The New York herald., 1921-06-16
YANKEES And RUTH
BECALMED BY KERR
Chicago Lefthandcr's Change
of Pace Leads to Vie
tory by Z to 2.
HOFFMAN HITS A HOMER
But the Babe Gets Only a Dou-
bic and Single-Quinn
Batted Out. !.
HOFFMAN HITS A HOMER
BY DANIEL.

J4lN JE4a4s
Poor but honest Immaculate White
sox! They just about manage TO stag
ger along collecting sympathy and APP
parently quite a number Of bal games.
They can't hit lick. those clean but de-
pleted SoX They got only a measly
fifteen hits three OF them triples and
two doubles, at the Polo Grounds yes
terday afternoon. Their fielding isn't
anything like what we have seen here
lately for Kid Gleason's men made only
three double plays. Poor but innocent
Sox! They just about slaughtered the
Yankees by Z to ?.
While watching those weakened White
Sox. with little Dicl<ie Kerr in the box,
stop our hitherto ramhunctious murder
GUS Yanks and Babe Ruth, we conjured
up a vision which gave us the creeps.
We pictured the White Sox of June,
1920. with Jackson, Felsch, Weaver,
Williams Cicotte ct al, in the Arneri-
can League race this season. 1t was
picture Of hurricane lashing through
a field of rye.
But to return to the clean Sox and the
mean way in which they trampled our
Yankees. Our boys had a mighty swell
chance-never had q lool-in after Jack
Quinn suffered relapse in the eighth
and saw himself for the skeenteenth
time blown right into the clubhouse.
Some day JACK is going to finish a
game which he started--and then it
may be one more job for the ambulance.
The shock might be too great.
Yankees strike Il Calm.
For the Yankees it was the dead
calm which always follows storm and
strife II looked as if the wracHing joa
Of cleaning UP the Tigers forr in
row had sapped the New Yorks both
physically and mentally. Or perhaps
they came under the evil influence of
the rampant star Venus.
At any rate, be that as Il may, tho
Yanks got only eight hits OF Kerr.
That used % be a lot, but in these days
Of the ia, trabbit ball eight hits look
ike a boar ling house portion of prunes.
Kerr was not only stingy with his hits
but he was mean about the way in
which he declined to permit one hit TO
follow another In any one inning. Only
in the mir tn. in which Ruth's double
was followed by Meusels single and
run, did Kerr allow that to happen.
And Ruth, outside of that one double
and an inheld single. did little ranming
damage Once h was an infeld out
and then he got pass. But Kerr
pitched to him and pitched with intel
iigence. For one day the bleachers were
safe from the Babes thunderbolt
But don't get the impression that the
afternoon waited itself away without n
homer. And don't try to guess who
came through with 1t, for you won't.
The blushing hero Of this exploit was
Fred Hoffman. the catcher who is gliding
about Aa Wallie Shangs No. los. Hoff-
man arched the ball into the lower tier
OF the right field stand in the fifth inn
ing and gave the New Yorles one run
and a tie, which they did not hold very
long.
Kerr's Change of Pace Battles.
Hoffman, Ruth and Meusel were really
the only Yanks who were able to make
any headway against Kerrs battling
change of pace, for Il was this rather
than any great amount Of stuff. which
the left handler put on the ball, that
folled the local batsnen. A pitcher with
a change of pace is an abomination for
the YanSs, and when that pitcher filings
from the left side the Huggins hitters
have about as much use for him as a
hennery has for weasel.
Old Eddie Collins. who has gone back
so far that he Is only about twice A.
fast as most of the other second base
men; Mulligan, cast off by the Cubs
some years back. and young Falk of the
University Of Texas were the arch
degtroyers OF Yankee equanimity. Null
ligan got a single, a double and q
triple and scored three runs. Collins
clouted out a triple and two singles.
Falk got triple and a single.
Quinn got by the first three innings
without any more damage than Coilinss
triple, but IN the fourth Falks three
baggor and Strunks single gave the
visitors a run. Aiulligan's triple ana
Tooper's single handed them III lead
in the sixth In the eighth singles by
Mcclellan. A1ullgan, Falk and Strunk
together with a pass TO Hooper, figured
in the scoring OF three runs.
In the ninth II was Tom Sheehan who
faced the clean Sox, and Tom saw quite
few balls hit back at him. Singles by
Mcclellan, Collins and Hooper, with
double by Mulligan sandwiched In. gave
the Chicagos two runs The score: