Evening star., 1925-09-06
H0YT INFL!CTS 9Th
Loss IN ROW ON AS
Yanks Cop, 80, as RommeI
Tries in Vain for His 21st
Victory of Year.
BY JAMES c. IsAMINGER.

n lew YORK, September S.
IN After two, days rest the Ath-
1etics neglected to snap out
of it when they came to New York
this afternoon. The Yanks more
over pressed the shut-out button and
laid out the bedraggled Macks, 8 to O.
1t was the ninth straight loss for
the Athletics and it seems to be a
daily duty to remind readers that
they have not copped a box score
since way back on August %, 1925,
in those good old days when women
in bloomers rode bicycles and men
were called high rollers who gave 10
cent tips or knew a night hackman.
A base ball slump Is as much of a
mystery as the bulge in the hip
pocket Of a minister. The players
are fit, their muscles timber, their
eyes keen and they are all surcharged
with an ambition to win, yet they
can't.
Every chance they take loses. They
are like Republicans in Mississippi
and Democrats in Vermont. The odds
are against them.
They have it in them, want to, but
can't.
That, in nine words, is the mean
ing Of a slump.
Six hits We're all that the Athletics
could tab off Waite Hoyt's good right
arm and that doesn't win many ball
games or is It even ante money in a
poker game.
The Athletics went to the plate
confidently and left 1t disconsolately
after Hoyt's sweeping arm completed
its motion. In only. one inning could
the Athletics net as many as two
blows. That was in the fifth when
Miller md Cochrane released singles.
steered out Of the hint of peril by
throwing out Galloway and Emer-
gency Batter French.
Al Simmons was the only Mack to
make as many as two hits. He had
a pair and his individual batting
average is the one thing lofty about
Athletic batting today.
Holt Looks Good at First.
Connie Mack thought he might
mend things with new workman
today. SO Red Holt, late of the Jersey
City International League team,
brought here at an outlay of 5000
lucky bucks, so they say, had his
christening in an Athletic Uniform
and played with JUNCTION and skill In
all departments and aisles Of Abner
Doubleday's game. but he could not
quite lift brick house single handed.
There was nothing forced about his
playing. He can stop ground hits,
pick up low throws and catch fouls
as he has been doing that thing ever
since the days when he knocked over
sparrows with q slingshor.
He made ripping play in the sixth
when he shoveled up Rengouga's IS
fierce crack toward right and then
calmly whipped the ball to Baum
gartner and got his man at iirst.
Holt also combed one of the Ath-
letic hits and he will get a thorough
trial. Mack liked his unabashed man
ners today. Holt is a whopper in size
and bats left-handed.
Athletic pitching did not have to
be bad for the Macks to loose today
and the Athletic pitching was not
bad, but Is was not good enough to
win.
On August Il, ,Ronmel won his goth
game Of the season. but he ts finding
as much trouble landing that 21st
win as old man Dtogenes encountered
on his expedition with the lantern.
Rommel dropped another today, the
enemy scoring all OF their three runs
in his term of four innings. Seven
of their ten hits were also made Off
the knuckler. Baumgartner and Wal
berg, who finished the game, were
made of sterner stuff and free Yank
hitting instantly broke down when
Ed started to put on civilian dress.
There was nothing else to the game,
nothing to thrill the Athletic parti-
sans. The washington lead is steadily
growing from ar ant hill to q noun
tain. The Macks finish here tomor-
row afternoon and then go back to
Philadelphia Labor day 1Qr tNo tugs