New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-23
Detroit Falls TO Fourth
Place When Chances
Men Wiz Two.
FARRELL PURCHASES
CLARENCE o. KRAFT
bred Scott of Baseball Will
Ts..e Place of Brilliant
Charlie Mui,en.
Il, HFYWOOD BROUN.

inSse baseball people are A""9 :
co,rC - extremes. Not % very long
AGO ;hcre was mucn talk % locking up
the Poo Grounds ou JE.y - "nhc thc
pIgyeIs ,scr: on strike. An1 tet wnSt
happened The CA'es o. the "2Io
C;sunEs opened al | o'clock and tne
h.isI men o. Detroit and Ne" YORK
ta-.iod <or something more man our
hon.. NhaGGTe mean locH up the
sa.es s;5 Ike?
fhe lanse-. vent % ox;ismes Or
thor nv,. 2c-o2nt, fcr Trey 'ooA .
oo..L,a-hcaiec rom he Tigers aac
,,r.aleo -. men Of Jennings oct u:
,orord llcct N inc American Leaghe
,sco. Tae score o. Ike first game %aS
Q ,oi md o, the second ; 70 ..
Including :he .vo Victories OF yes
..~eav. the Yankees have Won eleven
~ 81 thcir lat seventeen games.
Tcev nave los. i've and mel ore: ~"
,rirr began with the coming % rec
sr5 The inv.sion Of the Western cluos.
Ian; managers would hesitate 20
hoax IT g winning combination, odt
no. 30 Frank Chance. He announced
Yesterday that Clarence o. KRAFT, the
nred scott of baseball, had been pur-
chased from the Newark club ana
would plav first base for the Yankees
70 dan in place Of Charlie Mullen.
1-,lcss MANY indications fail, tins &C
ton may cause strike by the fans
+-atern;tv. which has received uttle
consideration of late. ~,
According 20 competent Judges Mul-
len is one Of the most promising re-
,rui-s of tho season. Yesterday ne
drove ira the run which put the anhecs
ahead in the first game, the hrst run
Tor New York IN the second game, ana
m the fifth inning of that contest the
Two runs which tied the score. OUT
dc Of that he did nothing but handl'
TWENTY-FIVE chances iaulIeSsl!' IN
.hc last five games Mullen mas madc
seven hits IN eighteen trips 10 tne
platc. and IN twenty-one games Tor lne
Yankees he has been charged WIN ohi!
ono error. and that occurred "neh Il
base runner spiked his hand.
There is no better fielding hrst base
man in the American League than
Mullen. and he is showing constant I'M
movement in his hitting. OF Kraft,
David FultZ said in one OF ms state
mentg that he would make an excellent
nlayor for a class "A league, ana
seemingly George Staliings and VII
be-t Robinson had the same idea. I'm
Announcing the purchase Of Kraft. lom
Da,is. secretary Of the Yankees. re
marked that the player ought 70 prove
a good card on account OF the amount
o. publicity he had received.
With all due respect 10 Kraft. the
idea which led to his acquisition seem
% be about on par with that when
,,duced Hammcrstein 10 sign inc
Shooting Show Girls" for his vaude-
Vie theatre. II Developments con
,inue in baseball along this line well
balanced inrield Of the future might ne
made M Of Harry Thaw. Joseph can
Iaux. Biz Bill Haywood and Victorian"
U,,erta. The option Of the New loTN
,iub on Mullen has several days 10 run.
bu, il j. understood that ne WIZ o.
sem, back 10 Lincoln, Ncb., on August l.
Slim Caldwell pitched one OF NJ
usual good game against Detro'' w.
TIC openinc contest, and was eUcC'l'C
ira every inning but the third, When IN"
TIGERS punched half their hltS. hcc
ru7 which Put the Yankees ~ the IeSP
came IN tho sixth inning on >lhE'v
h.. UsrtzeU. PASS. an inheld out ano
live b, Mullen which almost took d
bend from Coycleskio. who was pilc"-
&C b;s -ocond game in two days. The
wonderful holdlnc and all AROUND play
O. Lutte Boone was feature
King cole vas hammered out Of the
boN i'm the first inning Of the second
game and Cy Pich took his place. ON"
might we'll call c. lucky. for IN clCn1'
innings he gave four bases on ball
and Yielded eleven hits. yet only t"o
mon .cored while he was on the mound
The Yankee hattod all around m inc
nth iu1inc. when they scored -r'"n
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