New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-25
YANKEES FAIL TO SCORE
Athletics Have All the Fun, with
Sixteen Hits and Seven Runs.
COLLINS A STAR IN FIELD
McInnis and Strunk Shine at the
Bat, Each Making Three
Safe Drives.

Try "a hard as they could, the aanheSS
were unable to make 1t two straight over
the Philadelphia Athletics, and went down
IN their seventh defeat OF the season by a
score Of Z 10 at the hands OF the worlds
champions at American League Park yes
terday afternoon. Connie Mack's men
PLAYED in a manner that would excuse the
novice IN asking how they ever managed to
lose a game Such lustrous fielding, with
Eddie Collins furnishing most of the lustre;
such hard and timely hitting by the entire
company. with McInnis as the star, and
such brilliant pitching as revealed by the
veteran Plank are rarely combined In one
game. When it is. the opposing team had
better give up the fight and arbitrate.
The Yankees cid not play poorly. by any
means. II their weak hitting is overlooked
for the moment Wolverton's men showed
much improvement, but even the most
biassed spectator was compelled to adlilit
that the two teams were hardly in the
same class.
The Yankees were so easy for the visitors
that it seemed piiful TO play out the nine
innings. Plank had the home players
dancing
were performed right at the home plate
The men never got any further. SIX IN all
reached first during the struggle ana one
arrived safely at second. TWO clean hits
BY Bert Daniels, two scratches ana TWO
passes was the extent or the carnage
wrought extensively by the Yankees. the
Athletics played errorless ball, and "ol-
verton's men had no help In the way Oh
misplays.
Fddie Collins had a hard day of 1t. NOT
content with covering large SWANS OF TER
ritory and making two assists and put
out in the third inning. he pulled ht'le
speclalty in the fifth that had nlossolns on
II. Street attempted to end Plank Tor gooo
and all with a terrific smash through lhe
box, but Eddie ducked and was spared but
Collins skipped lightly over back OF SECOND
IN time 10 reach out and catch the bound
ing ball with one hand and whip IL 10 hFst
so nip Street. 1t was marvellous oll OF
fielding, and met with shouts or comnehda-
ton by the crowd Of six thousand present
Both Strunk and Oldring found opportuni-
ties to make some sparkling running
catches In the outfeld. Zinn had pus!
time of it in lefttield, for the Yankees max
,,c scyen put-outs several of which were
of high oT0ef, Wnllc SlulilpAi9 ''''H q N''''''~
10 shine on a rap by Barry in the eighth
inning.
Jack WARRIOR cssayed TO hold Mack
heavy artillery in check but made sorry
showing He presided over the batting av-
erages Of the Athletics for seven innings
and N that time the visitors added twelve
hits to their team record Shears. young
southpaw, twirled the last two frames and
received a baptism Of fire from which ke
emerged with credit. Three scratch hits
tU.d the bases for him, with one out III the
eighth. and he was then compelled TO face
Eube Oldring and Eddie Collins. II was
tickIish position for the yOungster but he
retired the side without a runner crossing
the plate. Oldrng lifting TO Street and
Collins nying out to Daniels y pass,
single aud a sacrifice fly Tailed a run for
The Athletics in the ninth, bringing their
total of hits for the game UP to 10. Every
man on the team hit safely at least once
while McInnis had a triple and two sin
giles. Collins and Murphy a single and
double apiece and Strunk three singles.
Neither side scored in the first inning,
although Strunk led OF with hit. In the
second McInnis tripled with one out.
Barry's smash down the third base line hit
Silk O'Loughlin, and McInnis was no: al
lowed to score, although Barry got his base.
Thomas lifted a sacrifice fly to Zinn and
McInnis raced home. 4 pass to Plank
pushed Barry TO second and Strunk llnec to
the box 1t was hard smash which War
hop stopped, but threw wildly to Chase, let
ting Barry and Plank tally and putting
strunk on third. Oldring flied out to Hart
zcll
linn drew pass in the last half OF the
second, but Simmons, Hartzell and Gard
ner were easy. Daniels juggled Collinss
single at the start of the third long enough
10 let the spry little Eddie reach second.
Baker sacrificed, and Collins took third. only
10 die at the plate on Murphy's grounder to
Coleman McInnis forced Murphy at sec
ond.
II was one. two three for the Yankees
IN the fifth end sixth innings. Mclnnis
opened the sixth with single took second
on Barry's sacrifice and went 10 third on
Thomas's grounder to Gardner. but Plank
lifted 90 linn. With one gone in the sey-
anth Oldring singled to right and scored
on Collins's double over third. Baker flied
20 street but Murphy doubled TO centre
scoring Collins After Chase had struck out
in the last of the seventh Simmons drew
the second pass issued by Plank, but Old
ring robbed Hartzell of hit by running
catch Zinn then scratched hit through
McInni5, but il was no use, for Plank tossed
out Gardner at first.
The score follows