New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27
Yankee First Baseman
puts Team Ahead but
Defeat Comes in Tenth
lack OF HITS IN THE
PUNCHES COSTS GAME
HsrtzeIl Distinguishes Himself
nv Diving, Rolling Catch OF
Coumbe's Liner.
n- nEYMoOp BRoUN.

r.. Red Sox have no sense OF nc
.S - dramatic values. Carngan 3
~, took the punch and the heart IN
.ost on. Of the afternoon yesterday
49, ,bev defeated the Yankees IN the
t.,tb inning by a score OF 70 l.
". g,s. nnneh was supplied by Harry
u,i,i;sr1s and il consisted OF single
...', sa.ord base which drove q team
~. Lore and put the Yankees IN
10 ioaS The heart interest lay IN the
~. .Lst Williams is soon to be SENT
M ;neoIn Neb.. which should insure
- ~ the ready sympathy OF the pup
y Now. If fate we're a Charlie Van Loan
that single run batted across the pIaIS
-, Harry Williams would have stoou
a., until the end. Then might the re
e{uit have gone on his way to Lincoln
rejoicing that on one occasion az lesst
W. Rad struck a good blow IN the Dig
sbow." or. II the reader insisted upon
unanimously happy ending FRANK
chance might have said: Boy you
needn't 90 20 Lincoln after al: stay
here with US and do the same 'hlhg To-
But as already outlined, the Red Sox
and not Harry Williams won the game,
and I'D 10 the latest returns the Dig
frst baseman is still destined Tor LIN
coin. Neb. Yet even in that city ne may
fn5 consolation, for he will be able 70
read "The Commoner' only lie" min
utes after il is printed.
Raw Fisher, with whom well pitched
games are a habit, was in rare FORM
and only the lack Of hit or two IN the
ninebes cost him a victory; but there IS
always a breeze at the Polo Grounds
when the Yankee batters have an op-
rortunitv 10 drive home runs. Yet the
winning run Of the Red SoN was solely
the fault OF Fisher, for he lost the
game by making a wild pItch.
With Frank Chance the theory thai
left-handers cannot hit southpaw
nitehing is positively an obscssion.
More than likely he would bench ny
Cobb and send Bill Holden up IN his
stead II a left-handed pitcher were on
the mound. In the ninth inning yes
ferdav the leader Of the Yankees called
on Int Boone in place Of Pete Daley.
pete is no Cobb, Of course, but since
he came 10 the Yankees from the Atm
letics he has batted consistently.
Boone. on the contrary, has made eN-
setlv one hit in more than thirty tflps
10 the plate. In the tenth Jay rogers
,,.os ss5t in 10 bat for Fisher. Rogers
also Is the proud possessor Of one INT,
but Yesterday he watched Dutch Leon
ard bend three strikes across the plate
end never even took his bat OF MS
shoulder. go, III
BiU Carrigan also did little pinch
constituting on his own account, DuI
with more apparent Justlhcatlon anu
certainly with much better results.
Carrigan stands with Wilson ana
believes that there is potency IN the
word psychological even though inc
cartoonists and the editors may ran az
n When Dutch Leonard, who entered
the game in the eighth inning, passed
tbs frst man 10 face him, Carrlgan
Quickly called Cady from behind the
hat and donned the mask and wind
mad himself. confident that he could
tslt The pitcher out Of his ways OF
r.;Id,ess hack into the strait ana
marrow path Of strikes. And he did.
Coumbe. a young lefthander, began
the game for Boston, and he ana nay
Fisher were well matched. There was
no scoring until he fifth inning, but
the Red Sox might have caused trou
he in the third if Roy Hartzell NAG
not made a diving, rolling catch OF
Coumbe's low liner. In the last half
of the fifth inning, Daley, the second
man I'd, reached first on tumble by
Yerkes. Nunamaker forced the run
ner. but Immediately stole second and
came home when Wilkins singled TO
centre.
Boston tied the count in the next
inning. A pass 10 Cady, an inteld out
and SCOTS single did the trick. Then
came barren innings. Larry Gardner
began the eighth with a single and
took second on a sacrifice by Herkes,
but Fisher pitched himself out OF the
hole by getting Cady on strikes and
forcing Engle to hit an easy tap to
Peckinpaugh.
Hooper began the ninth with Texas
League double 20 right, but here
Fisher pitched finely and famed Scott
while Speaker and Lewis went out on
easy chances. Peckinpaugh began the
ninth with promise by hitting safely
and Hartzell was ready with a bunt 70
advance him, but there wete no hits 10
bring the runner home.
Janvrin got a scratch single in the
tenth, Gardeners safe hit sent him to
third. and then Ray Fisher lost his
own game by making a wild pitch,
which sent Janvrin across the plate.
The score follows: