Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-29
COMEDIANS HERE
WITH WASHINGTON
altrock Has Added New Tricks
TO Repertoire, Ably Assisted by
"TumbIed-Down" Schacht
AS AT HOME TODAY

Nick Altrock. the former star left q.
handler Of the White Sox, who for sew =
Sral years has been making way in the
world through his ability to entertain
the baseball public, has added several
n,w acts to his repertoire and the
washington club and Nick are here to-
dsv for a series with the AS, so Phil
sds,phians will have q chance to see
me old boy at his new tricks. Nick's
greatest performance is not solo. so
tbe fans won't see that. This is his
deaf. and dumb stunt, which he usually
nulls of In the dining room Of the hotel
AZ which the club is stopping Nick S
psrticeps criminis in this act is "Tum-
bled Down Schacht." one Of George
McBride's hurlers. If Mr.. Keith ever
sees this the Senators will be minus
A comedian and a pitcher.
The AS returned from Boston thi,.
morning, where they dropped two out
az three. Yesterday they were trimmed
az In a listless affair in which both
around considerably. Joe Bush started
g,ne for protesting q decision. Another
AZ Mackmen, Elmer Meyers, finished
and did the stunt we'll. The AS didn t
have q chance with him, while Scott
Parry was hammered hard, as was his
nccessor, Keefe. Hasty pitched the
aual round and got by without injury to
bjs reputation. Frank Walkers home
run over the scoreboard in left field at
Fenway Park. was one of the longest
hits ever made there.
Phlh In Brooklyn
While the Athletics are battling the
Washington club the Phils will try
Brooklyn again. This time the contests
will be staged at Charles Holiday Eb-
bets yard in Flatbush.
The Phillies ended their home stay
yesterday, taking. a hard fall out of
the Boston Braves and tying the series.
The Phils, BY the way, still hayen't
won a series since 1910. Yesterday
Lee Meadows and Ralph Miller were re-
sponsible for eight Of the Phillies' runs.
Lee smacked homer into the bleachers
Miller turned the same trick in the first
but there we're no athletes lowering
around the sacks at the time.
The Phillies yesterday did what the
other clubs are in the habit of doing
they won though they were outhit.
Donovan's pastimers had dozen wal
Ions to their credit while the Boston
club had fifteen. In spite Of this the
home boys won, IL to 6.
Giants Arc Jolted
Brooklyn, champions of the National
League. is breezing along at n dizzy
clip these days. Your Uncle Wilbert
Robinson's crowd won their eighth vic
tory in row yesterday when they
took the Giants over the hurdles. 2 to
/. 1t was their fourth win from Nc
Graws expensive cast. Brooklyn made
only three hits. but they punched oil
Of them In the seventh off Ryan's de-
livery. Dutch Ruether was tapped seven
times, but he kept his hits neatly scat
tered
In spite of Brooklyn's good showing
the Pittsburgh Pirates still have firm
grasp on first place. Today the Pirates
we're to start series with the Cubs. Ii
Alexander doesn't stop them, Pittsburgh
s likely to have long lead before they
cave for their first trip East.
Cleveland once more trimmed the De
troit Tigers and in doing so established
season s record for hitting and scoring.
Speakers world champions slammed out
twenty three hits for thirty three bases
and scored eighteen runs. uhie, who
pitched for Cleveland, pulled Lee
Meadows by hitting a home run with
tha bags loaded. He also got pair
Of singles, driving in total of six runs,
one more than Detroit scored during the
game. Every man on the CLEVELAND
team scored run and got base hit