The Washington herald., 1921-09-24
Bambino's Three Doubles
Help Hoyt Subdue Tribe
First Game of Big Series in New York Viewed
By $4,000 Fans -Coveleskie Holds Yanlks
To Six Hits, But They Are Bunched.
nx wEsrpRook PEeLER.

Ruth heaved himself out Of the
Yankee dugout and said he reck-
oned he'd hit a few licks in the
opening game of the synthetic
world series between the Yanks
and the Indians at the Polo
Grounds today. He hit three licks,
all doubles. scored three runs and
sromped the Indians into the
elastic loan of New York's town
common. Score. Yanks. 4; Indians. 2
Except there was no band and
me umpires didn't wear cricket
pants, Il was just like a world
series, with $4,000 patrons in the
stadium and bleachers and his
honor. John F. Hylan. mayor of
New York and defender Of the
peoples rights. lending his abun-
dant presence to the setting of a
gala baseball whoop-de-doo.
There was a little bouquet Of
Cleveland fans blooming and BOOM
ing in a field box hard by the In
dams bench, and Johnny Kilbane,
patriarch OF the featherweight
fighters. in a Cleveland baseball
suit with Worlds Champions"
writ across the chest. warmed up
with Steve O'Neill. the Cleveland
catcher, before the afternoons
events began to happen. Johnny
hadn't much of a hook on the ball.
but volunteered to deliver a left
hook, Z. o. b.. to any children that
yelped feminist his fellow outland-
ers, provided they cut him in on
the afternoons gate.
Yank Fans Go wild.
As the game raced along, with
the Indians never out of the 60
ing, Iris Speaker. pinch hitting
for Coveleskie. flied out in the
ninth, the mad New York mob.
with no straw hats left to heave
onto the diamond. took to fiinging
SO derbies about the stands and
men. sitting in their shirtsleeves.
leaped into the air and flung their
coats at the girders- Showers of
paper torn into small scraps fut-
tered necessarily through the
stands. blown by gales of wild
cheering. The sluggers in the
aisles even forgot to go after foul
Babe Ruth was the punch of the
Yankee attack. but Waite Hoyt.
called the kid pitcher. though it's
said he voted for Blaine. pulled the
Yanks through. Hoyt famed seven
Indians, and there were six sluggers
among them with season marks of
800 and better. He pitched five hit
less innings, and so good was he
that in the last four innings only
seventeen batters faced him. Just
six hits did he give the Indians, of
which three were made during a
little furry in the fourth. Other
wise he held them to Gardner's sin
gle in the second. another by
wamby in the fifth. and Joe Sewelis
poke to right in the sixth, labeled
good for one base only"
Tribe Scores I'm Fourth
Both Cleveland runs were scored
in the fourth. Gardner singled and
scored on Sewell's triple. Hoyt let
Sewell come in on a wild pitch.
Johnston was out at first. O'Neill
then doubled to the wall. and ii
looFed as though Hoyt was in for
a typical Yankee explosion. But he
settled. tanning Coveleskie for the
second out. and caught Jameson at
FIRST on a close play.
In the first inning he famed
Jameson. Wood and Smith, and
Warmly. the second man up, died on
first where he wouldn't have been
but for an error by Wally Pipp, the
Yanks first baseman
Ruth walked in the first with two
out and none on, but was forced for
the third out at second He came
up In the fourth with one man out
and nobody on base. He slammed
a hot grounder at sewell. the ball
bouncing over the shortstop's ex-
tended mitt. while the Bam gal
loped to second. Meusel sent him
TO third with. long fly. and Pipp's
double drove him home. Again in
the sixth Babe doubled with one
out and none on, and this time
Meusels Texas Lacquer scored him
standing up.s. The third double was
made in the ninth when Babe. the
first man up, sent the ball steaming
down the right foul line. Neusel
sacrificed him to third. and Wally
Pipp's long fly for the second out
scOred him