's roller to Gehrig he muffed the ne first base ans an's throw as 13 he step step- Continued on Two T WORLD SERIES GOMES s TO END Continued from Page Pace One pod ped on the bag Instantly there was commotion on the Pirate bench and reinforcements reinforcements' were rushed in The fans like Ute those in Pittsburg yelled vociferously l ly for KU Cuyer exiled outfielder Emil Yde Yle serve reserve re erve pitcher was sent in to run for Smith and I Freddie Brickell substituted for fer him himat himat himat at bat I It was not because of ot this strategy that got on base however howe for Lazzeri with w another double play In sight made his first error of the series senes booting Brickell's grounder Lloyd Llord Waner sacrificed both runners along and there e was a mighty t cheer for the Pirates l as 8 a drove r ee a along along long single to center Yde scored but Brickell In doubt about the ball bali started back to second and then re retraced re- re retraced retraced traced his steps too late to get further than third on the hit Paul Waner however howe brought over Brickell with the he tying run on a sacrifice to Combs and end the stands were in another up- up roar oar The Pirates were making a gallant I comeback and the fans or not riot the majority were ere there to root the ho Yankees in gave the Corsairs as big a a. hand handIS as IS they ever got ot in lu their I home town Perhaps the crowds crowd's reaction was because became the Pirates were the under under- underdogs dogs doliS righting fighting a n. seemingly hopeless fight but more likely it was typical of Gotham's impartiality and desire for tor enthusiasm whatever the cause At any rate the Pirates seemed to take ake on a new W lease in their t base base- se le ae ball life even e If I 1 eal it was coming I a trifle rifle late isle They were displaying more nore s dash and confidence than they had I ad In any of ot the previous games But as lIS it turned out the final flash was ass not enough and the Pirates lost at i the end as they had from rom the start tart chiefly on their own ol lapses TIME FOR They had a chance to ie break the 3 tic Ie in the tile eighth inning as did the Yankees but the rival pitchers MH- MH Muus jus us and Moore each struck out wIth Ith mo two ao men on base It looked like ques ques- questionable questionable strategy by Manager Donle Donie Bush Dush to send acrid to bat in the eighth with men on first and second and two out A pinch hitter there Cuyler perhaps might have put the Corsairs C Into the lead It looked like the he I spot to throw all available an liable re- re resources reI sources I into the battle but Bush gam gam- gambled bled with lith his pitcher and lost The Yankees and outplayed he the C Pirates except for their surprising seventh inning lapse the only time he the New York infield defense cracked I in a the entire series but it was Babe Ruths Ruth's bat that dealt the mightiest blows for the American league champ champ- Ions ons Yesterday the the- Babes Babe's homer was more nore artistic than essential Today as ta it turned out his second circuit clout lout saved the game enabling the Yankees to hold bold the Pirates to a tie until the fateful ninth BABES BABE'S HOMER lIo Ruth brought Combs home in the first inning with the first Yankee run alter after Earle had singled and ad advanced ad- ad advanced advanced on Koenigs Koenig's one-base one blow Combs who ho helped himself to three hits during the t afternoon n was again Wy Wyt conveniently on case base when fuSe the aJ Babe landed tended his mighty stroke in the bleachers in the fifth firth Again in the ninth Ruth was up sip there swinging his mace with wills threat threat- threatening threatening ening gestures with two runners on base but this time caution v was as the better part of valor alor for the Pirates and intentionally passed the Babe on orders from Irons Manager Bush The slight of ot the Babe perhaps was partly portly responsible for tor Miljus' Miljus first wild pitch moving Combs and Koenig up a base b e. e It was Just t as well that a Ruth was seas hitting them for f the lr rest of f tile the Yen Yan kee staggers outside of ot Combs Koenig and Collins did nothing to distinguish themselves at bat Lou Gehrig who gave the Babe a hot chase for home run honors during the season not only failed ailed to connect in this series for more than a triple but he fanned twice t in III the pinches today In the first inning Gehrig as IlS WI we as a and Lazzeri struck out on oa slow curves curses or floaters and In hi the ninth Columbia Lou beat the air as he followed the Babe to bat with the th bases full cull and none out TRAGIC FINALE LE It IL was a great chance for Gehrig to inject a finishing wallop but he ho was unable to seize it as Miljus fooled tooled him with curves eunes It was as the same story for tor next up who struck out lor lot the second tidie th in the game and for the fifth time In two to days It was a tragic finale for tor s to tot undo this t line fine work with 1 h a wild fk pitch but it t was typical In 1 a disappointing s fashion of oX the wobbly and uncertain work of 01 the Pirates from the start of ot the series urles A it few moments of the battle were ere the Corsairs C tired by their hard pennant ight able to match their powerful foes toes In hitting fielding skill or pitching While the Yankees made only one Olle substitution that In m the first game the Pirates saw every cry one of ot 0 the four tour starting Kremer twirlers Kremer Aldridge Meadows and sac and Hill fade Hill fade from Irom the picture be be- be before before fore the finish of any game oJ |