New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14

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Urban Shocker, the Yankee Nemesis,
colonies. Rupert and Huston, for sell
ing him down the river to st. Louis,
made the Murderers of Murderers'
Row look sick with the heat. He
struck out fourteen of them and his
chief victim was Babe Ruth. Shocker
practically ruined the day for the
Babe by tanning him three times and
Weilman stopped the infant as he was
nearing the record for hits in consecu-
tive games.
The customers were lured by the
prospect of seeing the Babe equal his
home run record of last year or maybe
pass it. They started to file in shortly
after noon and when the first game
was under way every square inch IN
the bleachers was packed with clammy
fans. 1t was an ideal setting for the
smashing of the home run record, but
nothing like that happened.
Urban Abuses Himself
Young Urban Shocker amused him
self considerably at the expense of
Murderers' Row in the first game. Once
or twice he motioned the outfielders to
come in while Babe Ruth was at bat.
This was as much as to imply in dunno
show that the Babe was harmless. And
the Babe would swing each time with
more vehemence upon nothing. But
young Urban was a very worried young
man at the end of the game. He held
the Yanks to two hits until the seventh,
but then they started to locate him
and the Yankee Nemesis was firing
rapidly at the end.
The Browns started to get after Rip
Two Gun Collins, the reformed Texas
Ranger, in the fourth. Baby Doll
Jacobson began it with single and got
to second on a sacrifice by Williams.
With Smith out Gerber dashed hit to
right center and travelled all the way
home on it, bringing the Baby Doll in
ahead of him.
In the fifth inning Rip Two-Gu start
ed his own trouble by petulantly bean
ing Urban Shocker. With Tobin out
Gedeon shot hit past short At this
point Rip shot wild pitch past
Hannah and sent both men along. Baby
Doll Jacobson drove hit over short
and scored two more runs.
In the sixth SEVERED plastered Rip
fot home run into the left field
bleachers. In the seventh there was
more trouble for Rip. Tobin led off
WITH double to the left field corner.
Gedeon was safe when Collins threw
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son was passed purposely. Williams
rolled out to Pipp and Tobin scored.
The Yankees began to show some
latent signs of life in their half Of
the seventh. After Babe Ruth struck
out for the third time Lark Bob Meusel
cracked double to center Bodie
cracked one to right, and both men
advanced on the throw-in. Pratt hit
past short and Meusel and Bodie
scored.
Ward Lines Out Double
The Yanks had Shocker very wobbly
in the eighth. Peckinpaugh, coming in
to pinch hit, struck out, but Ward lined
out a double to center. Sammy Wick
hit double to left and scored Ward.
Plpp shot long one to center, which
was barely speared by Jacobson, and
Wick took third on the throw-in. Ruth
crashed his lone hit for the afternoon
past second and Wick scored The rally
stopped abruptly when Meusel struck
out. Lewis and Gleich came up to
pinch hit in the ninth, but nothing
much happened.
Some of the planked CUSTOMERS frying
in the cetner field bleachers began to
ask What do you mean, Murderers'
Row."
Weilman, who started the second
game for the Browns, was almost as
tough problem for Murderers' Row
as Shocker was for the early innings,
but the assassins finally tore him apart
in the eighth. George Mogridge, MAX
ing the first start since he hurt his ler