New-York tribune., 1922-09-20

4 distance slams in the eighth
g 10 pipp and Meusel, both ad-
!, slams of that sort, gave the
4 oss run aud the lead, and forth
shev reased TO bother about what
s-o night tell of the St Louis
They knew their league lead
aa va nat safer, whatever their late
esss~ sss.s sbs Browns, right in the thick
.Ssl..,., ~ nap bottle belt, might do. Ruth
~ Is.i;xeYea long hit in the eighth
ss a@s p;np and Mcusel collaborated
80, .s ,ss;r extra base hits 80 win the
/ N.. mi the Babe was thrown out
wig 70 scere
! d. gtevEs we're set down by the
e.astsrs abosif ar hour after the Yam
/ les. lad 6nished here, the New York
issd h he peauant race was stretched
| 70 two snd half games.
Pitching Tells Story
gessing up with the Yanks has it's
4 .rsls sad vexatious, for the Hugmen
s-ssf hitting hard enough to create
4 ,srksureness that they're going to win
| tss psansnt. Their hitting hasn't been
ssy toe violent since they left Phila-
lsipAis, but they are getting some of
ahe best pitching any team could be
ssses with, and they are making their
daeed quantity Of hits win.
4 Which is about all that could be
,:s.s The Ysnks played smarter base
isll than the Tigers to-day, and in the
.sysnth inninr outusncuvcred the home
tssm on double steal, which produced
very useful ran Ruth in the first
ming Let fly with his thirty-fonrth
some Yun, drive good for two tallies
I'd ret negligible fl or itself.
pillette was very effective from the
s-,t inning 10 the seventh, bat stun
bisd a good deal in The eighth, in which
II. Ysnks would have made more runs
Z puth hadn't tried to stretch a three
tssser into homer, perfectly legiti
mate chance to take. however,
sssnee he was juStihed in taking,
Tins fsnks prior 10 that had beer miss
iny chances by hitting into double
pl5ys and other frsilties provoked by
he good pitching of Pillette.
In the last seven innings the De-
troiserg made but one hit off Jones,
land in the last seven innings only
wenty-one of them went 10 bat. in
+ he second inning hit was given to
pljette on what the writer would have
scored an error ny Pipp, although
pipp would have headed his man il
Jones had done his duty and covered
frsi The error of omission put
pilletfe on frst, and only three real
hits we're made eff Jones. s=
4 there's ANYTHING around to be hit
vita, Whitley Witt gets it A pitched !
taI hit him in the first inning to-
.Gqy. Dugan forced him when Hsney,
Ehe hamnersd-dovn little man with
wonderfully quick pair of hands,
Fcpped Dug5n's savage smash and
arsw Witt out st second, Ruth met
10 ball with the end of hts bat, q ball
g the outside, and hit over Cobb's
Ut into the center field stand, send
: Dugsn in ahead
Tigers Score Early
snes with two out, passed Cobb in
9st inning. and Veach scored Ty
I,Fh triple past pipp. Jones passed
iahergill, making two walks in the
Ming, and then Scott threw cut Gut
saw The Tigers made two runs in
ha second on one hit. Jones, still
sogadering, hat Riguey and Woodall
'Ipled on \ hit and run play. Rig
reg tailed. which he would have done
yltaout its being hit and run play.
Tie aforementioned debacle on
pillstte followed, and after it
iserifee fly by Blue to Ruth, or which
Wsadall tailed
After that nothing but zeros for
Dstroit Tige and one lonely hit. The
Isnks in the fourth, fifth and sixth
iTnings had the first man on without
Hesing. Meusel hit into a double
rsy in the fourth, Scott did likewise
in the fifth. Witt opened the sixth
With q single. Dugan sacrificed, Ruth
vas parsed, Pipp flied to Cobb, Meusei
'oob strikes and was called out.
Two bases on balls of Pillette's be-
stowal reacted against him heavily in
The seventh inning. Schang, with none
out, drew the first one, and Jones, with
two out, drew the second. Haney
meanwhile had made a fine stop on
scott and robbed him of a hit. Schang
advshced on the out and then Jones
walked: Enter here the double steal.
"eodall was late getting his throw
away because Cutshaw or Rigney,
ones job it was, was slow
,,,sVerlng second. Cutshaw took the
,,tafsw, but by that time Jones was
mere and Schang busted for home
:, ,a'shaw had to come up with a low
.afow and didn't even throw home to
Aesd off Sefang.
The Yanks began the eighth meekly
enough, Dugan being called out on
,sElSes. Ruth tripled to the left field
.elee' The ball came back fast on the
,,soonhd, and Veach, who had gone out
0E S IT. had TO turn to pursue it toward
he diamond. -ye collered Ruth by
making a great throw to Woodall. it
ppesfed that the Babe lost some speed
= tns neighborhood of third base. |
,oafie a OLeary signsled him to stop
y y t1ird, yet had he carried his speed |
y = me I way it wouldn't have been hard !
W :. MN to make the hit home run.
sipe spiashed two-bagger into |
saehs patrol, and the Yanks, seeing |
y .s,' wasted run, felt like biting a few |
sas, gu II not a few more than that, but |
sis better when Meusel slit pace with |
mner to E.ght for three bases and |