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NEW YORK. July 2s-As tn. Yam
KEGS now are defending their home lot
against the Western invaders. fans
doubtless want to know what may he
the result of the battle. pernapS too
they viii want to know a few details
OF what happened on the trip just I'm
ishrd, how we played and the big
question vii! We win tn. pcnnant.
| shall answer the last question
hrst and say that with Il fair break
IN III" luck the club absolutely viii
win the flag. y great many seem to
right down TO the last week or SO.
but YOU can take my word for IL that
BEGINNING with the Browns. we are
gong % clean up. ! think the YAM
stay and drive ahead to win the pen
nant by seven games. Experts Will
say that's big margin. but all We
need is fair break III the luck and
ntc!!iSent Ecncraiship.
IN" Yankees always have had Of
fcnSivc power. tut that power was
no, properly co-ordinatcd we went
ahead and hit the ball. ran the bases
ana performed the other operations
of tn" gam. in more or less perfume
tory style. When the hits We're drop
ping in we were fine: when they were
m3t IroppinG IN We We're not 50 good
something happened.
Ana this is what II was. \ new
spirit was bred in that Yankee team
We discovered that we could play ball
as IL should be played. and that We
could go ahead and beat the lest
teams in the league. We found that
We could rum the bases AS well az the
best. and from the day we left Chi
amy better than we did. The men
began 10 talk pennant and worlds
series in serious way. They think
they can win. More than that. they
X unEE ;hgl l'Mlirnit, I er.IIf
belongs to Roger PcckinpauSh for the
way he handled the club during the
absence of Miller higgins.
Peek Gives Hays Talk.
Peck took the boys and said: Nov.
look here, we have Il team that should
win. We have II team that wants to
win. and every man has been in the
game long enough to know what to
do for himself Let's get together
aud win this game. and the succeed
ing games"
and We are more together now than
ever before.
Cleveland really cannot hope to win
the American League pennant this
rhc ltiians are couple al points
ahead OF us now. but they have
played NOR. games. Mails Is un-
steady. and Sothoron Will not 20
along as he is going now. lie isn't
that sort Of pitcher. For n while
the huricVs viii go without I!aEhy.
tut Him pitched thirty-onc victories
las; season. and his absence puts 1t
up To the others. who are not so good.
to win those thirty-1nc games. ] do
not believe the tribe has the class TO
do it, They can't heat as without
him and every one comedies that it is
That series In Cleveland which re-
suited in an even break WAS unusual.
We won The first game and wer"
| maulcd TO a fragile. Yet even in that
defeat We showed winning strength,
We got eight runs and sixteen hits,
including seven doubles cleveland
got a lot OF clean hits. ana they got
some lucky hits. too. II was Just
one of those days in baseball on which
everything happens wrong. For
Cleveland, OF course. everything hap
Perhaps if Mays had not been
worked in the second game things
might have gone dirercu'y Kip
Collins looked pretty good 10 me when
n" warmed M. but some 81 the boys
figured that Mays should be able to
pitch on TWO days rest ~. done
that. ana the old-timers ihonght
nothing of IL. However, Carl failed
10 show tn. right stuff, and clcvc-
land got TO him.
Nunks Get Had start.
After Il lad start against the White
to play cagcy ball in all our contests,
ana with som, breaks of the luck in
our favor were able to win. There
were two PLAYERS who stood out par
;iculariy for the Yankees. They were
J. Franklin Baker and Waffle Pipp.
Baker broke the hearts of the In
dians while we were out in Cleveland.
and he broke the hearts of few others
lust Lot those pitchers keep passing
me They will find Baker slamming
ball TO all parts of the lot. lie hit
over 800 on the trip, and he got
fair number Of hits in the pinchcs.
lie is all bah PLAYER. that same Frank
Hakcr II seemed to me that every
,imr looked m on the last tour OF
the country Wailte Pipp was, cracking
Il double. homer or ma ybc in"t a
single but he was cracking the ball
lust the same. He never was better
In his life.
We expect u WALTON the Western
,lt;hs on this stand We have every
reason for our confidence. too I'm
\, Louis wc swept all three games
We icat pixie Davis and wh heat
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