Robins Split Twin Bill as Yankees Keep Baseball Buzzing in May 1926

Content from the NY Daily News - Friday, May 28, 1926

In This Edition

• Robins Split Twin Bill With Phils
• Yankees Meet Athletics in Twin Bill Here Today
• Yanks Tie, 10–10, With Springfield
• Jawn, Himself, to Play Third in Matty Game
• Rollo on the Ball Field
• Baseball Summary
• Combination Major League Scores
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ROBINS SPLIT TWIN BILL WITH PHILS

DROP FIRST GAME, 1-3, BUT TAKE SECOND, 5-1
Mitchell Holds Dodgers to 5 Hits in Opener.

By JACK FARRELL.

Philadelphia, Pa., May 27.—It requires just a wee bit of encouragement in the way of a few base hits to incite those Robins to action. After being victimized by their old nemesis, Clarence Mitchell, in the first game of a twin bill here today and beaten by the score of 3 to 1, the Flatbush athletes hit the offerings of three pitchers hard and often enough to grab the nightcap by the score of 5 to 1, and thus earn an even break for the day.

Clarence Mitchell, the left handed saliva artist, proved the stumbling block in the first engagement, while Jess Petty was the victim. Jess gave Clarence a merry tussle, when he was removed from the firing line in the seventh to make way for a pinch hitter. The Robins were trailing 2 to 1. Rube Ehrhardt let the other run over in the eighth.

Clarence allowed five scattered blows while his mates were nicking Jess for seven hits and Rube for two more.

It remained for Douglas McWeeny to halt the Phils in the finale and this he did in artistic fashion with the helpful assistance of ten—count 'em—convenient base hits.

Mr. McWeeny had just one bad inning, the second, when a double by Bunny Harper, a wild pitch, two singles and a stolen base developed their lone tally.

Wayland Dean was first to take issue with McWeeny, but he was among the missing after the Robins scored in the opener through the medium of a pass, Jake Fournier's single and a very helpful error by Freddie Leach.

Ray Pierce, another lefthander, took up the running where Wayland left off, but he was knocked oggle-eyed in the eighth.

The first attack on Pierce was launched in the sixth when doubles by Zack Wheat and Jimmy Butler gave them a one-run lead. Three singles, a base on balls, an error by Butch Henline spelt two more runs and the end of Pierce in the eighth. Rabbit Maranville gave Ray the final push with his single that scored both runs.

Holiday Double Headers For Yanks and Robins.

Both the Yankees and the Robins will play double headers Decoration Day afternoon instead of splitting the holiday date into morning and afternoon attractions. The Yanks will do a double-barreled act against the Washington Senators at the Stadium while the Robins will tear off a twin bill with the Boston Braves at Ebbets field. At both parks the first game will get under way to 1:30 p. m.

YANKEES MEET ATHLETICS IN TWIN BILL HERE TODAY

Hugmen Look Good After Sixteen Victories.

By PAUL GALLICO.

This afternoon, weather permitting, the Yankees return to big league baseball after a four-game series with the Red Sox in Boston, and an exhibition game with Springfield yesterday. The Athletics will oppose the home talent in a doubleheader at the stadium, and the alluring picture of eighteen straight victories hangs temptingly before the eyes of New York’s darlings.

If you are wondering what the most encouraging features of the little excursion into Boston are, one would say, first of all, that the Yankees had cleaned up the series and extended their winning streak to sixteen.

Next in order are the hitting and fielding of Tony Lazzeri, the greatly improved play around second base of Mark Koenig and Lazzeri, the pitching of Myles Thomas, and the ditto of Garland Braxton, and the fact that the Yankees don't have to be sixteen runs ahead to win a ball game. Three of the four Boston affairs were taken by one run.

While Miller Huggins was disappointed in Sam Jones, who started off in the final contest as though he were going to pitch a one-hit game and suddenly succumbed to a shower of solid hits, he was just as encouraged by the performance of young Braxton whom he threw to the lions. The long, thin Garland went in with the score tied and the enemy wild with the taste of blood.

Garland tamed ’em pretty. He had them wrenching their shins on curve balls and his control left nothing to be desired. It may mean that Huggins now has another reliable young pitcher.

George Herman Ruth hit his sixteenth home run into the right field bleachers in the first game of the double header on Tuesday and it was no fly ball, my hearties. It would be a mistake to overlook the two handsome games thrown by Masters Urban Shocker and Herb Pennock, or the timely hitting of Mike Gazella. Try as he will, this correspondent at the present writing can find nothing at which to carp in his Yankees.

Unless it’s Lou Gehrig’s shoulder. Gehrig hurt it crashing into the stand at Boston the other day and it’s a question if he’ll be able to play today. Mr. Miller Huggins said yesterday he expected to pitch Waite Hoyt and Urban Shocker this afternoon, and the indications are that Connie Mack will counter with Ed Rommel and Lefty Grove.

YANKS TIE, 10—10, WITH SPRINGFIELD

Springfield, Mass., May 27.—Babe Ruth and the Yankees drew the largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in this city today when 7,500 saw the American league leaders and Springfield of the Eastern league play a 10 to 10 tie game. Ruth was not impressive at the bat, Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri stealing his thunder by hitting home runs. When the final Yankee was retired in the ninth the crowd rushed on to the field and the game was called without Springfield getting a chance to bat.

JAWN, HIMSELF, TO PLAY THIRD IN MATTY GAME

By WILL MURPHY.

Boston, Mass., May 27.—Mister John Joseph McGraw lost a lot of valuable thinking time today. It rained a few drops this morning and it was chilly anyhow, so the Giants-Braves scuffle was called off and will be played as part of a double-header Saturday.

A real thoughtful manager can do his advance thinking for a couple of weeks on an off day in Boston, there being nothing else to do but think in Boston. Mister McGraw, however, had another matter on his mind.

Tomorrow will be Matty day at Braves field, and before the Braves and Giants do their scheduled battling there will be a game between the Braves and an old-timers’ club.

Mister McGraw will play third base for the old-timers, and pondering on that impending performance caused the Giant boss to lose a whole day’s productive thinking.

Picked Soft Spot.

Of course, they picked a spot for the old-timers when they matched them with the Braves, who haven’t amounted to so much this year. On second thought, maybe the spot was picked for the Braves. The idea may be that here at last is where the Braves win a game.

The old-timers will be captained by Fred Tenney, once a first baseman for McGraw’s Giants. The others will be Dave Shean and Bill Sweeney at second base, Freddie Parent at shortstop, Art Devlin and McGraw at third and Hugh Duffy, Billy Hamilton and Olaf Henriksen in the outfield.

Roger Bresnahan, Fred Lake and Jack Ryan will split up the catching and Joe McGinnity and Mike Lynch will pitch.

Most of these old-timers, who were all topnotchers in their day, played with or against Christy Mathewson in his prime. The receipts go toward the fund for the erection of the Mathewson memorial hospital at Saranac Lake, where the great Giant pitcher died.

To Unveil Tablet.

As further testimony to the influence which Matty had on the game of baseball, a memorial tablet will be unveiled at Braves field tomorrow by Mrs. Mathewson. Later in the season a game for the same cause will be played at the Polo grounds.

The Giant cripples are recovering in groups. Billy Southworth and Al Tyson are about ready for duty and Hugh McQuillan will be able to pitch next week. George Kelly has already laughed off the rap on the ankle which kept him out of Wednesday’s game. A fragile athlete, George, who gets hurt about as easily as an army tank. Virgil Barnes, however, is likely to be out of the game for a week or more.

Rollo on the Ball Field

—By PAUL GALLICO.—

Providence, R. I., May 27.

Mr. Harry Schumacher, assistant sports editor, THE NEWS, New York City:

Dear Harry—Well, this is my last letter, because I guess you can see from where this is sent that I’ll be home soon if I don’t bust the car again. Say, Harry, do you think now maybe I can get that back from the paper on account of how, now, I busted it going to the ball yard on business? It ain’t the two bucks, Harry, it’s the principle of the thing all the time with me. Well, I guess you seen from the story that we cleaned up in Boston and won sixteen straight games after a lot of argument from them Red Sox, and got so excited in the last game I almost got sick. Say, Harry, do you think if I got sick at a ball game on account of how, now, getting excited, I could get it back from the paper?

Say, Harry, I wish you could see the spirit that’s among the Yanks now on the field. I was down among the spirit for a while before the last game, and they ain’t nobody gonna lick that team, because they got so much spirit. Lou Gehrig said the other day that there was more college spirit among the New York Yankees than there was in most colleges, and I guess that’s so. Why, the way they was working and kidding and carrying on on the field done your heart good. There was Walter Beall throwing ’em in to Bill Skiff, making the ball bend and sail and hop, and Sam Jones and Waite Hoyt standing next to him, looking ’em over and admiring the good ones, and Lou Gehrig was pitching to Pat Collins and sorta gurgling all over with fun, and Hug and the Babe Ruth was sitting on the edge of the dugout kidding and laughing—say, Harry, no wonder those fellers go out and win ball games like they do.

Say, Harry, somebody overlooked a big bet when they didn’t write nothing about what the cross word puzzle craze done to ball players in interfering with their sitting around. Why, there musta been a time when none of ’em did any sitting around, they was all doing crossword puzzles, what made me think of it was I saw Earle Combs finish up a big one in the lobby before the game, but it turned out he had sat around before he done it, so he was all up for the day.

Say, Harry, did you ever notice how the Babe wraps his fingers around his bat before he socks one? While I was taking a movie of him in batting practice, I noticed his hands, and lemme tell you, Harry, his fingers is something to watch. They is like ten little snakes, twining and untwining themselves around the handle of that ash, and they go so fast you can hardly follow ’em, until it feels just right, and then they stop, and when they do, that bat ain’t a bat no longer, but it’s a piece of Ruth, sorta an extension of his arms, and when he lights into one, he don’t lose a half a ounce of power between his hands and the bat. There ain’t no loose gripping like some say you should hold onto a golf club. The next time you see a game, watch how Ruth gets his lunch hooks around that bat, and you’ll see something.

Well, Harry, I heard some great cursing in the press box in Boston, them poor scribes there ain’t had nothing to cheer about yet this year, and so they sit up in them wintry blasts and swear cheerfully at the other fellers for being so good, and if I was Tony Lazzeri, I’d be flattered at getting a lot of attention that way, because Tony spoiled things for Boston so much, all the scribes were very angry, and they were also angry at Earle Combs and Bob Meusel.

Baseball Summary

American League Standings

Yesterday’s Results

• Philadelphia 3, Washington 2
• Chicago 5, Detroit 4 (12 innings)
• St. Louis 8, Cleveland 5
• New York and Boston not scheduled

Today’s Games

• Philadelphia at New York (2)
• Detroit at Chicago
• Cleveland at St. Louis
• Boston and Washington not scheduled

National League Standings

Yesterday’s Results

• Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 1 (first game)
• Brooklyn 5, Philadelphia 1 (second game)
• Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 2
• Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 3 (first game)
• Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 1 (second game)
• New York at Boston postponed; cold weather

Today’s Games

• New York at Boston
• Brooklyn at Philadelphia
• Chicago at Pittsburgh
• St. Louis at Cincinnati

International League Standings

Yesterday’s Results

• Baltimore 16, Jersey City 10
• Newark 13, Reading 5
• Toronto 5, Syracuse 3
• Buffalo 10, Rochester 5

Today’s Games

• Jersey City at Baltimore
• Newark at Reading
• Toronto at Syracuse
• Rochester at Buffalo

Combination Major League Scores

(Week ending May 27)

American League

Leaders for the day — St. Louis 8
Low — Washington 2

Daily Totals: 54, 61, 23, 33, 80, 34, 28 — 313

National League

Leaders for the day — Cincinnati, Brooklyn 5
Low — Pittsburgh 2

Daily Totals: 50, 44, 46, 21, 42, 41, 27 — 271

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