The New York herald., 1922-05-24
Ball Spatters Into Upper Stand
With Two Men Waiting
OH Base Paths.
BAKER ALSO A sLUGGER
Trappe Farmer Knocks Homer,
Triple and Single; Sisler
Hits for Circuit.
By w. o. MCCLELLAN.

Kenneth Williams of Grants Pass, |
Ore, home run leader of the Ameri-
can League for the current year-so
far-displnyed sample to the GUS
toners at the Polish Grounds yester-
day. 1t spattered into the upper tier
OF the right field stands and cracked
the shell of the crustacean Yank pitch
er, Carl Mays. AS it spattered Col.
Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston,
president of the Yankees, went
down for the third and last time un-
der the stands.
There were couple of other mild |
but satisfying home runs during the
game. Home Run Baker got one after
Babe Ruth was called out on strikes
and George Sisler, the perfect ball
player and gentleman, also obliged the
customers. Williams's homer was the
crack of doom for the Yanks. They
came out on the short end of an IL to
3 score. which makes the series even
and the situation for the season quite
serious Those Browns look and play
like champions at present.
The score was to when Williams
delivered his first Polish Grounds homer.
After that the Yanks seemed to toss the
sponge right into the resin. Huggins
trotted Francis Xavier O'Doul. the left
handed. Native Son. out Of the dugout.
where he had been in solitary confine-
ment since the start of the season. Fran
els Xavier was wan and the dugout
pallor was in his face. He blinked III
the sunlight and as he blinked more
runs piled up.
The Same Nemesis.
Urban Shocker the Nemesis OF the
Yanks, certainly made good on the title.
This is the second time in the one series
that he has stopped his former team
mates. Baker slapped him for a homer.
triple and a single, but aside from that
he stood the gaff, while the shell of the
crustacean Mays cracked under bonn
bardment and while Francis Xavier
O'Doul, the mole of the Yankee dugout, |
blnked wonderingy. Still O'Doul might
be pitcher II they took the handouts
and the Oregon boot off him once in
while
Mr.. Babe Ruth was not among those
home running otherwise pleasing the
customers As matter of fact after
the Babe went through the motions some
of the customers began to get humorous
at his expense and the primitive mind OF
the Babe could not grasp the humor at
all. After one has been fed on the
honey of adulation it annoys him TO
taste the auinine of the bieacher raz.
Whitley Witt. the popular young al |
bino, started In the first inning with "A |
single and went to second or sacri' |
flee. Babe Ruth came up and let TIE
third good one whiz by while some o.
the customers started to pick on hin.
Il liftI
Baker the retired agric,,!turist o
Trappe. Md, executed home run into
the lower tier of the right field bleach
ers. This scored Baker and Witt and
made tho Yank Nemesis look little
less formidable.
rammed his home run into the right
field stands. II was quite a popular /
performance judging from the demon
strotion made by the multitude.
Pipp brings i'm Run.
Baker hit another chunk out of the
yank Nemesis In the home half of the |
same inning. The agriculturist slammed |
the ball 10 deep center and dashed
around to third base on the smash. He |
was scored by Pipp, who lashed single |
through tho infield.
In the sixth inning williams got n
base on balls. With Baby Jacobson dis I
Scott. Elierhe slammed ona down to
Scott for what should have been q
double play. Scott passed to Ward.
forcing SEVERED. Ward made a peg to
Pipp 80 wild that it cleared Pipps fins
by three feet and williams tailed whites
Pipp pursued the pill to the right fiel.
wall. This tied the score.
The crushing of the Mays shell came
In the seventh and the skeptics who
wonder where Williams got this home
run stuff were convinced Shocker got
a base on balls and after Tobn ha |
fouled out Gerber dumped Texas
Lacquer into right Sisler hoisted a long
one to left. Then came williams o.
Grants Pass. Ore.. and other points
West. lie cracked The bal, into tn
upper right field stands with a vehe-
mence suggestive OF Babe Ruth before
the Big Ram had been cut looss fro,
his tonsils That blow flattened the
Yanks.
In the eighth that shudderlng prisoner
OF the Yankee dugout. Francis Xavier
o'Doul. was removed from his solitary
cell and sent out to suffer. He walked
Ellerbe and McManus. With shocker
and Tobin disposed OF the trouble
started. Baker muffcd poke by Ger
ber and the bases were filled with
Browns sisler singled to right, scoring
Ellerbe and McManus.
Then Ssler made a dash for second
Schang maze Wlld neaNe TO Ward to
nail him and the ball rolled far out into
center field. Gerber and Sisler scored
an this play. Williams got base on
balls and stole second. Jacobson singled
10 center and Williams scored. SEVERED
got base on balls. When Ellerbe, up
for the second time. finally struck out
tho multitude burst into some ironc
cheers.
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