New-York tribune., 1909-06-08
YANKEES TAME TIGERS
MANNING HOLDS DETROIT
IN CHECK.
NeU York Climbs Into Second Place,
HhHe Record Monday Cro1cd
Goes Half Mad.

Water Manning. Hal Chase. Willie Keeler and
,,x other Yankees tanned the Detroit Tigers at
,r,.-icsn League Park yesterday 20 the complete
satisfaction and unresrained Joy of thirteen thou
-s-5 half frenzied fans The score was . 10 l.
=. I've TINS which graced the score card for the
re teanl being the result of clean, hard and time
:, hitting Detroit scored its lone on a
combination Of by Iaporte and Austin in the
third inning Incidentally, the Yankees climbed
y, into second place in the league race so close on
-. heels OF the leaders that three more games OF
t4.A same stamp and quality that of yesterdays
co7+est will put them the top rung Of the ladder
Walter Manning and Hal Chase were the bright
particulsr stars cf yesterdays game, although
-~tT1ie Neeler. with three clean hits in succession
,,5 Birdie cree who slammed out three-bsgser
c-,e IN for their share Of the plsudts Of the crowd.
which n the way. the biggest Monday gath
.-ng ever seen a. American League Park, barring
-e-rs7s some holiday which fell on the second doy
ot the week Standing room was at premium in
the zrsndstand and the bleachers were packed. ex-
c.,- For part q one section far out in left held
The size OF the crowd was truly astonishing and II
the Yankees keep on winning Frank Farrell will he
rallied on 10 build extra stands TO accommo-
ds-e the overflow
,o- Manning Who moved down the hard hitting IT.
gers as II they had been 50 many schoolboys With
-Hfrv-se1en varieties OF shoots and curves, he
mixed VI the fast balls with the slow ones in a
Wv
rrs64 up Of Hans Wagners He had excellent
ror--o1 TOO of his sharp breaking curves, and not
o1lv held the visitors TO four scattered hits, but
struck out fye men and gave only two bases on
halls HuEhey Jennings. who as usual was a whole
shor IN himself the coaching lines called in vain
Cor his heavy batteries 10 wheel into action, but
Ns-rf7z's delivery vas the most intricate kind of
8 Chinese puzzle. The mighty Crawford got one
h- and the much feared Cobb saved his reputation
with one safe drive. But these, with the two other
hits made b. Schaefer and Mcintyre. were widely
scattered.
Chase made two PLAYS among the number he
called on 70 handle that left the crowd saspns
before II could break out into wild applause. In
the seventh inning with Cobb first as the result
Of his one single Moriarity drove sizzling ground
er down along the first base line just Chase, who
had been holding Cobb at first started for his regu
lar fielding position He stopped quickly and.
throwing himself full length the ground, felded
the hall with his ungoved hand. touched first base
and then, quick fash. jumped to his feet IN an
effort "a double up Cobb az second base That he
failed in this in no way marred the briancy Of
the play.
Again in lhe eighth inning. after shaefer had led
CT with two-bagger to centre field, Beckendorf,
WHO had gone in TO catch for Schmidt. put
high foul. which Chase caught over near the
hleachers On the catch schaefer started for third
base but Chase made a remarkable throw 10 Elber-
fed and caught the runner by a good foot Tho
crowd roa7ed. and it was no wonder The whole
game was marked by fast snappy playing by mem
hers IF both teams. but those two plays by Chase
stood above the rest
Summers dd the pitching for Detroit, and Il took
he Yankees three innings TO solve his delivery;
then : borabardment began for two innings which
resulted IN eight hits and FIVE runs After that he
settled down again. until Eossnan went in TO bat
for him IN the eighth inning Works took his place
in The box ard held the Yankees scoreless in the
cne inning he pitched
Detroit 5,ored first in the third inning. when
scaaefer took two bases Laportes wild throw
over Chase's head. went down 10 third on Schmidts
lonz fy 10 Keeler and scored on Austin's error OF
IcIntyre's hard hit ball. The crowd groaned for
8 moment. but later these misplays, with the re-
sult7nt runs forgotten.
The fourth inning vas cran-ned fun OF excite
For Detroit. Cra wford opened with single
10 centre. and reached second when Austin mufred
Kleinow's good throw 10 catch him stealing. Cobb
walked. ard both runners advancing base on
MoTisrty's neat acrifce. Then came play that
turned the stand into medley OF flying hats, way
ing arms ard frerzied shouts.
With Crawford third. Cobb on escond, and
Only oIt. O'Leary drove d fast grounder TO
EIberfeld. who threw Crawford out az the plate
oLss-y drew throw from IIleinow by going down
n second on the play, hut Austin returned the
hsl ike fash. mailing Cobb at the plate. II all
happened quickly and with such remarkab bic pre-
cision that the crowd could be pardoned for its
EeHi-i1ysterical condition.
That over, there more excitement as the
Yankees went - bat keeier led off with his sec
ono safe hit, and went down second Elberfeld
vas thrown out at first by schaefer. Engle then
dropped Texas league in right field, and both men
scored Chase drove 2 timely single 70 right
The lsst named went all the way round TO third
hase on Cobb's poor throw 10 catch kngle at the
plate and scorer moment later as Laporte was
throw out first Austin beat out 4 bunt and
vas caught stealing second, but three runs had
been caaked Up amidst perfect bedlam Of cheers
To make assurance doubly sure, the Yankees fell
on Summers again IN the next inning and scored
tpo more runs on four hits. This time hleinow
began Tirh tvyo-bagger 10 right, but was trapped
between second and third and run down on Man
nings bouuder to Summers. Birdie Cree then
stepped I'D end drove the ball to the fence IN deep
rsat field foF three bases. Manning racing home
Cree scored moment later keeler's third safe
ori7e- Elberfeld also followed with hit, bus
oLesry pulled down Engles fast liner, and Laporte
nied out Cobb. il ~ quite enough, however,
as Manning let Up and kept the Tigers guess
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