The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-28
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But SOx LOSE
Yankees Win Out in Twelfth In.
ming; Sox Take No Part IN
Mays Custer Controversy.

New York, Aug. 2S.-Carl Mays,
vortex Of another American league
tempest, virtually licked the White
Sox yesterday in the second game Of
their series, although the official
records will credit the victory to
Jack Quinn, because he was slab
ling when the Yankees eventually
won in the last half Of the 18th In
ming. 6 to 8.
1t really was q feather in Mays
cap, however, because the White
SOx were SO anxious to beat him
that they beat themselves, Just as
Detroit did the other day when he
pitched against them. For instance,
the Gleasons made eight clean hits
OF Mays in three innings and got
only three runs with them. They
kept on smuggling and made Is hits
before Higgins finally retired Mays
in favor of pinch hitter in the
tenth inning, and still they could
not beat him, simply because they
were trying too hard.
With the newspapers full of petit
tons to GUST Mays from baseball,
the White Sox gathered in an in
formal way yesterday morning,
knowing they would be called on
to face the spotlight pitcher and
decided merely to do nothing ex-
cept to try to beat him.
Boiled down to a few words, the
attitude Of the Gleason tribe in this
controversy is just this: II Mays
has the nerve to 60 along pitching.
and if the owners Of the New York
American league club have the
nerve to 60 on pitching him, and If
the American league and the Amer
lean public wants to see Mays pitch,
what's the use Of trying to tell them
about their business?
The Gleasons are not afraid to
face Mays pitching and they are
not going to expose themselves to
the charge Of cowardice. In fact,
they knew yesterday there wasn't a
chance that Mays would dare to hit
one Of them with pitched ball,
and they faced him with all the
confidence inspired by that knowl-
edge, and still he smilingly teased
them into knocking easy flies or
easy grounders in the pinches.
Mays Is Cheered.
1t was tense game, with the
atmosphere surcharged with
trouble, but nothing happened. The
comparatively small crowd of 5000
cheered Mays as only a political
convention can cheer when he was
announced to pitch. The local fans
boosted him on every occasion, until
he finally disappeared from the
arena in favor of a pinch hitter ip
the tenth inning. And that pinch
hitter delivered the blow that cost
Chicago the game.
Cicotte's wildness in the early in
nings was responsible for the de-
feat which will not be charged
against him. He passed only two
men in three innings, but both OF
them scored on hits, otherwise the
tale would have been different.
All the Gleasons could get of
Mays with their frequent swats was
! four runs in nine innings, and that
ought to have won, but the Yankees
had the count tied with the help OF
passes and timely hits.
| 1t seemed over in the tenth, when
double by Schalk and single by
Strunk scored a run, but in their
half the Yanks tied that up against
Wilkinson with a double by Wick
and single by Pipp.
Quinn held the Sox to nothing
after that and the end came in the
last half Of the twelfth, when Dick
Kerr was trying to win his second
game in two days. Ruel singled
Quinn sacrificed, and Peck drove in
the winning run with single.