New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-20

NuL untiA TWO men hau Deen retired
in the fourth did the Yankees get
man to frst. Then Babe Ruth drew
pass, and was Immediately cot down
in an attempt to steal second. Two in
nings later the phenomenal young St.
Louis pitcher loosened up ag&in and
passed Rip Collins, but there were two
out at the time and Peck vas an easy
third.
! Wally Pipp led off for the Yanks
in the seventh and walked on four
| pitched balls. He moved up a peg
on Ruth's hi gh bounder to Sisler and
completed the circuit when Derrill
lashed into center for the first hit off
Davis. Pratt was subsequently caught
: stealing. No other Yankee reached
first base until the night, in which
Roger Peckinpaugh singled with one
out and was left when Pipp struck out
and Ruth grounded to Gedeon.
Near Disaster in Fist
A snappy double play gummed St.
Louis rally in the opening round; else
ThorrnahIen might have been driven TO
cover even sooner than he was.
Gerber led oil with high bounding
! Gedeon when Derrill Pratt grabbed
JJoe's rap near recond stepped on the
bag and reAyed the bal. TO irst in
: time to gain close decision Sister
then singled to right, made second in
safety when Pratt lnuReI Hannah's
throw to catch him stealing, and moved
up a peg Oh Jacobsons inGeld hs.
ards fine play on Williams's tricky
grounder ended the inning.
with the lower half OF the local hat
ting order hitting against him Thor
'nahlen breezed through the SECOND ,ln
Srathcd. In the third, however, Dixie
laws poIed single TO center and
started q drive which gave The home
guard two runs% The nitrher moved 70
second or Gerber's sacrifice. fingered
there while G~deon fird to Ruth and
scored on Sisters single to center.
SISTER took second on The peg to the
pate ana scored on Jacobsou's inheld
single, lia"Nah letting pipp'a .hrow
trickle through his fingers. Williams
drove double to right. but Thormahlen
pulled himself together and famed Earl
Smith tor the third out.
Collins to the Rescue
Rurkt's young men started after
lhormahien again in the fourth, and
! THIS time they drove him off the mound.
Tobln started the attack witt, double
TO center and SEVERED walked. Both
moved up while ripp was beating Davis
TO first, and both came across on Ger
ber's single TO left. Gerber took an
extra base on Lewis's tumble and Hug
gins took Thormahlen out Of the box.
coed him.
The Texas Maverick had sometime
and retired the side without further
! scoring, Gcdeon going out on a long
foul to Wick and Sisler on an easy non
up TO Peckinpaugh.
Collins held the foe in close check
IN the next two rounds. but in the
seventh the Browns wrapped three hits
around q couple Of errors and added
my with single to center and skidded
to third on Gedeon's one-timer. Ruth
tried to cut him off, but his aim was
bad and the ball bounded past Ward
and Hannah to the st. Louis dugout.
Gerber scoring and Gedeon going to
third.
,.Sisler then grounded to Pratt, whose
throw to frs. was mufed by Pipp,
Gedecn scoring on the error, Jacob
( ond, sending Sisler to third, and con-
tlnued to second when Ruth. with no
! chance to get his man, hurled the ball
! to Ward
| Squeeze" Play Fails
With Kenneth Williams at bat the
Browns tried squeeze play, but Will
Jams hit the ball too hard and Pratt
scooped it up in time to drive both
runners back to their bases before re-
firing the batter at first. Smith then
grounded to Ward. whose throw 10
Hannah precipitated q run-up in which
Sisler was caught between third and
the plate. Tobin ended the inning by
grounding to Collins.
Hank SEVERED opened che Browns
half Of the eighth with double down
the right field foul line, but Hannah's
throw to Beck caught him mapping of
second and Gsrber's subsequent two
Dagger to the same section Of the
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