New-York tribune., 1921-09-20
Huggins Late
In Sending Out
Relief to Mays
Author of Underhand Ball
ssBlows'' in Eighth and
Tigers Score Eight Runs
By lack Lawrence

Inc fankees were topped out OF nrSt
place yesterday by Ty Cobb's Detroit
Tigers and are this morning half q
game behind Cleveland. While the local
flag hunters were being smeared in de-
feat by the score of 10 to 6 the Clcve-
land Indians were enjoying profitable
day of rest.
For seven innings yesterday the
Yanks looked like champions and GER
tain winners. For two innings, the
eighth and ninth, they looked like a
second division club IN push league.
In the eighth they collapsed as though
they had been hit by several lightning
bolts and few 12-inch shells. In
this humiliating session the Detroit
outfit scored eight runs while hardened
rooters turned away their heads and
wept.
Carl Mays held the visitors scorelcss
for seven innings, although on three
occasions ne was in mean jams from
which he was lucky to escape. Mean
while the Yankees had scored four runs
in the first three innings and seemed to
be we'll on their way to one of the most
necessary victories in the history Of
the club, as win yesterday would have
given them margin Of one ball game
over the wearied Indians.
There were $4,000 persons in the
stands, and there We're not few in the
melancholy multitude that wended it's
way home who harbored the haunting
nation that they may have witnessed
the turning point in the titanic struggle
for the American League pennant.
Mays Weakens in Seventh
Mays gave his first signs Of weaken
ing in the seventh inning, and it was
- 4 L l. y, \
he had himself felt the first ominous
chill of the impending storm. The big
right handler shot pleading look to-
ward the Yankee bench and gazed out
to the bull pen where Bob Shawkey
was warming up.
Mays walked Young. got Jones and
Cobb on long flies to Ruth, and Veach
smashed out two-base hit. This sent
Young to third. 1t was only magnif-
cent stop by Ward of a hard drive off
Heilman's bat that saved the situation.
This brilliant play retired the side.
eHuggins allowed Mays to come out
for the eighth inning and the fire.
works started which left the local
hopes in ashes. Blue, first up, banged
the ball to left for single, and joe
Sargent followed with another hit to
the same spot. Another pleading look
by Mays toward the dugout. 1t went
unanswered. Bassler curled twist
ing grounder to McNally, who managed
to force Sargent at second.
The worst is at hand, patient reader.
Barnes was sent in to hit for Ehmke,
and "Brick" Owens, umpiring at the
the violent protests of both Mays and
Schang This incident seemed to ruin
the day for Carl Mays. He walked Pep
Young and forced Blue across the
plate.
Rescue Ends in Disaster
This was enough, even for Huggins.
He wirelessed out to the distant bull
pen, where Shawkey's red-sleeved arms
were flashing in the sun and Bob the
Cob came cantering out to perform
rescue stunt which was destined to
end in disaster.
Bobby Jones tapped an easy grounder
that Shawkey grabbed about twenty
feet in front of the plate. To force
Merritt, who was running for Bassler,
Shawkey had only to toss the ball to
Schang, who was waiting to receive it
with open arms. Instead Bob hurled
the bali at the catcher with such force
that the latter had no chance of hold
ing it. While the crowd groaned the
ball shot past Schang and rolled all
the way to the local dugout. Merritt
and Barnes scored easily.
Young reached third and Jones went
to second on this sad piece of business.
Both scored on Cobb's clean single to
center and put Detroit one notch to
the good in the rather vital matter
gleefully across the pan when Veach
pasted three-base slam to left center.
This removed Shawkey and his red
fannels from the picture and intro
duced Waite Hoyt, who was greeted by
Heilman with his third hit of the day.
Veach was held on third, but scored
when Blue, up for the second time in
the fateful inning, doubled over first
base. Sargent popped to Pipp for the
second out, and Woodall, batting for
Merritt, beat out slow roller down
Heilman Ward thew out Barnes and
the horror was over. The Cobb crew
gathered two more in the ninth, but
they didn't need them..
Yankees First to Score
The Yanks put their first run across
in the opening inning, after Elmer
Miller worked Red Oldham for pass,
took second on Peckinpaugh's paste
through short and had been forced at
third by Ruth. On this play Peck went
to second and scored on Pipp's single.
Another local run was registered IN
the second, when Wally Schang rammed
a home run against the facade of the
upper right field tier.
In the third, after Peck and Ruth had
been retired, Roth, who was playing in
right field in place of Meusel, singled to
center and went on to second when
Cobb fumbled the ball. Pipp walked
and both runners advanced when Bass
Ter, apparently under the impression
that Roth was about to steal third
threw to that bag while it was un-
covered. The bail rolled to left field
Aaron Ward then cleaned up with q
three-base clout to right field Mentally
flied to Cobb.
The crowd begged Ruth to put ovel
his fifty seventh home run, but The
Bambino could get the ball out of the
infeld only once in five trips to the
plate. On that occasion he flied tt
Cobb
The score:
DETROIT GA LIZ NEW YORK a. Id
Young. abs q i'S d'S s:Nner. ef. aeo 9o apI q 8
ZONES. 3b.. o0IPeck'gh 81 o
Cobb. cf.. 4 0llRuth H.