The Washington times., 1926-05-01
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D. LOUIS a. DOUGHER

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by LOUIS A. BOUCHER
NEW YORK. May Dutch
zuether. veteran southpaw. with
three consecutive victories since
ihe season opened and Waite Hoyt,
the hurier the Griffmen have sought
fpr two years, are due to hook
ID IN e slab duel today in the
concluding game Of this brief series
Il the Yankee stadium. Unless
promised showers come along to
bother the folks, q huge crowd
Is expected to be on hand to see
the fun.
The winning streak Of the
Yankees, now advanced to seven
straight victories, has all New York
talking. Visions Of another pen.
nant and q world series appear be-
FIRE the eyes OF the fans and in
tersst in baseball here never was
stronger than right now.
Buclky Harris admitted today that
he had miscalculated a bit when
he thought slow ball pitching such
a. used by Joe Bush and Stanley
Ccveleslsie would upset the flying
Yankees. Today he hopes that a
noukhpaw win do what his veteran
righthanders have failed ito do,
knock the Yankees down and keep
them down.
The Yanlxs, In defeating Cove
leslkie, Z to 2, were successful
AGAINST him only i'm spots. In
Che first frame the slipshOd field
ing Of Rice and GOslin aided in
making Yankee runs, but there
could be no mistake made as to
what they did to him in the
seventh. They hammered him
hard and Marberry pitched the
eighth. dispOsing Of the side In
ordeF.
KoenfR walked but was forced in
the first Then the trouble began.
Gehrig singled and Ricess sloppy
fielding Of the grounder scored
Combs and put Gehrig on third.
a Wild pitch scored him. Ruth
stneled to right and Meusel to left,
Goslln's error letting Ruth reach
fhlrd. On Laxzeri's bounce to
Eluege Ruth was run down and
DuRanse roller to Bluege. ended
the inning.
For four innings the Yanks
could not make e. hit off Cove
leskie. He cut them down as fast
Is they appeared. though Collins
walked In the second and an or;
ror BY Buclzy Harris put Combs
on second In the fifth. The strain
was too much, however, and he
weakened In the sixth.
with one down, Meusel doubled
e left. reached third on an In
field cut and scored on Dugan's
scratch single beyond Myers
reach toward the bag. In the
next frame the spitbaIIer took Q
real trOancfng and the Griffs
knew they were hopeless.
Koenig opened with single and
was sacrificed to second. Gehrig
dropped a two Dagger in right and
Ruth dropped home run among the
fans In the open right field stand.
Meusel walked and stole, scoring on
lowed wilma single but II was worth
Iess, the four runs already In ending
the taiIying for the frame.
Sam Rice parked the ball In the
right field stand with two down in
the first inning and Judge did like
wise In the seventh and those two
runs sum up the attacking strength
Of the champions against Shocker.
The Yankees hurler was as mean
am Tniser when hits might have
cost him anything on other occasions.
The seven hits he did allow were
scattered over as many frames and
he seemed always to have the game
In hand, though not till the seventh
was Il really decided against the
0riffs.
Bucty Harris. hoping to increase
the defensive strength of his team,
benched Joe Harris in favor of
Johnny Tobin. The little gardener
had little to do in the field and hit
no better than did Harris.
The game was notable for its gen.
eral lack of sizzling stuff. Ossic
BIuege turned in the best fielding
play OF the day by diving toward the
bag and holding Koenig's line drive
IN the second inning. It was we'll
received, too, by the fans.