Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-11
As DROP INDIANS
OUT OF LEAD AGAIN
e.oond Straight for Mackmen
and Yanks' Win Sends Huggs
to First Place
18th FOR TILLIE WALKER

c,sveland and New York seem to be
.,.r,ro tag with first place. FOG the
~ ~, t,ro weeks the teams have been hop
hack and forth. neither seeming
p ps,s 10 hold the much wanted and de-
a..h,e Mace. The Indians since last
c.rday have enjoyed the high pinnacle
,"..rse of their three straight victories
aver the Athletics.
Ut The Mackmen, tired Of being laced,
Avn, through with two successive wins
.rd tbe Indians 60 down again. Yes
..-day was the second, and while the
Yndians we're being bumped nnmerci-
s,,lv the White Sox were receiving the
a.me treatment from the Ianks, and
sSis morning the percentage shows the
Gothamites at the top Of the heap by
A single point. -
..,sr ont. They proved this to the In
I,.ns yesterday by rising In their might
~ tbe seventh inning and scoring seven
~ avs On as many hits and four errors.
Moore and Uhle had been having a
..nat n;tching duel for six innings with
A. score tied Mt two each when the
Wecks came to bat in their half OF the
apucIy Mar inning" From then on 1t was
ali the Athletics. ., -,,-,
\, pinch hitter in the eighth, and
Ssrceant Jim Bagby went to the mound
md silenced the ferocious Mackmen.
Moore failed to last, being relieved in
IN. eighth after one run had scored and
runners we're on first and second.
"Handsome" Eddie Rommell went to
,be mound and though nicked for two
rms and two hits, pulled himself to-
vether in time to save the day. In the
ninth the worlds champions went out in
one, two, three order.
Woo for Dugan in Seventh
In the famous seventh twelve men
w,nt TO the bat, Joe Dugan crashing the
hcrsebide for single his first trip and
= double his second. Witt, the two
Walkers. DYKES and McCann also slap
ned hits during the frame. -.
The Indians played like a lot OF
scboolboys in the seventh, O'Neill
making a miscue of an easy foul fly on
Dugar to start with; George Burns, the
Tioga citizen, pulling n wild throw
Sewel mussing up an easy pop fly, and
Evans making wierd heave to the
plste. The Mackmen, contrary to their
usual methods, made the best of every
opportunity and combined timely hitting
with the Cleveland miscues.
Whitley Witt was the batting star,
with trio of singles made on his last
three times ut bat. Tillie Walker scored
his sixteenth homer and the fourth
since his return home, in addition to
single. Perkins, Welch, Dugan and
Dykes each had two safe blows. and
McCann one. The pitchers failed to hit
safely.
Roy Moore hurled good ball until the
eighth, although he was wild through
out. He walked six of the visitors and
was nicked for seven safe blows.
Ruth Gets Another
Babe Ruth and his wrecking crew of
New York Yanks will help to entertain
the crowd from today until Saturday.
\ double bill is carded for Saturday
afternoon. Several thousand orphans
will be In attendance this afternoon to
see how the mighty Babe whales them
out. He expects to get so far ahead of
his last years schedule at this time
while on his visit here, that there will
DO little doubt about his setting up a
new record. Yesterday he knocked out
his forty second in the third inning of
the game against the White Sox, one
man being on base at the time.
The Yanks went after young Hodge.
Gthe White Sox, with considerable We
temence and had him backed to the wall
after the first three innings. The final
hgures read IA to 8 in favor of the
Huggmen.
Two pitchers proved their hitting
ability by batting in winning runs
Galore, of the Dodgers. won a pitch
en' battle from Morrison, of Pitts
oargh, by knocking in the only tally
OF the contest. Coumbe, of the Reds,
made up, for the runs scored off him by
81. Louis when his double and single
victory. -
Detroit finally won a game from Bos-
ION after losing ten straight to the Red