New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

vicinity Tor many montn.
Coveleskie was at his best, too. He'
struck out eight of the Yankee sluggers,
and it looked as though he could hold
them safe for week until Quinn
crashed through in the broad wake Of
Ping Bodie, who started the only scoring
with hit into left field. But though
iCoveleski was good, Quinn was better.
He so mystified the Cleveland batters
that Steve O'Neill frequently applied
the baseballs to his nostrils to see if
Quinn was not applying something
Illegal to the pellets.
Babe Ruth was not permitted to do
any shining. The first time he appeared
he was beaned. The second time up he
was purposely passed and the third time
up he swung SO vigorously at the last
one, that the force of connecting with
nothing caused him to finish ma sitting
position beside the plate.
Some Startling Fielding
Describing the fielding of Ward is
something of job, owing to the fact
that daily chroncler of baseball games
gets so loose with his vocabulary that
when something really does happen he
has nothing left but a lot Of second
hand words The most startling bit Of
,ielding occurred in the seventh. Gard
ner drove one on a line apparently
about five feet or so over Wards head.
Ii looked like a three-bagger at least,
judging from the speed with which it
was travelling.
There was loud moan from the twen-
ty-tive thousands, for it sounded like a
hit that might break up the game. 1t
seemed to be past Ward when he leaped
for it.
But somehow or other the ball hit
the upreached glove and stayed there.
The force of the wallop almost sent
Ward on his back, but he came up with
the ball in his hands. The crowd spent
the rest of the afternoon cheering him.
1t seemed right then and there that
Bob Gilks, the noted ivory hunter of
the Southern League, wiggled his lower
maXillary with considerable truth when
he predicted that Ward would make
them forget Home Run Baker. For
the moment he almost made them for
get Roger Peckinpaugh, the old mar
ster of fielding shortstops.
But that was not all that Ward did
during the afternoon. He stopped the
Indians from bringing across run in
the eighth, and he did it by being
where nobody expected him to be just
at the right time.
With one out, Johnston caught Quinn
trying to sneak over straight one, and
he sent it out to deep left center for a
two Dagger. O'Neill lashed one at
Quinn, who might have stopped John
ston at third, but he made the play at
first. Meusel wept over this and start
I'd to jaw at the splitter This was the
had reached third base, and 1t looked as
though some sort of a calamity might
be imminent.
MIR. Quinn 1rritated
1t looked a whole lot closer than i'm
minent few seconds later. Quinn
was SO irritated that he let Coveleskie
get base on balls, which put Graney
up. Graney shot one down through
second base territory. Pratt reached
for it, but it was beyond his grasp
IN the mean time Ward, who seems
20 have that uncanny Speaker trick of
d Judging where they might go as soon
as the batter swings, was scooting over
20 Pratt's territory. He came so fast
that he was right there to take the
ball that Pratt failed to reach. He re
covered quickly and made the throw to
Pipp, mailing Graney at the bag by
about the width of a very fine whisker
This set the Yankee boosters te
miracles chased all the jinxes right
out of tho mind of Old Jack Quinn, ant
right tn n and there he was sure thai
he couldr' lose.
In the eighth the Cleveland Indian;
finally were laid away in lavender
Sienor Pizzola, with his warm Italian
blood heated to the boiling point at be
ing made a sucker by a Pole. opened
the Yankee half with a real hit u
right Truculent Truck Hannah sen
him to second, with a sacrifice, an'
ole Jack" plastered his homer righ
into the stands.
There was only one badly disap
q pointed man in the stands, one Patrlcl
Aloysius Moriarity. 81 knew that n
Pollack could ever beat lad by tn
name of Quinn he was saying. "Ther
never was a Pollack living that coul
play the grand game agin' an lrishmar
Mark ye, now, | tell you that Jac
will get him sooner or later. lie ma
be tough Pole, this Stanislaus Cove
leskie, but watch him now. The Quinn
are grand family. Yen find ther
in railroad jobs everywhere, and ye1
lind them on the docks, and they'r
better shovelers than a half a doze
Pollacks Stick to him, Jack, and mur
der that Polack.
"There it goes over the stands. Wha
did | tell We that the Pole never live
ns,that could beat a Quinn. What's tina
ye say? You're a liar. Do ye mean t
say It's in the book that his name
Johan Picus and that he is just an
other Pollack? And Pm out here goin
wild over a battle between two Pol
lacks, thinking that one of them is
ball player. I'll have my dough bac
or III wreck the place.
The interest in the home stay of tn
Yankees is indicated by the fact tina
there were over $4,000 on hand, despit
the fact that it rained shortly befor
the game and the aftGnoon continue
threatening. This series promises I
be a real test of the strength of tn
Yankees, for many shrewd judges hav
picked the Indians to win the pennan
and they have been making that pre-
t.t, L. L., IL H. !.