The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-10
YANKEE OUTFIT
SMILING AGAIN
IN FIRST PLACE
Mackmen Are Set Down 5 to 0
and Ito 3 in Opening of
Sets at New York
$1,000 SEE MES
New York Victories Make Sea-
son Record Is Of 20 Games
Played With AS
NV The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Prcss)
The New York Yankees have been
sternly tested and certainly not
found wanting.
While the biggest crowd in base
ball history looked on, the worlds
champions, fighting desperately for
every advantage, ripped two victor
les from Connie Macks Philadelphia
Athletics, yesterday, and bounced
back into the American League lead.
Nearly $4,000 persons packed the
Yankee stadium. Most of them came
to jeer their one-time favorites.
They remained instead to go wild
while the Yankees tore into their
only pennant rivals and downcd
them by scores of to and Z to 8.
For the day at least, the Athletics
were cver-matched. Against the
heads-up baseball the champions
played the AS could make no pro-
gress. The double defeat sent the
Yankees back into the lead with
game and half to spare and Il rec
ord of Is victories over the Athletics
in the twenty games the two teams
have played thus far.
To New York fandor, the double
bill was as good as worlds series.
Two hundred thousand sought to get
into the stadium, and 85,265 sue
ceeded. Of these, 1892 were paid
admissions. The former record to-
tai attendance at baseball game
was set at the Yankee stadium July
4, 1927, when 1884 saw the Rupert
Rifles meet Washington in a double
header.
George Pipgras and Bob Meusel,
the somewhat nonchalant left field
er, were the Yankee heroes of the
Pipgras gave the As no chance in
the opener, scattering nine hits in
such a manner that the AS could not
fashion a single run out Of their col
lection.
Meusel won the second game when
he clouted home run into the left
field seats with the bases filled in
the eighth.
Old Jack Quinn pitched along on
even terms with Pipgras until the
sixth inning Of the first game when
the Yankees fell on him for three
runs. Rommel stopped the carnage
but yielded to a pinch hitter, allow
ing Ossie Orwell to step into the box
in time to be greeted by a two-run
YANKEES 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 Simmons put the As into the
lead with home run with Cochrane
on base in the sixth. Another fill
tered across in the seventh, giving
the Mackmen a two-run margin that
looked good since Rube Walberg was
turning back the champion with
ease. But the last Of the seventh
saw the Yankees tie the score and
WAlberg give way to Eddie Rommel
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, Geh-
rigs double and an intentional pass
70 Ruth. filled the bases. Rommel
worked the count to and 2 on Meu-
rel before Lanky Bob parked the
ball in the stands. The rest was
anti-climactic.. Waite Hoyt, third
Yankee pitcher, stopped the AS lead
n the ninth and the game was over.
Meanwhile the National League
rsce was Tightening up. The Cur.
dinals, bowling to Pittsburgh again
to z. saw the Chicago Cubs, who
beat Cincinnati, 2 to o, draw to with.
u two and half games of them and
that's not far enough away to please
Bill McKechnie.
The Pirates sank the league lead.
ers by scoring five runs in the
eighth inning. Guy Bush allowed
the Reds only two hits in the Cubs
triumph before $4,000 persons.
The New York Giants suffered
another rude shock to their pennant
ambitions when Dazzy Vance and
~ Brooklyn Dodgers beat them,
~ 2.
The rest Of the field in the Amer.
lean League continued their battle
Tor the berths below the Yankees
md the Athletics.
The Chicago White Sox. beating
Cleveland, 10 to /, reached the. 500
class for the first time this season.
lhe s.. Louis Browns, scored four
rms ID the ninth to beat the Detroit
Tigers. s to 6 in the last game Of the
0oason between the two teams. At
Warrington, the Senator's were held
y m even break by the Boston Red
Sox who won the first game 8. to 2
and dropped the second, 5 to 8.