New-York tribune., 1920-04-09
'Ruth's Double
Clinches Game
In 9th Inning,
Hugmen Make All Their
Runs in One Session;
Shore and Shawkey Pitch
BY w. ]. Macbeth

WINSTON-S SALEM, N. c., April g.
This day will 60 down in the annals OF
Winston-Salem history as Shore Dav
A grand success it was, everybody but
Brooklyn is willing to admit-Colonel
I. l.. Huston included. The colonel
saw his Yankees beat the Dodgers for
the first time. The score was 3 to O.
Ernie Shore, as befitted a native son of
Iadkin County. plastering on the first
five coats Of kalsomine.
From a boX-office standpoint It was
a knockout for every one concerned
the biggest attendance Of the exhib-
ton season turning out. Between five
and Sir thousand witnessed the battle
and went home pleased. for they we're
roofing for Ernie Shore.
Inc game will 60 down in town his
tory as Ernie Shore Day, and the
elongated twirler clearly earned such
distinction. But in any other CITY
further removed from Yadkin County
1t would be known as Ruth Day. If
ever baseball player earned the right
IN single afternoon to have his name
inscribed forever in the baseball hall
or tame. that same was big George
Ruth through the sheer power of his
we'll known driving proclivities.
Luck Against the "Babe-
No player ever suffered more through
the popularity of teammate. Ha6
Shore not been such a local lion. il is
very probable the crowd would not
have attained the pleasing proportions
presented. And if the playing field had
not been crowded and entirely sur
rounded by the fans, Babe" Ruth
would have had three homo runs to his
credit. instead Of two doubles, and
New York would have had at least two
moro xunA
Plsyers ere now have been victim.sed
by unsympathe*ic umpires, but It is
nome run decision TO each of two
officials working one game That is
what happened to Babe
In the sixth inning, against Conlan, q
young southpaw, Babe leaned with such
force that he drove the ball so far over
the heads Of the people in left center
1T cleared both fences Of the half-mile
race track seventy-five yards behind
them. K. L. Shore, cousin of Ernie.
marked the spot where the ball was
picked up. He will conduct an official
measurement in the morning. A good
guess is that the ball did not fall much
short Of 600 feet.
Bill Dineen allowed Ruth only two
bases on this tremendous knock be-
cause the teams had agreed to q ground
rule of two bases.
Misses Three Homers
Ruth's other double. which had no
bearing OF the score, fell far short of
his later mark, yet it was a drive that
would have cleared the Polo Grounds
fence handily. Bernie Neis, who was
backed against the fringe of the crowd,
bolted through the spectators and
raced down into gully, but lost his
race with the bail by twenty-five wards.
This clip was nearly as stable as the
one that cleared the centerfeld fence
at Jacksonville.
Babe struck out in the eighth inning
put before ne famed he delivered his
third homer, a swat to dead right Mld
that Hank O'Day declared foul bv .wo
feet; This fell about seventy-tive
yards behind Colonel Huston and sew
eral New York newspaper men who
could gain no better vantage point TO
see the game. To satisfy their curl
osity they retrieved the ball and found
1t snuggled fully fifteen feet inside the
line extended in whitewash nearly to
that far locality
Ernie Shore and Bob shawkey
handicaps. A high, quarterino ssH ssve5G were
prevailed and swirled dense dns,
clouds across the diamond and into
Tha ne eyes a,t Of the catchers and batters.
Inc ground was one temporarily CON
structed at the fair grounds, and ex-
cused the many errors made. In each
OF OF Shores FIVE innings, Brooklyn got
the hrst man on. Three times r1nners
we're on second with none out bm. 80
Dodgers couldn't break shore for '''s q
run: Showkey pitched quite as stou+),.
IN the p;nches 0'''
=, Uncle Robbie's two colt pitchers
Minus and Conlan, acquitted the, them .
hander. isaess 'ffed'tsely; foasst :: Mijus. right
could be imagined against Shore s' ans as
gave ga way to pinch hitter Mitchell AZ -.
IN. ,ne eng eng Of the fifth without score
The Yankees hoped CoDlan for
tae1F II y :! three @ runs before he had Warmed wa 1ea
70 w;tl1 ms "ork: s;1, Peckinpaugh greeted him
iced Immediately Ruth del;vered ,pp dAsfls tbe
olow that will be the talk Of winston cIre