New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

hatantS. 1t Is true tnaC eaCn OF Cne
swatsome afternoon nothing below a
The final score was Ruth and Peck
TO favorites in the matter of pitchers.
He got his first home run off Wilkin-
son. sending the ball into the right
field bleachers. The second one he
scored against Kerr, and it was q
tough one too with a bad break, the
Babe swinging on it as he would swing
on q golf ball and sending 1t into the
upper right field stands.
The base running of the Yankees
was particularly languid. Every time
a Yankee runner reached first he
seemed to think that the whistle had
blown for the afternoon. Twice with
the bases filled Ward hit into a double
play, and Pipp and Bodie were nailed
trying TO travel too far on limited
swat But with three home runs, q
triple and lot of mere singles and
doubles no bail club can lose game.
Umpire RiIes Mays
Carl Mays was plastered with con-
siderable persistency by the SoX and
for the greater part of the afternoon
he was engaged in an acrimonious de-
that Chill is an abreviation of chilli,
the well konwn Mexican food, and the
umpire seemed to excite Mays to the
same extent that the wild chilli effects
the MeXicans.
R~th busted his first home run
right in Kid Gleason's face in the very
first inning. With two out Pipp drove
a single to right. Then came the Babe,
who drove the ball into the teeth Of
a gale over the wall into the right
field bleachers. Whereupon the multi
tude, which was fairly numerous for
week day developed hysteria.
According to q coroner's inquest
held on the spot by jury of experts
this is only the second time since the
erection Of the Polo Grounds and the
Stevens franRfurter vaults, that q
batted ball landed in this spot. 1t was
driven hard enough to make those who
occupied that section of the bleachers
take to cover.
The White Sox got one run across
in the third. Wilkinson got on by
forcing Mcclellan at second. Liebold
caromed a hit off Mays shinbone
Eddie Collins laid the ball down along
the first base line. Pipp got it, but
the bag and dropped the ball as Pipp
tossed it to him. This let in one run.
Taps Ball to the Fence
Ruth came to the bat in the Yankees
half OF the third with two out and
Pipp on first. This time the Babe
seemed to have lost his punch. He
centerGeld wall for a mere triple,
scoring Pipp. Ruth scored a moment
later, when Lewis dashed a nit through
the box out into centerfeld.
In the fifth inning the tempera-
mental Nh. Mays began to show signs
Of great pcevishness. 1t might have
been brought about by looking at Um-
pire Chill behind the plate. Be that as
il may when Mays gets peevish he
starts to blow up to certain extent,
He began by passing Schalk. Then
to center. scoring Schalk. Collins sac
rificed and Weaver was thrown out by
the pitcher.
This brought Shoeless Joe Jackson
into play, and Mays did not like the
looks of the shoeless one at all. He
gave him four of the widest balls that
Truck Hannah could gather. This
brought Happy Felsch, who is not
exactly q weakling at the bat, up to
the plate with the bases filled. Happy
just naturally plastered one that spat-
kin5on and Liebold came home. This
tied the score and got the Yankee fans
to wondering whether the home team
might not yet manage to toss off the
game.
peckinpaugh opened the Yankee half
of the fifth by sending one into the
left field bleachers. Then came Ruth
again, somewhat peeved at having only
hit triple the last time up. This
time ne drove the ball to the upper
right field stands for home run agar
and put a stop to the stories that hat
risen to the effect that ne was losing
his batting eye when he hit the mere
triple.
Felsch Joins Sluggers
The crashing of baseballs against the
heavy timber seemed to get on tn,
nerves of Happy Felsch, of the Sox
In the eighth inning he dashed out al
a fast one pitched by Mays and SEN
it into the left field bleachers for {
home run. The ball was hurled out by
one of the Iank sympathizers, bu
Umpire Chill very properly declared
that it was a home run, despite vocifer
GUS protests from the Yanks.
When Umpire Dinnecn was here las
Ward hit the same kind of ball int,
the same place and a fan threw it on.
I'lnnccn, VINO is the enemy of HON,
runs in any shape, manner or form
called it two bagger, on what ground
only an umpire's weird, inscruta bl,
mind could explain.
1t looked as though the Yanks Nigh
have pounded a few more runs acros
when they cluttered up the inield i,
their half of the eighth. Pratt got
base on balls and Bodie, trying to sac
riice, was safe when Schalk threw higl
TO second. Truck Hannah laid down
hunt and McMullin held it too long
The bases were packed. Mays strucl
out: Ward slammed one to Kerr, wh
nailed Pratt at the plato and Schall
doubled Ward at first.
Peckinpaugh and Pipp did some fame,
fielding that drew considerable atten
ton, or would have drawn lot of at
tentlon on any other day But whel
Ruth is busting them nothing else il
greatly noticed.
That makes four homers to date 70
the Babe. Twenty-Five to 60 now t,
loo