The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-28

l think we will take the lead on this
home stay and drive ahead to win the
pennant by seven games. Experts win
say that's a big bargain. but all we
need IL a fair break in the luck and
intelligent generalship.
Has Offensive Power.
The Yankees have always had often
sive power, but that power was not
properly co-ordinated. We went ahead
and hit the ball. ran the bases and
performed the other operations of the
game in more or less perfunctory
style. When the hits We're dropping
In we were fine. When they were not
dropping in, we were not so good We
looked bad in Chicago, and then some
thing happened.
And here is what II was. A new
spirit was bred in that Yankee team.
We discovered that we COULD play
ball as 1t should be played. and that
we could go ahead and beat the best
teams in the league. We found that
we could run the bases as we'll as the
rest, and from the day we left Chicago.
not even the Senators ever ran any
better than we did. The men began
TO talk pennarft and world series in
serious way. They think they can
win. More than that; they know they
can win.
Unlimited credit belongs to Roger
Peckinpaugh for the way he handled
the club during the absence Of Miller
Iiuggins. Peck took the boys and
said: Now look here: we have a team
that should win. We have a team that
wants to win. and every man has been
in the game long enough to know what
TO do for himself. Let's get together
and win this game, and the succeeding
games" Get together. that's what we
did, and we are more together now
than ever before.
Must Have Bagby.
Cleveland cannot really hope to win
the American League pennant this
year unless Jim Bagby comes back.
They are couple of points ahead of
us now, but they have played more
games. Mails Is unsteady, and
Sothoron will not go along as he Ia
going now. He isn't that sort of
pitcher.
For while the hurlers will go with
out Bagby, but Jim pitched thirty-one
victories last season. and his absence
puts 1t up to the others who were not
50 good, to win those thirty -onegames.
do not believe the Tribe has the class
to do 1t. They can't beat us without
him, and every one comedies that 1t IL
two-team race.
That series in Cleveland which re-
suited In an even break was unusual.
We won the first game and were
beaten In the second. Mays was maui
ed to a fragile. Yet even in that de-
feat we showed winning strength. We
got eight runs and sixteen hits, which
includes seven doubles. Cleveland got
a lot of clean hits, and they got some
lucky hits, too. It was Just one of
those days in baseball on which every
thing hapens wrong. For Cleveland, of
course, everything happened just
right.
Perhaps II Mays had not been work
ed In the second game things might
have gone differently. Rip Collins
looked pretty good to me when he
warmed up, but some of the boys fig
ured that Mays should be able to pitch
on two days rest. I've done that, and
the old-timers thought nothing of IL.
However, Carl failed to show the right
STUFF, and Cleveland got to him.
Baker and Pipp.
After bad start against the White
Sox we found ourselves. We began
W piay Cdbey Ddli IN HI our contests,
and with some breaks of the luck In
our favor were able to win. There
were two players who stood out par.
ticularly for the Yankees, and they
were j. Franklin Baker and wallie
Pipp. Baker broke the hearts of the
Indians while we were out in Cleve-
land, and he broke the hearts OF a
few others. Just let those pitchers
keep passing me. They will find
Baker slamming a ball to all parts of
the lot. He hit over 800 on the trip,
and he got fair number Of bits in
the pinches.
looked up on the last tour Wallie Pipp
was cracking a double, a homer, or