The New York herald., 1922-05-25
Meusel, Co-Exile With Swatter
de Luxe, Finally Bangs
Out Home Run.
WALTER JOHNSON IN BOX
Far Famed Pitcher Retains
Considerable Speed and Feeds
1t in Proper Doses.
Ba w. o. McGEEHAN.


Opportunity knocked twice with loud
raps at Babe Ruth's door at the Polo
Grounds and broke both hands. OPP
portunity found nobody home but a
young gentleman with a wide waist
line. Twice the bases were filled with
Yanks and the customers were filled
with great expectations when the
Babe came to bat and twice nothing
happened. The show with this double
anti-climax ended with the Senators
winning the ball game by 5 to 8.
1t could not have been because Wal
ter Johnson was pitching that the
Babe did not kit anything, for the
name of Walter Johnson meant Moth
ing at all to Ruth in the days when
he was bouncing the pill against the
horizon. He wasn't hitting yesterday.
That was all. Maybe his circum-
ference has something to do with 1t
because all of the pitchers are dealing
them to the Babe about knee high and
the Babe is so portly that he cannot
etoop. ~
Five times the stout young gentleman
came to bat without getting as much
as single. AS the ninth started he
walked out to the left field garden as
detected as though he intended to eat
worms. He seems to be- faced with the
discomforts of dieting or something
equally rigorous to reduce his equator.
Just at present 1t would take quite as
much time to circumnavigate Ruth as
1t would to circumnavigate Wilbert
Robinson, and anybody knows that this
would be a job for Magellan.
Busy in Left Field.
! While Ruth did nothing at all in the
socking line he was quite busy in left
field. His brother exile. Bob Meusel.
however came to life and drove home
run into the left field bleachers. But
the crucial home run of the day was
executed by Senator Sam Rice, who
won the game with one of these things
plastered into the right field stands.
1t begins to look as though almost any
body can hit q home run but the Babe.
Nobody loves fat man.
1he first assault made on Mr.. John-
son was by Bob Meusel coexife with
Babe Ruth but evidently not made quite
so stout as the Babe by the corn husks
which are fed to baseball prodigals
Meusel drove one far into the left field
bleachers for home run. which ought
to entitle Robert to a slice of the fatted
veal to which Babe Ruth has been given
more than a second helping.
Walter Johnson interested the custom
ers quite as much as of yore. Despite
rumors to the contrary this interesting
old gentleman retains considerable speed.
though he is not as prodigal OF 1t as ne
used to be. He saves 1T till he needs 1t,
and then the boys are aware that the
ball has passed directly ocer the plate
when they are reminded by the slap of 1t
against the catchers mitt. There is moth
ing senile about the Johnson fast ball.
1t doesn't come 50 often, that's ALL
Our Mr.. Samuel Pond Jones began to
he annoyed in the fifth inning with one
out Peckinpaugh, the sad faced Yankee
outcast, laid down a bunt and scooted
TO the sack ahead of 1t. Walter John
son drove a clean single to center, send
Ing Peckinpaugh to third. Harris lifted
a fly to Meusel who threw toward the
plate and might have nailed Peck, but
Jones intercepted that ball. Peckinpaugh
scored.