New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-28
YANKEES WIN AND TIE
Take First Game from White Sox
by One Run Margin.
CROWD A RECORD BREAKER
Second Contest Ends in Draw
After Exciting Uphill
Fight

Before the largest crowd that has ever
been jammed into American League Park
the Yankees won one and tied the Chicago
White Sox in the other OF two grand up
hill battles yesterday afternoon The
scores OF the games and the playing We're
merely incidental. for the crowd was near
ly the whole show It blotted out every
seat in the stands and bleachers half an
hour before the first game was scheduled
to begin. and squeezed itself into all the
available aisIes and inches from which
only feeting gIimpsss OF the preliminary
practice could be seen as the players
flashed across scattered patches Of the
field
Continued pushing and pulling. with t1s
crowd behind getting larger every moment.
finally impressed upon the management
that it would be necessary TO let the crowd
on to the field. After half an hours wait
ing the field was finally roped off from first
base all the way around To third The
gates had not even been opened when those
in the foreground realized what was going
to happen. and with one accord they scran1-
bled over fences and finally forced them
selves through the barriers and made b
wild dash for the added points of vantage
In less time than II takes 20 tell the field
all along the first and third base Foul lines
was packed ten deep with iostling mass
OF humanity. and by the time the second
game began the crowd had spread around
the entire field II estimated By the
most conservative that there were at least
twenty-five thousand persons massed and
banked on the borders Of the PLAYING
field
In the first game the Yankees weTs
ma tched against Big Ed Walsh. and for
five innings were helpless before the one
time premier of all spitbaU artists. willis
the Sox hammered ont a neat three-r'1rl
lead from Jack Warriors delivery. After
the fifth inning however, WaIsh's puzzlers
were not so puzzIing. and by plugging tight
at it StaIings's men tramped off the field
victors by the score Of 10 ?.
The second game went only eight innings.
the score at the end Of that time being
a tie. at S to s There are many reasons
why the Yankees should have Won that
game Jack Quinn let them of 70 an
4 vful start, and when Raw Fisher went
in, in the third inning the score was 70 .
against him. and there were two on the
Ia e. with only one out The young South
erner had 10 pitch his best. and he did.
He let one run score before he retired tns
-fIS W LAdA tLlfitUE- ANU IT, WdS HEN-t II
danger again until the eighth. when the
Sox were enabled TO score another tally.
which began with a base on balls and
came in when Mitchell failed 20 even touch
the ball when Zeider stole home The
Yankees used I'D Lang early in the Soc
ond contest. and we're peppering O1mstsad
freely when darkness put an end TO the
fray
Despite the fact that WarfoD pjtche7
anything but steady game it Is doubt
fUl IL tine Chicagoans would have made a
run Off him had it not been for bad errors
in which Austin, Daniels and WaThop him
self figured. Austin had particularly bal
day. IL the sixth inning TannehiI AMI
Zwiliing jabbed out singles and Sullivan
forced ont TannehiH at third. Walsh's
ZrOunder was too slippery for WARRIOR and
he threw the ball high to Austin Austin
followed with weird throw to the plate
when Mcdonnell hit an easy grounder To
him. allowing ZwiIling and Sullivan %
score.
Up 70 this time the Yankees had made
but one hit off Walsh. who seemed 20 be
N rare form But in the sixth inning Lon
Criser worked him for a pass and WARRIOR
made uD for his own shortcomings on the
mound by singing TO right Daniels
struck out. but Walsh was unsteady AMI
walked WoIter. filing the bases. Crfger
scored when Chase forced WolJer. and
WARRIOR took third By a daring chance
WARRIOR and Chase successfully worked a
double steal. thus scoring the Yankees sec
5nd run. knights hit our in deep left fell
was too far back for Dougherty to handle
and Chase scored.
In the seventh inning the Yankees nnads
h.
managed to get the winning run over in
lie eighth. when Wolter led OF win 4
single. reached third on outs by Chase and
knight and raced home on Laporte's single.
Fred Mitchell more than any one else. ex-
,epting. OF course. the much-pounded
Jack Quinn. was responsible for t1e
Yankees inability to carry of the second
game Mitchell made errors Of Judgment
hat were extremely costly. and then. n
he eighth. when there were two out the,
score tied. and a man on third. the Yankee
utility catcher failed miserabIy al the bat
and hit nothing but empty air. At that
he Yankees were lucky 10 get Off with tho
contest for it was only daring base run
ing by Jack Knight that enabled the home
eam 10 tie Up the score as II finally stood
Had Fisher begun the game there Is lit
lie doubt that ne would have gotten away
With il. for he pitched five and two-third
innings and only three hits were made OFT
him. With their recruit doing so well tor
hem in the box. the Yankees got busy with
heir war sticks and cIouted Lang out %
he box in the fifth inning. Oimstead Who
ook his place, was a tribe better. but he too
Began TO weaken under the strain. and All
rIt lost the game in the eighth. In this
-rane Knight Cree and Austin escn sin
lied, but only Knight scored getting across
IN double steal worked in conjunction
With Austin.
The scores follow: