The New York herald., 1921-07-28
Backslide at Homecoming and
Lose a Game to the st.
Louis Crowd.
TRIMMED BY SCORE OF rs
ShockeA, Outpitches Mays,
WhoIfas a Poor Day-Mc-
Manus a Terror.
By WILLIAM B. HANNA.


10 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
with rude check, a check by a score
OF to 5. and after all the assuring
things said about how well 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, triple and q 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 orIS offence 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 home fielding was good--much
better than the Browns'-but Shocker,
who used his splitter. a slow ball and a
curve now and then. had such batters
as Ruth. Baker and Schang gaping anu
hypnotized.
ShOcker 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
had squally ninth inning to survive
and 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 a
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
q 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 q sem
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.
McManus, the untamed McManus. the
raider, made the triple. Quinn or Mays.
1t mattered not to him. Mays when he
lost the plate lost 1t by foot or SO:
when he found 1t he pumped the pea
{. over the middle for a lovely target.
That's how his control went astray
from normal.
The first and second innings were en-
couraging Tobin and Ellerbe single1
In the first, with nobody out, but
strike out, a 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. Baher
walked and Meusel doubled to right. He
got theret by good base running, and
was one case where New York trav-
eller was siallowed to use the legs nature
gave him instead of seduestering HIM
self sine die. Pipp's grounder to Austin
scored Baker and Wards fly to Tobin
scored Meusel.
These two runs served for while.
Ripping plays by Fewster. Peck, Pipp
and Baker foiled the Browns in the
fourth. but in the fifth. after McManus
had singled and Austin had walked,
a grooved ball to Siocker was pummelled
over Fewster's head. Fewster misjudged
II badly and il sailed for two bagger,
which scored McManus and Austin.