The New York herald., 1922-08-18
Though I'LL, BUSH
BATTLES TY'S MEN
Svengali Huggins Makes Fine
Job of Hypnotizing
Trilby Joe.
-FOUR HITS UNTIL EIGHTH
Then the New York Right
Handler Collapses From Heat
-Dauss Proves Easy.
BY DANIEL.

BY DANIEL.
After what developed at the Polo
Grounds yesterday afternoon, when
the peppery and powerful Yankees
trounced the wilted Tigers by 7 to l..
1t will be Svengali Higgins and Trilby
Push, 1t was Bullet Joe who pitched
the New Yorks to victory and hung up
his nineteenth triumph of the season
as Well as his eighth straight success
and thereby hangs a tale of remark
able hypnotic powers and mental sug-
gestion-of the supremacy OF mind
over matter-of the startling victory
OF mesmerism over a stomach ache
Rumors of a strange hypnotic power
possessed by Miller Higgins came to
US often this year. but. frankly, we
were highly skeptical. Only too often
had we seen Higgins make futile at
tempts to turn a lemon into a peach
by mental suggestion and to convert
sucker into a real ball player by the
laying on of hands and the making of
mystic passes. But yesterday Svengali
had his Trilby-and Higgins con-
vinced US.
When Trilby Bush reported at the
Harlem pasture yesterday he had been
through two days of suffering from a
COLI, stomach trouble and the heat. He
staggered through the gate into the
hA at-nxk l1A s..t.
and moane his way into his uniform.
Bush was sic.s A hush as thick as ~
trlde's pie crust settled over the Yankee
camp. Bush. who was due to take
mat odd game from Ty Cobbs men. was
aiiicted with so prosaic an ailment as
pain In his pantry Better warm up
Waite Hoyt or maybe Jinx Jones.
Bush Is Hypnotfzed.
But Svengali Higgins only smiled
lie put Bush into a wheel chair and
got him out on the field. "See that
diamond. Joe? Well, you're going out
taere and pitch four hit shutout.
You're going out there and make Ty's
team look like lot of false alarms.
1t Is l. Miller Higgins. who says 1t
IL Is !, Miller Higgins, who wills 1t p
emitted the small manager as he looked
Trilby straight in the eye and made
Few strange movements with his bunch
Z of fives.
4 smile 1t up Trilby's quaint phiz.
He had become hypnotized With one
bound he was out of his wheel chair,
with another he was out in the box
and then the pulsating drama OF the
victory OF mind over matter and a
stomach ache began to unfold itself
In the thick heat and humidity OF as
mean an afternoon as We have had at
the local lot this season.
Bush did not pitch four hit shutout.
Trilby obeyed his master for seven
innings and kept the Tigers to just four
scattered hits and nary a run. But IN
the eighth inning the spell was broken.
The heat proved just a little more
powerful than Svengali's suggestion and
Trilby began to wabble. Quick, Sven
gall, the smelling salts !" Joe was heard
to moan as he was thrown out of his
trance by a double by Clark, which
opened the eighth. A single by Jones
scored Clark with the Tigers lone run,
Joe managed to crawl through that
inning and then staggered to the dugout,
where he collapsed. Doc Woods and
his white duck trousers worked over
the PROSTATE Trilby for some time be-
fore they were able TO open his baby
blue eyes. Trilby trotted off the field
amid the banzais OF the assembled
VlIlaEerb. lie HAu VuOne Iis Quly anu
done II nobly. He had not only pitched
well but delivered a nice single and a
telling double.
While Bush was putting the Tigers
through their futile PAGES the Yankees
were plastering and bastinadoine
George Dauss. who was quite a pitcher
the year Roosevelt rode UP San Juan
Hill and very often scared the Yanks
with ''Booh" in years gone by. But
COflfdn'f HRnnh -
terday.
The Tigers failure to hit Bush soon
got on their frazzled nerves and they
began to take on the general appear
aace of a lot of wilted collars. The
Yanks found that they could work about
anything and everything, while the
Bengals. suffering a severe relapse,
found that they could do nothing right.
Why, our Yanks went so far as "a
work the squeeze Honest Injun! They
pulled II for their second run in che
second inning with Ward on third and
Witt doing the bunting. Even the Babe
got to bunting and made his second
s!ngle--he got only two one baggers--
by dumping the ball toward Jones in
the seventh.
Four Runs fn Fourth.
The Yanks were at their crest and the
Tigers at their worst In the fourth.
which saw four runs tor the locals.
Ward walked TO start II and Scott
dribbled 60 Dauss, who elected to got
Ward at second but got nothing o. the
sort. Bush doubled 10 right, scoring
Ward. Witt flied TO Cobb hut Dugan
beat out hit to Jones. sending Scottie
home. Ruth beat out a hit to Cutshaw,
scoring Bush. Then came passed ball
and Plpp's sacrifice fly TO Cobb, which
sent Dugan home with run No. 4, and
put tho game far out OF reach of che
gasping Tigers.
As the Browns beat the se..ators yes