New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-31
YANKEES HELD lip BY
ATHLETICS AND RAIN
Badly Beaten by the Worlds
Champions in the Morning
at Polo Grounds.
SECOND GAME CALLED OFF
Fans Forced to Accept Short
Baseball Rations When Storm
Breaks and Soaks
the Diamond.

compelled to accept short ratons Yesterday
on account oc the pervcrsity Of the eIe-
rnents. Tho storm which rollcd ny in tn
carly part Of tho Gftornoon thoroughly
soaked the Polo Grounds. which were none
too dry in tho morning. 50 that IA" after
noon game between tn" YANKEES and the
Philadelphia Athletics was POSTPONED.
fair sized crowd was on hand 10 s"e th"
cy" opener in ih" m ru.n% in which the
worlds champions We" victorious b%
score Of 20 !. so TIA" "vnors did no, suffer
n complete loss on the holiday. Yet
gathering four % five tines ilr.;er WoHli
have attended in tn" AFTERNOON. when "a"
rain said nay.
Long accustomed 10 tho ozone on th"
heights. the Yankees descended To the low
lands uudor AN apparent handicap. III
bringing down their paraphcrnalia they
overlooked their batting eyes, which were
So yell adjusted in 81" last few games.
Is . result. C} Morgan. Connie Marks
cr'"ti. r"rf,rDo-. H-ao them 80 five scat
tercd lit.. oot tno or Which v"r" clean.
IT, r.-, w.. au tsG.ip brand o. lean pro-
PORTIONS 'y W.~ literal vita his passes.
hovcyo-. auI tine ,'gut free tickets which
h. distributed gI," Noiyertcn's men the
only leeway that they were able to take.
Three bases ON lais. coupled with hit
Latsman. in the eighth inning resulted in
tn. only run scored 10y tho Yankees and
saved them from shut-out
zig Jim Vaughn, who on occasion has
made things interesting foe the Athletics,
WIS not source ot much embarrassment
yesterday. IIe Was touched up for quite Il
little crisp hitting IN the piuches. and the
visitors scored at their leisure. J. Franklin
Baker, according to reports. had a bet that
he would put the bail into the right teld
stand for "A home run. but two singles Of
timely nature. 10 be- SUR" Was the best that
he could do. IRA Thomas. however. made
w for this relapse and deposited tie
sphere in the historic corner after two men
were ont in the second frame. There was
u" ono on tho paths at tho time. SO that
Ira completed the circuit in solitary gran
dour Tho Athletics collected batch of
ten hits off Naughns delivery. all OF them
being ~ tho ono-basc variety with tho OK
,option Of Thomas's masterpiece.
Tho game was 50 one sided that II WAS
lacking in interest Tho visitors did all they
could TO relieve tho nonotony with some
fielding par excellence. McTnnis was the
hero ~ two applause inspiring plays I'm tn"
nth inning whom he robbed linn and
Daniels Of hits by letting IN. ball sink into
his abysma glove. Barry Collins and
'Stuny" coll,boratod on double play in
the fourth which cleared up the Amos
phoro for Morgan appreciaby. 'reo and
Daniels for tho Yankees did some spritcly
work along hit roObing lines
Tho Athletics started right after Vaughn
in the FIRST inning. Rriscoe Lord drew
pass and Olirine singled over third. Col
Inns laid down q sacrifice passing every
thing III to Bake. The latter obliged 70
the eNtcnr Of q grounder 10 Gardner. who
throw the runner out at first. hut Lord
scored on the play Thomas burst forth
with his home run I'm tho second frame
after two wore out. and Morgan famed.
lord opened tho third hv popping 10
Gardner. while Oldrin2 lifted TO chase. col
Iins drew = pass and took second on
Baker, single to left The two Philadel-
phia summaries executed neat double
etcal. which wasn't exactly necessary. as
Vaughn passed Murphy. nllng the bases
McInnis then hin clearly TO lcft scoring
Collins AMI J. Franklin. Harry sailed one
ont t. Cree.
Tn" sixth inning law TWO nor" runs
added To- the growing total Murphy
walked as - starter. but Mcnnis flied TO
cree. Barry singled To right. however. and
Thomas repeated. scoring Murphy. Morgan
scratched hit toward iIst. bringing Barry
home Lord backed Daniels up against the
fence for long ny. and Oldrng bounced
one of Naughn's glove. Jim lost the ball
and did not discover il until Oldring was
safe and the based filed Collins was un-
able To come through with "A telling hit,
grounding to iiartzrll and forcing Morgan.
Baker opened the seventh with a single,
was sacrificed 10 second. took third on an
out and counted when Barry hit through
Stumpf
The Yankees never looked particularly
threatening at any time during the fray.
In spite of the passes given by Morgan
there was rarely more than one man on AT
a time The Philadelphia pitcher became
80 generous IN the eighth that Connie Mack
nut his wreckinS crew IN motion. even
though the Athletics were far In the lead.
But II proved "A false alarm as the an
KEGS failed To take advantage Of the situa-
ton and insert few timely hits. /inn
drew pass To start things OFF and Chase
flied To Lord. Cree. too fell down. drifting
To Oldrng. Gardner ana Hartzell both
walked hling the bases. WolNerton went I'm
to do "A little pinch hitting, batting IN place
Of Stumpf, and then finished out the game
at third base. Harry got "A shoot on the
arm and took his base. forcing in Znn
with the only run for the Yankees.
The score follow
PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK.