Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-17
GIANTS DRAW away
FROM THE PIRATES.
Toney Holds the Bucs to Two
Hits and Stretches Lead
to 3Ia Games
CLEVELAND JUMPS YANKS

Looks like the Giants. Yesterday the
New Workers handed the Pirates stun
ming reverse. when Big Fred Toney,
twirling his best game Of the season,
permitted the Buccaneers just two
measly hits.
This morning. according to the aver =
ages. the Giants hold three and one
half game advantage over the Gibson
crew. Two more games remain to be
played. one this afternoon and the other
on Monday. A sweep for the Giants
and the race can be handed to the New
Workers. The Pirates, in order to re-
main in the fight at all. must take the
two remaining games and then the
standing will show an advantage Of a
game and half for McGraw's charges.
The odds are all with the Giants. The
| Pittsburgh pitching staff. which has
been showing signs Of faltering for the
last two weeks and which has faltered
to certain extent, cannot compare
with McGraw's. Cooper and Adams
remain to oppose the Giants. although
Morrison. who mas been going better
than any hurler on the staff, may be
sent into the breach to stem the tide
| OF reverSes.
McGraw has Barnes. Nehf, Douglass
and Shea to shoot at the Pirates. and
il need be he can send Toney back on
Monday. Barnes twirled against the
| Reds on Thursday, 80 that makes 1t
Nehf for this afternoon. The left
handler won two games from the Pirates
in New York recently. Cooper was
knocked out Of the box in his last start
and probably will be sent in this after
noon. That leaves Adams for Monday
or else Morrison.
Two Little Hits
Yesterday big Fred Toney had the
Bucs at his mercy throughout the game.
Two hits. both in different frames. were
the sole damage done to the big fellow.
1t was a sckening sight for the Pirate
fans, whose hopes for pennant winner
have been blasted since the first OF Sep
tember BY the Giants. To add further
to their misery, along comes the same
team and makes it almost certain that
their fond dreams are to be shattered.
Hamilton started on the mound for
the Pirates and did we'll until the third.
when a fusilade of basehits drove him
to the showers. Rawlings single,
| Snyder's double, Toney's single, Ban
croft's triple. Frisch's double and
Kelly's single sent five runs over the
| platter.
Glazner relieved Hamilton after four
runs haG been scored He. too. was
later relieved when Yellowhorse went
| to the mound. The Indian stemmed the
onslaught and held the Giants scoreless
| for the remainder of the game.
Urban Shocker was said to be ready
! for the minors back in July when our
Athletics went into st. Louis on the
crest of wave Of prosperity that looked
good for the future. Urban was sent
to the mound with the orders, tits said,
to win or back to the bushes. Pitching
as he did when in his heydey Shocker
stopped the Athletics and incidentally
started the AS on their losing streak
that virtually killed off all chances Of
getting out of the cellar.
Shocker Shocks Yanks
Since that memorable game Shocker
has been pitching brilliantly and yes
terday. to add to his triumphs. he
dumped the Yankees out of first place
! in the American League standing. He
| held the slugging Ianks to seven hits
and three runs while his teammates
were performing prodigious feats with
the stick
While the Yanks were bowling. in de-
feat the Cleveland Indians were win
| UlHk great DdlllP 1TOUl Tie
and as a result getting their heads at
tho top Of the heap for the Erst time
in several weeks. Sandlotter Uhle.
twirling in his best form. and living up
to the prediction of Manager Speaker
when the team was here this week, held
the Senators to four scatterd hits and
permitted nary q run.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, manager o
the Detroit Tigers, gave about 200O
fans an example of his old time
speed out at Shibe Park yester-
day. The Georgian had two singles
out on FIVE trips to the platter. His
first came in the fifth. He went to Sec
ond on a sacrifice and to third while
Heilman was being tossed out at sec.
ond on an attempted double steal
While Roy Moore was winding up
preparatory to shooting the pill tc
Blue, Cobb started for home, and made
as clean a steal Of the old platter a:
has been seen in many moons.
In the sixth Tyrus tried to go from
first to third on an infeld out, but
he was nipped on quick throw Johnny
Walker to BRAZIL. Ty also cantereC
around center field as of old, takins
one fly out of Heilman's hands in right
and another from Veach over in left
OF course, the Tigers won the game
and in doing so handed the Athletic.
their eighth straight defeat. Roy
Moore, aforementioned, was on the hill
for the Macklets. He was touched fol
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