Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-02
GEORGE SMITH GETS
A BREAK IN LUCK
Phil TWirler Gets the Verdict
After Six Innings-Third
Victory This Year
BUSH HURLS GREAT BALL

George Columbia Smith now pitch
ing for the Phillies' has meant nearly
all season that the big right handed
twirler would get meme Of the breaks
and that the victory would go to the
opposing team. not always because
Smith failed to pitch ball. but lust be-
cause the breaks went against him.
Yesterday out in Chicago Gawgc had
some of the breaks. The vagaries of the
weather enabled him to make it three
straight for the Donovanless Phils.
incidentally it was Smiths third win
of the season cut of seventeen starts.
His last win came on July II against
the Cards here.
The gnme was one Of those abbrevi-
ated affairs that happen every once in
a while. After the Cubs had batted in
the sixth rain fell copiously' and the
jumps, after waiting the required time,
which Is as long rs they feel like wait
ing, called it a game. 1t was the fifth
victory out of eight starts for the
locals, their best streak since way last
May:
get going when they leave the home
loan.
The Macks on their last away trip
performed brilliantly in every city on
the circuit except New York and st.
Louis, and now we have the Phils per-
forming the same capers.
Five Points Needed by Yanks
The merry battle between the Yankees
and the Indians showed big gain for
the Gothamites. Sergeant Jim Bagby
| the hero of last year. was on the mound
In his second start in weeks. lie was
battered for ten hits that counted five
runs. Waite Hoyt. the kid twirler, op-
posed the former A. f. Fer and held
the Yanks to nine hits, scattered suf-
fciently to keep all but two of the visi-
tors away from the pentagon.
Both the Giants and the Pirates came
| through with wins yesterday and the
one game margin of the Buccaneers still
holds good. The Pirates tumbled the
Braves by a seven to three score, old
man Adams stopping the youngstcr Nc
Quilen.
Poor Rollie NayIor
With George Smith getting out at
least for day from the hard luck
class, Rollie Naylor. the Athletic tough
one, drops into place. Rollie hurled
good ball yesterday, but the breaks were
entirely against him. With two down
| in the ninth inning Strunk shot an easy
grounder to Chick Galloway that would
have been converted into the third and
last out. Just as Chick rushed in to
get the pellet it hit stone with force
enough TO bound clear over his head
for a single and johnson, who was
perched on third. ambled home with
what proved the winning run. Score,
5-4.
One Hit of Bush
"Only twenty nine batsmen faced Joe
Bush, of the Boston AmersSs,ls, in his
one hit shut out victory over st. Louis.
Two two men who reached first base.
did so after two men were out. Sisler
singing in the first inning and Gerber
walking in the second.
The next twenty -one batters went out
in order. Six of the Browns were strike
out victims. Bush is the first American
League twirler to pitch a one hit game
this season. Douglas, of the New York
Nationals, has two such performances
to his credit
An old fashioned pitchers battle be-
tween Mogridge. Of Washington, and
Oldham, Of Detroit, was won by the
Senators pitcher, who held the Tigers
to six hits and no runs, while Washing
ton won by punching a triple with n
single for the only tally Ow the game
The Brooklyn Nationals won their
first game of the season in st. Louis,
With a five run rally in the ninth inn
ing. or the ten two-base hits made
outfelder Mann of the Cardinals had
three.