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Show 11 HOPES Lit III DiilFf taEullS . j Success of Club Is Largely Due to Great Work of Outfielder. j NEW YORK, July 12. Ernie Shore is getting away to a slow start as a Yankee and to date has pitched through only one nine-inning game, which he won. Dutch Leonard did not report at all and finally was transferred to the Tigers. Yet, with these two facts in mind, there is no hesitation hesi-tation about making the statement that Miller Huggins was not short-changed last winter when he made the deal which sent three Yankees and a bundle of kale to the. Boston club for Shore, Leonard and Duffy Lewis. The answer is being furnished dally in the all-around excellence of the game which Lewis is playing for the Yankees. The idea of Duffy playing with any marked success here was ridiculed by Boston critics last winter, because, they argued, he would be lost in any position except left field, and he could, not play the left field patrol at the Polo grounds, since he never was a sun fielder. Boston Laments. Lewis is playing left field at the Polo grounds, as treacherous a sun field as there is in either major league, and he is performing as if he had been wearing the dark glasses all his life. Never since the first Yankee team was organized back in 1903 has the left field patrol been guarded as skillfully as Lewis is now guarding it day after day, and he will stand up in comparison with the best fly chasers who have played the sun field at the Polo grounds before and since the Ya nkees took up quarters there. He is not as fleet of foot as George Burns, but. like the Giant star, he is sure death to any fly which he can touch. Like Burns, he pkiys opposing hitters with rare skill and thereby gets the best results. Today followers of the Red Sox ara mourning the loss of this player, whoso departure from the Fenway cast has left a gap which cannot bo filled. Miller Hug-gins, Hug-gins, who had not . seen Duffy perform until after lie had joined the Yankees, remarked about a month ago that he never had seen an outfielder do all his work more skillfully and gracefully than Duffy does his. "It is a pleasure to see him handle a fly ball," remarked the Yankee manager, man-ager, "and when It comes to throwing he is as clever as any outfielder I ever saw. He has a remarkable arm and uncanny control that makes tho ball go just where it belongs." Duffy has made several phenomenal catches this spring, but as tho Yankees have played most of their games away from home, many of the spectacular grabs were not seen, and they had to be seen to be appreciated. Pie made a one-hand one-hand catch off the grass tops at Shibe park two weeks ago while going at top speed toward the infield, and it was a masterpiece. In a recent game at the Polo grounds he furnished the feature when he robbed Jack Graney of a hit in the ninth inning while coming in fast. He can go in or out, far and wide, and anything that hits those hooks is through traveling. Off to a poor start in stickwork, Lewis has been coming along at a fast clip for the past month, and promises to win himself a place in the .300 set. When the Yankees went west in May he was hitting around .220. Since that, time ho has hit well above, the .300 mark', but not enough to entirely make up for the poor beginning. Recently he listed at .281, ranking next to Peck and Bodie among the Huggins regulars. Of his forty-eiglit hits in forty-six games, five have been good for two bases, two were triples and two were home runs. Huggins moved him to the clean-up position in the bat-i bat-i ting order when the Yankees ojened -.it ! Washington on May 29. Since that time , the club has won sixteen of the twenty-two twenty-two games, and Lewis has played his part capably in th'e big uplift. Viewed from every angle, the capture of this hard-hitting outfielder was a master mas-ter move. The team that could get along without him is wallowing in the second division, and the team that got him is battling for the lead. And it-is no secrec that the Yankees would not be within two games of first place today if Lewis had not been added to the cast. The price was big, but tho results haA'e justified justi-fied the outlay. |