Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-22
RUTH SAVES YANkS
WITH TWO HOMERS
AS Take First, Babe Drives
in Seven Runs to Win Next.
Grove Shines.
BY WILLIAM J. CHAPMAN.
Associated Press Sports Writer,

TINE decision. if any, to be reached
in the current crucial series
at the Yankee Stadium was
i postponed for at least "a
hours yesterday by the dod-
dering invalid, George Herman Ruth.
The postponement was effected by the
abandon with which Mr.. Ruth caresSed
two offerings sent up to the plate in
the second game by Master William
Shores, apprentice Athletic right-hander
and suspected rescuer of George Earn
shaw. the starting pitcher.
The Athletics had won the first game
behind Bob Groves puZzling slants by
score of IL to l and were headed
along the victory trail in the second
with an edge of 3 to 2, when the Babe
became the Babe again. His eleventh
and twelfth home runs converted a
2-to-3 Yankee deficit into an 6.to-3
advantage at the finish, and the cham
pions held on seven and one-half games
behind the Athletics just where they
were before hostilities were begun.
The inimitable Mr.. Ruth had done
nothing much all afternoon when the
seventh inning of the second game
rolled around with the Yankees in the
hole True, he had driven in a second
unearned run of Earnshaw with sin
gle in the fifth and made the game
close, but no one was prepared for his
magnificent gesture into the right field
bleachers, when Earnshaw went to the
showers after placing two Yankees on
the bags with none out in the seventh.
Same Old Babe.
Young Shores marched to the box
to make the best of a bad situation,
but committed the mistake of giving
the Babe good one after getting two
strikes on the premier slugger. The
ball sailed gracefully in among the
steerage passengers in the crowded
were ahead. just to prove there was
no mistake about it, the Babe repeated
the act In the eighth, again with two
mates aboard.
Waite Hoyt dazzled 66,145 Yankee
clients with his finesse in the nightcap,
but for all of this the Athletics chiseled
three runs from his delivery In the first
three innings and seemed headed for
clean sweep and lead of nine and one
half games.
Then in the fifth Max Bishop, pivot
man on possible double play, dropped
Joe Boley'S assist, and the champions
helped themselves TO two unearned runs
This was the only Athletic error of the
afternoon, and If 1t had not been made
Earnshaw would have been permitted to
try his own conclusions with Ruth in
the seventh. The result of any such
hypothetical meeting, Of course, win
never be known.
Ruth's single and two homers drove
home seven of the eight Yankee runs.
not record, but still no light feat to
be performed by just anybody on any
old afternoon.
The first game was case Of too much
Grove and not enough Pennock. It was
Groves eleventh victory against single
defeat. After yielding run in the first
inning, Connie Mack's great left-hander
moved through the Yankee batting
order with the unfaltering precision of a
moving machine. The Athletics, the
while, were blasting away at the shell of
q remarkable left-hander with their
heaviest guns. .-sxy
Simmons Has Big Day.
Al Simmons raped Pennock and his
relief, Messrs. Sherid and Moore, for
just flve blows, including his fifteenth
and sixteenth home runs. He failed to
get six hits mainly because he was at
bat only five times. But he carried his
punch over into the second connbaS
where he slapped Hoyt for two doubles
and single in four attempts. Mule
Haas also got a homer in the first game.
The manipulatfons Of MeSsrs. Hug
gins and McGillicuddy yesterday cleared
the pitching situation somewhat for
the rest of the series.
The tall tactician now must call upon
Walberg, Rommel and either Quinn or
some lesser light in the remaining
games, with the chances favoring WAL
berg and Rommel for duty today Hug
gins looks to Pipgras, Heimach and
Wells, with the first two presumably on
deck for this afternoon and Wells In
reserve for the single fray tomorrow.
The crowd of Sc, las paid customers
surpassed every known record for q
weekday game, opening barred. but
world series included Another capacity
gathering is in prospect today and UNI
doubleday third will appear tomor-
row.
In the National League, the Giants
again made merry at the expense of the
Phillies, IL to 5, and so pulled them
selves to within three games of the
lead, which changed hands. The Pr
rates attended to this little shift in
fortune by slamming the Cubs, IA to 8,
to give Burleigh Grimes his eleventh
victory Of the season. BROOKLYN had
20 walt Is innings to earn q decision
over the Braves, to 3.
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