The New York herald., 1921-08-11
YANKEES IN FRONT
AGAIN BY A APOINT
Take League Lead by Whip
ping White Sox While Ath-
letics Bump Indians.
BAKER HITS TWO HOMERS
Ruth Also Gets One, His For
ty-second-Score Is
IA to s.
ny WILLIAM II. HANNA.

While the Yankees were clubbing the
the Polo Grounds yesterday which they
do all too seldom, the Athletics were
doing their duty by the Clevelands. The
Yanks won, the Clevelands lost, and the
Yanks again have one of those feather
edged leads The score here was IA
to 8.
Pretty close race, this one for the
American League vanguard. consider
ably nip and tuck, and the Yankees head
~est to-day via Philadelphia to reeoal
one point in front. That's the way they
stand for the moment as the result OF
justice being done here and in Philadel-
phia yesterday.
The pitchers presented by the White
Sox yesterday-Hodge. Davenport and
McWeeny-all tall and stately. We're as
rail- as ever when they left the rubber,
but some OF the stateliness had been
knocked from them. The Yankees siugged
heavily and won easily. though the Sox
logged Rip Collins extensively in one
inning. They ran the gamut in the fifth
with a single, double. triple and home
run before Collins regained his stun
and bore down again.
Home Run Industry Active.
The Yankee inield was somewhat adj
dicted to looseness on defence. and that
front line laxity contributed TO the fire.
uuency of the Chicago scoring. The
home run industry was active. Mostn
of the White Stockings made one, Ruth
made his forty-second and Baker, back
after days absence, made two homers
and single.
itaffs
the left field bleachers, o sector the
Babes cannonading seldom visits. 1t
was Just a playful tap for him.
Baker smacked his second homer into
the right field bleachers, the first one
he has hit that far. He was on base
FIVE times-three hits and two prome-
nades.
Mostil hit to the left centre fence and
had to leg 1t to make his homer He
was helped by the ball lodging at the
foot of the boarding in 4 gully. so thas
Miller had to dig II our.
The first run was when Baker hit
into the lower grand stand in the sec
ond inning. Meusel made an infleld hit
and took second on Wild pitch. Pfpp
sacrificed, and Meusel scored when Eddie
Collins fumbled Wards slow grounder.
Collins threw out Ward. but let In the
run. He doesn't often miss connections
on play or this klnu
The Yankees batted around in the
third, from Collins TO Scheng, and Mil
ler's single, Ruth's home run. passes TO
Baker and Meusel and hits by Pipp and
Ward accounted for the four runs After
an outburst of walking, single by
Miller and a single by Baker had flushed
three runs In the third the Yanks tap
cred off to nothing and three died on the
bases.
Rally by the Sox.
II wasn't to be such cake walk after
all, for the Sox In the fifth made them
sit up and mind their p's and q's Falk
tripled, Sheely doubled and Mostil hit
for the whole distance. Davenport
waited for four and Johnson singled.
Collins stiffened, but a wild throw by
Peck opened the way to two more runs.
The Sox couldn't get to Collins again.
but a tumble by Pipp and mun by Ward
OF throw enriched them by three more
runs
Baker hit to the suburbs in the sixth
and beyond them. his bleacher hit. He
went to one extreme and Ruth another
The Babe was on first when Baker
landed, vantage point he gained by
bunting. Not bad bunter. the Babe.
and he has the speed afoot TO beat the
ball. Collins, Peck and Meusel did the
hitting In the seventh. which produced
runs. Peck drilled ferocious double 70
the left field woodwork He was mad at
himself for his weak hitting lately and
put q lot of spleen into II. The score: