The sun., 1919-04-30
YANKEES EASY FOR
YOUTHFUL MACKMEN
Aided by Soldier Johnson's
Splendid Pitching, Phila-
delphia Wins, z to 1.
ny FREDERICK G. LIEB.

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Tho Wanted offensive power Of the
Yankees has been conspicuous by its
absence since the American League got
under way last Wednesday. Tho young
members OF Connie Mack's Athletics
played snappy bali on the Polo Grounds
yesterday and submerged the Yanks, Z
to ]. A ninth inning tumble by Joey
Dugan. tho boyish shortstop OF the
Philadelphians. saved the Higgins crew
from being shut out.
In fact IL II hadn't been for some
helding sins of the Philadelphia inf1eld
Nduring the past two days the Yanks
stil would be looking for their first run.
There seemed sufficient reason for the
puny stick work of the Yanks In their
first two games. The Yankees faced
Carl Mays and Scott Perry. two Of the
greatest pitchers in the game in these
contests
Yesterday however, tho Yanks OPP
posed Jingllng Johnson. a kid twirler
who had won few medals MP TO the
time he Joined the army at the end of
The 1917 season. At that time he was
'.just ono of the Athletic pitchers"
The army seems TO have broadened
Jing out bit, az he came back with
a foe pat' of shoulders. He now looks
somewhat like Cicotte of the White Sox.
johnson had quite burst of speed
and evidently fed the Yankees some
thing which was not to- their liking.
The home club combed the delivery OF
the youth only for six hits, and Jing
kept them scattered In way that
brought a look OF glee into the coun-
tenance Of c. Mack. The six hits were
dietributed through six innings.
shore Makes Local Debut.
Ernie Shore. the former Red Sox star.
made his first appearance here IN Yam
kee clothes. and It cannot be SAID that
the big Carolinian's debut was howl
Ing success. For three innings the 'rst-
while ensign snapped his fast ball over
In way that made the Mackian Kids
look helpless. Ernie disposed of them
as fast as they came UP and they went
out on the easiest of chances.
But what was Johnson's forte was
Shores weakness. When the AS did hit
Ernie they Jumped them all together.
As long Shore remained in. he yielded
four hits and gave four passes. Three
OF the hits and all the passes were inter-
woven in the Athletic scoring.
A questionable piece OF managerial
strategy by Higgins got Shore into a
lot of his trouble in the seventh. With
runners on third and second ard only
one out Higgins ordered Shore to walk
the weak hitting Perkins, filling the
bases Last season Perkins amassed the
annmc batting average OF .lSS. Hav-
ing got used 10 walking these pygmy
hitters Il developed into a habit with
Shore. Instead Of coaxing johnson 10
hit into double play. which was Hug
gins's idea, Shore also walked the
pitcher. forcing in q run.
George Mogridge WAS called In at this
stage, and Morrie Shannon proceeded to
clean decks with a double. After that
-. - H.. 90 tA-N.
real ball. but the horse then already
was stolen.
=. After they had looked harmless for
three innings. a base on balls started the
Philadelphians Off on their scoring ca
reer in the fourth. With one out, Iiopp
walked, the first Elephant to get on
base He moved along TO second on
rRoths infeld. out. kopp scored when
Burns slapped one against the right
field wall for a hit. which netted him a
triple. though it might have been held to
q base. Wick camped near the wall. ex-
pecting a catch instead of playing for
.the rebound. The bail got past him and
Burns sped on TO third.
He scored when Witt slugged a sin
gle to centre. This whack drilled
through the portly Bode. and by the
time Ping brought it back Witt also
reached third This foozle did no harm,
as Shore struck out Thomas.
Capt. Huston had a most distressing
session in the seventh, when the feet OF
hve Elephants clamped down on the
scoring plate, Witt led of with slow
bounder over second base. and Thomas
walked. Dugan moved the pair along
with sacrifice. Higgins apparently
thought Shore was not having enough
trouble with his control. for he ordered
Shore, TO walk Perkins.
Sho.o
Perkins walked as ordered. Then
Johnson also walked. but not under or
ders Higgins now shooed Shore away.
and sent a hasty summons for George
Mogridge. Tho big left handler had a
fine legacy TO look after. Shannon
whipped a double down the right field
foul line. which let in Thomas and Per-
.kins. There was a short pause while
Mogridge famed Kopp. Roth then beat
out bounder TO Peck and Johnson
= raced home. Shannon advancing to
. third, Pipp made a nice catch of a
wide throw by Ruel to catch Roth
napping. Roth headed for second. Pipp
then threw wild to second to head off
Bobbe. Peck made a remarkabl ba re
handed catch OF the wide throw, but
could not prevent Shannon from rum
ming home The dismal inning ended
when Burns popped to Peck,
Not a Yankee reached second base UNI
iii the ninth inning. when the locals
side-stepped shutout. Baker was safe
on Wits tumble. and took third on
'Pratt's double to right centre. Thomas
threw out Lewis. and Bodle hit a smok-
ing line drive to centre. Witt caught
1T a few inches from the turf. but it
served as a sacrifice fly, Baker scoring
The score: