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Show Hannah, Bodie, Sothoron and Quinn Are Playing Gret Ball. By WALTER W. K. MAY. NTTW YOKK. July 5 Harry "Truck" Il:vnit;ih Is work Ins almost every Kama for the Yankees while they aro on tholr jlimMnu: stivtch, and, bier as he Is and apparently slow and all that, with the same old suat that ho used Mo have when he played with Salt l,akt ho certainly cer-tainly slings a sure and pasty pe. of which even Ty Cobb is afraid. HannfliU may not be hitting any too oi'ton. but ho does seem to bo hitting when the old ball needs shanking. The boys on the newspapers here now and then pan Hannah because he swings j too late or n-ver swings at all, and the other day one said that Hannah ought to ! learn that the shoulder is no place for a bat when you're out the plate with two on and two out. But. take it from me. Hannah has been catching so regularly r of Lite that I don't wonder that half the time he thinks he's catching instead of batting. 1 haven't seen him pull a bad piay yet. and the pitchers have sent h in up a hot line 01 sunt to handle every now and then. You d like to see old Fing Fodio phiy these days. Kver since he was sent back to the minors a few years ato he seems steadily to have taken off poundage everywhere but in his kangaroo stomach, and he looks fitter than I ever saw him, though, of course. I guess 1 was in swaJ-dHng swaJ-dHng clothes when he w as the Beau Brumirtel of baseball. Ping Bodie Does Well. But. anyway, he is having some fine days and he is romping all over the outfield out-field taking the meanest ehar.ees I ever saw in a baseball game and getting them all without a mmer. You know, it s worth the price of admission to see Bodie make a real try w hi he really has to run for it. because he puts you in mind of a kangaroo, but he's always there about the time the ball finishes its uncertain uncer-tain career. And. as usual, he's throwing them In to the plate like that was the only thin? for a ti elder to d?. and what I'm telling you this for is that this bis town's big crowds feel a thrill every time he does it. They see Bodie take murderous chances and get away with them, when the balls were- going to center field (n double time and Thormahlen is keeping his hit record down with the aid of Pin;? and Peck Well, when he comes rolling in to eo to the bench to pick up half a dozen bats and make ready to slaughter Sothoron. Soth-oron. who is pirching for St. Louis. -the crowd of 10.r0 ) or mo-e gives him the real applause. And. l:stn, 1 O.O'.'v fans aDlaudinc is fin1? apteuse. Ping is !:ke a boy. The I:tt old Mush co-r.f. ripM through 'hissunburn. rtkV he doffs his cap i jus: like he was through saying a picc3 on the country school platform. Then he goes up ami gets a triple, scoring one Del Prat;, who i p'ayiiifr a bang-up bang-up came of ball, and hitting and fielding right since he and Miller Hues ins had a run-in about something. ! Bodie Makes Mistake. But Fodie is Bodie and you can't get away from it. He pulled a boner in the field the other day, I understand, and it i must have made Huggins sore, for there j seemed to have been words passed. Bodie i apparently un and says, "Well, all right. Miller. I "won't plav:" But I guess they fixed it up all right. Then, too. Bcdie was on third the other day and Hannah was on first. Hannah either had an idea he could steal second t'Dauss pitching for Petroiti, or someone had given the signal sig-nal for a double steal. Bodie apparently thought it was a double steal under way. and we.? half way home before he realized that Dauss was one of those birds who don't care what haprens around first or . second when a man's on third. Dauss made a prettv feint at playing for Hannah, but in reality was just priming himself for Bodie. and when Bodie realized it he stopped cold in lais tracks, and honest, it was funny. He acted just like he thought Dauss shouldn't have done it. It is just those tricks which make the "fane love Bodie, because it shows he's human and not a baseball machine, end while thev don't always expect him to hit, and often feel squeamish (if you know what I mean) until he lands on a base, they always expect him to do something. some-thing. Sothoron In Tough Luck. You remember Sothoron, the boy who can pitch the initials off the old horse-hide horse-hide when he's going all right? Well, I saw him plav in terrible hard luck re-centlv. re-centlv. He opened the game with a no-hit no-hit innine. allowed two for one run in the second, and then tightened up for the next four, allowing neither hit nor run. St. Louis haB managpd to scatter four hits off Thormahlon for one run when these lO.nriO fans stood up in the seventh. Baker, Pratt and Bodie finally fo-md Allan, in that inning and the S. Louis mana gpr sot frightened. The sore was to 1 in favor cf the Yanks, so the Browns began to stick in some probable batters, nnd. of 'course, Sothoron was yanked. Wriglrt went in and the Yanks gathered four or five hits for four runs, and of course the old ball game went elimmering. The crowd certainly- dM hate to see it. though they were pulling for the home Iam, of course. But Sothoron gave them some real baseball, even if he was losing at the time and his batters weren't backing hint up thoueh I confess it Is sorrfe job to do much with Thormahlen. Allan Is still one of the prettiest p'tch-ers p'tch-ers coming through New York, "and 1 still believe that he micht have pulled himself out of the hole by his own stick, work had they left him In. He had gathered gath-ered a clean single in the sixth, being the only Brown to get jl hit in that inning. in-ning. .lack Quinn. by - the way, is sittin' prettv. He is as cool as a cucumber under fire, from where I sit, and he's winning ball games. I take great glory In taking a hunch of the Atlantic coast defenders, who think Pittsburg is "way out west," out to the game, and telling them that it's Just like watching a game in Portland, for- more than threfl-fourths of the players coming through w Yor.t |