New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
Yanks Capture
Two i'm Row
And Hold Lead
$4,000 Fans Swarm Polo
Grounds as Browns Meet
Double Defeat, 100, 1876


Twerty-eight thousand fans went
into Mysteries yesterday afternoon at
the Polo Grounds, while Babe Ruth,
the Swattingest Swatter of Swatdom,
danced around the bases with his rec
ord breaking home run labeled Fifty
FIVE
It was in the first game of double
bill with the ST. Louis Browns when
the mighty smash came, and even the
fact that the Yanks by scoring a twin
victory managed to cling to the lead
in tho pennant race faded into insig-
of George Herman Ruth. The ball
Babe hit travelled into the upper tier
of the right field stand. The scores of
the two games were 10 to 6 and 13 to
5, the Yanks shaking off their batting
lethargy to the extent Of fourteen safe
ties in each game.
The wonderful Babe was not the only
home run driver. Bob, Meusel delivered
another most timely circuit crash in
Miller, and Wally Pip Joined the pro-
cession with a drive into the right
field bleachers in the second conflict.
For the Browns Kenneth Williams col
lected his twenty second homer in the
initial chapter and his twenty-third in
the closing battle.
Bayne Gets Pummeling
The first game saw under-handed
Carl Mays and Lefty Bayne start out
as the opposing pitchers. Mays was
not at his best, but he lasted until
the end. Bayne was an easy mark and
was withdrawn from the turmoil in
the seventh. 1t wassoff one of Bayne's
left handed shoots that G.. Herman
Ruth made baseball history.
1t looked rather dubious for the
aspiring Yanks in the third inning of
the opener, when the Browns clouted
Mays for four hits, which with base
on balls. netted the invaders four runs.
But the Hugmen came back with
vengeance in their half of the stanza
and wiped out the "big four" with four
Of their own. Schang, Mays and Miller
singled in row, but Peckinpaugh wts
called out on strikes and Ruth popped
TO Gerber. Then came Meusel's terrific
and tied up the game. veritable
shower of straw lids fell upon Henry
Fabian's greensward as q salute to
Lanky Bob.
The Browns took one-run lead
in the fourth through an infeld single
by jacobson and double by Nc.
Manus, but the Yanks got busy with
their bats again in the fifth and wiped
out the visitors advantage, a double
by Miller and the record smashing
homer of Babe the Ruthless doing. the
job. The Browns again tied the count
in the sixth, when Williams hit his
first homer of the afternoon.
The Yanks settled everything in the
seventh, when another bunch of four
runs was plucked. Miller hit his
homer. his fourth safety of the game,
and Peck and Ruth walked. Meusel
beat bunt, and when Bayne threw
wildly, both Peck and Ruth scored.
Pipp singled, tallying Meusel. Kolp
replaced Bayne as the St. Louis pitcher
and checked the Yenks, but the game
was tin
Piercy Fails to Last
Bill Piercy and Van Glider were in
troduced az the moundsmen for the
second controversy, but neither proved
up to the mark and Manager Hug called
Upon Foyt and Rogers in turn to share
the pitching burden. Van Glider was
succeeded by Palmero, Burwell and
Henry.
Two innings, the first and the third,
were all sufficient to insure second
walked and tailed on Ruth's pro-
digious triple, which bounded against
the center field fence. Meusel and
Pipp followed with singles and Wand
doubled for total of four markers.
Ruth opened the third by walking
and went to second on Meusel's single
10 left. Pipp doubled to the left field
fence. scoring Ruth and putting Meusel
third. Wards sacrifice fly to left
tailed Meusel and sent Pipp to third
alcNally singled through Ellerbe and
fipp. crossed the plate. Schang tripled
to left, scoring McNally. Palmero now
replaced Van Glider. Piercy walked
nd Miller doubled to left, Schang
tailying.
Peck lined to Williams, and Ruth, up
or the second time, strolled, filling the
bases. Burwell here succeeded Pal
aero as the Brown finger, and Meusel
forced Ruth for the third out.
The biggest inning for the Mound
City nine was the third when an error
by Piercy and singles by Sisler and
Williams resulted in two runs. The
Browns picked up other stray runs to
the number of three, but the Yanks
we're SO far out in front that nobody
paid any attention to them.
Babe Ruth hurt his knee in the sew
cnth inning while running from second
TO third, and was replaced by Fewster,
but the injury is not regarded as. seri
Gus.
The two one-sided scores follow:
FIRST GAME