The Washington herald., 1921-09-28
Hugmen Helpless Before
! Saliva Shoots of Urban
Ellerbe's Triple Followed by Sisters Homer
Paves Way for Harper's Downfall Babe,
After 4-Day Batting Orgy, Goes Hitless.
By wEsrBRooK PEGLER.

NEW YORK, Sept 27.-Take the
average rainfall of your old home
town, divide by the square root OF
the size of your collar, throw In
your bootlegger's income tax. and
it's plain to be seen that the Yanks
win win the American League pen
nant by Just that much, excepting
once In four, when leap year gives
anSadded twist.
This very simple formula will
obyiate much of the figuring on the
backs of old oil stocks, form OF
mental gymnastics that now Is
crowding the toddle top for popu-
Iaaty. There are stIIl so many
Ifs" In the American League situa-
tion that, frankly, nobody but a
chartered accountant can say ex-
acsly when the pennant will be sin"
for the Yanks, and who can under
stand an accountant anyway?
Yanks "In-and-Outers.'
The Yanks have three games to
play with the Athletics and one
with the Red Sox that's certain.
They have refused to play on
postponed game with the Senators
The Indians have just four games
all with the White Sox in Chicago,
who have been soft as homemade
meringue for the Indians this season.
II the Indians win all four, accord
ing to the bureau of agriculture,
thu Yanks must win three out OF
four to win the pennant. Or some
thing like that.
II the Yanks were not such in
and-outers-but that's like saying,
"If only the Swedes wouldn't talk
Swede." The Yanks are in-and-
outers. They were in" yesterday
when they took that hysterical
game from the Indians, and they
were "out" when Urban Shocker,
their favorite jinx, called at the
Poo Grounds, accompanied by the
Sts Louis Browns, for a series OF
one game only.
Like a bIue-whiskered reformer
at. first ward rally, this Shocker'
ths old spoil-party, sat in on the
Yanks' victory combination tut
tutting" the home boys for nine
IOQR INNINGS. anu the DdlA SdAhC WIS
a Total loss by the score of 2 to 0.
EIierbe, of the Browns, tripled in
the first inning, and George Sisler
smashed Harry Harper for a homer
to the center field wall, scoring the
two runs. And Shocker just pitched
along steadily, depending much on
his excellent outfield and the ad-
mirable Sisler at first for putouts
when il was a question of putouts
or runs.
ShOcker Poison to Hugmen-
shocker Is poison to the Yankees
and always has been. like Dickie
Kerr. of the White Sox. Shocker
held them to five hits and poisoned
Babe Ruth so badly that the BAN. a
hero but yesterday, slid back into
his custom-built batting slump
without a single hit in three
chances. On the Babes fourth trip
to- the plate, in the ninth inning
with two on and two out, and the
early shadows of Eastern standard
time darkening the scene. Shocker
peeled back his face in a sardonic
grin at the futile Bambino as he
stood there wagEling his stick-and
deliberately passed him. filliTlB the
bases. Passing Babe Ruth to get
at-Bob Meusel is like jumping to es-
cape a fire in a tall building. But
Shocker's parachute tapped open on
the way down and Meusel, with
twenty-eight home runs to his
credit and a batting average the
size of Austria's national debt, flied
out to center field
1t was a bold way to win a ball
game, but Shocker won and that's
his answer.
There were no more than 5000
citizens present at this anti-climaN
to the masterpiece of yesterday, and
their faint and feeble huzZas
weren't even worthy echoes of the
continuous roar that beat against
Coogan's BLUM and surged back
across the field when the Yanks and
Indians were fighting for the last
gaem OF their series.
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