New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-23
YANKEES DROP TWO more
Steam Roller Used by Red Sox in
Double Header.
LOCAL PITCHERS HARD HIT
League Leaders Smash Ball for
Many Extra Bases, Piling
Up Heavy Scores.

With their delegates stampeded BY ~.
steady, resistless driving OF pondsrou,
steam roller driven by J. Garland Stab,
and eight other Boston men, the Yankee,
closed the week without the saving graz.
of a single victory. Incidentally, they hav.
yet to win a game over the Boston RAs
Sox. for, outplayed and outclassed in every
department OF the game, they Went down
to defeat In both games OF a double heade,
with the Back Bay players at American
League Park yesterday afternoon
BY way OF variation. the local team los,
the first game by a score Of l3 10 2 Their.
is on record, however. a game In which
the Yankees were beaten by score a,
10 to 3, so that there was no great variety
in the second defeat. On this pieasan.
little trip in the great metropolis the Pea
Sox have ambled peacefully off with hy.
straight games, and It was the consensu,
Of opinion that the Yankees were NOR,
sinned against than usual
The largest crowd, by far, that has Wis.
tied the Broadway grounds this season
packed the covered stands and the open
bleachers TO capacity. 1t was a strangely
quiet crowd. The only time they yelled
was when the score Of the Giants game
in Boston was posted, but when the red.
hosed athletes from the city Of culture
battered over the plate they preserved
dignPded and thoroughly bored silence
However, there IS a lot in getting used
TO IT,
Those who sat ir the stands could readily
understand why the Boston men are I'd
on the top rung Of the ladder. Through.
out the afternoon they made only TWO er.
rors. one by Stahl, In the second game, Oh
a high twisting foul, being excusaole In
the opening game Heinie Wagner made
slip-up.
Wagner however, brought the fans to
their feet in the first inning Of the gam.
when he made startling one-handed grab
| Of a savage liner from the bat OF Martin
that was billed for the centre field fence
| He also made half a dozen other plays
| before the game was over that were good
There was nothing lacking in the work Of
| the whole team. and they .oved around
with the ease and confidence OF real
champions.
! The Yankees played a somewhat better
| game than usual in the field, but the pitch
| Ing staff was huge joke and was entirely
at the mercy Of the hard hitting visitors
! George Mcconnell started the first game
| for the Yankees. His career was short but
exciting. After he had been walloped FOR
| ten hits he was taken out OF the box IN
the sixth inning, and was replaced by
! Thompson, the Southern college boy. who
| did fairly well. At any rate, he was bet
ter than Mcconnell, and allowed only five
| hits.
Jack WARRIOR essayed to maintain peace
and order in the second game. That was
| the extent OF his efforts. He just essayed
| The Boston men made nine hits, but these
were so we'll punched that only In three
innings did they neglect 20 get man
around. Thoroughly ashamed OF Sucn
faint heartedness, they scored three in the
sixth and two more in the eighth and
ninth.
They had more or less principally
more-in lacing out hits for extra bases
iris Speaker made Maloney look IKE
"busher" in the second game by getting
two bases on hit to short centre hel1
Iris had two doubles IN the afternoon, and
so did Stahl, Lewis, Cady and Hall LAR!
Gardner and Wagner had triples, Wills
Lewis made his third home run OF the
series, 10 deep centre field.
Charley Hall, the big, broad shoIldered
Mexican, was on the rubber for the Red
Sox in the first game. and seldom has The
senior shown to better advantage. lie I'm
tied the Yankees to seven hits, and Kept
them so well scattered in most cases thar
the plate was rarely in danger, and In the
closing innings he just coasted along
Collins, a southpaw, pitched the second
game. and with the exception OF the mrs.
and sixth innings he was in complete con
troll OF the situation. In the first inning
a base on balls and a double steal gave
New York a run, and the sixth inning pro
duced two more on three singles. The sixth
inning. incidentally, brought the novel st'
uatlon OF the Yankees being In the lead D!
one run. Then the Red Sox came back anu
scored three runs. giving them 'eAN
which they never surrendered.
Martin was back at shortstop, wmcn' o.
course. made another shift in the batting
order necessary. but Il did little good
Martin stole three bases and handled nm
self like a big league player. Sterrett ths
Princeton boy, caught the second game ah'
did well.
FIRST GAME