The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-30

) OF RASPBERRY than the Marqui III
no contest.
, Emphatieally the star Of the pros
longed session was Whitley Witt, the
active Albino right fielder OF the
Yanks. lie got five hits and sacri-
flee and made one catch that apellg
bad news for one Robert Meusel. now
undergoing suspension. Meusel might
as well order himself patent rubber
he does return TO the Yank lineup he
will be sitting firmly on tie bench un.
til the end of the season il the Albino
| can keep up the pace he has started
John Picus Quinn, the eminent
Czecho- Slovak spitballer, who was
shipped to Boston by tie Yanks on
suspicion that he was too aged, held
the Yanks pretty safe in pitching
duel with Hoyt until he was hit on
the funny bone by batted ball in the
twelfth. He had to give way to Alex
Ferguson. another Yankee discard.
| who was burning for revenge for
being left on the cold doorstep OF
Harry II. frazee.
Manager Annoyed Hoyt.
Hoyt had plenty of speed out was
very wild in spots. He seemed to get
wildels every time he looked at his
manager Twice wild pitches let in
runs on him and he lost control OF
ball and temper at ono and the same
| time
1T was the sort of baseball game 10
try tempers. The Yanks and the Red
Sox got run in the sfth and sixth
and the thing passed beyond the ninth
with turbulence floating in the air.
The 1900 customers hung on 10 the
last gasp.
After the ninth both teams seemed
| TO be nervous in the face of the in.
cvitable crack that was impending.
4 Home Run Baker. who had made good
on the old nomme de guerre In tha
fourth by driving home run into the
upper stands, was passed purposcly in
the tenth after an earnest consultation
held by Duffy. Quinn and Pratt II mid
| field At the end of the thirteenth it
began TO look as though the shades OF
night would be pulled on Coogans
Bluff before the end came.
The smash came in the fourteenth.
\ space just about the diameter of the
regulation baseball between Home Run
Bakers legs started IL. Memo I.iebold
drove tho ball at the Trappe farmer
and the pill slipped through this inters
stice for q safe hit. Foster tried to
lay down a sacrifice. but Hoyt made a
quick pickup and snapped the ball 10
Ward. which forced out Liebold.
DerriII Pratt Gets Even.
Derrill Pratt. who Will bear an eternal
grievance against the Yanks for deco.
rating him with the order of the can.
picked this spot for healthy hit to
center which sent Foster to third This
brought TO bat none other than Elmer
smith late Of Cleveland. Ohio, who has
been known to sock the ball with vim
and vehemence
Hoyt was ordered TO pass Smith and
the boy wonder was peeved. He had
other ideas. He wanted TO prove that
he could make Smith heayc at much
emptiness. But the orders from the
Yank g. Ha. were TO walk the slugger
and the slugger got walked. while there
were few scattering wreaths OF wild
raspberries hurled at Hoyt from the
stands
Peeyishness at that moment was
something that Hoyt had nothing but.
Joe DuEan came up and singled huskiiv
to left field and Foster and Pratt scam.
pered across the plate. Hoyt then walked
Harris, and Burns got his base when
Scott 'fumbled one. A second wild pitch
by Hoyt let in another run.
When the inning ended with the strilo.
ing out OF Ferguson, Waite Hoyt waA
about as mad a boy wonder as the
populace ever had wondered about. re
wandered over 20 the Yankee dugout.
which at the current writing contains
more temperament than Mary Garden
ever had in her little opera company. In
fact there is more temperament there
than mere Is in the squirrel cage az
Central Park.
As young Hoyt Cor az his friends cals
him. Merit. came into the Enclosure, ha
bit out a portion Of the concrete wall.
crushed II to powder with his molars
and spat the residue on the ground. 10
looked daggers stllettos. bayonets and
siege guns AZ his manager.
Many words Were Passed.
Unfortunately there was no stcnoEs
rapher with an asbestos pad handy to
get the verbatim conversation. Your cor
respondent can only say that words
we're passed. Then those clcse to the
dugout declare that Hoyt, starting =
punch from the floor or tho dugout,
aimed Il at the devoted bean that en-
cases the intellect which directs opera
tions OF the Yanks In the field. Home
Run Baker. a man OF peace, they claim.
blocked the punch and the Incident was
declared closed.
That Is one version. Rumors fs~
about the park The latest was that
Hoyt had beaten Higgins to death ard
had hurled the body into the Harlem
River This was so largely credited that
there was debate IN tho bleachcrs ~
to whether or not It was justitiahls
homicide under tho circumstances.
Many arguments pro and con were mads
on this topic.
Immediately after Ward ended tho
Yank half OF the fourteenth the team
scurried from the field Efforts 70 gtt