The New York herald., 1922-07-12
SHOCKER BRILLIANT
BUT is OUYLUCKED
Wards Drive DETECTED by
Williams Into Bleachers
for q Homer. .
ToBIN PRESENTS A RUN
Muff and Wild Throw on Fly
Send Ruth Around-Bush
Wins by 2 to 1.
By w. o. McGEEHAN.

The Yankee owners should nail. or
rather rivet over the door the magic
horseshoe that gave them yesterdays
2 to 1 victory over the st. Louis
Browns in the first game Of the most
.'croocial" OF the "croocial" series
which the Yanks have played to date.
The spell Of that horseshoe is potent.
A diver carrying It with him In a
dive into the Gowanus Canal would
come up with a handful Of pearls.
It took something that potent to
overcome the Yanks' nervousness In
the face OF their hated Nemesis. Urban
Shocker. There Is slight strain Of
rabbit In the Yankees as a team, and
1t comes out when they have to face
Urban Shocker. And Shocker. the
spiteful splitter, knows It. When he
Is pitching to the Yanks he does not.
use mere saliva--he moistens the ball
with venom.
But the spell OF the magic horseshoe
was more potent than any that spit
baller could cast The Browns got an
honest run in the first inning in the
orthodox fashion. Then the horseshoe
started to work.
Wards Freak Homer.
\ There were two out In the Yankee
half Of the second inning when Aaron
Ward shot q liner toward the left field
fence. Kenneth Williams who has becn
acting home run king of the American
A..- - H. % Mt T..kA
started after It. Williams made wild
leap into the air and stuck out his glove.
The ball struck 1t and bounded lightly
into the bleachers for home run. This
sort OF thing has happened before but
It is. to put 1t mildly. a bit unusual
The score remained tied until the sixth
inning. Then Babe Ruth hoisted high
fly to right field. There was no baro-
graph attached to the ball to measure
the exact altitude 1t attained. But It
! must have reached a considerable height.
Apparently the moisture which Shocker
put on the ball turned to ice, for It slid
through Tobin's glove and dropped to
the grass.
Ruth continued to trot around the
bases. When the ball hit the grass he
sped up and reached third base winded
Tobin made wild heave and the ice
weighted ball swerved away from "Jop-
AtA xIO9SA SoOAS WIN was IkOlOlIi6 QOWU
third for <he Browns. Ruth was putting
like an asthmatic porpoise from his run.
hut he managed to stumble the rest of
the distance to the home plate AS far
as the net results were concerned II
might have been a home run.
OF course It Is too early in the year
to sit back and say that a couple of
uncanny accidents of this sort may de-
eide e pennant race, but 1t Is certain
that they will have something to do with
the shaping of 1t. Yesterday the Yanks.
with the possible exception of Wally
Schang and Joe Bush, faced Shocker
with the trepidation that file of school
boys have as they gather outside the
principals office.
It is hard to tell where the Yanks
get this strain Of rabbit that they some
times show as a team. Certainly not
from the vice-president of the corpora
tion--the gallant Col Tillinghast
LHommedieu Huston--who shouldered
his shovel and marched OF with the en-
gineers to every war there was. Nor
yet from Col. Jacob Rupert, who slugged
toe to toe and hurled dollar for dollar
with Harry Sinclair during the great
Federal League war. But there is a
slight strain OF rabbit there. neverthe-
less. 4. eg
williams Drives I'm Run.
The Browns honest run came in the
sirst inning. Johnny Tobin singled to
: right field. After Gerber had popped
out George Slsler was thrown out by
Bush and Tobin went to second. Ken
meth Williams, who gives limitations
OF Ruth in st. Louis and all points
West. singled to center and Tobin scored.
That one run, with Shocker pitching.
looked bigger than dozen with any other
T.
ing. Of course, Coveleskie, johnson and
a few other American League hurlers,
who can make the Yankee Angora
stand on its hind legs or hop through
hoops.
: Joe Bush did not take any stock at all
In the Nemesis. Joseph was born in
Minnesota. in which stolid Scandinavian
province they do not believe In such
things. So Joseph Just went ahead
and pitched baseball with the result that
he pitched some very good baseball. In
the sixth inning he retired Gerber, Sisler
and williams on four pitched balls They
all looked decidedly similar to Joseph.
In the fourth inning Kenneth WILL
dams and Aaron Ward had a few words
not directly bearing on the game in the
vicinity OF second base. Williams tried
to steal second but ran into the ball al
the hands of Ward after Schang had
hrduc hH ASSuAdec pcs VhildIln ap-
parently tried to knock the ball out OF
Wards hands. and the pair began to
growl like couple of Airedales which
had not been properly introduced. But
hostilities were prevented by the inter-
vention OF Tommy Connolly. the great
peacemaker.
when Sisler came to the bat IN the
first inning he got reception the like
of which Is given to Babe Ruth when
ne returns after suspension. There Is
no homo team feeling under the lee OF
Coogan's Bluff. The Polish Grounds
ecem to be neutral territory. The hero
OF st. Louis, Podunk or any place else
can step onto any OF the vacant ped
estals any time he pieases at the Polo
Grounds. Also he can step right of
with great rapidity when he starts to
slip.
Tho score
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