Yankees Win Their 12th Straight as Robins Edge Giants in Brooklyn

New York Baseball coverage from the Monday May 24, 1926 edition of the New York Daily News

In This Edition

• Yankees Rush On, Take 12th in Row
  • Meusel Gets 2-Bagger
• Jess Petty Too Good for Ring and Giants
  • Early Birds
  • Lucky Homer
• Baseball Summary
  • National League Standings
  • American League Standings
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Yankees Rush On, Take 12th in Row

Hugmen Vanquish Red Sox; Pat Collins Gets Homer

The winning streak of your Yankees has now attained the proportions of twelve straight.

Yesterday afternoon, in the farewell game at the stadium, the Red Sox bowed their heads, willing victims to Yankee assault and sacrifices to Yankee glory. The score was 8 to 3, and 45,000 cash customers rejoiced happily at the verdict, which was never once in doubt.

Comrade Babe Ruth rather disappointed the customers when he failed to fashion his daily home run, but Pat Collins substituted. Pat crashed his fifth of the season into the left field bleachers in the sixth inning.

Mr. Ruth didn't retire without an effort, however. In the fifth he sent a tremendous fly toward dead center, Ira Flagstead taking the ball with his back against the wall after a hard run. It was considerable catch of considerable wallop.

Waite Hoyt pitched for the home boys and did very well, holding the Sox to six hits and being in serious trouble only once. Hoyt hereby established a new season record of winning two games on consecutive days. It was Waite who got credit for the final of the Brown series on Saturday.

Meusel Gets 2-Bagger

A very lethal two-bagger by Bob Meusel scored two runs and put the Yankees on easy street in the first inning, and long before most of the customers had even found their seats. Thereafter it was simply a question of what the score would be.

Every one knew the Yanks had the game in the bag. Only the hope that George Herman might fashion a homer kept many of the patrons on the job. But it was a pleasant afternoon, the sun was warm and brilliant, and the soft pine boards at the stadium are just as soft as those at the Bronx zoo, or Coney. So they stayed.

Both clubs left last night for Boston, where the enmity will be renewed.

Jess Petty Too Good for Ring and Giants

Southpaw Wins 2—1 Battle For Robins.

By WILL MURPHY.

Jess Petty and Jimmy Ring put on a pitchers' battle before 30,000 shivering but happy fans at Ebbets field yesterday. Brooklyn won, 2 to 1, proving that the Giants can lose with good pitching just as easily as with the usual kind.

There might have been a different result if some one had informed Mr. Ring that a pitching duel was scheduled. James did not grasp the idea until after the first inning, but the Robins already had their two runs. Ring's brilliant, if erratic, pitching thereafter was quite wasted.

Early Birds

Each tosser allowed six hits, but Petty had the edge on control, giving nary a walk, while Ring passed five.

The winning of the ball game was seen to early by the Robins. With one out, Chick Fewster beat out an infield tap and Ol' Zack Wheat doubled. Babe Herman walked and every base had a tenant. Andy High, referred to here as Felix, forced Fewster at the plate, but Johnny Butler's safe rap to left brought Wheat and Herman home.

After that the Brooklyns made frequent threatening gestures, but Ring always had enough to stop them. In the sixth, for instance, James walked the first three men up, but got the next one on a force play at the plate. Then Alfonso “Al” Moore took Petty's fly and threw Butler out at the plate.

Quite a hole to climb out of, that one.

Lucky Homer

The lone Giant run had a slight element of luck. Frank Snyder, who certainly isn't hitting within twenty pounds of his weight, socked a line drive to left in the eighth. It hopped into the bleacher seats on the first bounce and went for a homer.

Not once again did the Giants push a man past second. The excitement was prolonged when Freddie Lindstrom and Irish Meusel singled with one out in the ninth, but the usually reliable George Kelly smacked into a double play, Rabbit Maranville to Herman.

The wee Rabbit delivered the fielding feature of the day when he stopped Snyder's smash with his glove way back of second in the fifth round and threw out the lumbering Pancho.

Double header between the Giants and Robins at the Polo Grounds to-day, the first of the season.

The score:

Baseball Summary

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

STANDING.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

• BROOKLYN 2, NEW YORK 1.
• Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 2.
• Chicago 14, Boston 8.
• Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 5.

TODAY'S GAMES.

• BROOKLYN at NEW YORK (2).
• Pittsburgh at Chicago.
• Cincinnati at St. Louis.
• Only games scheduled.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

STANDING.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

• NEW YORK 8, Boston 3.
• Chicago 1, Cleveland 0.
• Detroit 2, St. Louis 1.
• Philadelphia 5, Washington 3.

TODAY'S GAMES.

• NEW YORK at Boston.
• Washington at Philadelphia.
• St. Louis at Cleveland.
• Chicago at Detroit.

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