Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-09
ONE-RUN J|NX ON
THE MACKS' TRAIL
Of Last 20 Defeats, 13 Have
Been by Narrow Margin
Of a Run
TEAM IS HITTING WELL

Baseball players are to large degree
superstitious. They perform all sorts
of queer antics to keep the goddess of
luck with them whether 1t be in batting,
| fielding or pitching.
Some players even go so far as to
place their glove In one spot when they
leave the field for their bats or dig their
| heels or toes in certain places In the
batting box or a hundred and one other
| little fdiosyncrasies that are unnoticed
| by the fans.
The Athletics. probably not to a man
but as a team. are inclined to be super
stitious And there is every reason for
! il. When thirteen games out Of twenty
eight recorded in the percentage column L
on the lost side of the ledger have been
placed there as a result OF one run VIC
tories by the opposition there Is some-
thing to be superstitious about.
When the Athletics returned from
their last trip around the circuit
check -up recorded the fact that eight
of the seventeen games dropped were
by e-run margins. Since their re-
turn home after the trip. including yes.
terday's games. the Mackmen nave los
five out of eleven games by single e
counter. Almost 80 per cent 10" os
the narrowest Of baseball margins.
Since they started their present, nome
stay the As have dropped two i.to-"
contests, two 5 to and one to U.
Yesterday the cleveland Indians won
both ends of a twin bill By run, the
first 4 to 3 in the regulation time ana
the second after thirteen teyerish
rounds. The two games marked the
second and third straight games 70 oe
lost by q single run. Cleveland winning
by that margin on Sunday.
Indians in Lead Again
The double victory by the Indians
sent them back to first place, again 6y
Il margin of nine points. the nnnKS
shifting n twin bill with the White
Sox. Bob Shawkey hurled the first game
and held the Sox to four scattered hits,
handing them the kalsomine brush. In
the second Dick Kerr held the lankS
at bay while Waite lloyt was being
helted for eight safeties, enough to win
| by run.
While the Yanks split even Gotham
breathed sigh Of relief. for Babe Ruth
came through with q four base play In
/ the first game and another in the sec
ond that brought his total up to forty
Clir for the season. one behind his record
| of last year at this stage of the game,
! His first homer came in the third inning
| VI luc lTst Bullt Hlo 80 N'~
first inning of the aftermath, .,
Speed Martin faltered in the seventh
and ninth innings of the Giants Cabs
game yesterday out in Chicago and the
Gothamitcs won. The victory puts the
Giants within two games Of the Pirates
who suffered q defeat Mt the hands OF
the Brooklyn Dodgers. Burleigh Grimes
proved too much for the buccaneers:
while Cooper, the star left handler of
the Pirates, was slugged for ten safe
ties.
Wilhelm Now Pitching
! The Phillies dropped one yesterday.
tho Reds turning the trick Q to 3. Win
I ters was on the hill for the locals. but
was Sluggcd oppOrtunely by the. Mo-
ranmcn. After Sedgcwick had shown Il
wild streak that seemed unmnnageable
Kaiser Wilhelm. the acting manager of
the Phils. to show that he is not through
by any means pitched to batter in the
sixth retiring the side. He went through
the seventh unscathed but was pelted In
the eighth for run.
Lefty Baumgartner was released with
string attached to him by President
Baker Yesterday. Lefty will take up his
residence with Kansas City in the
American Association, and If he turns
out the goods there will he recalled lie
did not 60 West with the team on its
present trip.
The Scnntnrs found their batting eyes
against the Browns yesterday after be
ing defeated twice and pounded out
seventeen hits for sixteen runs. Seven
runs were made in the eighth inning. one
of the biggest scores of single inning
this season.
Dutch Leonard had much the better
OF q twirling duel with Elmer Myers,
the former Mackman, and the Tigers
won the opening game from the Red
Sox.
Mason Gets Referees Decision