New-York tribune., 1919-06-24
Five Honaers
Aid Shawkey
To 8 Straight
Peck Contributes Two Cir.
cnit Clouts; Athletics
Pitchers TrOunced, ia

The so-called "Murderer's Row" Of
the Yankees, which has been existing
on it's reputation wholly until lately,
came to life with a bang at the Polo
Grounds yesterday. The way they
murdered the delivery of two Of Con-
ME Mack's pitchers left little doubt
that they are rightfully named. Their
long-distance and terrific walloping
netted the Yankees an easy victory by
score of II to 4.
Again heading the bombardment was
Rajah Peckinpaugh, who jumped to
the lead of the American League bats
men the day before. Peck whaled the
ball for three resounding smacks in
his five trips to the plate yesterday,
including two home runs. True the
second probably could have been held
ssaitba to th1sSnsss ds1s nevsbe1s.s s eus it was
Duffy Lewis appeared near the top
as usual with two hits. one being a
homer. Five circuit drives in all were
made by the galloping Yanks, couple
of near-homers were registered and
considerable long distance shooting by
both mines featured the afternoons
clay. Quite some bombardment as
whole.
OpdIIOW, III MS TOUR Oh tHc
grounds after the game said he over
heard dark gentlemen tersely remark
that if "those Yankee boys didn't let
up pretty soon well-known firm
would run out Of socks"
Youngsters Made Happy
A party of school youngsters spend
ing their annual picnic or outing in
the left field bleachers will not soon
forget the day. They were kept so
busy grabbing the balls as they
dropped into the stands that they had
little time to watch tflir heroes. But
they are the happier probably because
they, will have, couple Of big league
baseballs to play with this summer.
Incidentally, Bob Shawkey chalked up
his eighth straight victory for the sea-
son. The victory also gave the Yam
KEGS firmer grip on first place, as
the White Sox lost to the Cleveland
Indians.
Shawkey was opposed in the first
inning by Tom Rogers. The latter
lasted just one whole inning, when he
foresook the mound in favor of the
midget Thompson. who appeared at tho
little stuff packed away in his left
wing. AS there was no noticeable let
up in the attack, the fans became con-
vinced that he didn't have as much
stuff as was apparent in the beginning.
Sammy Wick drew base on balls
for an opener and the cunning quickly
Increased when Peck singled for his
fifth hit in row. A sacrifice by Baker,
which Rogers took and heaved badly to
Thomas, let in Wick: Duffy Lewis then
cleaned the bases with drive that car
ried far into the leftfeld bleachers.
First round.
Keep Up Bombardment
Pipp started up the fireworks again
with another walk and was forced bv
Pratt at second. Bodie hit to Shannon,
who threw him out, but Pratt kept on
TO third on the play and who scored
when Burns made a bad heave to
Thomas to head him off. Hannah was
safe on an error by Thomas. Shawkey
singled, but Wick ended the inning by
grounding to Dugan.'
Home runs aided the Yanks to score
IN the succeeding innings. Baker hit
INTO the upper tier Of the right-field
stand in the second. Hannah shot one
into the left-ield bleachers in the next
period, scoring Bodie, who had singled
ahead of him. Peck boosted another
into the bleachers for the kids to
scramble for, and his drive to deep
centre in the sixth gave him his sec
ond homer. at the same time scoring
Wick.
The AS might have made better
showing if their pitchers could have
checked the early onslaught of the
Huggins clan. But, handicapped by
such big lead at the start, which grew
as the game progressed. they could do
little but tag along and pick up what
they could.
Their total Of runs was four, secured
from the long-distance wallops Of Wal
ker and Shannon in the second, Nc
Avoy's three-bagger and an error by
Pipp in the sixth and Roth's three-bag-
gel. and sacrifice fly by Burns in the
eighth.
Fielding gems were contributed by
jee Dugan. the nimble shortstopper Of
the Mackmen, who bids fair to become
one OF the best in the business.
The score: