The evening world., 1920-08-24
Mays ShOWs Good Form
Upon Return to Game
By BIGnking the Tigers.
Pratt, With Five Hits, Ac-
counts For Six of Ten
Yankee Runs.
BIZ Charles Son1erUille.

- great NtNe OF tnCouTaBluki hlnuly
applause met Carl Mays as he stepped
out to tame HugSey Jennings's ever
lunruly and dangerous Tigahs yester-
day and again as Carl came up at
bat for the first time. AfteS that he
| seldom returned to the hutch without
the home fires blazing anew with az
thusiasm, for he was meeting a hard
situation by pitching a brilliant, un-
erring game.
And he held the Ti0ahs as runless
as a Merican dog Is bare Of lions
name.
II proved a grand, happy old day
all around, for the Yanks worked back
Of Mays in a way that quickly buried
rseent memories Of a team that seemed
to be scattering in all directions under
blast Of T N T. Never a trace Of
astigfnatism in their observation oF
the ball. And when they grabbed at
the pill they didn't harvest turf. They
grabbed the ball. And their speed
was more than trays beans. Trays on
trays Of those beans. Without spilling
any.
Whereas with the whackstick they
were all to the hey noddy the way
they banged and biffed 1t around Mr..
Coogans well known Bosky Dell.
Leonard was ploeeyed in the fourth
and Oldham turned into minced beef,
and while the seventh and eighth in
nings wherein Mr.. Morrisette, a for
mer International Lacquer, didn't ruin
| his future chances for an American
| League rep, ii didn't urge his can
didacy for a niche or even tOotstool
in the Hall of Fame.
Mays aside, the gent who emerged
| from yesterdays battle with all that
stuff-the II. OF r. regalia clinging to
him, was Del Pratt. He was the King
Of Slam yesterday, the Babe abdica-
ting with a mere double while Del in
| his role of Hittemout Hottentot
BANNED the ball for something good
| every time he stepped. And way bet
ter than that. For once he whanged
out n mighty homer that meant three
runs and again a stinglng double that
meant a couple more and in all
scooted along by the work Of his
rOwelling raps six Of the ten. runs that
| flattened the Tigahs.
! With Peck out Wanie Pipp put q
single in to centre. Leonard gave
Babe Ruth a legitimate walk and then
| Pratt pulverized the pill into left
homer that hadn't much more to go
to have cleared the grounds.
His next performance was in the
eighth when Wnllie Pipp. again sim
gled to second on Shorten's tumble
and after the Babe struck out, Del
| Qver) -the-goods shot out n bang that
~ hot thn hnrna rn1nfa
and third with such a crack that 1t
bounded so high 1t touched the sky
and never came back from left field
until after Pipp had scored and Pratt
| was on second.
Aaron Ward stepped modestly up in
the fourth and pulled a little homer
all his own. The like OF II was COM
plete stranger to any eyes, / think.
It sailed high and almost directly
above the left field line. The white
foul line climbs the fence and is
marked off In the bleachers by a
white rail. The ball slapped the
white rail. 1t bounced foul after that.
But 1t was no worry of Aarons. once
1t left the grounds fair It was the
real thing in Homerburgh.
Ruth received his customary con-
stitutional in the fifth. The days
hammer hero got himself another hit
to Jones and went TO second whom
Jonesy got jingled and sent a wild
peg to first. The Babe scored on 1t
and Del went TO second. Duffy Lewis
sacrificed Del to third and Slgnor Bo-
die inundated himself magniflcently
on the altar of team work with a long
fly to centre that scored the demon
Del.
Mr.. Pratt's next stellar perform.
p ance, ladies and gentlemen, came in
the sixth after Carl Mays had walked
Pepp and Pipp had both faded help
> lessiy on strikeouts to the astonishet
4 Mr.. Oldham Che wasn't in any way
4 accustomed TO striking anybody OH