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PIRATES EVEN SERIES WITH SENATORS |HUES WIN WHEN i MOORE HITS ONE FOR FOUR BASESScore Nearly Tied In Ninth On Joe Harris’ Long Drive.CLYDE BARNHART NEARLY HAS HOMERJohnson To Pitch For Senators In Final Game.(By Ihf Associated Pr«ssPittsburgh,. Oct. 13.—Pittsburgh’s hopes for a world’s baseball championship which had all but faded out of the picture for 1925, came back today in full flight on the wings of a lusty home run drive by Eddie Moore.Until today the young Pirate second -sucker, had been a cog in the machine. | inconspicuous for the most part, but T tonight he is the hero of a victory that 1 pulled the Pirates up on even terms with the Senators, eaoh with three triumphs apiece and extended the series to its seventh game limit tomorrow.Kremer Pitches Well.Buttressed by the brilliant, at times Invincible pitching of Ray Kremer, and a defense that was shock-proof in every crisis Moore’s single stroke in the ( fifth inning provided the winning margin of a 3 to 2 triumph that marked another advance in the sensational comeback of the Natioual league champions and stirred a home town throng of 44,000 fans into delirious en- f thusiasm. iIt was the second straight win for f the Pirates, now on the high tide, dash- (I tig and confident that they will go on j to reach the goal that last was gained by the club in 1909. It was also the ( second time Washington had seen that I one badly needed triumph escape from lt;th^ir grasp—escaping them after it seemed W'alter Johnson’s shut out g tine of Sunday had adjusted the laurel wreaths for their brows.Harris Hits Long One.It was only by something around the margin of a foot today, however, that the Senators lost their chauce for a lecislve victory for only that slim distance prevented Joe Harris from getting a home run and tying the icore in the ninth inning on one of the most terrific hits of the series—a towering drive that sailed far over Max Carey’s head in center field landing on the fly close to the far bleacher barrier. It was held to only a double anti Harris was stranded at the middie hag but in any other sector of Forbes Field it would have been a circuit clout by a comfortable mar-giu.This was among the fortunes or misfortunes of war, however, Clyde Barnhart of the Pirates himself missing a bonier by almost as close a margin uf-ter Moore’s big blow in the fifth—and(Continued on Pege 6.)
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Hagerstown Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Wed, Oct 14, 1925
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