New-York tribune., 1921-10-07

The statements, heard frequently on
Wednesday night and early yesterday,
to the effect that the Yankees were plav-
ing better than they knew how and far
beyond their natural speed in the first
game, which was pitched by Carl Mays.
were shot to pieces yesterday by the
faultness baseball that Miller Hugrius's
men had on tap. Those who looked for
ward confidently to shocking reversal
IN Yankee form yesterday were them
selves shocked by the unblemished steadi-
ness OF the American Leaguers.
The Yankees played behind Waite
Hoyt, the blond schoolboy from Brook
lyn's Erasmus Hall, the way they played
behind Carl Mays on Wednesday, and
when the Yanks are playing that way
they would turn back the best baseball
combination in the world They have
now suppressed the Giants in two games,
and for eighteen consecutive innings
have held them scoreess.
Threaten Five Straight
If the club continues to shine the way
1t has in the first two contests it is
safe assumption that it viii capture
baseball's purple peaks in FIVE straight
assaults.
Miller Huggins, the frail manager of
the hghting Nanks, was a delighted
person last night, wallowing in the
greatest glory he has ever achieved
IN long baseball career The strain
that he has been under for the last
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made him look almost haggard, but
when the writer visited him in his
dressing room Immediately after yes
terdays game he was able to smile
the smear of worry and mental
pressure and said simply that the
I anks are going right on playing the
game.
Il don't see why people should be so
awfully surprised at our showing in
the first two games of this series" said
Hugglns. "Anybody who has seen the
team play this year and has watched
the long, strenuous drive for the pen-
nant, must have seen the Yanks play
against Cleveland, the st. Louis Browns.
Boston, Washington and other clubs
exactly as they played in their first two
contests with the Giants
They have merely played their
game against the Giants, as thew did
against the teams of their own league
that were trying to head off our pen
nant ambitions. The statement that
the lanks are playing beyond their
speed and are only in an unusual
streak of brilliancy is lot of rot.
Anybody who saw the boys play that
trst game against Cleveland in the
concluding series of the season must
realize that they are playing exactly
that sort of baseball against the Giants. /
There isn't anything unusual or sur
prlsing about it.
Slumps Come to All
Every ball club has its slumps, and
we have had ours; and ! don't mind
admitting that when we slump we do
1t right. Any high strung organize
tion like the Yanks can be excused
for looking bad occasionally. The best
OF us crack under the strain now and
then. But there is no occasion to be
astonished by what our club has shown
against the Giants. We are only play
ing the game the way we ought to
play it, and when the Yanks play that
way they are very apt to win.
douglas and Nehf pitched wonder
full ball against us, and my hat is of
to them. Nehf to-day was wild, but he
was getting better every minute, and
was going stronger by far in the ninth
inning than he was in the first. If YOU
saw the game you can figure out that
the Giants couldn't follow the killing
pace the Yanks set them. When it
came to the final test to decide the sur