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PIRATES CAPTURE WORLD SERIES TITLE_ - ■ 1-I-.1 1 -----------FINAL STRUGGLE ON MUDDY FIELD VERY DRAMATICWalter Johnson Unable To Check Attack Of { Batsmen.UPHILL BATTLE ISFOUGHT BY VICTORSTwo Errors Made By Roger ' Peckinpaugh VeryCostly. j(By The A •«•«»«• In ted Pre*«Pittsburgh. Oct. 15—The black j emblem uf the Pirates flies aloft tonight while a daring, swash- i . buckling en w rules the baseball world for the ftrst time in sixteen . years. ,Through the haze of a rain soaked, furiously dramatic struggle on Forbes’ Field this afternoon, these ruthless Buccaneers—Pittsburgh's NationalLeigue title holders—beat down the stance of their greatest foeman. Walter Jobaion. end rMktted Washington c*aft with defeat by a score of 9. to 7 In the deciding game of the world's series.Park Is Filled.Forty two thousand frenzied fans, fired to high pitch of enthusiasm wat lied this terrific, hand to hand fight under adverse conation* which have had few if any parallels in a wild demonstration of joy, breaking through thwire screens to swarm on the field where the Pirate attack, dominant and flashing, similarly had broken through all barriers to drive the Senators from the baseball heights and complete the greatest comeback any series has ever known.in the final rush over the Washington ramparts, Hazen (Kikl) Cuyler. a dark browed, dashing young free hooter, struck the blow that decided the battle -a two base thrust down the right field foul line in the eighth inning with the bases full, two out. and the score deadlcx ked. bringing over Carson, Bigbee and Eddie Moore with the deciding runs and frustrat ing the greatest goal of the old mas ter. Johnson.Cuyler's Hit Wins.Cuvier's Hmash— a drive that at first seemed labeled a home run. then whs held to two bases under ground rules because the ball buried itself in a pile of tarpaulin in deep right field came at the crucial moment of the conflict.it was the climax of a succession of battering onslaughts against Johnson that had pulled the Pirates back to even terms after it seemed they had almost thrown the game away in a hectic first inning through the collapse of their pitching star, Vic Aldridge. and loop holes in their defense.Once they had survived the disastrous first, in which Washington gained a four run lead and Aldridge had given way to Johnny Morrison, the Pirates fought ahead with every weapon at their command. Trailing but always fighting back as a steady(Continued on rage 9)
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Hagerstown Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Fri, Oct 16, 1925
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