New-York tribune., 1919-06-13


back rightfield fence of the Polo CIR
Red Sox were reported as having
the Yanks were holding the Detroit
creased to 6 to l.
Although the score looks safe
enough. there were moments when the
Tigers looked more formidable than
the bare returns would indicate. Bob
The Cob Shawkey started to get him
self hit pretty freely toward the end,
and twice was pulled out of the hole
by some spectacular fielding. 1t was
the third straight victory over the
Tigers.
1t was George Duffy Lewis-prob
ably the most advanced dresser in base
ball-who sewed up the game for the
Yankees and hosted them to the proud
eminence which they occupy to-day. In
the third inning Mr. Lewis lifted
home run into the left field bleachers
and brought in Mr.. Samuel Wick be-
fore him. This discouraged Howard
Ehmke, the Detroit pitcher, as greatly
as Mr.. Lewiss wardrobe discourages
less daring dressers who lay claim to
sartorial distinction.
only Kun on Homer
The lone run of the Tigers was scored
in the seventh inning, when Flagstead
hit a home run to the left field bleach
ers, with nobody out and nobody on.
According to the book, this was the
first run scored off Bob The Cob in
thirty-onc innings, which - as the
saying isis some pitching. 1t looked
as though more runs would follow in
the same inning, but a nearly miracu-
lous one hand stop by Pratt stopped a
sure hit by Jones, and the rally of the
Tigers broke.
Something has put the fighting spirit
into the Yanks. 1t may be the iron
boiler, or derby, of Colonel Tillinghast
L'Hommedieu Huston, which was there
again yesterday, the only sombre and
forbidding piece of headgear in a sea
OF straw. The iron of the colonel's
boiler seems to have entered the souls
of the athletes. They are tough team
to beat these days, and when Pipp gets
TO hitting they ought to be together.
The Yanks showed their new conf
dence in the first inning when Wick got
@ base on balls. Pekinpaugh tapped
one over to Jones, who ran over the
and Pecknpaugh was given a hit.
Baker forced Peckinpaugh at second
and Wick scored on the play. Duffy
Lewis's home run in The third brought
Wick in again and made it three for
the Yanks
Cobb Threatens Tally
1t looked az though Tyrus Raymond
Cobb might find his way around in the
fourth when he got base on balls
and Veach singled to right field. But
Ping Bodie dragged down a long fly by
I1eilman and Flagstead struck out.
Jones sent d hard one to Peckinpaugh,
who made rather wild peg, but Pipp
reached out far enough to nail it.
IN the seventh Pratt drove hit past
short and went to second when Signor
Pizzola, with great self denial, poked
down a neat sacrifice. The reliable
old Truck Hannah rumbled out and
drove a two-bagger against the left
field fence, scoring Pratt.
To make doubly sure than Colonels
Rupert and Huston should spend at
least one night in first place the Yanks
got two more in the eighth Pekin-
paugh walked and Baker was credited
"->- - oAHSAS "iSh VC0CH lOSC HIS long
fly in the sun. Lewis sent them along
with sacrifice.
Rehearse Squeeze" Signals
Walter Pipp raped sharp one past
short and Peckinpaugh scored. That
put Baker on third and Pipp on first.
Just to rehearse the signals Miller
Huggins semaphored for the squeeze.
Pratt rolled down a nice bunt toward
hrst and Baker came across with the
sixth run. BY this time the full re-
turns from Boston we're on the board
and the Yanks were safe at the tor of
the league.
The rise of the Yanks has brought
back some of the former Yankee root
ers who have been in hiding for many
years. Charles Gebest, the musician.
who has not been seen IN the vicinity
Of the Polo Grounds since he aban-
doned hope for the Yanks long before
the war, walked into the grounds yes
terday without an apology and planted
himself down in prominent spot near
Colonel Huston
This is NOT like old times" re-
marked Mr. Gebest.
The Yankees play the Tigers again
To-Day. linen come the Browns, who
made lot of trouble for the Yankees
during their last dash through the
West. But with the Yankees working
with the steadiness they have shown
in the past few days the vision of
Harry NJ. Stevens, seer Of Coogan's
Bluff, Belmont Park and other places,
Of worlds series confined entirely to
tho Polo Grounds does not seem en-
tirely inspired by the potent and pun
gent Juice Of the poppy.