The New York herald., 1922-07-16
FIRST PLACE SLIPS
FRCM YANK GRASP
Opportunity Knocks on Door
Of New York Dugout Until
Hand Is Broken.
EVEN sCHuPP HOLDS 'EM
Leverette, After Duel With
Mays, Succeeded by South
paw Castoff.
EVEN SCHUPP HOLDS 'EM
ny w. o. McGEEHAN.

II took the Yanks twelve complete
innings yesterday to lose the ball
game to the White Sox and with 1t
their chances to step into first place.
for, while the Yanks were sinking
for the third and last time. the SEN
ators were vetoing the Browns at
Washington. D. c. Kid Gleason added
thirty-seven new ones to the wrinkles
he has been collecting In his CORFU
gated face. merely from laughing at
the Yanks when they got man to
third in the ninth with Ferdinand
Stubbleheld Schupp pitching and failed
to score the winning run.
Ferdinand Is the southpaw who
started with the Giants and subse-
quently vas thrown out of about every
team in the National League. Even
Wilbert Robinson, collector of Clipped
ivory. dropped Ferdinand out of a
dining car while passing through Kan
sas City. Kid Gleason. being short of
men to fill upper berths and keep the
Pullman ballasted, acquired Ferdinand
for that purpose alone. He entered
yesterdays game after Leverette was
taken out to make room for pinch
hitter
Wards error in the eighth inning was
the main factor in keeping the Yanks
out OF first place. They had lead Of
2 to l up to that point. and with Carl
Mays going at his best after being
socked for, one home run by Ray Schalk
It looked as though the score would
stand. Schalk started the eighthN with
a single to right. Leverette was lifted
for the venerable Amos Strunk. Amos
lashed one down to Ward. who seemed
overeager, and the ball slid by him into
centerfield Schalk tore around the bags
to third. johnson poked one to Ward,
who threw to first and Schalk scored
on the out. The Yanks actually passed
awAy right then and there, but the
agony was prolonged, while the $1,000
odd customers screamed and perspired.
Aftsr that Opportunity knocked at the
door Of tho Yankee dugout until It's
hand was broken and It could knock no
moro OF all tho useless occupations the
most uSoiess n Opportunity knocking
when there 10 nobody home.
Neusels Wasted Effort.
n the ninth inning Lanlry Bob Meu-
I'd banged hit to left field. For once
IN his career Lanky Bob threw his feet
into high and started to stretch the hit
into double. Eddie Collins blocked the
path and Bob. sliding under him, ferried
him right along with him al he slid into
the bag. The customers became opti-
mistio. The scoreboard was telling the
world that the Browns were beaten and
II looked as though the spectators might
SEQ the Yanks In first place again, at
least for few moments.
Pipp sent Meusel to third with a sac
rfdca Ward was niclxed on the funny
bone BY Schupp Scott rolled one down
to Schupp. who threw to tho plate, stop
ping Meusel. II Lank Bob could have
thrust one OF those No. 10 brogues out
Just shade faster tho hoof would have
becn planted in nrst place, but It was
just BIT shy.
In the tenth inning the stage was set
FOR 4 lovely melodrama. There were two
Yanks on the bases and there was just
one out and Babe Ruth himself came to
bat The stands were shaking with an
ticipation and the air was filled with
pleadings and prayers Ruth batted
harmlessly to Eddie Collins. who tossed
to short and Ruth was doubled before he
could reach irst.
After that Opportunity soured COM
pletoly on the Yanks and went of the
field to got its knuckles repaired.
The full force Of the calamity fen IN
the twelfth. Fallx singled to rfgtt.
shecly laid down a bunt along the first
base line. Both Schang and Mays stood
waiting for It to roll foul. It rolled fair
with the peevish perverseness of a puny
pellet, and Sheely was safe.
Schalk. who had been annoying Mays
all afternoon. tried to advance both men
with sacrifice. He rolled the ball over
to third base. Then Mays executed
about as pretty bit of fielding as has
been seen for many an afternoon. The
Soft Shell Crab had his eye on the ball.
and. slipping over seized II and passed
II to McNally in time to force Falk at
third. For his pitching and his defensive
work Mays should have won. but calami-
ties In baseball fall alike upon the Just
and tho unjust.
To the surprise OF all Kid Gleason
let Ferdinand Schupp take mis- regular
turn at bat 1t looks as though the Kid
were hardly what one woufd call awed
by the Yanks. Ferdinand struck out
and It looked as though Opportunity
might return again with a mallet and
resume knocking at the door of the
Yankees dugout- But Johnson singled
TO center and Shelley scored, while
Schalk was caught squawking vocif-
erously as he tried to Follow him across
the platter.
The Question:
ne Yank half of the twelfth ended
as McNally famed. while Ruth stood
In the offlng moodily swinging three
bats. Ferdinand Schupp, who holds the
discard record for the National League,
kept the Yanks SAFE Either Ferdinand
has come back or the Yanks of yester-
day have gone back and the coming or
the going, whichever II may be- b
quite d considerable distance
Bzroubls started for Mays IN tho third
Continued on Fags SIX,