The New York herald., 1922-08-19
BABE ruth SETTLES
IT With HOME RUN
-
First Up in Extra Session, He
Slams First Pitch Into
Stand.
MEUSEL ALSO HITS ONE
Drives In Three Tallies-COl-
lins Gets His Lone Four
Bagger-Score, 3 to Z.
ny DANIEL.

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o'clock last evening had its origin on
the bonny south bank of the limpid
Harlem. The soothing zephyr came
from the enormous bat swung by the
prodigious Babe Rutland let us
hasten to. announce that 1t was not
swung in vain. First up In the tenth
inning the Babe lit on the first pitch
delivered by the entirely left handed
Jobett Davenport. and the Chicago
southpaw Immediately folded up like
any other day bed. One terrific whirl
of the gigantic claymore sent the ball
into the right field stand for Ruth's
twenty-third home run and won for
the Yankees In their opening skirmish
with 1.-The altogether too troublesome
White Sox by to Z.
Thai crash into the bourne of most
of the Babes circuit clouts not only
won, for the New Yorks but it accom-
plished another highly salutary result.
As. st. Louis lost to the Athletics the
victory in Harlem put the Higgins
troupe into a tie with the Browns for
the league leadership--a tie as even
and as absolute as it could be. Each
clubahas won 6S games and lost Al, for
an average of .591. Having over
hauled the st. Louis gang, which had
eluded them time after time, the
Yankees declare with vehemence that
they intend to put on a little more
steam and take the pacemaker's job
all for themselves.
Ruth, the great peacemaker pro-
vided mN,t dramatic climax to a bat
tie IN which he drove in four runs and
which was as peppery as mess of
Hungarian goulash and as thick with
stirring developments as picnic cake
is with ants. Not the least throbbing
contribution to the hot afternoons
events~was a three run homer by Bob
Meusel which gave a one run lead to
the Yankees in the sixth inning An
other affair which caused rush of
blood to the heads of many of the as
scmbled villagers was a home run by
the polite and always pertinent Eddie
Collins.
Collins Drives In Two Runs.
Eddie pushed his only four Dagger
Of the season into the well known right
field pavilion in the first inning in the
wake of hit by Strunk and sent the
Sox fpto a lead of two runs---which
advantage. by the way, the Yankees dis
counted in their half. mainly through
the agency of a most peculiar triple
off Sheely's glove by the same old Ruth
who later socked that Homeric homer.
Another affair which caused rnsh
of corpuscles to the craniums of most
of the 10000 onlookers-a food which
created many vacuum in the feet-was
a pretty little muff by the same old
Meusel who contributed that homer In
the sixth. Having driven in three runs
Bob hastened to tie himself for the day
with three rum attack of butter An
gers in the eighth. With two gone Bob
got mixed UP with the suns glare and
let Falk's fly slip from his clutch. One
run scooted in Immediately and two
more came galloping on horseback. to
be driven into the score pronto by a
single by Hervey Mcclellan.
1t was this skein of three runs which
tied things up for the Sox and made II
necessary for Ruth to slam his homer
IN the tenth. Not that the Babe objected
one bu.s As for that muff OF Meusers, ii
efould be pardoned now that all's well.
for in the sixth he saved the game
With Il dazzling throw that cut off a
rum at the plate Collins was tire
victiu,.
That oft mentioned home run by Ruth
brought smile TO the quaint phiz OF
Trilby~Joe Bush-for who was 1t but
Trilby who got the credit for the victory,
and that for pitching only two innings,
In which he faced seven men. However
assthe-score was tied when Trilby re-
lieved ;. Pond Jones. the saddest of all
the bejinxed OF this great season Of
jnxes. Bush received official credit for
the triumph.
This means twenty victories and nine
in q row for Bullet Joe, and no other
pitcher in the majors has winning
streak of these proportions. There are
q couple OF eights. but Bush's nine Is
aloneT-sui gencris-a rara avis and all
that, sort of thing.
The Yankees gave the White Sox blow
for blow. run for run, until the Ruthian
climsx x--and more than pitcher for
pitcher. Huggins was not 20 be outdone
even In the matter of Fingers. The
Chicagos showed us Ted Blankenship.
then Davenport. and we showed Waite
Hoyt. then Jones and Hnally Bush. This
put New York ono up in pitchers
The manner of Hoyt's quitting the
scene was most extraordinary. He
wasn't hit out of the game. He bit
himself out of II. The Flatbush Bride
groom had trouble with Hildebrand all
through his tenure In fact all the
Yanks bad trouble with Hildebrand. In
the fifth Hoyt pitched what he thought
was a strike to McClellan---and Hide
brand bawlcd. Ball" Hoyt demurred
and tossed another apparently right over
the pan. Ball bawled his majesty.
the arbiter.
Bites or "A FingcrnniI.
Hoyt became so flustered that he bit
one of his finger nails down to the
quick. When Mcclellan soaked double
to left Waite took another chew on his
nail and bit the blooming thing off.
Schallx sacrificed and Blankenship
farncd. The blood then began to gush
from the pitchers finger and he had to
take himself and his finger to tho club
house. where Doc Woods put 1.-THE
finger, not Hoyt--in a plaster cast In
came Jones, and the Jinx and trouble.