Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-08
MACKMEN OUT OF
BATTING SLUMP
Johnny Walker and Perkins
Lead As in Discovering Their
Lost Batting Eyes
WASHINGTON STREAK ENDS

Have the Athletics found their bat
ting eye? Sixteen. thousand fans who
witnessed the twin bill at Shibe Park
on Saturday will bear assent to the
fact that the Mackmen have. They
were forced to split the double header
with the Browns but In doing so proved
to the multitude that they have some-
thing stuck away in their bats other
than pop ups and infield bounders.
Twenty eight hits in two games, in
Guiding two homers and couple Of
doubles rang off the ashes Of the Mack
men. Cy Perkins, the skillful receiver,
led in the attack, with six safe blows,
one Of which was a four base ply. OF
the other regulars Witt and Johnny
Walker had five each, Dugan and
Welch three apiece, Dykes two and Gal.
loway and Clarence Walker one apiece.
source of considerable comment among
the fans. Always a 300 hitter in the
minors and the same for the first month
or so with the Athletics, Walker en-
tered into a batting slump on the last
Western trip that stuck tenaciously to
him until last Friday, when he belted
out a homer, his second Of the season.
Thursday he had a single, but he
outdid himself Saturday, getting three
singles out of five trips to the platter
in the first and two out of four in the
cut at the ball and did not miss his
guess on the pitch as he has been doing
His hits were all clean cut, shooting out
/ into the greensward with considerable
ferocity.
Perkins Healthy Swatting.
Cy Perkins celebrated the return Of
his range on the left field bleachers on
Friday by duplicating on Saturday.
only this time the pellet landed some
seven rows up into the stands and not
just out of reach of the fielder. This
occurred in the first game. In the
second he cracked out four successive
hite, one a double.
Joe Dugan scored his first real hit in
the second game when he crashed the
old apple into center field. The former
Holy Cross lad was 80 well pleased
with himself that he danced out of
sheer joy as he stood on first base. The
fans werc particularly generous to
Jumping Joe, handing him considerable
applause for every little act.
Another winning streak went into the
discard on Saturday, when Cleveland
bumped the Washinngtonians 3 to 1 in
a pitching duel between Uhle and
Senators had compiled the neat record
of eleven consecutive victories. Three
runs in the first inning were sufficient
to count the verdict for the Indians.
Not So Good. Not So Bad
The Phils and Athletics furnished
ninth inning surprises yesterday. The
former had virtually lost to the Reds
and the latter had won from the Cleve-
land Indians. The Reds were packing
up their bats to leave with the score 1
to 2 in their favor when Kaiser vii.
helms proteges rose up in their nigh
and smote the enemy by sending foul
tallies across the plate.
This gave the Phils two-run leat
and the Reds went 70 the bat in theil
half determined to do or die, and they
died. score g to 5. In the meantim,
the AS were in Cleveland breezinl
along and concluded their half of tn,
ninth on the long end Of a 3-to-1 count
But iris Speakers chan went on tn,
warpath. Up to this time the only tall!
off the pitching of Bob Hasty was
homer by Elmer Smith. The champions
got after him In the closing session ant
aided by George Burns as a pinch hitte
showed across the winning tally, Man
ager Speakers single doing the trick