The Babe held Brooklyn score
less after allowing one run in the
first inning but things were still
deadlocked in the fourteenth’s
frame, when Gainer was sent In
to bat as a pinch-hitter for Gard
ner, the third baseman, with Mc
Nally, running for Hoblitzel, on
second base. Del responded with
a sharp drive to left and McNally
bounded home with the winning
run breaking up the longest game
ever played in the world series.
TOP PAY $4,500 A YEAR
Gainer has been out of baseball
now for several years. He joined
the Red Sox in 1914, the same year
Ruth came up from Baltimore, and
remained with the club until he
entered the service soon after the
outbreak of the war. Later he
made a short come-back with the
St. Louis Cardinals.
Del’s top salary as a major
league regular was $4,500 per sea
son.
"I've known the time when they
could operate a whole club, almost,
for the amount of the cut they
are asking Ruth to take this
year,” says Gainer, "but there has
never been anyone to compare
with the Babe as a drawing card.”
NEED SUNDAY liALL
“It will mean at least $100,000
each. to the Phillies and Pirates,
if the proposed law permitting
Sunday baseball In the State of
Pennsylvania is made effective
this year,” a prominent baseball
club owner told me during the
midwinter sessions.
