New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

fence in the second game. He set til
the afternoon was young, and kept
The scores were to l and Z to 3.
1t was day of terrific hitting on
the tidy little park, once the home Of
the famous champions and latterly the
home of perennial door mats. The
Hugmen, pressing forward with giant
strides and confirming the augury that
they would come back drove the Mack
men before them. AS Ruth goes so
goes the Yankees has oftentimes been
said, and that prophecy was made good
to-day
1t has been many and many day
since the Bambino looked as good at
the plate as he looked to-day. He
strobe into the ball and timed his
swing perfectly. The ball drove away
on long arc and was far out of the
park The first homer of the day for
the Babe came in the third inning of
the first contest, with Mike McNally
on base. The second was in the fourth
inning of the nightcap, with none on
base, and the third came in the seventh,
" IN lUe DHStS tIilPts' w diQ Sot a
circuit clout in the fifth of the +inal,
scoring Ruth before him, while Walker
got two and Welch one for the Ath-
le.ics
The first battle featured Joe Bush
and Eddie Rommel, who used to be
Yankee iinx. Shawkey performed for
the Yanks in the second game and he
held the Mackmen we'll IN check Rain
threatened to break up the double
oh hoc
through the first contest and a delay
of over forty minutes resulted. A
crowd of about 10000 fans saw the
twin bill.
Mackmen First to Score
The White Elephants cut off sam
pies of Joe Bush's delivery early in
The contest and scored a tally in the
second. Bing Miller tripled to left,
aud after Galloway and Hauser fiv-
vered in the pinch, Jimmy bikes came
through with rap to center which
he stretched into a two-base hit. Mil
Ter scored, but that was all.
1t is easy to trial White Elephants
but hard to stay behind them. In the
third Witt was retired on difficult
chance to Dykes, and Mike McNally
thrashed a single to center. Rommel
then went fishing for Ruth's weakness
and pitched him low ball. The big
Babe crashed it into the left field
blcachers for his ninth home run of
the season. This blow scored McNally
from second and put the Yankees out
in front.
In the fifth the Yankees scored two
more runs. Bullet Joe Bush raped in
Il single to center field, Witt slid a
Ruth was Intentionally walked, fol-
lowing which Meusel singled to left,
scoring Bush and Witt and putting
Ruth on second. The ball advanced to
second after Perkins had slipped in
the mud catching Hoffmann's foul, but
nothing further in a scoring line was
developed.
In the last of the fifth, with two out,
Rommel banged a double to the right
center-feld fence and the fans raved.
Young, however, was easy. The game
getting anything that looked like q
base hit. The Yankees went into a
first ball attack on Rommel and did
not try hard to beat the resulting taps.
The Athletics could not fathom Bush,
but got three men on the lines through
two errors and pass. These players
were left on bases.
Babe Starts EN- Again
It was the Bambino who started the
Yankees on their way victory in the
first game and also the Bambino who
kept them going in the second. He
was the first to face Lefty Heimacn in
the fourth inning, and the young left
handler decided this would be a good
time to put into practice certain
theories he had concerning the ability
OF Ruth to hit certain deliveries. So
Lefty heaved one right down the Sc
lected alley and Babe slashcd it over
the right field fence for his tenth home
run of the season.
The Yankees then opened terrific
assault upon Hemach, not stopping
until they had made four runs and
half dozen hits, every one clean as
right field and Pipp beat out bunt.
Ward singled on the hit-and-run play,
scoring Meusel and putting Pipp on
third. Scott singled on the hit-and-
run play, scoring Pipp. Hofmann
doubled, scoring Ward, but that was
all for the moment.
In the fifth inning Ruth drew pass,
and with two out Ward drove a home
run over the boundaries of the field
and into the left field bleachers. This
\ whack scored Ruth Nothing devel-
oped in the sixth inning, but startling
happenings were soon to come.
Heimach still had ideas about what
Ruth can hit and tried again. The
giant slugger maced the ball right out
of the afternoon. clearing the fence
and even the street, and bouncing mer-
rily on the roof of a house across the
thoroughfare. Some smash!
In recording the deeds of the Yam
KEGS the scoring activities of the Ath-
letics have been sighted. In the
fourth Walker doubled and scored on a
single by Miller. In the following
frame Tillie Walker hit his fourteenth
homer of the season, and in the sixth
Welch hit a homer Walker got an
other homer in the ninth