The New York herald., 1922-04-25
ATHLETICS THROW
SCARE into MAYS
Tie Score i'm Ninth and Leave
Runners on Second and
Third.
TRIUMPH OFF HEIMACH
Left Handler Victim of Wal
lies Crash Into Stand
Tally Is 6 to 4.
TRIUMPH OFF HEIMACH
BY DANIEL.

A sweeping, maSterful swing OF
bat. a delightful detonation, an i'm
maculate ball winging into the lower
tier of the right field stand, and the
cxuberant Yankees went heller skelter
10 the club house with a hard earned
victory over the Athletics. Wallie
Pipp had become The Pickler again, in
the eleventh inning Of tense strug-
gle in support of a staggering Carl
Mays, and the New Yorks ~.ood tri-
umphant by to A.
No more spectacular and more fit
ting setting could have been made to
order for the hitting of home run
than that which confronted Pipp when
he came to bat in that throbbing elev-
enth yesterday at the Polo Grounds.
That right field stand, with which he
used to be mighty familiar in the days
before he changed his batting style in
1919, fairly howled at the lank first
basemen. The score was tied at to
4, De Vormer was on second. which
he had reached through a pass and
McMllan's sacrifice, and everybody
was restless.
Lefty Heimach. the third Mackian
pitcher to face the New Yorks in this
same full Of quick changes. wound up
Tor his, first pitch to Pipp with intricacy
and great effort. Wallie. who already
had dealt cne telling blow. stood there
with an anxious look and a long section
IF trni oh ha Int Of he hat 20
end. Up came one rather high. around
came the hard swung claymore and
away went the ball into the Babe
Ruth sector while De Vormer and Pipp
scooted across the plate, and players
ind spectators scampered to their wait
ing dinners.
III Miller Higgins had been able to
call on another heffty right handed
pinch hitter Pipp might not have got his
chance to hit that homer. Against south
paw pitching Baker was taken out in
tie eleventh to let the right handed
De Vormer swing bat for him. The
big catcher waited, and Heimach worked
On him too hard with the result that
Al was passed and Heimach was started
toward his downfall
For six innings the game was one OF
those listless, uninteresting affairs in
which the Athletics only too often take
part during season. Mays had good
control and kept his fast one low with
the result that the Mackmen could not
get very familiar with the underhand
oelivery. They got a couple or hits in
the secondhand no run. They got two
more in the third-and a tally.
The New Yorks came back with one
In their half to make IL to l. and got
fourth run in the sixth on a three base
error by Tilly Walker who really lost
the game then and there. Pipp singled
to center and Tilly let the ball get away
from him. whereupon Pipp darted all the
way around.
Mays Loses His stun.
So it was with expansive yawns and
marked indifference that the crowd of
some 5000 fans followed the progress
OF the front running Yanks and their
lowly pursuers into the seventh Then
the complexion OF the thing changed
Mays faltered. His control became
faulty. His speed diminished. The Ath-
lctics slammed over a couple of runs and
died hard with runners on first and
second. An exciting eighth inning,
which brought no tally. was followed by
q pulse quickening ninth. in which a
timely blow by Pep Young. the Tiger
discard. who comported himself with
great credit. drove In the tying run and
Mays seemed to be in fun retreat Shaw
Key was out in the bullpen working fe-
verishly and from time TO time casting
looks Of inquiry toward the New York
dugout.
However. with the winning run on
third and another Mackman on second.
with two gone, Mays pulled himself to-
gether and got rid OF Doc Johnston
through the medium OF grounder To
Scott. The game had been saved. a
stralning tenth, in which Witt. with two
out. walked and stole second. only 10
see Fewster strike out, was hardly an
encouraging prelude to the big blowoff
In the eleventh.
IL was peculiar crowd which saw
this nip and. tuck scrap in a rather cold
STADIUM. There seemed TO be quite a
lot OF short enders among the onlookers.
for they applauded the Athletics at every
opportunity and greeted the posting of
that winning three for the Giants In
Philadelphia with cnnui. a peculiar
crowd, say we--in more ways than one
but cheering crowd at the finish!
A pass to Welsh, a double by Miller
and a long single by Perkins got the
Athletics two runs In the seventh In the
ninth Perkins singled and let Scheer run
for him. Dykes forced him. Galloway
cracked single off Mayss glove. Nc
Gowan was sent In TO hit for Rommel--
and famed. But Young came through
with the hit that tied the game into a
s knot. The score:
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