The Washington herald., 1921-09-03
Ruth Hits 49th Out of Lot
Meusel, Peck" Also Deliver
Waite Hoyt Holds Griffs to Four Hits, While
Erickson is Batted Out Mays vs..
Zachary Today.


special kept booming along on its
/. way To Pennantville-today when the
Senators met their fifth straight de-
feat. The score was . to - Babe
Ruth took a personal hand in the
spurt Of the Hugmen by polling out
his forty-ninth homer Of the seasonT
Babe had been taking a few days va
cation In circuit clouting and many
OF the fans feared he was losing the
knack of making them. But all
doubts were set at rest in the seventh
inning when the Swat Sultan swatted
the ball 80 hard that few in the
st9pds were able to tell what had
become Of II.
Nfne out Of ten Of the Scribes and
Pharisees In the pest box were also
unable to say when and where the
ball. left the lot. While this moot
question was being warmly debated
twohof Henry Faban's scouts returned
from the farthermost outposts with
the information that when the ball
was. last seen II was flying over the
extreme end Of the roof of the right
field stand and was headed for Eight
avenue.
Well, anyhow. hardly had this mat
NCA wen 5@NNACN 5oAAoAoSNSAhy
+ Bob Meusel laid his bat against an
other. trembling horsehide and drove
1t over the Ajax" sign into the left
field bleachers Two such mighty
smites coming In succession were too
much for the fans, who got consider
ably more "het up than Harry
Stevens imported frankfurters.
Earlier in the game. In the first in
MI - y h0 tn
Peckinpaugh had knocked a homer
into the left field bleachers. So as far
as home-running went 1t was a fair
ly satisfactory afternoon for the To-
Gals.
Waite Hoyt HurIs Well.
winsome Waite Hoyt, of Flat
bush and Lief Erickson were. the
mounttsmen when the game started.
Kid Hhyt remained to the finish and
gave d mastery exhibition of the art
of pftohing. but poor Lief" after
being batted into an unrecognizable
state: reeled from the field at the
end of the seventh in favor Of Jose
Acosta.
Only four hits did the Senators
secure off young Waite. and two Of
these came in the first innig, which
also was the occasion for the two
) errors made by the Yanks. the, COM
bination resulting in. the three runs
secured by NcBride's men. Bush
opened with a double down the left
field foul line, and went to third on
Milaft's infield out, Peckinpaugh to
Pipp, Judge singled to center. Bush
talryTng. Rice popped to, Peckin-
pa1gh. Judge stole second and
Nrfllar HarrNa roonhAA
first on a bad tumble by Ward.
Jud ye scoring and Miller going to
third. = Hoyt, in an endeavor to
catch Harris, threw wildly to first.
Miller crossing the plate. Hoyt then
tried again and this time picked
Harris off first. \
The Yanks went right after
Erickson and got two runs back in,
a fifty. Elmer Miller beat a bnRt
and Roger Peckinpaugh sailed stsls.
ball into the left field bleacbers,
scoring Elmer ahead of him. Erick
son then rallied and retired the next
three men. =. =.
Yanks Pound Erickson
But in the fourth the Washing
ton pitcher wabbled once more and
the Yanks pounded on TO victory.
Ruth singled to right, the ball hit
ting the wall on a line. MeuseT
drove a savage liner to right CEN
ter. Rice making a nifty catch.
The Babe stole second and went
TO third when Bing Miller muffed
Pipp's fly Ward singled off the
shins Of Shanks, Ruth bringing in
the tieing run. McNally doubled to
center, scoring Pipp. and Ward
counted on Devormer's sacrifice fly
to left.
The fiercest assault on the curves
of Erickson was reserved for the
seventh inning Devormer beat out
a hit to Shanks and was sacrificed
to second by Hoyt. Elmer Miller
expired. Harris to Judge, Devor-
mer taking third. whence he scored
on Peckinpaugh's single to left.
Next occurred the tremendous crash
Of the Babes, which was followed
by lMeusers circuit smash.
Bling Miller turned in two fine
catches, one of them being picking
Meusers hard drive of the left
neld wall in the NTH. .
The series between the two, clubs
will be concluded here tomorrow
afternoon with Carl Mays and
Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary slated to
do the pitching. Sunday the same
teams will meet in Washington for
one game.
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