The New York herald., 1921-07-28
YANKS DON'T LIVE
UP.TOREPUTATION
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Backslide at Homecoming and
Lose a Game to the st.
Louis Crowd.
TRIMMED BY SCORE OF 7-5
ShockeA, Outpitches Mays,
WhoRas a Poor Day-Mc-
Manus a Terror.
by WILLIAM b. HANNA.


With Shocker to pitch and McManus
TO hit, the St Louis Browns ditched the
Yankees at the Polo Grounds yesterday.
The second home stand against the
Western teams didn't begin as hoped
and expected. The Yanks' plans met
4 with rude check, a check by a score
of to 5. and after all the assuring
things said about how we'll and smartly
the Yanks have been playing
But Shocker was back to one Of his
good days and had a varied equipment
which made the Yankee batters wofully
weak In pinches McManus made two
singles, a triple and home run and
batted in four runs. Mays pitched
poorly. with his poor control and
penchant for the centre of the plate
when he wanted the corners. and the
Yanks oriSoffence played a humdrum.
cut and dried, conventional game which
had none of the stiffness and enter
prise of their tactics in the West. For
instance. not an attempt was made by
the Yanks to steal a base. At no time
was there an attempt to rush the enemy
The homo fielding was good-much
better than the Browns'-but Shocker,
who used his splitter. a slow ball and
curve now and then, had such batters
as Ruth Baker and Schang gaping anu
hypnotized.
Shocker 8 Peeved.
Shocker became pcevish at the UNI
piring, which was excellent, and took
the injured innocence pose, but 1t didn't
hurt his effectiveness, except that he
.t,.tt. tU ixya
ana was in hot water. But high flies
were the best the sluggers Ruth and
Meusel could do. They were up in the
ninth Meusers lift wasn't. far from
home run. Tobin caught 1t In the
shadow of the wall. 1t meant TIED
score by going over. as Baker was
bivouacked on first at the time.
Mays was taken out in the ninth. with
run in, one out, with his delivery In
that round having been slithered for
three singles and with two on bases
His pitching hadn't been such as to JUS
tify the belief that he'd continue the
inning with no further mutilauon. Call
ing in another pitcher appeared SEN
sible enough course, yet that other
pitcher, Quinn, was sloughed for n
triple that drove in the two runs which
were the Browns margin of victory.
D.. NC NldHuS, tie -sAe-AeAhNSs e''~
raider. made the triple. Quinn or Mays.
1t mattered not to him. Mays when he
lost the plate lost 1t by a foot or 80 !;
when he found 1t he pumped the pea
+. over the middle for lovely target.
That's how his control went astray
from normal.
The first and second innings were en-
couraging. Tobin and Ellerbe singlel
in the first. with nobody out, but
strike out. fly and an infield tap
brought a goose egg. Two hits and no
runs whereas in the second the yam
KEGS made two runs from one hit. Bakes
walked and Meusel doubled to right. He
got there1 by good base running, and
was one case where New York trav-
eller was1allowed to use the legs nature
gave him instead of seouestering him.
self sine die. Pipp's grounder to Austin
scored Baker and Wards fly to Tobir
scored Meusel
These two runs served for while
Ripping plays by Fewster. Peck, PipI
and Baker foiled the Browns in thu
fourth. but in the fifth. after McManus
had singled and Austin had walked
grooved ball to Sllocker was pummellet
over Fewster's head. Fewster misjudget
n badly and IL sailed for a two bagger
which scored McManus and Austin.
Baker Lacks the Punch.
Baker left men on bases in the third
and fifth innings by falling to produc'
timely punch. though the fank
scored once in the fifth on two bas'
muff by Williams and a single by Peck
inpaugh. Mayss battery errors wer'
costly. He isn't Mays when he hits ant
walks men like that. He winged Jacob
son in the fifth, and Gerber and Nc
Nanus hit safely with two'out and tai
lied Big Jake
Pipp tripled in the sixth with one ou
T and Ward was passed. The follow OF
hit wasn't there. Schang flied to Nc
Manus, and a first baseman is nobody e
fly to when a base runner needs aid
MAYS hit at a bad one when he could
nave walked and was heaved out by
Shocker.
McManus. the incorrigible. took Q
healthy swing in the eighth and a hom,
run into the right field rookery belchet
from his bat Ellerbe singled in the
ninth and was thrown out at third BY
Pipp. He tried for third when Ware
dropped Pipp's assist on Williams
sacrifice. Jacobson singled and SEVERED
singled on the hit and run and scored
williams Mays retired. and with Quinr
pitching Ward threw out Gerber. Also
with Qui3n pitching the Unsuitable Nc
Msnus tripled.
Right there the Yanks were beaten
for the triple AIDED two runs. The spirit
OF the Yanks was strong. though they
couldn't get by Shocker. Chick Hawks
whacked that pitcher for a single In
the ninth. Fewster struck out and Peck
singled Elerbes low throw on that
hit. Ruth's high fly to Jacobson and
Bakers single enriched the Yanks by
two runs. and Meusers laudable but
short effort to shoot the ball into the
grandstand left them two shy. The
score
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