Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-02
WALKERS BATTING
STREAK IS BROKEN
As Mackmen Win, TiIIie Stops
After Eighteen Consecutive
Games of Safe Hitting
MEADOWS GREAT TWIRLlNG

Another batting streak is broken.
Goldie Rapp started the ball a-rolllng
by hitting safely in twenty two games
from the day he Joined the Phillies.
Babe Ruth. the mighty bludgeon-
wielder, went twenty six games before
his bat was silenced. Now 1t is I1iile
Walker who has been humbled In the
midst Of batting spree.
The Athletics left fielder did not get
to the heights Of Ruth or Rapp, but ne
was swinging along nicely until yes
terday, when Jones, the Red Sox
twirler, put an end to his streak up In
Beantown. Before leaving these shores
Tillie hit safely in eight consecutive
games. On the Western trip he lam
basted all kinds OF hurting for ten
straight games, bringing his total up 20
eighteen. Yesterday he went to bat anu
failed.
While Tillie failed, Joe Dugan did
not. The former Holy Cross star, whose
jumping tactics have earned him the so.
briquet of the "Gourdin of baseball,
smashed out four hits yesterday, one a
double that aided Eddie Rommell 10
| take his second victory of the trip.
Before leaving here for the Occident the
Baltimore lad stated that he would win
| three games or bust. He busted, II slang
| is permissible, for he won two and lost
| one.
The Mackmen won to and in such
n manner that the Bostonese scribes
| gave vent to considerable outpourings.
They stated that the Mackmen, looked
| like a real baseball team when they had
the proper kind Of twirling and when
the batters showed their skill.
Nine hits rang off the ashes OF the
men of Mack and most all of them
| ~ oh Rnnmpll
the other hand, permitted only seven
and had the enemy shut out in eight
of the nine innings.
Johnny Walker Returns
Johnny Walker, who was hit by a
batted ball in the second game of the
Cleveland series and who was forced
to spend several weeks in the hospital,
returned to the game yesterday, get
ting a single and playing the first sack
as though he had never seen the inside
of hospital.
He accepted fourteen chances at first
without q miscue and had an assist
that played a conspicuous part in the
Athletics defense Probably the return
of popular Johnny gave the Athletics
renewed vigOr, for they certainly played
better ball than at any previous time
on the trip.
While the Macks were bringing a ray
of sunshine to their rooters the Phil
lies were doing the same to their clans
men. Lee Meadows, the bespectacled
hurler, had one of his right days yes
terday and when he is right he IL
virtually unbeatable. He held the slug
ging Braves to a quintet of singles, al
scattered, one each coming during the
last five frames. For four innings
| not hropp woa ahla tn rouiStar a
safety.
The victory was the second straight
for Meadows and makes him runner up
to Bill Hubbell for consecutive wins or
the Phillies' staff. Last Saturday
Meadows humbed the Reds. 4 to 3.
Jimmy Smith. whose second basing
has been of the brilliant variety of late.
played n great game at the keystone
sack yesterday, accepting eleven chances
without a miscue. Several of his as
sists were of the sensational variety
that elected no end of applause from
the small crowd of sweltering humanity.
Yankees Regain Lead
The New York Americans climbed
into the lead by a double victory over
Washington Yesterday while Cleveland
was losing n hard fought twelve inning
battle to Detroit. The Pittsburgh Na
tionaIs, though retaining their first
place position, suffered double defeat
and New York, despite a contest lost
to Brooklyn, gained half game or
the Pirates. The two rivals in eacl
league are tied on games won, bu,
each runner up has dropped two game
more than the leader.
A triple play, the second made agains,
the New York Giants this week, con
tributed to their defeat. OF their 81,
hits made off Grimes, of Brooklyn
three came In a row in the fifth inninl
when the play ended the rally.
Pertica, of the st. Louis Cardinals
figured in twelve of the putouts in hi.