New-York tribune., 1908-08-21
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING.

Hats off to the Yankees. Snap and ginger. dash
and fire. were in their work yesterday from start
70 finish. more particularly at the finish. II took
one of the oldtime Yankee finishes to beat Detroit
in the ninth inning. and the big crowd went crazy
in the good old way when two out of four pinch
hitters sent in by Elberfeld made hits and another
hoisted g fly that Cobb dropped 1t was wild.
turgid baseball. and the home team won out by
score of TO after having just shade the worst
Of il Of the way. and that is the kind of base
ball the fans love Incidentally. the victory gave
the Highanders q series from the Champions. the
first they have been able to win from any team at
ell for many long day. So again, here's hats off
to EIberfeid and his Yankees! May they keep
the good work.
Manning and Wurtes who helped to pitch the
famous old Boston nine to two championships
faced each other pitchers yesterday, and the
Detroit man had little the better of il. But he
did have the support that Manning received.
and the timely nature OF the Yankee hitting was
something that pitcher could contend with sue
cessfully. helped. it was, by Tiger
Manning pitched first class game matter
of fact He used to do right along early in
the season, and though he has been off lately, like
the rest Of the he has steadily pitched good
bail. He had only two bad innings yesterday, and
he did things 70 Tyrus Cobb that made that famous
sugger very tired. He made Ty fan twice, threw
him out once himself and left the job to Laporte
twice. It not happy day for Tyrus. for. in
addition to his failure at the bat, he helped the
Yankees lot with two in the ninth.
Manning didn't start we'll but there much
promise even in a bad first inning. Mcintyre
started with q three-bagger and Schaefer drew
pass. but Mannings lightning throw to Moriarity
caught the latter off first. Crawford scored McIn-
tyre with another three-bagger and ii looked like
a real runfest, for Cobb But all Ty did
was fan wildly three times, and the danger was
past. That all for while
The next period of excitement came in the sixth
inning. Conroy began the New York half with
single. Winter threw past first base on
pretty bunt by McIlveen, Connie scoring. while
Mac reached third base. Moriarity raped out q
nice single and McIlveen scored, but Delehanty's
hit wasted
The champions took the lead and. most of
those present thought. the game, in the seventh
inning when they scored twice Ninth inning fin
ishes on the hill lately have been made by visiting
teams. so there was some excuse for pessmism.
Manning hit O'Leary, and Winter sacrificed neat
". O'Leary moved along on McIntyre's out and
scored when Schaefer singled. Schaefer stole sec
ond, and Biairs throw was so bad that he kept
right on to third base. Ball made nice stop OF
Crawford's grounder, but his throw to first was
| bad and Schaefer put Detroit ahead, crossing the
plate the
Manning was in a hole again in the ninth inn
| ing With two out, Schaefer slammed out a
| three-bagger. Manning thought he had Cobbs
| number, and gave Crawford pass He proved
himself right Cobb. for Ty poked one
straight at him. and easy out
Then came the glorious ninth inning. The first
! roar came from the crowd when Willie Keeler
| batted for Delehanty. Wee Willie could not get
! out the infield however. and OLeary got him
at first base. Then came Chase, batting for Ball,
! and the crowd went wild when he hit safely TO
! left field Buck Orth batted for Blair and shot
one TO Cobb for a single. Ty in to field it,
and booted the ball Chase scoring Orth landed
on third and when Cobb dropped Kleinow's fly,
1 Jack batting for Manning, Al crossed the plate
with the winning run. The crowd swarmed out
4 on the field. and enthusiasm great if
! the Yankees led the league
St Louis Will be here to-day and. the Browns
! have been badly mauled by Philadelphia and
Washington, Yankee rooters have hopes.
The fellows