New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-07
YANKEES HAPPY AT LAST
No One to Dispute Their Posses
sion of the Cellar Now.
LOSE AGAIN TO SENATORS
Ford, the Newlywed, Receives
Poor Support from Erratic
Comrades.

Going down to defeat before the Washing
! ton Senators orce more. the crippled an@
disheartened Yankees sank into last place
with Almost homesick sigh as they struck
| their colors to Clarke Griffith's men at
! American League Park yesterday afternoon
| by. a score Of S to I. The Yankees, how
ever. did not reach their goal without u
hard fight IN the first place the Senators
| did their best to throw the game away.
making a few horrible errors. and the St
| Louis Browns. after whipping the Maps n
the first game Of a double header refused
TO win the second All N vain. The YAM
KEGS are now half a game and II points
below the Mound city team happy al last.
After much free-for-all scoring. in which
grewsome errors figured as prominently as
hard hitting. the teams came down to the
ninth inning with the scored tied at all.
Then the Yankees proceeded to show their
utter disregard for consequences. Guy linn
PLAYED the leading part in the affair, and,
thanks TO his fine little error. two runs
pattered over the rubber. and the game was
lost Hughes was passed for a starter and
took second on an infed out by. Moellcr.
Milan then singled to right feld, and when
Zinn proceeded to kick that ball aroun'
| "Cyclone CLYDE" took third. scoring Hughes
and counting himself when linn made
| heroic heave in the general direction OF the
Hudson River. So tho game was lost to
New York. and Clarke Griffith gloated
once more a. the expense of his old COM
rades.
Unwilling TO own defeat, the plucky VOL
verton sent Mcconnell up to the bat In place
Of Otis. the recruit. George made good In
the pinch He hit safely and took second on
a bad throw past first by Hughes. Maloney
was sent in 10 run for Mcconnell, and
went 10 third on an infield out by Sterrett.
He scored on A lonG fy from the bat OF
linn That one run, however, was not
enough.
The Yankees celebrated the laying Of no
cornerstones. nor was there "A great ana
OVERLOOKING crowd OF worshipping fans
to greet them after disastrous trip. five
thousand spectators We're OF hand when
the affair started. prepared to make the
lest Of It. IT was a sadly patched up
team. at the best that limped into action.
Careful scrutiny Of the lineup failed TO
discover a single man. with the exception
Of Bert Daniels, who started the season an
a regular and in view OF Berts many
benchwarming assignments, the crowd was
chary on classifying him as a regular.
II was not to be wondered at, then, that
the Yankees should play sort Of raw-.A-
the-centre brand OF baseball. They made no
fewer than seven errors In the course OF
the afternoon. and the majority OF these
came at time to do the most damage.
linn. Otis and Daniels represented the out
field in the error column, while Wolverton.
Martin and Sweeney were the inhelders
VINO Clipped in with foozles.
Wolverton at least had the saving grace
Of making his hitting count for something.
He got triple and single in four times
at bat In the sixth inning he mace
wonderful stop OF grounder by Buz
Foster and robbed the Washington boy Of
sure triple. 1t was one OF those hits
that used to whistle by Roy Hartzell I'M
molested. and Harry was cheered. although
he failed to get the runner. In the eighth
inning he was struck under the eye by
grounder from the bat Of Mcbride. the
hall cut Harry's eye, bat he stuck In the
game.
Russell Ford, the bashful bridegroom. was
IN tle rubber for the Yankees, and al
though he was hit freely-in fact. he was
hammered all over the lot-he might stih
have pulled out with victory had he re-
ceived any kind OF support. However MS
mates failed him. and the nine hits that
the Senators made were effective. ION
Hughes was on the rubber for the Wash
,npton men. and allowed dozen hits, but
he got a little the better OF the breaks
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