The New York herald., 1922-07-03
After That Waite Hoyt Pitches
One of His Best Games
and Wins.
SCOTT'S WORK BRILLIANT
Hungry Harris Is Scolded for
Passing Ruth Twice and
Retires in Sixth.
BY w. o. McGEEHAN.


Babe Ruth recorded his twelfth
home run and the Yanks beat Mr.. Nc
Gillicuddy's Living Skeletons by to 3
ct the Polo Grounds yesterday II
may be lack of civic pride or may be
civic virtue 10 record in the same
breath that Clarence Walker, the pride
Of Limestone, Tenn, got two home
runs in the same game and that Mr.
Walkers homers were healthier socks
than the homer of Ruth, but such are
the facts. Walkers homers went we'll
into the left field bleachers, while
Ruth's drive made the lower right
field stand by few inches.
Much more impressive than the
home run was the noble and forgiving
nature of the Babe. who was heard
to say to Bill Dinneen, Hello, Bill"
and to Umpire Hilderbrand, Hello,
Hildy." The Babe has forgiven Hider-
brand for having his face in the way
when he was throwing sand and has
shown that he is willing to forget that
Dinneen got his shins caught in his
spikes.
After being annoyed twice by Clar-
ence Walker, who hit home runs with
monotonous regularity the first two
times up. Waite Hoyt. the Brooklyn boy
wonder, settled down to his knitting and
pitching. 1t was Hoyt himself who drove
ir the winning runs for the Yanks with
triple that caromed Off the right field
wall III addition Hoyt got a couple of
singles. three hits in ALL which is con-
sidered good batting for a pitcher con-
sidering the humidity and all that sort
Of thing.
scott's Work Brilliant.
The shortstopping OF Everett Scott of
the Yanks was so fast and brilliant that
II gave some of the customers head
aches. those of them who had anything
In the heads to ache. Scotty was flash
ing through the infield, getting them
after they eluded McNally on one side
and Ward on the other. He was in so
many places OF the infield at so many
times that one guest of the pest box re-
marked, That guy, Scott, looks like he
was twins or maybe triplets."
Hungry Harris, who started for the
Athletics had an uncomfortable after
noon. The customers were picking on
him for passing Ruth twice and there lis
not much of Harris to be picked on. His
figure is entirely concave with the ex-
ception of the cheeks, which are arti-
ficially rounded out. one with tobacco
and one with gum He left after the
sixth inning, which was where Hoyt
banged out the triple.
Col Tillinghast L'Homm erlieu Huston
was the victim of an awkward mishap.
The Colonel was wearing the lucky iron
boiler despite the temperature. In the
second inning he sought to lift II to mop
his steaming brow, but the hat could not
be lifted. 1t seems that the concrete
with which 1t had become permeated at
the new Yankee ball park had become
affected by the humidity and that the
hat had become cemented to the gallant
Coloners head.
Phil Lynch a brother engineer, bor-
rowed chisel and was about TO remove
the lid by force when the Colonel pro-
tested. ''Chisel at the native rock IL you
must" he said. "but spare the lucky lid"
At a late hour the hat was reported
firm on it's foundations.
1T ResembIed Habit.
walkers first homer went high up
into the left field bleachers In the first
inning. In the fourth inning he shot
ball caromng off a vacant seat and
bounding back into the field. II be-
gan to look like habit.
The Yanks got their first run in the
second inning. Pipp singled and stole
second. Ward got a base on balls.
Hoffman singled to center. Then
Waite Hoyt slammed one to left, scor-
ing Pipp.
There was rush of Yanks In the
sixth. Pipp doubled to left and took
third on a sacrifice by Ward. Scott
drove double into left. scoring Pipp,
which tied. Hoffman got a base on
balls. Then Hoyt himself bounced the
ball off the left field wall for a triple.
scoring Scott and Hoffman
The Athletics got one more in the
seventh. Welsh doubled and scored on
a single by Scheer. who went in to do
some pinch hitting for Harris. The
hungry one was passing out of the
lot when this run was scored. The
Yanks got another one In their half of
the same. Lanl< Bob Meusel got a base
on balls, took second on passed ball,
went 60 third on Pipp's out and scored
on Wards hit.
In the eighth the Yanks ratified the
stats Of the skeletons. Hoffman got a
base on balls. and Hoyt got his third
hit. this time off Moore. who was yanked
for Yarrison. Whitley Witt singled and
nlled the bases with Yanks. McNally
singled and Hoffman scored. while Hoyt
was nicked at the dish.
This brought up the Babe. who lined
home run into the right ned stands.
scoring three runs in all. The twelfth
home run brought the usual shower OF
millinery.
The score:
PHILA. (A) NEW YORK (A)
vo,r, Oh aen,h afen,,h ssv,,c, sbbfho sc
Perkins,c 40t 3 0lMcN'ly3b 5fi o II
Walker.lf 422 n OORuth,lf.. 312 o.
Milier,cf 900 q 0lMeusel.rf al oO
McG'n,cf 900 2 OlPipn. III. bi3i3 II
G'way.ss 401 4 coward, ,2b 3fl 4C
Hauser,f ,fb 800 3 e0lScott SIS. 51l 90
weich.rf 4l2 3 9QH'mann,c 221 3 OC