New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-11
YANKEES CO TO THEIR
DEFEAT LIKE LAMBS
Heat No Deterrent to Tigers,
Who GlaefuIIy Feast Off
Ford, the NeWIyWed,
SIXTEEN HITS TELL TALE
Detroit Piles Up a Big Lead in
First Frame and Then
Takes Things
Easy.

Heat, which failed to deter Ty Cobb from
Juggling three heavy bats to the plate or
silenced the flow of talk from the peppery
Hughie Jennings, settled oppressively over
American League Park yesterday after
noon. where the Yankees received their
daily knockout wallop. The Detroit Tigers
obliged again by a score Of II to 3. Two
more cripples appeared when Chase and
Street PLAYED for while
With the hits running up into double fg-
ures. It is not surprising that the score fol-
lowed suit. And who pray. catered 80
generously TO the voracious batting appe-
tiles of the brawny bengals? None other
than our newest bridegroom. Russell Ford,
whose mystery ball was the only thing
Sherlock Holmes never solved. Ty Cobb
and company did q better bit of sleuthing,
however, yesterday When it came to cases
the job proved purely elementary. and six
teen safe wallops raised the dust on the
rocky hilltop. Ty collected four of these
and called It a days work, while Crawford
/ gathered three. The rest of the team di-
vided up the remainder. Dubuc, Detroit
/ pitching find. who seems 10 be lasting pet
I ter than some OF the debutantes Of l9n, let
! the Yankees scatter nine hits through as
4 many innings and kept pretty close tabs on
the New Workers.
Ford got off TO a saffron start and the
/ men behind him showed no disposition 10
theIp him over the rough spots sweeney
took the lid off a lot Of piebald tossing
Malonev and Daniels collaborating Win
| him. and Detroit stock went soaring. AL
this was an adjunct 70 FIVE hits OF FORA
which, with FIVE errors, gave the Tigers SIX
runs IN the FIRST frame, enough to win the
] game.
: Thereafter the Yankees settled down and
played in better form. Dowd cavortea
around short very niftily once more ana
made two hits, while the $1,000 Maloney SID
| on his ear 10 rob Jones Of hit in the
eighth.
The real play Of the class, however
found its setting in the eighth inning.
! sterrett was on first when Simmons raped
a teaser through the box when 4ooAeu
7 nkA a certain hit, until that human dyha-
mo. owen Bush, skipped dalntlIy osh4HU
second and stopped the ball WIN one
hand. sterrett had almost reached tie
bag when Bush tossed the ball to second
I,ouden. with q toe plate on the oas,
stretched himself like. an ACCORDION anu
caught the ball with a bare hand tor
force out The play was made with hght-
r. ming rapidly, ana the S"elIsIiHs A7''0
could not help but applaud
The diminutive Witt, who can walloP
the ball occasionally and field most splen-
6iferouslv If your eyesight is good enough
70 distinguish him, started the ball roll
ing, both actually and hguratveiy' IN ths
first inning Crouching down IN front OF
Big Ed" Sweeney. he nestled up against
a seductive bender, which carromed out
70 centre for double He scored when
Ford tossed out Bush. Sweeney mufhng
Sterretts throw Cobb then coddled the
ball Tor a single WHITE Crawford dfd IKE
WISE Jones tripled and Moriarty singled
and all scored with the help Of errors
The Tigers subsidized until the eighth
when singles by Louden, Stanage and W.T.
with Dubuc's double, Melted three runs
: Two were added in the ninth on singles by
+ Cobb. Crawford and Jones along with Mo-
riartys sacrifice fly.
Daniels singled in the first only to be
forced by Maloney who in turn met the
/ same fate at the hands Of Sterrett. linn
Z drew a pass. putting Sterrett on second
so that he could score when simmons
singled 10 left Simmons's double and
, Dowd's single added another run in the
fourth, passed ball helping things along
, while pass TO Ford, single by Daniels
I and an out added another.
The score follows: