The New York herald., 1921-08-08
SOX, IN YANK SUITS,
LOSE TO THE YANKS
Collins Outpitches Faber in a
Eiva Inning Game Called
on Account of Rain.
ONE HIT BY CHICAGOANS
Ruth Helps With a Lucky One,
and Miller in Lineup
Score. 2 to @.
ny WILLIAM b. HANNA.


Rain in downpour volume finally
stopped the ball game between the Yam
KEGS and White Sox yesterday and made
marsh out Of the Polo Grounds, but
not until the Yankees had wedged in
enough hits and brought in enough runs
TO win. One run was enough, but the
Yankees made two and won TO 0.
The game was called IN the last half
Of the fifth just after the Yankees had
made their second run. Umpire Chill
waited the usual half hour, tried to call
il on again, but a thunder clap un-
loosened another celestial spigot and
there was no further chance for play.
Spectators by the hundreds sat long
time in the dry recesses OF the stand
watching the rain. and the players found
themselves narooned In their club
houses by surrounding water.
Tough day for the Sox witha'. tough
and wet. Their uniforms didn't arrive
from Boston and they had to play in
the road suits of the Yankees. That
was at once an honor and an incon-
venience. They became Blue Sox.
Moreover, they were helpless before the
pitching Of Rip Collins. They made one
hit-only one. Collins shut them out in
Chicago the last time he engaged them.
and shut them out again yesterday.
Lucky Hits by Yankees.
The Yankees enjoyed no batting ram
page themselves. but the hitting OF
Ruth, Pipp, Schang and Elmer Miller.
whom Higgins assigned to centre field
in place of Fewster. brought In the runs.
The hits of Ruth and Pipp We're lucky.
but useful, and the hits and the victory
were at the expense of Faber. Urban the
Red, who has been losing seldom. Maybe
the wet ball neutralized Faber's splitter.
but in Collins he met a better pitcher
than he.
Every turn of fortune was with the
Yankees. They fielded mighty we'll as
long as they had a chance to f1eld. but
fortune smiled on them IL the weather
didn't.
Peck, in the second inning. played
a liner from Strunk deftly off
his backhand that he made remark
able catch. He jumped to his right
front Of him and smothered the ball
sideways in his glove with back
handed cathc-backhand and black art.
strategy Doesn't Work.
1t was timely catch. for Falk fol-
lowed with a scratch fly TO short left,
the only Chicago hit Meusel made
a good running catch right after the
hit. Mulligan met one hard in the
fourth. but lined it to Collins. The
Yankees hit mostly twisting flies off
Urban the Red until the third inning,
when Schang singled cleanly. w. Col
Inns. trying TO sacrifice. popped weak
ling of fly which Mulligan trapped,
figuring on a double play. But as Col
Inns ran the hit out Schang. who was
forced. was the only one rendered null
and void by the strategy.
Only Falk who singled. and Mostil.
who walked, reached first base among
the Blue Sox. Ruth's poke in the fourth
jumped over Sheeley's head. and the
Babe made second. Baker sacrificed
him 10 third. Which may have been
good baseball. but nobody was out. Ruth
was on second. Baker can sting them,
a base hit. would have scored Ruth from
second anyway in all probability. there
was but small likelihood Of a double
play. il was as easy 10 20 after two
runs as one, and Meusel. who is in a
batting slump and the most undepend
able hitter Just now on the team, was
tne next man UP.
Meusel struck out. which didn't make
the sacrifice scheme look good, but
Walter Pipp saved the situation with
n scratch fly ball single 20 short centre
II scored Ruth. and as nobody covered
second base Walter made two baggcr
OF It, Schang doubled in the fifth. and
Miller, on base three times, sent a
ground single to centre and sent in
Schang He went TO third on Mostils
overthrow home and was thrown out by
Mulligan when Peck grounded to the
.hird baseman. Ruth was on his way to
bat when the clouds gushed profusely
and time was called. The score
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