Show STRAIN OF RAGE RACE IS TELLING ON YANKEE PLAYERS By MILLER HUGGINS MUGGINS Manager of the New York Yankees Copyright 1924 by United Press CLEVELAND 0 O. Sept 24 As As long as there Is IB a mathematical possibility the Yankees will wf be Inthe in inthe the pennant race The prospects are not the best but we have not given up and we will wi be in there trying until unU the last lat out is made Washington has been playing fine tine ball bal To beat them out and win wirt the pennant we will wi have to topIa topIa pIa play better beter ball bal and it Is not the part of a fighter to admit admi the difficulty dif dif- dit- dit of or that task The Injury to Wally Waily Waly which lost him to the club was a severe severo blow Th The loss of a a. good catcher is I always serious to club j I but It I was more than that In our case cause because he has been of ot uch such I great value in handling pitchers pitch pItch- geat our a ers er mn most t nf h nm h Via no Vio i n nA i-nA n u with ni for years yr The strain and tension of the hot pennant race should not have toldon told lold toldon on a veteran club which had been through three pennant races But the erratic fielding exhibited in several gam gamba s indicated that the strain was was was' telling We Ye lost two or three games re recently recently re e centy on wild wid pitches and errors that the boys never were guilty guBy of before Ruths Ruth's pitching carried the club through the last invasion of the West est but the Babe got into a slump in the last two weeks and he began began be began be- be gan to try tr so hard that he wasn't able to get out of or It I. I The players all al know the seriousness seriousness seriousness serious serious- ness of ot the situation facing them and they will do their best No NoI Nomore Nomore more can be asked of ot them I |