Yankees Win 13th Straight as Tony Lazzeri Sinks Red Sox in Boston
Tony Lazzeri’s first-inning hit and Urban Shocker’s steady pitching carried the Yankees to their 13th straight victory over the Red Sox, while the injury-riddled Giants welcomed a cold-weather postponement before facing the Robins again at the Polo Grounds.
In This Edition
- Galloping Yanks Hurdle Hoodoo 13
- Tony Lazzeri’s Hit Beats Red Sox, 4-2
- Cold Weather Gives Giants Lucky Break
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GALLOPING YANKS HURDLE HOODOO 13
TONY LAZZERI’S HIT BEATS RED SOX, 4-2
Hugmen Clinch Contest in First Inning.
By Paul Gallico.
Boston, May 24.—The Yankees nursed their remarkable spring string up to thirteen straight here this afternoon, by beating the Red Sox, 4 to 2, and you’d be surprised that the thing should be done in such an utterly stupid and uninteresting manner.
The Yankees amassed only one more hit than their victims. Singles were the most vicious blows they struck. And yet they won the ball game. It will have to be explained.
In the first inning, Earle Combs singled. Lou Gehrig fanned and Babe Ruth slammed one to center for one base and stole second with much grace and enthusiasm. Bob Meusel walked, and up to bat came Tony Lazzeri.
If you must have a hero, then let it be Antonio. He arrived at the plate to find the bases utterly congested. Wham, and out went a hot single to left.
And if you must have a goat, why, then, nominate Mons. Val Picinich? Actually, no—because the Boston receiver was Bennie Gaston, and he erred horribly when he let the throw-in bound off his shin guard and roll to the boxes. In romped Combs and Ruth.
Along came Meusel. Young Hooks Wiltse, the Red Sox pitcher, didn’t cover the plate quite quickly enough, and Meusel slid home. And there were your three runs and a nice fat lead for Urban Shocker to work on. And Urban was working handsome.
Roy Carlyle hit a home run in the first inning into the right field stands and Shocker yawned and went to work. The Sox didn’t score again until the eighth, when the wind took Rosenthal’s high fly and carried it over Meusel’s head for a triple. He scored on an infield out.
What else of interest is there to record? Damn little. In the fifth inning, Shocker got his usual single, went to second on Mark Koenig’s sacrifice, and third on Combs’s second hit. While Earl was being forced out at second, Shocker came in.
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How the local gentry love to kid our Mr. Ruth! He picked himself a fine bunch of flowers in the fifth when he fanned as only he can fan with Gehrig on base.
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This youngster Wiltse pitched a good game after the disastrous first, and if it hadn’t been for Gaston’s wholesale error the thing wouldn’t have been settled so simply.
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The Sox went hitless in five innings, while the Yankees couldn’t do a thing for six.
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The Yankees will have a chance to go after fifteen straight tomorrow when they play the Sox a double header beginning at 1:45.
COLD WEATHER GIVES GIANTS LUCKY BREAK
By WILL MURPHY.
The Giants got a break yesterday. Strange to relate, it was not a broken leg, which is about the only injury not so far entered on the Giant hospital records.
The break was a matter of weather. The abnormal frigidity of yesterday morning gave Mister John McGraw a splendid excuse to call off the doubleheader with the Robins at the Polo Grounds. Another two-game scramble is set for this afternoon, with the first gun fired at 1:45, but the extra day is assuredly a piece of luck for the Giants’ shrunken and shattered pitching staff.
Kent Greenfield and Jack Scott will be rested enough to consider the problem of throwing baseballs at the Robins this afternoon. Scotty pitched twenty-two innings in three games last week and will feel neglected if he isn’t asked to participate today.
The Brooklyn pitching corps will be rested, too, which isn’t exactly a break in the Giants' favor. Jess Barnes and Burleigh Grimes, or possibly Doug McWeeny, are the likely entries for the games today.
The more postponed games the Giants have right now, the better for them. They may have improved when the summer flock of doubleheaders arrives. It is quite certain that they can’t grow any worse.
The three games remaining with the Robins today and tomorrow will not be easy. But there are three games to follow with the feeble Phillies, and then three more in Boston with the disconsolate Braves.
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