New-York tribune., 1911-09-20
Cree's Long Drive in Ninth Fails
to Turn the Tide.
RUNNER NAILED AT PLATE
Maps Will Continue Fight for the
Third Place il Two
Battles To cay.

Birdie" Cree. who is maiqucradiug a
shortStop for tho New Yorl Yankees took
. desperate chance lo defeat the cleveland
, Maps ON the hilltop Yesterday afternoon
when Ho tried 20 stretch triple into a
home run. with two out i'm the ninth inning.
But ho uudorestimated tho speed Of the
relay from Jackson to Ball 30 Fisher, and
I died miserably at the pla,c. That over. the
same was called on account Of darkness.
the score reading to o. As a result two
games Will be played TODAY. the first being
called at O'Clock
The contest Was the first N the spirited
battle for possession Of third place Chase
and StovaH bent all their energies toward
getting the jump, but the encounter. al-
though fast at times and interesting, ended
in an unsatisfactory tie. krapn and Fisher
carried the pitching burdens for their re-
spective teams. and while they exercised
extreme par~imouy nm parcellus out hits
they were so wild that IL looked as though
there would be a big scoring bee any min
ute Both. however, managed 10 tighten
un IN the nick Of time. and the plate was
not worn bv the tramplng Of many feet
During tho course II his reign Knapp
handed out nine passes, but allowed only
five scattered hits Fisher, on the other
hand did trife better, his generosity OK
tending only TO five passes, while he
matched Knapp hit for hit Besides his
passes. Knapp hit two players, Noiter
catching the ball ON the knee on his FIRST
trip 10 the plate, making st necessary for
Zinn 10 replace him I'm centre field for the
rest Of the game. The Cleveland pitcher
contributed a wild pitch as well. hut with
all this the Yankees were able 10 tally only
three runs Knapp was spiked by chase
i'm the eighth inning but pitched out the
game.
While Dolan gave brilliant exhibition Of
fielding at third base. Birdie cree made
more or less Of a travesty out Of playing
short. lie had nine chances in all and
made three errors. nearly all of which
proved costly The entire new outield,
composed OF linn. HartzeU and Handiboe.
had only two chances to do anything de-
fensively. and these opportunities the
youngsters made the most Of. Chase played
his usual brilliant game around first but
on the whole the Cleveland infeld showed
up to better advantage. Ball and TWuer
doing "A lot Of brilliant fielding Lajoie
returned 10 the game after attending the
funeral Of his brother and played steadily
at first.
The Yankees We're the first 70 score when
they proftcd by Krapn's wiIdness i'm the
fourth inning cree the first man Uu, drew
a pass and Chase sacrificed. on Hartzclls
grounder Birdie" took third and crossed
the plate when knight singled TO centre.
The Maps tied the score I'm the sixth.
Butcher led of with single stole second
and took third ou Blair's wild throw. Jack
son beat ont "a slow iufe.d tap and
Butcher tailed Two runs in the first ~
the eighth put the visitors I'm the lead.
With one out olsen walked and Jackson
beat ont an irdeld hin to Fisher. Lajoe
was purposelv passed. filing the bases.
Rirmingham's -roUnder through cree
scored both Olsen and Jackson. Lajoe took
third on the play and Birmingham stole
second. while Ball struck out. Chase made
a wonderful One-hand stab Of Turner's line
drive robhing the batter of q triple and re-
firing the side.
The Yankees tied the score I'm their half
OF the same inning. Chase started things
going with single and took second on an
error bv Ball HartZell drew a pass and
knight was hit. filing the bases. wild
pitch enabled Chase 70 tally. Although
polan struck out, demphIl walkeI again,
flling the bags In this pinch Bert Daniel,
batting for Fisher lifted 70 Birmingham,
scoring HartzeI. but there the fun ended.
The score follows.