The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-15
New Workers Unable to Pile
Up Enough Runs on Jim
Bagby--C Cleveland Knocks
love and Heating Out Of
Box--Terry Turner Sc
cures Four Hits.

New York, Aug. 15-Cotton Top
Terry Turner, who has been playing
baseball for a score Of years, forgot
all about rheumatics and crutches
UP at the Polo Grounds yesterday and
led the Cleveland Indians in a thump-
ing sortie against the Yanks which
was SO violent at times that 1t car
ried Cleveland to a to 2 victory.
Turner played Just the kind of ball
yesterday that he did when he was
with the famous Cleveland club four
teen or fifteen years ago. He slam
med out four hits, a triple, two two
baggers, and a single, and scooted
over the pan with three runs. He
was like a jack in the box around
second base and looked like young
ster making a sensational debut.
It was quite a day for old-timers,
for in the ninth inning Manager Mil
Ter Higgins showed silent John Hum
mel up to bat as a pinch hitter. It's
a long time since John Hummel used
to be heavy swatter over at old
Washington Park with the Superbas.
Since that time silent John has tum-
bled around in the bush leagues and
has been almost forgotten. He waltz
ed up to the plate yesterday and got
a nice infield hit for himself. Before
the month is over Manager Higgins
may have to look through "Plutarch's
Lives to dig up enough men to finish
the season.
They used to call Hummel Silent
John because he never talked back
, to an umpire. He still retains this
clam-like virtue, but the fact remains
that, while John never used to argue
with the umpires, a microscopic exam
nation of his mind might have shown
a lot of bottled up ideas about UNI
pires which would be Surprising. There
may be a baseball sensation at the
Polo Grounds some of these days If
Silent John happens to break his rule
and say something.
The most persistent home run swat
ter who visits these parts is Joe
Wood; even more so than Babe Ruth.
Wood rarely lets a day go by without
making a home run at the Harlem
lot. Yesterday in the fifth inning, he
gave Ray Heating an awful shock
when he punched the ball into the
right field stand. Even then Joe
wasn't satisfied because he likes to
make them when there is some one
on the bases, and yesterday when he
hit the ball the corners were as de-
serted as the shuttle route between
Times Square and Grand Central
Cleveland is making a strong bid
for the American League pennant, but
although the Indians won, so did the
Red Sox, and Lee FohPs men are
still two games behind Boston. Jim
Bagby pitched fine ball. and kept the
Yank hitters very quiet. Cleveland
knocked both Slim Love and Ray
Heating out of the game, and another
Yankee newcomer, Roy Sanders, fin
ished the pastime.
Love was responsible for Cleve-
land run in the first. After Graney
famed, Chapman rolled a grasser tt
Slim, and he threw it past Fourier
Fournfer, by the way, is another new
citizen on the Yanks. He used tt
perform for the Chicago White sox {
few seasons back. Speaker also fan
ned, and Chapman stole third. Wool
got a pass and on a double steal Chap
man crossed the plate.
Gllhooley tripled to right centre II
the Yanks' portion of the same stan
"a, and tailed on Pratt's sacrifice fly
turner STARTED 10 get pussy III the sec
ond. He doubled and scored on Bag
by's single. He did the same thin
in the fourth. He flashed anothe
double to left anad went to third
after O'NeilTs long fly to right, an
again Bagby pushed him home with
single. This combination worke
great.
Wood opened the fifth with hi
home run, and Johnston skied t
Hyatt in left That was the end c
Love and Heating came in. Keat
ing went to pieces in the eight
Turner started out with a triple an
scored on O'Neill's single. Bagb
rolled to Heating, who missed force
out play at second. Graney single
and scored O'Neill. That was all fc
Heating, and Sanders took up hope
less job. Chapman rolled to Sander
who made a bad heave to first an
the runner was safe, Graney going t
third He scored on Speakers singl
Walters was safe on Chapman's errc
in the ninth, reaching second bas
He went to third on Hummers II
field tap and scored on Gilhooley
sacrifice fly.