Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-27
MACK IS PLEASED
WITH AS SHOWING
Looks for Spurt While Team ls
at Home-Perkins Hits
in Hard Luck
GIANTS WALLOP PIRATES


and a real one, too. He feels that he
has at last welded together team
! that is feared. There is no doubt that
the Msckmen are no longer the door
mats of the league. That has been
| proved time and time again during the
| last six weeks, during which the Shibe
Park athletes caused no end Of COM
motion around the circuit.
II certainly am pleased with the
J way the team is playing said Con-
| entirely absent. They played the kind
Of ball away from home that makes a
team a pennant contender. The boys
| fight tooth and nail for every game no
| matter what the score happens to be.
1t is this spirit that has been mainly
responsible for our showing since we
left here. Out in st. Louis we lost
five tough games, several of them by
one-run margins and nearly all of
them in the late innings.
The pitching is coming along
nicely. and once we strike the batting
stride we had in Boston, Washington
Cleveland and Detroit, but which we
lost in st. Louis, the team will get
going again. The breaks at times have
been far away from us, but still the
boys go on fighting. / am very much
pleased with the team and can see some
real hope for the future"
A Hectic Game
The playing of the Mackmen yester-
| day bore out in vivid detail all that
Connie said about them. They fought
! the Tigers from the outset, and Just
when things looked darkest would rise
to great heights and force the Cobbmen
! to cover. And the breaks were certainly
against the AS.
One incident will suffice to prove the
| contention. In the ninth inning, with
Myatt on first and the storm coming
with rush on the wings of heavy
| wind, Cy Perkins clouted one of Joe
| Middleton best on a beeine for the
| left field bleachers. From any place in
the stands the hit was homer. The
fans were getting on their coats pre-
paratory to making hasty retreat out
of the park, the scorers were making up
the win column. The wind, however,
The ball. instead of nesting in the lap
of some bleacherite, fell into the out
stretched hands Of Veach, who had his
back to the bleacher wall The horse
hide seemed to hesitate in the air and
| then complete an arc straight to the
digits of the Detroit left fielder.
The game. which ended in a 3-to-3
tie after ten and half innings had been
| played, was thriller from the time
Whitley Witt socked the second ball
pitched into the beachers for a round
trip until Galloway got under Blue 5
pop-up for the last out in the eleventh.
To start it off. the Mackmen dubbed
out two homers in the first inning that
! ~ kat
| sandwiched in between was the medium
for the third run. Tillie Walker scored
the other counter for the Mackmen with
his mighty shot into the bleachers.
Whitley Wits Masterpiece
For wonderful catches and plays there
wasn't a one in the game that had any
thing on Whitley Wits miraculous
one hand catch In the eleventh. Sar-
geant, first up in that frame; soaked one
TO right that looked good for three
bases. Added to the power Of the hit
was the wind, which gave the ball a
half dozen weird twists and turns.
Witt was off with the ring Of the bat
toward the point where the foul line
and the bleaCher wall meet. "a sure
hit" some one shouted, and then
Whitley with great lunge speared the
sphere inches from the wall For one Of
tDe pTeItleSl CulCHeb seen III tut MS
toric park in many moons.
PhIls in Overtime Win
The Phils proved that they have at
least latent punch They came from
behind out in st. Looie yesterday. tied
the figures in the closing innings and
punched out victory In the tenth.
Jimmy Ring. the former Cincinnati
| hurler. was thumped hard in the early
innings. Willie Doak had the Indian
sign on the Donovanites until the clos
ing innings when he was pelted from
| the mound
Four ten-inning battles and two
shut out contests were fought in the six
major league games yesterday. In three
Of the overtime struggles the winner
came from behind for q victory.
Kclly's seventeenth home run Of the
REQ son gave the New York Giants heart
in their fight with the Pittsburgh lead
Crs, who were ahead four runs to none
at the time. The Giants batted Hnmil-
ton out Of the box, and although the Pi
rates tied the score in the ninth with
q three run rally, McGraw' 8 men scored
| the deciding run in tie tenth.
The Cleveland worlds champions we're
| having difficulty in hitting Pennock. Of
Boston. but after succeeding in scoring
twice in the eighth inning for n tie,
made eight hits for six runs in the
tenth. Evans, lead off man FOR the In
CLANS, made two singles In the extra
| inning.
Grimes. Of the Brooklyn Nationals,
and Zachary. of the Washington Amcri.
cans, pitched shut out games. Grimes
neld Chicago to five hits, Outpitching
| Alexa uder. Zachary succeeded in keep
ing seven Chicago hits we'll scattered
while the Senator's punched pass with
| two of the FIVE hits made off Fnber,