Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-30
ruth Trips MACKS
4 IN Opener, 6 TO )
The Babes Twenty-third Homer
In Ninth Proves Margin
4 of Yanks' Victory
AS RALLIES FALL SHORT
BY ROBERT w. MAXWELL

This was the twenty third homer reg
istered by the Baby Grand this season
This was the most important happen
ing of the afternoon. Another .mino
incident was the defeat Of the AS b.
the score of<8 to 5.
Ruth did not look very well at tn
start, but finally got going. Here il
what happened to him in the first game
First fnning-Fanned.
Third inning-Walked.
Siytl, inning-Sineied 10 left.
Seventh inning-Bounced a single OF
Griff1n's shins.
Ninth inning--Knocked the ball on
of the lot.
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x,o,,, % &c tbor d;oJ hard Tho, ,,,or,
anht,,a T., ~ uiu n;n.h r,ho,, m,i,h W." e.,
.n a 90 . ano,,,st th.,,, 80. 80 ,,,an,
shnveJ over Hmoa Strwnt b;nriei
20 center wben two were on base
n.,'I nH-'., - 80,
halpn ferkths pih snareu a;n;. .,t hote s;, rni
ing into the left field bleachers in tn,
fourth.
The AS hit safely fifteen times, but
many Of the wallops were wasted
A fair sized crowd witnessed the
pastiming.
D,.,,, Xy,,. Had
Dnee" "o'hs f"u
The hardest worker on the field was
Bill D1neen, the intrepid guesser who
umpires BAH games for living, Bill Is
an earnest laborer. When the first
battle was called ne walked out on the
heid and announced ne would handle the
ball game by himself.
This was perfectly satisfactory to both
sides and It saved embarrassment, be,
cause II S0nnle or Hugglns mad entered
KICK, BIZ would have been the mono
logue umpire anyway. ,.
only one cylinder the game progressed
as only game can progress. There
when neither side Scored bmt the AS
returned to their old time form in the
third, and the Yankees scored two runs.
These were made possible by two bases
on balls, bum throw by Perkins and a
sweet single which was waited out to
center by Walter Pipp.
y,,r., Fails
s @ -.
Ihe home-tow boys nag swell op..
portunlty 70 register IN we nrst, put
tne puncn IN tne plnch was lacking and
everything went nooie. LOOKING over
the horrible details we find that Griffin
singled atter one mad perished and took
thir1 when boDDy Meusel played
walkers snort ny ike piano mover
repairing a watch and allowed 1t to fall
sate 1or double.
Ihen, with runners on second and
lnird, up stepped Joe Dugan"- what
dld Joe DO! he tanned. Strunk was
next TO appear. He rolled one to Old
Jack eulnm ana old Jack tossed him out
at hrSt. Ihat ruined everything: 49,.
hoine MAYOR was trihe wild, but
that did not mean anything. He
bounced many pals IN front OF the plate,
against % the Yanks M T Il way nrsveots 20 p'tSa tSa
players from being knocked down.
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Naylor, however, started something
In the third when he opened with sin
gIe, put MS pals failed to- finish It..
IhSretore, Rollie was stranded on the
pillow, I
Ralph Perkins, who was taking lots
OF punishment behind the bat, made a
couple OF hits in the fourth. He made
nit with the crowd and hit into the
left. field bleachers for home run.
The wallop sailed about ten feet from
huth, and the Babe started too late.
ground and never % came s bsch eaq hat a' sonS ene
placed our boys only one marker in
arrears.
There was nothing stirring In the
Yankee fourth and fifth, but the AS
started something and then fell down
on the job, as usual. After one was
down, Nayior singled and Witt walked.
Grlmn NIT weakly, advancing the run
ners, but perlshlng at hrst. Walker s
effort in the pinch was sickly
grounder; which would have been han
aied easily Dy ira Lowry shortstop at
betzwood' fa'
Ruth Singles
Ruth onono5 +bo s;x,h ,;.L ,.
b;s Srs+ ' i,,haoL ns h az win nng,e.
Rsbv grand was forcod r a. ~, soooa uut Inc ne
Meusel ''u ~ seeono ny
The came Franc;sco p;zzolo .ho
wonderful won. known r. tha war,5 'as as
Ping Bodie. Ping Francisco bumned a
hefty single through Dugan> and NIeul ="
sci stroiled to third.
and fried to o" to soconJ ,,;.tnmt atitious m
nc a taI;.ab 0f on,,uso u m,.mou. ,n Saii-
kDerrill pratt,s single oiIo,rod ,,eu Pahh,.
Meusei ~ score bmt tbat Umeu uos al PUPPY tS
|. ba nnened IN tbot fro,,a .a"' was "h 'hat
D i'"i'''
AA's Lack Punch
y After the first two batters We're nut
out Of business in the sixth the As
got two on bases but once more tbe
punch was lacking and n scoreiess inn
ing was hung I'M '' ''''' 'nn
The YanLs ep aot brsv ooo;, !, .,o
seventh and HS nut -. ouou ousf 1 again IN h che
frst two mon nv were oosw .wo hnt s w..I me
pinn and Rntb "o s;n.,od od't, out Maru'
filing tho sacks ''~teu Moms h;t succession, 5