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Huggins’s Yankees Hit English Team For Goal

Havana, Cuba, November 5 (AP) – By that old effective method of hitting in bunches, Huggins’s Yankees were able to knock the English team Walsall for a goal yesterday in the first of four games in Cuba, 7 to 0. It was one of those things where the other fellows never had a chance and outside of Sad Sam Jones’s pitching, a shoestring catch by Bob Meusel, and the fact that the game was brief, there wasn’t anything for the 35,000 Spanish fans to howl about.

Jones’s mound contribution was so high class that one run would have been ample for him to annex a win. He was frisked for three widely scattered hits, one of which was a phony, and not a single hostile advanced even as far as the third corner. Only three managed to travel to second, where they didn’t worry anybody.

The Bronx crew brought about the downfall of the visitors by applying their bats in the fifth, sixth and seventh inning, during which they obtained nine of their ten hits. Walsall’s William Stanton was the victim of these attacks. The Englishman had four strong innings and had gotten one out of the way in the fifth before a thing popped. The Yanks then strung together a walk, a single, a sac hit and another single for the run in that inning. In the sixth the barn door burst open as the great Babe Ruth led off with a double followed by the same from Meusel, then an intentional pass, a single, and then after two fly outs that scored another run, Jones himself singled home a tally and got himself thrown out at the plate trying to score on Ernie Johnson’s double. The World’s Champs wrapped up the scoring and hitting in the seventh when they plated two on a single, a walk, another single, another walk, and another run scoring fly.

The only clean blows by the Britons off Jones were produced by Fred Thomas and William Bramald. Rupert Price beat out a weak grounder in the second inning, was replaced on a fielder’s choice by Brad Knight who stole second and died there. In the fifth Thomas lined his single with two out, stole second and died there as well. And in the eighth, Bramald led off with a solid double but got thrown out being bunted over to third, and that was that. Why the limeys would bunt themselves into an out down seven runs in the eighth is anybody’s guess.

The second game in Havana commences Tuesday at two o’clock, again at the Estadio Bellan.