Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-26
.GIANTS' SPURT SETS
new YORK TALKING.
o,v;val of Home Worlds Series
thoughts After Third Straight
Win From Pirates
unIANs BACK IN FIRST

o.. tho Giants started their long
,..,.d. for spurt that will eventually
os' ,,or, on the top rung. Of the lad
D s.s New York sGribes and fans seem
" mink once again that their favorites
~ moot in the Worlds Series in Oc-
,sS,r r right at Coosan's Bluff.
w. Yesterday the men Of McGraw again
-,,tled down the Pirates lead by
eeinn;nr ea,I,o the third straight game OF the
N,9 Was According to the standings TINS
s.n;ng s; the Buccaneers are four ana
n,J h.W Games ahead and are not SO certain
'; "" "rInning the pennant as they were
whsn they put foot on New YORK soil.
VIZ 70 the Giants capture the last game
:, tbe series the Pirates VIII leave
co,bam lust three and a halt games
.Ssad, which is not SO commanding
i.sd as first place team likes TO enjoy
TSs ySs Giants. Judging by their perform,
.nres ,"S against the Pirates. nave 13una
,hsir % batting eyes,. while the pitcners
Iaye shown surprising return 10 torm.
nay nav 'nnoon,hination should make them
io,s inls for thc remainder Of the year
oa1st ssot at rest for the present, at any
anu Tho claim that the Pirates have
ths flag cinched.
y,users Hitting Helps
Nav York fans and the newspapers
49,. ~ tbst the return to hitting form OF
,s;., ,,ss Weuscl Mas been the big reason
~ ,,,sa The sudden display Of form on the
~, ,, 'I ~ the Giants. When the Nc
rP.,r;tes were in the depths of their
.,oamt slump Meusel's weak hitting In
,so ,t,' ninches was given as the reason.
W. Nv that the former Phil has found his
I .,vids the Giants look more formid-
III IF they continue their present
.,resk the race down the stretch
,hould be as close and interesting as
ihat between the Yankees and the In
dams. :. a..
wrath and wallOped Bob Shawkey ana
couple of other twirlers viciously
When the figures were counted 1t was
found that the worlds champions had
registered II runs to ] for the Yanks.
Allan Sothoron. who turned in great
ams on the Yanks' last trip to the
Champs baiIiwick, turned in almost as
rood a one yesterday. He had the
Sapks hopeless when hits meant runs
and never was in danger. mainly be-
cause Of the big lead his pals fur
rished him. When the Indians were
IN New York on the last swing east
Sothorcn was knocked off the hurliny
peak.
with Covaleskie out Of the way tho
Huggmen figured it would be easy fol-.
clean sweep OF the series and a one.
and "a half game lead for the Detroit
contests. which start this afternoon.
The worm turned, and once again the
Indians are back in first place, this
tine by the margin of point.
Both the Yankees and Cleveland will
have their hands full during the next
few days. The Tigers have been play
Ing better ball recently than at any
time this month. with the exception OF
the Red Sox series, while the Senators
bave shown swell since leaving the
home lot.
Blooie Goes Pills Streak
As for the home clubs, they both
lost yesterday, the Phillies being un-
able TO continue their winning streak
that had reached four and the Athletics
succumbing for the second straight time
to the White Sox.
Huck Belts, the Delaware product,
was on the hill for the Phils yesterday.
and had it not been for the vagaries OF
the wind which caused his teammates
to commit fielding bulls, and for Dun
can. the feet left fielder of the Reds,
might have scored the verdict. -
The less said about the Athletics the
better. Buck Freeman, who twirled
great game against Cleveland here
couple of weeks ago, started against
the Sox and was manhandled so viciously
that he was removed in favor of Rollie
Naylor. who received the same sort of
treatment.
Sixteen hits rang off the bats of the
geasonitcs while the Macks were get
tng an even dozen off Russell, the new
Nar on the Sox payroll. Tillie Walker
managed to snare one hit. bringing his
Wtal OF hits in consecutive games up to
sixteen. Whitley Witt and Joe Dugan
nad three biugles apiece and Dykes
and Griffin two each,
The Senator's came back with a ven-
seance against the Tigers yesterday and
avenged the affront to Walter Johnson
OF wednesday by humping the Tigers.
80 l. Mogridge was in the firing pit
.Ir the WashinGtOnians and Leonard for
he Tigers. In the other American
league game the Browns, with Van
"',oer hurting, stopped the Red Sox.
IN the National Grimes had the bet
er o. pitchers duel with Cheeves and
T me cubs defeated the Dodgers, 3 to ..
lne cardinals continued their cleanup
>wWWk OF the Braves by annexing the
wG wwlrG straight u the series, 4 TO ..
Ssaker was the winning hurler and