New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-11
DRIVE MAPS DOWN HILL
Assault on Yankees Citadel
Proves a Futile One.
WARRIOR A PUZZLE IN BOX
Gregg Pitches Well for Cleve-
land, Too, and Highlanders
Win by a Narrow Margin.

Napless and Jacksonless the patched up
Cleveland Maps gave whrlwind eNhio'-
ton Of ball playing on the hilltop on their
first appearance here yesterday afternoon
and forced the New York Yankees to hght
an uphill game and go to the ninth inning
before ,allying the winning run. the score
was to l. Before the game was over the
visitors were Turnerless as well, the vet
eran third baseman passing hasty woro
to Connolly in the ninth after being calied
out stealing second. and repairing forth
With to tho bench as a consequence of his
unwelcome oratory.
With Gregg. their star southpaw, on the
mound. the Cleveland men played crack
inc game and when, helped by Jack
knights error. they scored in the fifth
inning. II looked as If they might start the
Yankees toward the bottom Of the heap
once more As the game went on ana the
fact sank into the minds Of the fans
who were out some ten thousand strong
that Gregg had allowed only one hit in SIX
innings. the lone tally of the visitors began
10 loom M as large as Pixies Peak.
mercilessly. allowing only four hits for the
whole game. and. backed up by the mNSu-
fving legerdemain of Ball and the scintil-
hitting fielding of Graney, the young south
paw appeared TO hold the upper hand
Ball cut short a rally in the second inning
when. after Chase had singled, he jumped
IN and interrupted the fight Of a terrihc
drive by Priest. Juggling the sphere in his
k,,t Epa
/, 70 double Hal at first He also made
brilliant play on Warhop's sacrihce MT IN
the sixth, nosing the runner out al hiS'
by a hair with toss to StoVdll. brdhes
robbed Knight Of a three-base MT az me
opening Of the second by spectacular run
ming catch. while both Olsen and Land were
vigorously applauded by the seething null
iitude for plays which stirred the specta-
tors out Of their hot weather lethargy
While the Maps were fielding like fiends
the Yankees were doing their best to emu
late them. and. although they made few
Sins. played a fairly consistent game
WARRIOR made the best of his puzzling I'M
derhand delivery. and kept the visitors
popping the ball up in the air so that on
the whole the felders had pretty easy
chances Daniels and Cree graceiuII!
chaIked UP eleven putouts on their records
between them. and put in busy after-
noon i'm the outer garden for so sultry a
day They did not have to extend them
selves much, however and once Daniels
caught a fly without deviating so much as
q hair from the spQt he was rooted TO
hen the ball was hit.
WARRIOR had such superb control Of the
ball. not giving a single pass, that the
Maps did not attempt 10 walt him Out,
but generally hit at the first or second
hall pitched. and almost invariably lined
II skyward. As result the game rushed
ON apace. The little Indian had one of his
best DAYS. allowing only six scattered hits.
and would have held the visitors runless
with perfect support. Easterly and Turner
were the only players who showed any de-
gree Of familiarity with his curves. each
getting two singles. Land cracked out a
screaming double with two out, in the
second but failed to score as Gregg lined
To cree.
cleveland was the first to tally, and
there were two ont when the deed was
accomplished. After Gregg and Graney
had been retired at the opening OF the
nth inning with extreme facility Jack
knight fumbled Olsen's grounder, giving
the runner a life at first. lie promptly
stole second. and 50 was in position TO
canter home when Easterly raped a drive
T. centre field
The Yankees tied the score in the sew
enth. cree pierced the gloom which was
lowering over the stands i'm that inning by
sending the hall speeding inside third base
and through Graney TO the scorehoard for
three bases Knight gave a fierce swing
Al the sphere. but dribbled to Olsen. who
had a world Of time 10 throw Cree out
q; the plate. hut instead barely caught
Knight at first and Birdie counted. Chase
flied out 10 Stoyall
Priest opened the eighth with the third
hin off Gregg's delivery. but was out steal
Ing second. while Blair and WARRIOR struck
our In the ninth, however. Bert Daniels
onexcd third free ticket TO first from
Gresg and took third on a double by
Wolter. Hartzell waited. and was reward
ed with pas. filling the bases. cree
tried To swat the sphere with lusty force.
hut lifted a foul TO Land. so that II was up
20 knight to retrieve himself for previous
rnisdemeanors and win the game. He was
good for long sacrifice fly TO Graney. and
Daniels scored the winning run.
The score follows:
SEW YORK CLEVELAND