The sun., 1919-09-14
$4,000 FANS SEE
YANKEES MAUI
BROWNS TWICE
Register 4 to 1 Victory in
First-Rally in Second
and Win, 8 to 6.
TOBIN GETS TWO HOMERs
Huggins Men Now Two and q
Half Games Behind
Tigers.
BY FREDERICK G. LIER.

by FREDERICK G. LIEB.
Last weeks Yankee play was a taIs
with some real dismal early chapters,
but 1t had a spicy ending. The Yanks
opened the week by dropping twin bills
to the Red Sox and Indians There
wasn't any nourishment in that. Then
on Thursday the Yanks braced and took
single game from Cleveland.
Yesterday on the Polo Grounds the
Huggins outfit did a bit of double win
ming themselves. The St, Louis
Brownies were the victims First tho
Missourians fell before the skill of
George Mogridge by a score Of 4 to 1;
in the second game the Yanks came
from way behind and batted out a VIC
tory by a score of to 6.
The second victory was pleasing es.
pecially to the eye. The score was
Browns, s; Yanks, O, when the local
tossers went to bat in the fifth Gradu-
ally the Brownie lead began to melt
away, and in the seventh four run
drive sent the athletes from Gotham
out In front The 1000 fans did hand
springs. Despite the fact that the edge
is Off the season. the grapdstand made
as much noise about it as though the
victory had showed the Yankees into
first place.
LOcals Advance on Tigers.
The local tossers again are beginning
to show some interest in that third
place proposition. They advanced q
game and a half on Detroit yesterday,
and now are two and a half games be-
hind the Tigers. A smashing victory
over Detroit when they call here this
week would enable the Yanks to bridge
this gap.
Mogrdge pitched one of his best games
of the season in the first game, and dis
persed the Browns with five hits scat
tered through as many innings. He got
some splendid support from the Yank
infleld, Peck, Pratt and Baker making
stunning plays, while Lewis roamed into
The Bronx in the sixth for a hefty lift
by Bill jacobson.
The last time the Browns were in
town Baby Doll' Bill was on bat
ting spree. This time jacobson is act
ing natural, but little Johnny Tobin Is
behaving as though he has lost all con-
troll OF himself Johnny slapped homer
into the right field stand in each game.
and came near getting another. He
started off the first game by smacking
Mogridge's first pitch against the frieze
on an upstairs box. No foul line is
marked there, and the umpire had to
judge it. 1t was close, but Billy Evans
called it foul.
An Acrobatic Hit.
Johnny also made an acrobatic hit IN
the eighth inning of the first game Az
Pipp got his bounder on the line, Johnny
leaped into the air and Wally made a
flying tackle on him. Tobin's leap car
ried him over the bag, but he crawled
back and was called safe" The play
was so close and muddled that most of
the fans didn't get IT, Evans explained
that as Tobin leaped by. the ball slipped
out of Pipp's hand, but Mogridge caught
it before it touched the ground and then
tagged first. But by that time Tobin
was on the bag. As it was hard play
hit was awarded to Johnny. 1t was
one of the freakest affairs of the year.
Tobin, who is one of the few survivors
Of the old st. Louis Feds on the Browns,
has knocked out twenty hits in his last
forty times at bat
LeifieId Finishes Both.
Allan Sothoron, the spltballer, pitched
a good game for the Browns after a
shaky first inning. He famed six, get
ting Fewster three times and Peck twice.
Old Lefty Leifield, the former Pirate,
finished both games for Jimmy Burke's
bunch. Just ten years ago critics were
figuring up Leifleld's possibilities in the
1903 worlds series. He was one of Fred
Clark's leading pitchers in those days.
The Browns resurrected Leifield last
year when Ham Hyatt, Fournier,
Bescher and others of the old crowd
were being fetched back from the tall
grass to hll shipyard vacancies. Lefty
clung on, however for 1919. He got a
nice pasting in the second game when
he tried to give Bert Galla a lift.
Jimmy - har
pitchers. Urban Shocker, his former ace,
who invariably beats the Yanks, is not
on the trip. for he has strained side
and was left in St Louis, and big Dave
Davenport has been suspended for tho
season.
Georgia Sisler, the crack Mound Citv
first baseman, returned to the St Louis
lineup yesterday after a weeks absence.
having been laid up with a strained
back. Suffice it to say that George did
all his usual clever stuff around first
base. with apologies to Stuffy McInnis.
nobody but Hal Chase ever has been
able TO do as many first base tricks az
the "Sizzler"
SOthoron wild in First.
Sothoron's aim was bad in the first
and his faulty sharpshooting aided the
Yanks to three runs. He hit Fewster
and then let him glide to second on a
wild pitch, After Peck famed Bakers
blngle to right sent in Chick. Collins
then hit Wally Pipp on the wrist
Pratt singled to centre, scoring Baker.
while Pipp was out at the plate on
Lewiss bounder. Bodies single then
drove in Del.
ThOrmHhIen Bombarded.
1t looked as though the Yanks wera
submerged IN the second game, but late
in the affair they came to life Herble
Thormahlen started Off as Hugglns'a
gunner All kinds of dire things hap.
pened to the Jerseylte in the second.
the Browns scoring five runs on four
hits including Tobin's homer, which
came with two on. Schepner, who hit
a double in this inning, is the same lad
who made several trips to Marlin with
John McGraw.
Quinn went the next three innings,
and got by with one run, though several
St. Louis boys got on base on him. Jack
gave way to Sammy Wick IN the NTH
and Samuel struck out in his behalf.
That brought Ernie Shore into the pio-
ture. Ernie started in as though he was