The New York herald., 1921-08-13
Winners Krtock Hoyt Off the
Mound, While Ruth Hits
His 44th Homer.
BY WILLIAM b. HANNA.

by WILLIAM B. HANNA.
Special Despatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ia few days
ago the lowly but not meek Athletics
gave the Cleve'lands a beating which
pulled them oUt of first place; to-day
they inflicted that indignity on the
Yankees. A five run lead held by the
Yankees lasted no longer than 1t takes
to tell it, and the Athletics won the
game. s to 6.
Recently a good many runs have been
needed to win for the New York pitchers.
Waite Hoyt, who has lost his last three
games. found e. five run margin insult
ficient. He withered fast once he began
to so, but there were as baneful in
fluences as he. Bad work around the
infield helped to lose this ball game.
Hoyt was knocked out in the fifth in
ming after a painful fourth, but failure
by Ward to cover first base when Hoyt
and Pipp were going after a choppy
poke was as baameworthy as any de-
ficiencies In Hoyt's pitching. 1t opened
the roadways 10 three runs. Ward has
been remiss in this way before. Other
faulty infield work. and costly, too, was
done by Baker and Ferguson, but at
least theirs was not passive SHINING, as
was Wards. Ferguson pitched pretty
well as a successor to Hoyt.
The Yankees had no more than pound
ed an Athletic pitcher to a pulp than
the Athletics did the same to Hugginss
nominee. The Yanks hit we'll and ran
the bases well. Meuse took a chance in
the fourth when the Yanks were biting
the ball right and left and ran into an
unnecessary and untimely put out, but
he erred on the side of aggressiveness
and for that can be forgiven. 1t was
just one of those erratic displays which
make the Yanks such an uncertainty.
44th Homer for Ruth.
Babe Ruth made his forty-fourth
home run. A notable feature of Ruth's
hitting lately is that most of it has been
to left field. His last three homers
have been in that direction. and other
hits as well. He is beginning to con-
found and cross those opposing strate-
gists who swing their defence way
around to the right for him.
Centrefielder Welch of the Athletics
hurt himself sliding to the plate in tn
fifth inning and had to leave the gar -
His leg seemed to be hurt quite b. -.
Fielding plays of uncommon RAJ 49,
were made by Mccain, Dykes. Siile,
and Peckinpaugh.
An unusual play happened IL p,..
IN the first inning. He III haI,
through J. Walker, who d .g,as..a - -
Dykes, who threw to \ yior y. e,.e. :.
base, who muffed. r sth nos
furlong stealing, whic q was as reen @ e
the plate as any Y. .nkae iournavaa !, !.
that inning. MOI neay iourneved thai
ha ~ :, err.,a sns seeo" 4 inning. though three
w., oaiu "a rs were hit.
o,,.sa !, i.suu The first hit, a liner &c
,vara 49,, - ,n second. Welch and Dykes
no,,roa ~ ID on corking play. Dykes
ca,,stt :" - "a hit and run play and Ward
f,innaa ne ball back of first base He
a,,en 1t to Hoyt, who was coming
over on the run to first base. Wbici
e. was neutralized in the third wher
nang. on a hit and run. grounded
<raight to Dykes for a double pIay
: after Wards single.
Ihe Yankees did some business In the
fourth. Miller began with a stroll and
by a fine dash took second on n shor,
wild pitch. Peck hammered n single
through Naylor and expressed Miller r.
| third. Ruth and Baker came through
with singles to right Each sent in q
run and sent runner TO third. Pipr
lashed TO centre and sent In two more
Meusel tried for third and was thrown
out BY Welch. thus ditching a GOOD
raiiy, though Pipp scored on an out and
wild pitch. There was a lot OF good
Dase running in the accumulation Of
| these five runs.
| Ihe Athletics also had some Of this
stuH. They flushed three singles, one OF
which would have been an out If Bake,
hadn't crossed in front OF Peck and q
force out come to the rescue, but Hoy,
Sas shaky and passed Dykes. IT was
no fault Of Hoyt's. however, that welch
scored on McCanns little tap. or rather
that McCann reached first base on IT.
Hoyt and Pipp went after the ball
ana Ward was asleep and didn't cover
first.