The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1920, Page 19

ISPOR PORT NEWS Babe Ruth in Background Until Near Close of Day ; a Then Zowie! 12th Homer Yanks Put Over Two Great eens Against Senators, Walter | Johnson, et al., a Record-Breaking Crowd Attending After- hoon Pastime, Which the Home Team’s Big Ace Put on Ice, Although Previous to This He Had Not Been Doing Much to | Distinguish Himself. a By Charles H! So? Suppose you've heard of it? Indeed. Quite, Yes? Surely, $ Holy Swishing, Swatting, Soaking, Somerville, Doubling, Tripling, Homer Bats! Child o’ my Heart (pardon, but I'm always a bit unsteady on this ap- Pellation), did you see BOTH games? If you di@, hereafter paseball has to h Adams. Or Julia Marlowe. Or Very Oo ump itsel/ to keep you excited, Maude rse Paton, ‘As Sothern said to me, and he didn’t because Wilton Lackaye was the only actor in the press box, and | wonder why, because Wilton Lacka @ good actor—as Sothern never said ye is to me, put as I spotted a darned @ecent and reasonably early June moon, which was on my left elbow, @ravelling by the Sixth Avenue elevat ted after the games, | also saw that the conductor had a ouija board. And was busy when 1 left him to slake my hunger at 104th Street, Ny E. 12 degrees off the equator. Over the tea—some cream, others with cussed the matter. Buch harmony, Two Irishmen, four Jews, a Southern colonal and an opinionated baseball writer Yet all agreed that when the Yanks beat Washington twice in one day, Kilkenny was a myth, Pharaoh | Was a decent guy, maybe Limeola was right, and would She opintonated baseball guy elucidate the two spec- tacles. “Heaven help me!” I says. “I'll try. Not making it too long, be- cause chance | got to get into the paper at all if | stretch this wonderfest. But I'll be <» darned if it wasn't something to look at. Also regard. Also a bit of something to keep your pep plugging. “Baseball? Gentlemen, this day you seen it! In all that makes the game an excitement you are a highly privileged crew. Save as the figures show that at the afternoon game uhere were 38,688 all told present. It knocks down the Polo Grounds rec- | ord of 38,611, made on a Sunday not | so long back Me—I may be wrong, frequently 1 am—but I surmise the attendance to have been closer to 41,000. But that the Yanks are do- ing so well in New York society that they'd hate to let the landlord know how big the parties are they are holding is no business of mine, ex- cept that anybody that tells me there were less than 41,000 persons look- ing at the afternoon game at the Polo Grounds yesterday can count | me out, That ‘would Ieave 40,999. | And 10,000 turned back. If you don't | believe me, ask Inspector Cahalane. | He had the handling of all of us—| fron dawn for the morning game to | the crowds. that were all lined up to | wee the afternoon game that the morning spectators met coming out. Lined for half a mile from any sta- | tioned box office. But a good crowd People wh like baseball like life, ‘The on why they are caught by it is t| they admire the swift action, the | swift thinking of it, the swift drama | that every game affords. | “And yesterday's two games hit the high spots of the sport. To go| into details would cover the page. | But the stage setting is that Wash-| ington is a tough team. Their team batting average, if you please, is .312. They had won six straight until they hit Our Bunch, S$. P. Mogridge went up against them in the breakfast! wrangle. ' And Shaw held the coffee pot for Washington, With a very un- steady hand, In the third, Capt. Peck—and this Peck has begun puckin’, I'm telling you—stung it for a single to left, and on Milan's stut- tering handling got second. ‘Then what does Big Kid Meusel do but} slap it into the sam» place, scoring | Peck, That was all until the sixth, Washington got goldarned gay. Or, 1 guess, to be on the level, I should admit we were bum. Shaw got hit on ths shomider. It was a slow ball| and Shaw’ took first easily, But | Judge singled to right, shooting the | lamed wing gent to eecond, Milan hit to Pipp, who threw to Del Pratt Pratt had no more chance to force Shaw at second than I have to be- come a millionaire by dropping a cent in a chocolate machine (usually you come awny without the confec- took it lemon—we dis- Never was there tionery), but he chucked to Peck, the while Pipp was perfectly well back covering his bag, Peck let Pratt's throw go, through him, and I gu you can see Shaw scoring and Judge moving to third, and the Milan geek on second, Rice jumped a long fly and the Judge jounced the plate. It got worse, Roth rapped a double down the third base line and Milan mozied across, Three they had, He r went out, Pratt to first. ierbe, the Gov'nor’s son, third to first And that was in the Sixth inning. “and We had Our Sixth inning. It was a beaut. Get thi: Babe Ruth | fans! Del Pratt shocks one through Shortstop Shannon for a real hit Ping shoots to short and forces Del Up comes Duffy Lewis. Now Duffy has been the slump guy where the Babe has been the Demon with the stick, But Duffy gave it a big, hon- est rap. Heart in the smash, It | sailed. gaping. It left the left bleacherites the same. It went clean over the fence. As it did it took a sudden | wharp turn. It landed foul, Clark Griffith and his whole team sur rounded Umpire Chill to how! against his decision that it was a fair ball No wonder, since it scored Ping and | Duffy and ‘tied the score. But Chill | pointed out that the ball was fair | when it left the grounds and that | by the law after it left the grounds it was no blooming business of his what became of It, And, of course, | with @——_—___ Pipp put a long fly to left and the Joy over, But you'll say five runs, six in all, topping three, wasn’t @ bad effort. Carlson then became the flinger for hington. It was the first Professional appearance of this young Jamestown, army officer. He pitche He fanned Babe Rut its indubi to Ruth— running catch, hort to first. Mog Ellerbe a walk. Shannon left. Pichinich as- gave singled to tounded the 15,000 morning crowd by shooting a homer into the left bleachers, He tied the score. Carlson rapped over Mog’s glove for a single. Pratt bungled Judge's grounder. Shanks w: sent into second to run for Car! son. Pratt retrieved lost form by a fine stop of Milan's grounder, But the score was ted! ‘The grand- stand was rocking with yells for the Yanks to go in and trim ‘em. Schacht was sent in to repioce Carlson. Mensel knocked a single off Schacht. Pipp bunted to left and Goy'nor’s Son El- lende threw it at first like the bag was on stilts. It jumped far to right off Judge's glove—and that was THAT GAME, The second game saw this greatest attendance spoken of. And you will have perhaps noticed that Bube Ruth was hot among those prominently noticed. And the king maintained this po: tion up to a@ certain point in the si ond game. I gloss the details which brought the score through biting, heavy hitting, great baseball, in which Thormy was chased out of the box, and Shore discharged and Col- lins walked in and held the Senators speechless — and holding Sen:ttors speechless, my child, is an achieve ment—and to seven to seven, THI Kid Courtney was demobilized er was called upon, but left |when id Meuse! scored ‘Lewis and Hannah with @ clean double to left The Capitol scrappers brought ia thetr great big first and only best Walter Johnson, B. 8. (Big Swede.) You will have noticed a strange absence of Babe’ Ruth in the re- ports so far. Well, I'm pleased to introduce the eighth inning of this second game. Especially #0 becaus* if it hadn't turned out the way it did, darned if | don’t think the Babe would have walked into the first drug store he came to and howled for some plain poison for a heart-broken bloke to gorge on. Ha had fanned, he had grounded, he had been walked. He had wal- loped what should have been a two-bagger to right except that a gentleman had the back of his pants jammed against the dack of the fence awaiting the possibility, Once before, also, the Babe had a chance to knock two runs ia and Pichinich nailed his fout at the press bow grating. The Babe threw his pat away for sixty feet on that occasion, Well, here was this eighth went down, Johnson to first sovked the E Collins uM Peck ig Swede for a smush to the left fleld fence—a triple, Kid Meuse] did exactly the same, scoring the Cap'n, Pipp knocked a sky-high fly to second. ‘The Babe at the close of a day when all his comrades bad been battling like the devil and him no showing! The Babe caught the second one for his twelfth homer. It hit the top stucco stuff of the right grandstand and dropped into the lower tier And the Babe came home with Kid Meusel ahead of him and 38,688 por- sons (self included) went pure nuts, The Babe had been striving all day + do it, the great gang had been hon ing all day for him to do it, and thor was the added glory of having slammed the thing out, over and be yond, from the great Walter John gon. Glory? "Ils n poor A mild term word Ut left the Capitol lertselder \Frankie Burne Hands Briton Stiff Lacing This seems to be an unlucky y for the European fighters who have our Yankee battlers, as another one of th Clark Griffith knew that was right | am. Was Siven @ bad beating ina goods, He made a speech. But a manager had to do that. Then Truck Hannah took up the club, And the first ball Shaw slipped toward Truck Re jammed into left for a homer! 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