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LAUD SI. LOUIS US GREAT TEAM(Continued From First Page.)we did not need today's performance -to know that Alexander is a great pitcher. I have said so twice before in this series and I say so again.”Huggins was asked if he had anything to say about cracks appearing in his team’s defensive play.“I have not one word to say about errors my boys made,” he said. “Those who would rather think about errors than anything else should give a thought to the errors they didn’t make.Landis Pays Tribute.“After all is said and done, and all is said and done for this series, the Cardinals’ defensive play enabled them ^to win the game, and that’s that, vve have a fighting chib, but so have they.”Baseball Commissioner Landis was one of the ' first to congratulate Hornsby. It was a great series. You have a great club and I congratulate you also on your playing personally,” the directing genius of major league baseball told the manager of the world’s champions.“Was there ever a greater series?” the s commissioner was asked as he invaded the shower baths to shake hands with the St. Louis players who had not finished their baths. He was then off to tell the Yankees that they were glorious in defeat.Jacob Ruppert, President of tna New York Yankees, was just.behind Commissioner Landis in reaching Hornsby's locker.Ruppert Pats St, Louisans’ Backs.“It was a great series and we feel that we lost to a great club,” said Ruppert in extending his congratulations.By this time the Cardinal clubhouse held a National League quorum, with half a dozen managers and Presidents joining President John A. Heydler in felicitating Hornsby on the Cardinal victory.Alexander had fought his way through his admiring teammates and was permitting the trainer to rub liniment on his right ?rm, called to toss on two cold days in succession.“That’s nothing but wasting time, rubbing his arm,” laughed John J. McAraw, manager of the New York Giants and much more of a veteran than Alexander. “This fellow can go out and pitch an exhibition game tomorrow and without any liniment either.”“There’s something in that, too.” rejoined Alexander; “I’m going to pitch one next Sunday in Omaha.” Says Ruth Wouldn’t Bite.Alexander said he felt no fatigue in the two and one-third innings he pitched following nine hard periods yesterday. “I tried to make Ruth hit a bad ball in the ninth,” he said, “and I thpught I would when I got two strikes on him, but he wouldn’t go after the last three. Of course,it was better to take a chance on putting him on than to let him hit a good one at that stage.” vThe slugging Ruth was a bit disconsolate a^ter the game, but soon regained his cheerful view of things in general and baseball games in particular.Babe Didn’t Get Chance.“They made one more run than we did and the team that makes the most runs wins, so we had to lose, he said. “Of course, I would like to have bus^hapother one, but I didn’t have a^fcry good chance.”When the suggestion was made that he had added another sensational catch to his world series feats, Ruth remarked, “Oh that,” leaving an impression that making great catches iheans nothing in his life of glorious ’’busting.”
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 11, 1926
Page 8
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Michael W.
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