The sun., 1919-09-15
YANKEES SWAMP
BROWNS BY 5 TO 1
Locals Maui Wright, a st.
Louis Youngster, for Ia
Safe Drives.
NAYS IN SUPERB FORM
Famous Pitcher Holds Visitors
to 8 Hits-Fielding Fea-
lures Thrill.
NAYS IN SUPERB FoRl
nv FREDERICK G. LIBB.


Either the Yanks have recovered from
n,,r batting sl,fnp, or the Sc. Louis
uro,rns are back in the old Brownie
-, No matter how the Browns may
:. honncing along in Tho spring, middle
e,otsrber usually finds them plodding
lang IN the Cd second division ways
Of their predecessors.
still we don't want to be like the fell
law who always blanles his tennis de-
rats on a broken string in his racket.
we,u Five the Yanks some credit. Those
,s,hnrsIc Yankee maces have suddenly
"n,na 10 life. and In the last two games
olsved nv the club base hits havo
sallen around the Polo baseball orchard
iike apples dropping from n tree which
a being "shimmied" by some husky Ju-
venlles.
The Yanks made II three straight from
IA Burke outfit yesterday, defeating the
prowns in the last game scheduled be-
i tween these clubs this year by the one
,,ded margin of s to IL The Missourinns
sM not collapse until the eighth. when
M Yanks knocked ont six hits for ten
bases. and scored cluster of'ffve runs.
Have Won IL Out OF 20 Games.
The Yanks hung It TO the Browns
twelve times in twenty games this year
and the Browns are supposed to be one
o. New Yorks jinx clubs. It's fine to
knowNthat the Yanks can maltreat some
one in addition to the Athletics and
washingtons
Last spring one of baseball's shrewd-
est observers remarked OF the Yanlss
II IL a club that will be stopped by
good pitching. because II hasn't got the
speed 10 get the runs that are necessary
to win close games. But they will muir
der second raters."
That prediction has been true all sea-
son. Once the Yanks get a chance at
some of those second string pitchers they
sure can pound them. with his pitcn-
ing staff pretty we'll exhausted as the
result Of Saturdays double header
Jimmy Burke was obliged to use VAIN
wright yesterday. Wayne may be all
right to go in and pitch one or two In
nings at the tail end of a game. but he
was for from right in that eighth in
ming scoring carnival, The Yanks
prodded him for fourteen hits, and only
good support kept the score within rea-
sonable bounds in the early innings.
The celebrated Carl Mays. otherwise
tended 10 New York's firing, The last
time the Browns were in town the Mays
case was at the boiling point II was
then that the Yanks got out the tempo
rarv injunction restraining the Browns
and Indians and Ban johnson and ali
Of his viceroys. attaches and; court fol-
lowers from interfering with the Yanks
from employing Carl Mays whenever
they deemed 1T
Repeats over Browns.
Carl then started his Yankee career
with a clean cut victory over the Browns
A lot Of things have happened since
that hot August afternoon. but Carl
still is pitching under that temporary
injunction Yesterday he just breezed
through the Ste Louis lineup. The
Browns got to him for only three hits.
Dsmmitt, the ex-Yank. and y-Schepner,
the former Giant recruit, punched
doubles on him in the fifth and deprived
Carl Of shutout
Mays had remarkable control OF his
underhanded delivery yesterday. He
shot II over the corners and never gave
Brownie base on balls. The nearest
10 came to being generous was in the
seventh, when he gave Joe Schepner
three straight balls and followed II up
by buzzing over three strikes,
Mays will not win the pennant for the
ianks this year, but he will be worth
that $4,000 that the Yank lawyers esti-
mate he cost the club before he is
through. Mays is in his middle TWEEN
ties, and stnl has the best part Of his
career ahead Of him. 8
though the score of the game was iop-
Eaed at the finish It really was one of
me most brilliantly contested games of
inc season. In short, It was a fielding
cassie Few games played on the Polo
Gfounds this season have contained such
number Of star catches and stops
Many Fielding Features.
The Brown outnelders made most of
me catches, and the Yank infielders the
iahcy stops. In the first inning Tobin
look a terrific thump from Peck's bat
on distant left field fence In the
tOurtn big Jacobson came tearing in and
MADE one handed seooping catch OF
hueIs low liner with the bases full.
recK leapcd into the air in the fifth and
'eeyereids stiff liner stuck In his gloved
mana. Peck and Pratt contributed cir
sus stops. Del made two in succession
'h sss eighth. +fra
,, rfau also was busy lad with his
S,uSugeon. He raped out three'hits. So
ulu Duny Lewis. Del singled in the Sec
y vau ana took second on Jacobson's FUN
VIZ Lewis drove him home with an
ysner single. In the fourth Pipp and
. riau singled and a wild pitch advanced
mem. Lewis hunted on a squeeze play
and scored Wallie.
sat-
again II was the Pratt-Lewis combi-
aaIon In the sixth. with two out Del
SSuuoled' stole second and scored on
Lewiss single.
spp raped into the right field stand
Ta a homer In the eighth. Pratt then
T Tled TO Jacobson for the second out.
r 1nsn the machine gun FIRE started In
St'eA succession Lewis, Bodie, RueI
SSys and FewSter knocked out hits, all
en- as clean as a whistle, and -four
'''e runs scored. The score:
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