Evening star., 1928-09-10
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AS Loss, 80, IS
Pipgras InvincibIe in Opener.
MeuSeI Hits Homer With
Bases Loaded in I'd.

found wanting.
While the biggest crowd in
base ball history looked on. the
world champions, fighting desperately
for every advantage, ripped two victor
les from Connie Macks Philadelphia
Athletics yesterday, and bounced back
into the American League lead.
More than $4,000 persons packed the
Yankee Stadium. Most of them came
to ieer their one-time favorites. They
remained instead to go wild while the
Yankees tore into their only pennant
rivals and downed them by scores OF
5 to and to 3.
It was a stunning reverse for the
Nackmen. They came to the Yankee
lair expecting to confront the pale
shadow of a once mighty base ball
club. They grappled, instead, with
giant rejoicing in his strength.
For the day at least, the Athletics
we're overmatched. Against the head
I'D base ball the champions played the
AS could make no progress. The douple
defeat sent the Yankees back into the
lead with a game and half to spare
and a record of IS victories over the
Athletics in the 20 games the two teams
have played thus far.
Rivals World Series.
To New York fandom the double bill
was as good as a world series. Two
hundred thousand sought to get into
the stadium. and 85.265 succeeded. OF
these, 81 622 were paid admissions. The
former record total attendance at
base ball game was set at the Yankee
Stadium July 4, 1927, when 72,624 saw
the Rupert Rifles meet Washington in
a double-header.
George Pipgras, young right-hander.
who seems to rise to the heights in
crisis, and Bob Meusel. the somewhat
nonchalant left fielder, were the Yankee
heroes of the day.
Pipgras gave the AS no chance IN
the opener, scattering nine hits in such
a manner that the as could not fashion
q single run out of their collection.
Meusel won the second game when
he clouted a home run into the left
field seats with the bases filed in the
eighth.
Old Jack Quinn pitched along on
even terms with Pipgras until the sixth
inning of the first game, when Yankees
fell on him for three runs. Rommel
stopped the carnage, but yielded to
pinch hitter, allowing Ossie Orwoll to
step into the box in time to be greeted
by a two-run Yankee furry in the
eighth
The AS had only one real chance,
but Jimmy FoXx failed in the pinch.
In that frame Max Bishops single and
two walks filled the bases with two
out, but Pipgras, calm as ever, got Foxx
on strikes.
The real drama of The day came in
the nightcap. After the YankS had
scored one in the first inning, Al Sim
mons put the AS into the lead with
home run with Cochrane on base IN
the sixth Another filtered across in
the seventh, giving the Mackmen
two-run margin that looked good, since
Rube Walberg was turning back the
champions with ease. But the last of
the seventh saw the Yankees tie the
score and Walberg give way to Eddie
Ronmel after he had forced the tying
run in with walk. Rommel stopped
the rally. but it broke out again in
the eighth with disastrous results. In
this frame single by Koenig, Gehrig's
double and an intentional pass to Ruth
filled the bases Rommel worked the
count to three and two on Meusel be-
fore lanky Bob parked the ball in the
stands. The rest was anti-climactic.
Waite Hoyt third Yankee pitcher,
stopped the AS dead in the ninth and
the game was over.
Cubs Gain on Cards.
Meanwhile the National League race
was tightening up. The Cardinals,
bowling to Pittsburgh again, to z, saw
the Chicago Cubs, who beat Cincin-
natl, 2 to 0, draw to within two and a
half games of them, and that's not far
enough away to please Bill McKechnie
e The Pirates sank the league leaders
by scoring five runs in the eighth in
ming. Guy Bush allowed the Reds only
two hits in the Cubs triumph before
$4,000 persons.
The New York Giants suffered an
other rude shock to their pennant ambi-
tions when DazZy Vance and the Brook
lyn Dodgers beat them, to 2. Vance,
allowing 7 hits and striking out 10
men, outpointed Larry Benton by a
slight margin.
Rest of the field in the American
League continued their battle for the
berths below the Yankees and the Ath-
letics
The Chicago White Sox beat Cleve-
land, 10 to l. The st. Louis Browns,
sure of third place. scored four runs
in the ninth to beat the Detroit Tigers,
8 to 6, in the last game of the season
between the two teams