New-York tribune., 1910-06-25
FRD HOLDS THE FORT.
ritches Yankees to Victory Over
the Athletics.
ALLOWS ONLY THREE HITS
Wild Throw Opens the WAY for
New York to Score
Two Runs.

a MS ardent admirers expected
hassen Ford came back in his old ,pv,nc;.
bic form and pitched the Yankees ,o viz.
tory over Philadelphia at American League
Park yesterday afternoon. The score al
me nnal game Of the series was . 10 I
L he Athletics were HELPLESS and only mad
TWO clean hits. The third which Ford al
ioweo was of the. scratchiest variety. Oh
otihs bouncing the bail over the pitchers
ffeso. The New York twirIer clearly out
pitched Coornbs in keen battle
Eight Of the visiting bat retired tr
me bench by way of the strike out
route. Only once twice was Ford called
upon TO extend himself In the second in
fiifg' with Baker on third, Barry drew one
OF the two passes which the pitcher. gave
Ahere were two out and the two runners
tried to pull off double steal: but the
Yankees were watching for it and retired
the side by a brilliant play. Baker being
out by several feet at the plate, SweeneJ
to knight to Sweeney.
After the home nine had secured its one.
run lead in the sixth inning Ford settled
down to business and put his opponents out
in order Only nine men faced him in the
last three innings. Although he struck out
Baker, the first man UP in the seventh
Davis sent clean single over first. h
was forced at second however, on Muir
phys grounder, and the latter was caught
mapping by Ford and run down between
the bases.
The 'fans" were little uneasy FThen
the head of the Philadelphia batting order
started off the ninth inning. and wished the
Yankees had little firmaf hold on the
game. but with the'form Ford was showing
one run was as good as twenty Hartse
popped a fly to Knight, Oldring struck out
for the second time and Collins sent a long
4y TO Wolter
Ford fielded his position excelIently, hav.
ing seven assists to his credit, while the
rest of the team was right on the job back
ing him UP. knight was prominent fac
tor in the infeld by his sharp playing, while
Sweeney was all that could be asked In
the way of a backstop. Hemphill made q
brilliant catch OF Oldrings long fly in the
fourth inning, which looked good for extra
bases had the bali got by hine
Errors contributed literally to ali the
runs which were scored during the game
Although the Yankees landed on Coombs
for eight hits, some of them pretty hard
drives the visiting pitcher managed to
keep them well scattered. The Yankees
lost several good opportunities to run vi
the score. but a timely single was not
forthcoming.
Coombs let in the tieing run in the sixth
inning by wlid throw to first. With ons
out wolter drove a hard one into right
field for a. base. Chase bunted and CoombS
threw the bali wide. The sphere rolled t.
the bleachers and Wolter scored. LaportC
laid down another bunt, which was gooC
for q scratch hit. but Baker made an at
tempt to catch the runner at first, ant
Davis missed the ball, Chase crossing ths
plate with the winning run before it couic
be recovered.
An error helped the Athletics in making
their lone tally. In the fifth inning DAVIS
sent a smash toward Gardner, which tbs
latter furnl1leu giving the runner a life a
first. Murphy sacrificed him to second anc
he tailed on Barry's double to left heid.
The score follows: