New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03


clares that the celebrity with which
pasted baseballs travel this year is due
to improved material, and that the
spheroids are still being built on the
old specifications. The old leagues
would scorn to use the rabbit" or
rubber-corcd. ball that was used by the
Federal League.
There is better quality Of horse
hide used in the covers 1t was eX-
planned. Horses are faster this year.
Look al Man O. War Also we are using
Australian wool yarn, plucked from the
back of the Australian kangaroo, and
everybody knows how far the kan
CARGO can travel"
$4,000 Customers Pleased
Be this as it may. the quantity of
long hits yesterday was, to put it
mildly, excessive. Not that any of
the $4,000 customers in the stands
objected. Quite to the contrary. There
is no music sweeter on a sultry after
noon than the pitter patter of the
base hits as they collide with the bats
In the first game the Yankees bat
tered Zachary and Carlson right out
of the adjacent scenery and won by
a score of to 1. In the second game
the fanks faltered, after winning ten
straight, and the infeld collapsed
simultaneously with Carl Mays, and
the Senator's took the game by the
tight score of to g. Clark Griffith de-
parted bit bruised, but with his
pockets bullying. for the gross attend
ance at this last series was in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
he first home run of the Babe was
spattered into the right field stands.
The other two were driven into the
right field beachers, which constitutes
fair days work even for an employee
whose specially is supposed to be home
runs. But they spoiled an epic on the
Babe in the ninth of the second, an
at the bat. the original, or Grantland
Rlce's revised edition.
head 1t and weep. The score was
to IN favor of the visitors. There
were two out and two men on bases
and Ruth came up to bat, while the
stands and the bleachers went mad.
mere was hasty consultation by .he
S Sashihglon board of strategy. Then
SNYDER threw four wide ones, purposelv
passing Ruth. while the Babe ragged and
the multitude frothed at the mouth.
Meusel Hits Ball
Bob Meusel continued his wild slug
glhg MT. lhey do say that the home
run achieved by Robert, the lanky.
which went into the exit in the left
held bleachers was longer than any of
the three hit by Ruth. Among the
otner nome runners of the socksome
afternoon were Ruel Shanks, Roth and
MlIan. Meusels triple seemed to be
aoout the longest swat of all. 1t shook
Ihe le1t center fence on the first bound
Unless the makers of leapue baiIa
mix something with that kangaroo Aus
trallan wool and that thoroughbred
horsehlde, lot of baseballs will fnd
Watery grave In the adjacent Harlem
The Yanks just piled up their runs
1y vehement pasting in the first game.
IN me nrst inning Pipp got on by fore
ing Pecklnpaugh at second. Then camo
the Babe with the opening home run Of
the afternoon, lifting the ball into tho
right field stands and scoring the two
runs. WV
n the second inning Lewis and Han
nan singled IN turn and Jack Quinn
plastered one through Harris, scoring
LEWIS. Pecklnpaugh forced Quinn and
Hannah scored on the out In the fifth
Quinn was safe on Shannon's error an I'd
Peckinpaugh singled Pipp brought
quinn home with hit but was caught
ifylng to get to second Ruth heat q
mt to Shanks and scored Peckinpauch
shannon was spiked when Pipp slid
20 reach second. He had to quit the
game, and O'Neill went in to take his
pace. In the eighth Ruth started the
run of the day and his fourteenth of
the season. This time he parked the
Dali high up among the customers in
the right-feld bleachers Pratt hit q
two-bagger to left and scored on
single to left by Bode.
Terrific Drive by Yankee
In the first inning of the second
game Lanky Bob Meusel startled ali If
the $4,000 inmates. With one out Lankv
Bob drove one into the exit in the left
heid bleachers, a terrific line drive
Henry Fabian, who claims to know the
exact distance, says that the ball tray-
eled 400 feet, almost on line.
In the third inning the baffled Sena-
tors ran amuck with their clubs. Either
this, or they detected the presence of
the kangaroo wool and the thorough
bred horsehide covers on the baseballs
Shenks hit to the right-feld stand for
a home run With Milan out, Bobby
Roth hit into the lcft-feld bleachers
for home run. which made two in the
same inning, and would indicate that
Carl Mays was not in for a happy at
ternoon.
The Yanks retorted in their part of
the same inning. Mays started it with
triple to left center Peckinpaugh
OouHceN uOuOlc on the lelr-neld fence,
scoring Mays. Peckinpaugh scored on
mere single by Ruth.
In the fourth inning Lewis reached
first on a single. Then Muddy Ruel
took advantage OF the liveliness Of the
kangaroo wool and horsehide 70 plaster
home run through the long grass Of
center field, bringing home Lewis ahead
Of him. Folks were beginning TO won
der what had become OF the old fash
Toned onebase hit.
Senators Take Turn
But the Yankee infcld and Mays
cracked together in the fifth inning.
C=lYo. pitcher, shot the ball betweA a
Wallie apps legs and was safe
Shanks bounced blow off Meusel's
knee. Milan poked one to Peckinpaugh,
who hcldcd it slowly, and Milan was
safe while CalYo scored. Rice raped
one down 20 Pratt, Who juggled the
ball trying 20 field it fast enough
for double, and Shanks scored. Milan
finally came home on a hit by Eilcrbc
70 center. After that inning Snyder
went in for the Senator'S and pitched
tough game.
Nays got another pasting in the
sixth. with two out Shanks hit one
past Mensel. Milan tripled TO- right
center and scored Shanks, but WAS
nailed at the plate by a pretty relay
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