The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Yankees Score ShutOut
in Opener With Indians
Win by 3 to 0, Woods Muff
Letting a Couple In at
the Start.
by DANIEL.

Judged by the 1922 standards of
baseball yesterdays game at the Polo
Grounds was a bit of the drab and
dull. There were no managerial cas-
ualties, nobody kicked ball around or
tossed 1t over the grand stand. nobody
bing. or sulking. not a soul soaked out
a home run. a triple or even a lowly
double.
All that happened was just an old
fashioned pitchers battle between
Waite Hoyt and Stanley Coveleskie-
a tense scrap in which each allowed
only half a dozen singles and which
developed one of those rare. obsolete
shutouts as antique as the nummified
whiskers OF Rameses or a flapper in
long skirts. Fully recovered from
their unpleasant meetings with the
c1awing Tigers the Yankees happily
did the shutting out-defeated the In
dians in their first appearance of the
season here by to o.
Despite the absence of the aforernen-
toned ultra modern trimmings 1t proved
a contest which truly was a dcligh.
and some 10000 fans soaked it In like
cool refreshing breeze after a torrid,
humid day. The air was thick. not with
lefty wallops, but with oodles and
codes of pitching skill. forceful physical
flinging and grade A mental singing
which, but for a costly tumble by Joe
Wood In the first inning. would have
permitted only one run to see the light
OF day.
Hoyt I'm Two Had Places.
Hoyt. with a battling change OF pace
and fine curve ball, had the edge on
the spitball throwing Pole. The Flat
bush bridegroom got himself into
couple of tight places, but seemed To
insert himself into these for the particu-
lar purpose OF showing that he could
extricate himself unscathcd. Only III
the sixth inning could the Indians put
two hits together, but the second safely
came with two down. and then Joe
Sewell made it three out all out.
Hoyt appeared to be in real jeopardy
In the seventh when steve O'Neill's sec
ond of three hits was sandwiched be-
tween passes to Wood and CovelesKie
This filled the bases with only one OUT
and. oddly enough. brought cheers from
the third base sector of the grand stano.
which appears TO have made some
money on the Detroit series. Doe
yamieson. who had hit one OF those
singles in the sixth, forced Wood at
the plate. Then Wambsganss sent up
a high. tickle foul, which Pipp shared
after a great run. and Hoyt permitted
himself the luxury of a smile once more.
This man ONeill did half the hit
ting for the Indians. lie got three
singles. Stuffy McInnis. usually tougn
customer at the Polo Grounds, slammed
nut two hits-and then there was tnd'
blow by Jameson to make. UP the
round half dozen. Iris speaker WITS
the same old rowing outfield---fast ana
( sure and uncanny in his judgment OF
hitters. but after walking in the firsI
Iris registered a trio OF failures WIN
the bat
miller Gets Two Hits.
For the Yankees Elmer Miller was
the most successful hitter, the oniy
one to get a couple OF sateues' s
bv Pipp brought Wood into that mess
I'm tbe first. and swat by Frank Baker
Who is blowing himself 10 a slump,
drove in the only counter earned py
the New Yorks. in the eighth.
mass TO Witt, who had also walked
IN tho fifth. a neat sacrifice by Fcwster
and then j. Franklin's crack 70 risn'
took the fluky aspect off the local tri-
,,mph. A hit by Miller followed out
Pipp forced Baker at the plate ana ,nei'
Speaker hadc an elite catch or Ward
fIv TO the center field Dleacher border
The two runs in the first--,n facial
+be action-carle with two out. Having
seen Witt pop to Gardner ana havips
famed Fewster. Covey decided TO take
no chances with Baker and that 1ihht
field stand. The canny Pole decided
that discretion still was the better part
of yalor and worked on Frank with the
result that he had to give MN, ire
ticket. Covey preferred to do business
with Miller. and our Elmo resented the
slight with a single to left. Baker stop
ping at second.
wood Let's Two Bounce In
pinn selected prime spitball and
SEATED n into right Wood took the
hound high. then let the pellet keep right
ON travelling out OF his hands. The pan
bounced and bounced until IL met ihc
right field wali---and Baker and Miller
bounced and bounced until they nau
scored. pipp got all the way TO third
hut there. Ward left him. IL was
Costly mutt at the time. but that run
in the eighth was all the Yanks needed
yesterday.
It's hard to judge ball CLUB on one
game. but from what we saw YESTERDAY
The Indians have slowed up about ~ per
cent. since Jast season. They passed up
a couple OF double plays and were not
az alert and fleet as they might have
been on the paths. They were wiid
Comanches In 1921, but they look Ike
soft Seminolcs now.
seweirs work at short was big Inn
provcment over what he showed here
last year. Mc1nnis has plugged up that
gap at first--he made q wonder STOP
on witt in the first and robbed MN Oh
a hit--but other positions show de-
chine. Tho score:
CLEVELAND tA) NEW YORK (A)
abrh o n g alb n o
Ja,esonif 400 0 olwitt.rf.... 2lo 2 90
NV,gsna Oh 4OO JOlFcwster,lf ~ 300 90