New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

Yankees Trail
Rickey's 5 Men;
Score Is 100
Sam Jones and Lefty O'Doul
Unable to- Check Hard
Hitting National Leaguers
BY Iohn kieran

NEW ORLEANS. March Is.-The
xmragirg Cardinals, led by Branch
hickey. tore into the quiet environs OF
iris Old World city to-day and threw
she hapless American League cham
MONS for dead loss by the sccrc Of
30 TO {. Rogers HornSbr and his up
starr clan. who have hign hopes Of
tearing things apart in The parent or
grrization this year, just sailed into
s. Yankee twirera and pounded them
n.,tjl the f&r fences echoed and re-
scboed to the tune Of bouncing three
h.rgers or slashing doubles.
The eminent Mr.. Ruth put g little
,,esra Of Joy into the afternoon by per
srning his we'll known act of driving
a ball over the wall for q circuit clout.
r yas the only bright spot in q weary
afternoon fer the RUPERT Illusion
serces.
vas duly elected 10 start on the mound
fer The Yanks He got safe through
lie first inning, but the way those
Cardinals treated him in the second
SESSION was nothing short Of scandal
Gle idea that i was raining triples.
Three runs we're scored on four hits.
and two innings later the Mound City
sluggers went through another sim
nsr performance. That left the tally
70 @, with the visitors holding what
ever slight advantage the score indi-
Gated. 1t evidently did not seem
enough 70 them, as they added an
ether tai y from the offerings Of Lefty
ODoul in the fifth inning, before the
Yanks had even dented the scoring pan
O'Doul Only Yankee Battering Ram
Lefty O'Doul, by the way. stood out
s. the only New Yorker who seemed
anxious 10 dispute the possession OF
TIE game with the Cardinal outfit. The
young portsider swung 4 wicked shil-
lelah through the afternoon. ratified two
three-baggers snd single down the
alleys. scored one run himself and
Knocked in three more and ran around
the bases ike Louisiana lightning.
The Yankees had only one chance. IN
the eighth inning, with the Cardinals
leading by 7 20 3, certain left-handed
Louis craft and steered it into deep
waters by undue generosity. He filled
the bases with three successive passes
and then departed, leaving to Dixie"
Walker the burden of solving the
puzzle.
Pipp scored while Devormer died at
first One run added. The irrepres-
sible O'Doul slapped single to CEN
ter Two more runs added and the
Yankees only one run TO the bad
Fewsrer popped to Milton Stock Nor
man Mcmillan advanced with fire in
his eye and smashed liner over short,
sanding O'Doul to second. The Busting
Pam5ino came up with the tying run
on second and the wining run on first.
Dixie" Walker also noticed this point
and promptly gave the Babe free trans
portation. He proved his wisdom when
Baker grounded to Eornsby for the
laird out.
That settled the game. There was
not peep out Of the Yankee entourage
IN the ninth inning, as the invaders
aad added three more tailies in their
half Of the last etanza.
What rough afternoon for the
r.tchers. The ST. Louis maulers lined
at eighteen hits, while the Yanks
athered in an even dozen. Hornsby,
three safeties each. They simply could
not miss that ball Scott end Mcmillan
got two hits apiece and ran second to
Y Doul as the leading fitters for the
Higgins clan. Hickey used four pitch
ers during the melee, none of them
effective. However, he refused TO
worry while his rip-roaring hitters
were knocking pisnks out Of the fences
y the far regions of the park.
The weather was not particularly
propitious for major league contest.
threatening skies had a dampening
effect on the attendance and a high
wind played ducks and brakes with
flies. Alexander Julius Heinemann, the
local magnate, had rows of chairs in
the outfeld for paying guests who
never came.