New-York tribune., 1922-05-02

for ten hits, including g home run |
two bingles until he shut off the pres
When Ferguson clambered to the
mound for the Hubtown aggregation i
WAS expected that the Rupert -Hustor
forces would enjoy one of their justl!
celebrated field days with the willow
wands. He never showed much more
than q uniform and a tacturn disposi
tion when he WAS one of the hired mer
Of the two Colonels. But when a man.
ager trades, gives away or sells 3
player down the river" it generally
instils in that particular athlete q
isndsh desire to scalp his old play
mates at every available opportunity
thereafter. Silent Ferguson is nc
exception. He shuffled the cards ard
turned the trick in fine style yester-
day.
He was out there in the middle Of
the diamond just chucking the ball
up with nothing on it that the Yankees
could discern except the stitches and
the trademark. The parties of the sec
ond part were swinging under. over
and past the pellet Unfortunately
sending lofty pop-ups to Muddy Ruel
and the Boston inheld
Ferguson Looks Easy
1t looked so easy to hit that ball that
the Hugmen were mystfed and as
: founded as they continued their fruit
less trips to the plate. Ferguson watt
ed the bail gently toward the plate
and the sluggers broke their backs in
the Improbable pastime Of knocking
the ball straight up in the air
The first run the Yanks got was in
t~t -
Boston clan had lead Of four large
runs. The tally for the higgins crew
was entirely due to generosity on the
part Of the visiting twirler, who had
a moment of temporary alteration and
gave three bases on balls in success
sion, under the mistaken impression
that he was still pitching for New
York One run drifted over on an in
field out. The second home tally came
in the ninth inning, when two men
were out and Mr. Ferguson considered
his days work satisfactorily complet-
ed. Two hits and a base on balls
brought over a run before Wally
Schang foued out to Burns and ended
the festivity.
On the other hand, Carl Mays was
no battling mystery to the enemy bats
men. They hoped aboard his slants
for no less than four singles and two
tallies in the second inning, and con-
tinued their attack by adding a run in
the third on double by Leibold, an
infeld out and Pratt's sacrifice fy.
Joe Harris brought in another tally in
the fourth frame on his single, clean
steal of second when Mays allowed
him long lead, and single by
Muddy Ruel.
Harris Cuts 1t Fine
The last tally for the Bostonians
was laugh producer. Pratt's home
run in the Sunday contest was nothing
too robust, but Harris brought down
the house of some 5000 paying guests
yesterday when he punched up a high
fly that picked its spot perfectly and
came down right on the top Of the
concrete wall that keeps the right
fielder from jumping into the stands
and proclsims the virtues Of some
saftey razor to an astonished world.
edge on "Underslung Carl" as the ball
bounced into the stand for a home r
that counted just as much as the long
est slam that Babe Ruth ever made in
his gay young life.
The sixth frame might have been
very productive for the Yankees if
there had been hit in all the bats
they dragged UP to the plate Schang,
Mays and Whitley Witt faced Ferguson
in succession and the Boston hurler
gave them a total of twelve balls and
one called strike. None were out and
yet only one run came over. Fewster
popped Baker forced out Witt and
Miller whitfield.
Erin Ward robbed Derrill Pratt OF
a hit in the eighth inning, when he
surrounded sizzling grounder, stoppe
it by hurting his manly frame into
the dust, and threw out Pratt from 6
sitting position.
After the game Miller Huggin.
picked up the biggest bat in the Yam
. kee layout and started on vindc-
tive hunt for the man who said that
Boston had no pitching staff
Ferguson, Quinn and Pennock have
now held the Yanks to twenty-five hits
IL thirty-two successive innings, and
incidentally won three ball games in q
row. II Hughie Duffy can do that
with no pitchers at all. what would he
do II he still had Bush and Jones?
Baseball is by no means as certain
as death or as sure as taxes, The
Yanks walloped the Senators; the SEN
ators bowled over the Red Sox, and
the Red Sox are now in the process of
applying the dry cleaner to the Yanks.
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