The New York herald., 1922-09-20


extensively packed bleachers on the
three base hit which shook the center
the run getting was concerned when
thirty-fifth home run.
While the net result was highly
satisfactory, the progress of the
skirmish was highly nervous. Miller
Huggins, after a restless night OF
thinking on the Wabash Railway
elected Sad Sam Jones to work against
Herman Pillette, the spidery youth
who has caused the Yanks SO much
annoyance.
Sad Samuel started sadly enough and
for a few innings he dropped like a
paid lilly about to crumple on it's stem.
But he revived as the game progressed
and finished merriIy instead of sadly
plastering a two base hit with consider
able emphasis against the tall score
board which rears it's statistic-inlaid
face in center field. If somebody had
been able to move the score board the
ball might have gone into Harry Tut
hills front yard for home run.
While Sad Sam Jones was holding
the Tigers at bay the Washington Sena-
tors beat the st. Louis Browns. which
places the Yankees two and a half
games In the lead. This news makes 1t
evident that the population of st. Louis
never will recover from the parting
blow that Whitley Witt gave them yes
terday. In the words of Marcus Aure-
Illus Roth. the Yankee traffic manager.
''they hit him between the eyes with
bottle. He hit them between the eyes
with bat and they won't never get
up" 1t begins to look that way.
CoIonel's Secret Is Out.
Your correspondent can see now why
Colonel Tillnghast L'Hommediau Hus-
ton has absented himself from the last
few games. They have been of such a
highly nervous nature that they would
have given the Colonel more violent pail
pitation Of the knee than he has ever
sustained. The stands of the west are
not as solid as those al the Polo Grounds
and the Colonel feared that if he got
one of these attacks during a critical
point in one of the games 1t might shake
down the stands.
1t is not that the Colonel would think
about himself in such a calamity but he
fears that innocent parties might be in
jured If he should like a modern Samson
shake down a grand stand or two. There
might be women and children among the
spectators.
While today's skirmish was mere guer-
rflla fighting compared to the pitched
battle in st. Louis. 1t had its thrills
The first came when the Babe, after
receiving the usual wreaths of vocal
raspberries which are thrown at him in
all places west. hit the more or less his
toric homer to the full steerage. This
1.
Witt on. 1t gave the Yanks two runs
TO start with and ought to have made
Sad Sam Jones smile bit. But Sam
has been pursued so closely by the jnx
pack this year that he was not heartened
in the least.
The Tigers got one run against him
in the first and two in the second. AS
II is highly desirable from the point of
view of the Yankee owners and all men,
bers of the team that the Yanks lose
as few ball games as possible from now
until the first of October this looked de-
cidedly ominous.
Double Steal Ties Things.
In the seventh the Yanks had 1t tied
up with double steal which was ac-
complished by Schang and Jones, both
of these athletes having reached the
bases by being passed by Mr.. Herman
Pillette. In achieving his part of the
steal Jones inadvertently stepped upon
the pet corn of Mr.. Cutshaw, late OF
Brooklyn, N. Y. but who Is now doing
some second base work in these parts.
The salvos of heavy artillery that
settled 1t came in the eighth inning af-
ter Jumping Joseph Dugan had let the
third strike whistle by him. That has
been one of the reasons why these strug-
giles have been so close and intense. The
heavy htters OF the Yanks have devel-
oped this eccentricity. When curved
balls shoot over the pan or dish they
peer at the ball intently as though ex-
smining the seams. When the umpire
says "out" they register much indigna-
tIon as they awaken from the reverie SO
rudely interrupted.
With Dugan out Babe Ruth plastered
the ball against the center field fence.
it boundedFback so vigorously that II
had all the outnelders tangled up like
three excited ee's in a basket. The Babe
started to circle the bags. Until he
reached second he was speeding like a
race horse. but passing the half mile
post. as our esteemed racing reporter
might call second base while In a merry
mood, the Babe began to slow up a bit
In the meantime the outfelders were
discntagling themselves. Mr.. Charles
O'Leary. the veteran railroad man who
handled the traffic signals at third base.
was agitatedlysemaphoring the Babe to
stop. look and listen at that point. But
the Babe needed not Mr.. OLearys warn
ing. He rounded third base putting like
a whale in landing net and started
for home.
In the meantime Mr.. Veach who had
unwound his leg from the neck OF Mr..
Cobb. his manager. located tho rolling
ball and started to heave II at the home
plate. IL reached the mitt Of Doodal,
who stood waiting for the Babe as he
puffed UP with the appearance Of one
or those locomotives with n leaky
cylinder head that they attach to the
baseball specials.
Game Becomes Loose Again.
This waste energy and speed made the
game look decidedly loose again II was
az this point that the agitated knee OF
Col Tillinghast L'HommedIeu Huston
would have been undermining the rather
delcately constructed stands that Mr..
Navin has erected on this spot.
Ruth had hardly recovered enough
breath to get to the dugout under his
own steam than up rolled Walter Pipp
and lashed two Dagger to left field.
This only increased the Indignation of
the strategists and made the situation
more melancholy
"You Sec" said the head correspondent,
EFF Ruth had only needed the traffic