New-York tribune., 1919-06-15


not tend to improve his eyesight any
Unoficially it was a Pizzola Day at
the Polo Grounds. Signor Pizzola, who
sports the frivolous nomme de guerre
Of Ping Bodie when he wears his
spangles, came to the game peeved. He
noticed that his name was no longer
among the baseball elite, the first five
hitters of the American League. He
taxed Alias AL Monroe, the unofficial
statistician, with being a bum arith-
metician.
"I'll show you and your figures up
to-day" announced Signor Pizzola
Subsequently he drove in the first run
with triple and another run that was
badly needed with single. Also Sig
nor Pizzola gave an Italian-American
version of iris Speaker in the outheld
He was under everything that came
anywhere in his direction.
One More For Herb
1t was the sixth consecutive victory
for Herbert Thormahlen, the side
wheeling scandinavian pitcher, the
coolest youngster that ever mounted
the mound. Tobin caused him the
only real chunk of trouble when he
slapped a home run into the right
field stands in the fourth inning and
tied the score But Thormahlen con-
tinued to masticate the largest wad of
gum ever juggled by human jaws and
settled down to his knitting.
Sothoron was taken out of the game
for pinch hitter in the seventh with
the score to / and the Yanks
Prussianized Wright, who relieved him.
With the Exception of Baker and Pipp
nearly everybody in "Moiderers' Row
had a wallop at Mr.. Wright, who ap-
peared to be in wrong.
Sothoron is accused of perpetrating
new pitching atrocity called the
"pinch ball" According. to his ac-
cursers, the St. Louis pitcher pinches
the baseball until it screams with
agony and blister develops on the
/ outside surface. This blister, or car
buncle, assists the pitcher in giving
the ball peculiar break calculated to
battle the keenest eye.
1t probably was the pinch ball that
made Pratt and Bodie throw away their
bats in the NTH inning Examination
OF the baseballs by Brick Owens de-
veloped nothing, as the cries Of anguish
were still by the time the baseballs
reached him. Miller Higgins will re
fer the case to the Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Baseballs. A
guy who would pinch helpless base
ball might do worse.
Ping Starts Scoring
The Yanks got their start in the sec
ond inning with two out. Derrill
Pratt singled to centre. Then Signor
Pizzola, the naughty scion of the
Rock Roller Tribe of San Francisco,
Cal, clouted the ball to the right field
corner of the grounds for three bag
ger, scoring Pratt. The score was tied
in the fourth by Tobin's homer.
Il remained tied until the seventh,
when the Yankee rooters opened a vo-
ciferous demonstration for a rally.
They got 1t. Baker started it with a
single to right and went down on
Lewis's sacrifice. Pratt shot snappy
single to left field, and Baker came
all the way home. Tobin made des-
perate heave to nail him, but overshot
the plate and Pratt reached third.
Once more Signor Pizzola, the
naughty rock roller, stepped to the
plate with tobacco in his mouth and
determination In his eye. He raped
one over short and Pratt came home.
The Prussianizing Of the Browns
took place in the eighth, when Wright
went into the box. Thormahlen started
it with a single to centre. Wick drove
a triple to left and scored the Scan
dinavian. Peckinpaugh lobbed one
over short and it went for hit, while
Mayer and Gerber were engaged in an
earnest debate. Wick scored on this
play. After Baker went out on a por
fy TO third, Duffy Lewis hit double
10 right and scored Peckinpaugh. Pratt
hit to centre and scored Lewis.
Mr.. Wright Suffers
Altogether it was Roman holiday
for Moiderers' Row. Jimmy Burke just
left Mr. Wright stay in and suffer
He did that nonchalantly enough. The
Browns got one more in the ninth, when
Tobin got base on balls, stole sec
right He was the only member oi
the Browns who did any particular
travelling
The attendance was somewhere ir
the neighborhood of $4,000 and de
eidedly yociferoug and enthusiastic.
There was only one iron boiler or
duty in the entire multitude, the said
IRON boiler, or derby, appertaining to
Colonel Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Hus-
ION. II has become like the purple
f'bbon worn by the lady who "worc il
10 the summer time and in the month
OF May and when they asked her why
ihheil she wore it, she said twas for