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First Game. The Washington populace, uproarious over its first World's Series, was polite to the Giants, neither hissing nor cheering them in the first game. President Coolidge tossed in the first ball. Walter Johnson pitched for Washington, left-handed Nehf for the Giants. The game was tied in the 12th inning. Then Johnson allowed his pitches to deviate. He hit Gowdy, let Pitcher Nehf single and walked Bentley. A "Texas leaguer" and a long fly did the rest. Score: New York 4, Washington...
Third Game. Pitchers Nehf (Giants) and Jones (Yankees) dueled. Fielder Stengel waited until the seventh inning before interpolating his second crucial homerun for the Giants. As he trotted around the bases, Stengel wiggled his fingers at Pitcher Jones. Score: Giants 1, Yankees...
Sixth Game. Ruth made a homer but the Giants led by three runs in the eighth. Then Nehf collapsed, the Yankees heaped up five runs and their first world's championship. Score: Yankees 6, Giants...
...series, and the world's championship. The Giants knocked out ten hits, but these were distributed over several innings. The Yankees, on the other hand, found the road to victory in one inning, in which they got only three hits. An error by the Giants and walks by Nehf helped to the extent of five runs. Ruth started the scoring in the first with a home...
Batteries: Yankees,--Pennock and Shang; Giants,--Nehf and Snyder...