Evening star., 1920-06-01

shot a single into left. scoring Judge.
and Sir Robert decided TO show the New
Workers something new in the way OF
base stealing. He stole second cleanly.
sliding under Peck. and pilfered third on
the next pitched ball. Bob then rested
long enough to allow Harris to walk and
the double steal was opened up. Harris
dashed for second while Shore held the
ball. The big fellow turned to throw to
Peck, but a yell warned him of Roth
and he turned back and tossed to Han
nah. but Bob beat the throw by a great
slide. Three stolen bases in one inning
is going some and then some more.
Harris is also credited with stolen
base on that and from second he scoot-
ed home when Ellerbe drove a double
down the leftfield foul line. A kid
pitcher by the name of Collins. hailing
from Dallas, Tex, then went on the
rubber and he proved a good one, stop
ping the run-getting for the remainder
of the game.
johnson vietiM Of Yanks.
The Yanks also got busy in the
fourth and garnered two runs to the
great joy of the mob. Two singles.
two bases on balls with a sacrifice
accounts for the double ringer. Then
proved a bad guess by Grin, as it
was too early after his Saturday
labors. Walter finished the fourth
and went through the fifth with fly
ing colors, but the Yanks started
after him in the sixth. scoring two
runs on four clean singles. The
Higgins crowd went out in order in
the seventh. and it looked as though
Johnson had regained his cunning,
but it was only for second. In the
eighth the Yanks hit him to fare
thee-well and scored three runs,
son had thrown out Collins. the ire
pressible Peckinpaugh tore off triple
to right. his fourth hit of the after
noon, and Meusel followed with an
other of the same sort into center.
and of course Peck walked home.
out, but the mighty Babe Ruth
smashed one of his copyrighted flies
into right that came to within an
inch of going over the high stadium.
and of course this meant two more
runs. The Yanks did not go to the
bat in the ninth, as they did not
need to.
sideliehts on the Games.
And Ruth made a home run. Those
will be the final words of the New
Yorker in describing the game to
persons who were not present. Ii
was a happy period of the entire
assemblage, and they made enough
though he had picked up the grand
stand and held it out at arms length.
The "son of Tarzan." as he has been
nicknamed, was in the dumps up to
the grand finale, as he had been to
bat seven timeS-three in the morn
ing and four in the afternoon-with-
out making anything that resembled
a hit. young Carlson striking him out
twice in the first game. Every time
he walked to the plate there were
cheers and yells of encouragement.
and back he would walk with head
h y. .-I
at his failure to come through. But
what a different Ruth after his
mighty slam. He trotted around the
sacks with head up and a smile a
yard wide. and as he crossed the
plate doffed his cap to the mighty
by Lewis. Peck. Hannah and Bodie
had been forgotten. Ruth had regis
tered his twelfth home run.
Only one game will be played to-
day instead of two as originally plan
ned. and a double header will be pull
ed Wednesday. The postponed game
will go over until the next visit to
this city. Erickson will pitch for
Washington today and it will be
either Quinn or Mays for New York
The only consolation coming to
Grin out of yesterdays double defeat
were the gate receipts. The wash
ington club got money for 18,4S3 in
the morning and 1858 in the after
noon. The mornings turnout broke
all records for attendance for fore
noon games at the Polo Grounds, and
that of the evening was close to a
record. Should the nice weather con-
tinue Secretary Eddie Eynon will car
ry away the largest amount of money
ever paid visiting club on one series
in New York. 1t is figured that some
thing like 1000 will be on hand today
and around 10000 tomorrow. Can any
one wonder at the envy of the Giants
owners?
Young Carlson looked very sood