Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-14
Athletics Return to Bad
Habits by Kicking A,vay
Came to Red Sox; Weak
at Bat
'BR AZILL FLIVVERS
BY EDWIN J. POLLOCK

BOSTON. April l4.--lt was Hdrrl-
son beginning for the AS. but there
was no garrison finish.
Bryan Harrison started "in there"
for Connie yesterday. but he had little
to combat the Red Sox remnants, and
what he did have he couldn't control.
As a result these Frazee fellows can.
tered to the wire, Go.
iarrison's Tipping was not the only
part of the Mack club that was touched
with taint. The AS played poor base.
hall and deserved 10 lose.
On Wednesday the Mackmen looked
like champs. Yesterday they resem-
blcd chumps. The batting was weak,
the fielding weaker and the base run
ming weakest.
One more day like yesterday and Pep
Young, Overbrook voter, will be q
regular on our American League ball
as hitter and first bascman and he is
still just that. From the exhibitions
he has been giving in the first two games
Of the season its cinch he's no third
basemnn.
. Bra.iH Is a hitter. THIS cannot
be denied despite the fact that he
has had only one safe 1cdllop out Of
nine times up 50 far. but he takes
them a mile. But his fielding is
faulty.
Yesterday Del Pratt rolled one to
Brazill's left in the third inning that
Heine Groh could have clicked with his
teeth and Goldie Rapp could havo
kicked It around a couple of times and
still get his man; but BRAZIL didn't t
even reach it. There was man on base
at the time and later both runners
scored.
Still Another
Later in the same inning, Joe Dugan
picked one toward the hot corner like
Stuffy Mclnnis rifles them and BRAZIL
showed his sand by stepping right into
it. lie didn't hold the ball. but he held
the blow down to single. However,
Dugan never should have hit the
sphere. A few seconds before he lifted
foul fly which Doc johnson muffed
after getting set under 1t.
In the sixth inning, BRAZIL reared
again.
bnt mental one. There was a runner
on first and the count was three and
two on the batter. 1t wouldn't take a
McGraw to diagnose the situation and
tell you that the runner was going to
start for second with the next pitch.
He did and the batter grounded to
BRAZIL.
Frank had as much chance Of making
double play as Frazee has In BOs-
ton popularity contest, but he made his
throw to second. OF course, both run
ners were safe. Both would have
scored had 1t not been for the deadly
whip Of Cy Perkins, who picked one off
second.
Pep Young Is no old man by several
seasons. He admits thirty summers.
Not all of these were devoted to base
ball. He was born In 1891 and his boy
hood and teens We're spent In primary
school and the now extinct Central Man
ual Training School.
Last year Pep whaled the sphere at
200 and felded .95S. Nothing can be
found wrong with'that. The story goes
cause the buzzards were beginning to
fly over his arm. Harken to what Pep
has to say about this:
Arm as Good as Ever
"My arms as good as It ever was.
] had little trouble with it last season
when ] caught cold in the shoulder, but
that didn't last long.
Cobb is breaking down his ball club
to start anew, but didn't At in with
the new scheme of things. That's all.
When Ty decided to let me go he told
me very sorrowfully and asked me
where ! would like to play. told him
there was no other club | would rather
play with than the Athletics.
"Phtladelphia Is my home tOpn
and it Vili be pleasure and a