New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-18
YANKEES SHAMBLE
TO ANOTHER DEFEAT
Maps Easily Overcome Their
Feeble Attack in Game
on Hilltop.
MCCONNELL WELL DRUBBED
Sterrett, Martin and Zinn Show
Up in Poor Contrast to Jack
son, Ryan and Olsen, Who
Play Real Ball.

Playing the st. Louis Browns Is one
thing and meeting any other team In
the American League Is still another yet
again. Now the Cleveland Maps are no
Barney Oldf1elds when it comes to speed,
but they showed up the slow-paced
Yankees, who looked fairly decent in
the recent cellar championship series.
Stacked up against the high grade pitch
Ing OF Vean Gregg and Baskette, young
sters like Sterrett, Martin and linn
paled before the blast, while veteran
star like Hal Chase stood forth In a
brilliant contrast. Wolverton's men with
toothpick bats were easily handled, and
the Maps cantered away with a victory
in the first game Of the series by score
g 8 to /.
The weak attack Of the New York team
was FILTERED away on some adamantine
twirlng. After the Maps had taken a
fairly comfortable lead Gregg. whose
arm bothered him triie. retired in IA
vor Of Baskette, who held the Yankees
TO four hits and no runs in the last six
innings. Three hits were garnered off
Gregg in the first three frames. The
brilliant southpaw had enough stuff to
puzzle the Yankees In the pinches.
Sterrett, who has been batting well,
struck out on his first two trips to the
plate, while runners were champing on
the bases ready to tally on hit. Mar
tin, too. was a tanner. while Hal Chase
raped out two neat singles of Gregg
and harvested a third while Baskette
was pastiming the peerless first base
man accounting for nearly So per. cent
of the New York batting power, as only
seven hits in all were registered.
The Maps made mincemeat out Of Nc
Connelrs slants, which were so puzzling
to the Browns, over whom he scored his
first victory of the season last week
Everybody got into the hit column
with the exception Of the pitchers. In
the seventh frame Jackson. who wrenched
his hip so badly that he had TO be car
ried off the field in the game with the
Athletics on Tuesday, was so far recov-
cred that he dropped the ball high up in
the centre field bleachers for home run.
Ryan, another slugger, connected for a
triple in the riotous third frame, where
five hits were punched.
Olsen played a good fielding game at
second for the visitors, while Jackson did
some fine work in the outfield in his awlS
ward way that leads the spectator TO be-
lieve that he has misjudged every fly
ball that comes in his direction. There
was a sparkle, too, to some Of Turner's
offerings at third Twice he made spec
tacuar stops of hard grounders which
went for hits when he failed to recover
his balance sufficiently to throw the run
ners out at first. Martins activity In the
field was all that could be desired by the
most exacting. while Chase handled six
teen putouts at first without batting an
eye.
Tho Maps got off in the lead when
Pcckinpaugh singled, went to. third Oh a
couple of outs and scored on a double
steal with Griggs, who walked. The lat
ter opened the fourth with a single, ad-
Vanced 10 second on Turner's sacrifice
and tailed when Birmingham singled 10
centre. Joe crossed the plate after Ryan
tripled only TO tally on O'Ncills single
two out in the seventh Melted the NTH
run.
The Yankees saved themselves from q
shutout in the first frame. Daniels drew
pass and took second on Chase's single.
The two worked pretty double steal but
Sterrett famed In the pinch. Zinn
grounded TO Peckinpaugh, who threw
Daniels, out at the plate. Chase moving
UP TO third. Zinn stole second and tried
10 tally with Hal on SimmOnss single TO
left, but was nipped, Ryan 10 O'Neill.
The score follows: