The New York herald., 1922-07-08
HOY7 And MORTON
in PITCHERS DUEL
LOCAL Hurler's Shutout Effort
Backed by Flashing
Support.
MEUSEL'S GREAT THROW
Ends Ninth Inning Rally of
Cleveland With Star Re-
lay to Third.
MEUsEL's GREAT THROW
By w. O. M'GEEHAN.


BY w. o. M'GEEHAN.
One of those peaceful and somnolent
things known as a pitchers duel oc-
Cured at the Polo Grounds yesterday
afternoon. The Yankees took their
third straight game of the current
series from the Cleveland Indians by
the score off, to 0. Waite Hoyt, the
Brooklyn Boy Wonder, and Guy Mos-
ton were theeduelists.
They might have pitched themselves
and the customers to sleep. but for
the two former exiles. Babe Ruth and
Bob Meusel. interfering. The Babe
won the game in the first inning with
single through the box that knocked
Morton part Of the way to the center
field fence and scored Witt, the agile
Albino. Lank Bob Meusel saved the
game in the ninth by heave from
right field that permitted Mique Nc
Nally to tag out Joe Wood after Mr..
Wood had wrapped most Of Mr.. NC
Nally's trouse9s around his spikes.
To the tecnnician the pitchers duel IS
a thing OF beauty, but to the average
customer the same is a fair prescription
for insomnia Why 10 is called duel never
has been made apparent in one of them.
Even Col. Tillinghast l. Hommedieu Hus-
ton, whose dynamic mind Is always on
the high in a ball park or beside
steam shovel yawned politely more than
once. Occasionally he closed his eyes as
though in deep thought over many of the
knotty problems that confront a baseball
magnate. and he snored gently as he
thought
Rum Comes I'm Fairly.
The run was in and over quickly and
in. the absolutely orthodox fashion.
Whitley Witt drew base on balls. Mique
McNally rolled sacrifice down to Nor
ton. Babe Ruth caught one square on the
beak and drove it through the box.
Morton recklessjy reached for it with his
glove and was caught in the wind vortex
in the wake of the. ball. He let go
quickly oil he might have been carried
out against the ceriter field fence and per-
haps have dented the barrier with his
head. AS it was he retarded the ball
but little and Witt scored
II that ran had not been scored till
the ninth there might have been a few
i thrills when It did come. But there 1t
was In the first. and all chance OF a melo-
drama was OF. The pitchers duel pro-
ceeded. and the customers lapsed into
q comfortable, semi-comatose state. Only
those who had brought knitting or soli-
taire decks had anything to occupy their
minds.
There was some polite interest in the
second inning, when Scott poled long
and languid three bagger to right center
with one out but Scott started for home
when Hoffman raped one to McInnis.
The stuffy one whipped the ball to third,
and Scott was trapped between the bag
and the dish. Up until the ninth the rest
was as quiet as a tense game of check
ers
In the Cleveland half Of the ninth the
Z customers began TO rub their eyes and
straighten UP preparing for the trip to
the exits. Wambsganss lifted twisting
Texas Lacquer over short. Scott made a
run for 1t, but just brushed the pill with
his digits and it dropped to the grass
for two bagger 1t looked like a
chance to tie in the ninth. Speaker
drove one to Scott, who threw to Nc
Nally.
Wood Gives ,Em a scare.I
wambsganss dashed for third and
Michael was blocking the way with the
ball In his hand. Mr.. Wambsganss
hurled himself with all his heavy con-
sonants at McNally's chest. Michael
went down, but Wambsganss was out
Joe Wood came within a few inches of
plastering the ball into the right field
stands and winning right then and there
but the breeze just carried the ball foul
and later Joseph merely forced Speaker
at second
This brought up Sewell, who drove a
clean single to right field and 1t began
to look like extra innings Wood
rounded second and was heading for
third. In the meantime lank Bob
Meusel, whose fielding seems to be inn
proving every game. scooped up the ball
and threw.
1t was a magnificent heave. The ira
jectory of 1t was as fiat as that of a
high power rifle. The ball went on the
line to McNally and bounded right into
his mitt.
Wood heard the ball strike the mitt
and made one leap, feet first for the
bag. His spikes caught in the draperies
of the slender Mique McNally, causing
a fine blush to mantle the pallid cheek
of the third baseman as he felt his
trousers rip beneath him. Mique tagged,
Wood more in anger than in sorrow
behind the ear and hastily gathered
what was left of his trousers around
him, averting what threatened to mar
the fine afternoon with a touch of
scandal
After it was over Col. Huston went
over and awakened Mr.. Charles O'Con-
4 nell of the Dublin Rotary Club. who
was a guest at the game. Mr.. O'Con-
nell Is a cricketer.
Jolly game! OH yes" commented Mr..
O'Connell. But only one run, In an
entire afternoon Is a bit thick. II seems
to me. II IL had been cricket now. by
this time we jolly we'll would have
had hundred Of two. You have too
many jolly fieders / should say. Now
IL each side could have agreed to have
omitted one of the fielders l can Jolly
well see how the bally game might
have been made bit more interesting"
I'VE did omit the center fielder once.'
said Col Huston. THAT is, we practi-
caily omitted him. We had Ping Bodie
out there"
"Ah yes. quite So" agreed Mr.. o'Con-
nell. The score:
CLEVELAND (A.) NEW YORK (Ay
alb h a 81 alb h a O
Jm's'n.lf 500 1 Q0jwitt. .cf... ali o 90
wam s,2b 500 9 1iMcNay.3b 800 2 40