The evening world., 1921-03-17
Miller Huggins's Sluggers to
Hook Up With Jack Hen
drickS'S Team To-Day.
Especial to rho Evening wOrldl

SANONN LIZ L LII, Match
THE Yanks breezed into this
quaint little city this morning,
prepared to meet Jack Hen
bricks and his Indians OF indianapolis
this afternoon The community Is
in gala attire in the midst of a big
holiday declared to enable the popu-
lace better to enjoy the visit Of babe
Ruth and company.
Miller Huggins was delighted with
the slugglng exhibition his troupe
gave at Lake Charles yesterday when
the Cards fell in a free hitting game.
The score was II to 3.
Higgins does not expect any great
opposition from the Indianapolis
team. He will give Jack Clifford and
Jesse Doyle a free hand in the pitch
er's box this afternoon. And Clifford,
by the way. rose about 100 per cent.
in every ones eyes yesterday when
he relieved Cecil Ferguson and held
the slugging Cardinals helpless in the
ninth inning.
II Branch Rickey's men can do
nothing else, they can slug the ball
in the fullest meaning of the term.
They came into the ninth on the
wings of a heartenlng rally which
had almost erased a long Yankee
lead in the eighth.
Seeing possible victory we'll with
in their range, the Mound City boys
drove into the ninth with a powerful
nf ha -
order was up, but either end of the
Cardinal list is apt to start trouble.
Clifford had no mean task on his
hands. He faced IL without fear
Lavan, Gilham and Heathcote were
forced to offer easy inield chances,
one of them to Clifford himself, and
the danger to the Yanks was over
The Yanks were genuinely sorry to
leave Lake Charles so abruptly The
team and its followers found a real
southern home" and everybody be-
luck Of the athletes In training there.
Lake Charles abandoned every
thing else in favor OF the ball game.
| More than $500 fans jammed the
little bandbox park to see Babe Ruth
either hit a home run or strike out.
They got the home run once and the
strike out twice. The one was per-
| formed at the expense of Bill Per-
tica and the othor to the profit Of
Lefty Sherdel and the same Bill Per
| tica. Sherdel famed Babe In the
| first. Pertica saw a home run sail
| over the fence in the fourth, but had
| the satisfaction OF slipping the third
one past Babe in the sixth while the
! big sugger held his bat.
| The game was not much to look al
from the standpoint OF technique
but every one OF the fans thoroughly
enjoyed the give and take slugfest
in which the teams indulged. short
right field fence made home runs
easy to the eve, but Babe Ruth was
unable to avail himself OF the sup.
posed advantages the fence offered.
Babes one drive went so far oVel
the top Of the boards that many o
the fans did not even see II light Il
cleared the fence, the adjoining stree
and a row of two story houses on thu
far side OF the street Several hun
dred fans OF color were gathered oI
the housetops. All started mat
scramble after the ball, which landed
, in a vacant lot behind the houses.
{ Not until Babe smote his lick die
! the fans warm TO the Yankees.
The Cardinals, being neighbors
were looked upon more in the ligh
/ OF home" team The fans cheere,
the harder for Branch Hickey
= crimson clad horde save Just at tn
a moment Babe did his work.
AS soon as the game was over how
ever, the Yanlks were taken again I
-. the arms OF Lake Charles. Citizen
: OF the town left nothing undone {
Il make the team feel at home, and IN
. team certainly felt that way. Eve
the neighboriy Cardinals could nc
e outmagnetize Babe Ruth when he h
5 his lick. The big bambino was ire
a sistihle. He wore his best "Bah