New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28

ooh. shucks, He amt so much"
was the farewell comment of Cy Pieh.
And the players allowed Pieh to de-
part in peace with his heresy. Cy had
earned the right of free speech, for he
had hurled his fast ball through ira
dition. Hurried from the bull pen after
the briefest sort of warm-up, Pieh
entered the game at the beginning of
the sixth inning, and promptly struck
out Ty Cobb with the utmost ease. ly
swung at the third one, too, and missed
il bv more than a foot So badly was
Cobb fooled, in fact, that he contended
he had not swung, but had merely
lodged. The contention was not up
held, Later Ty did hit Pieh safely, but
II was only an infeld tap, and Cy
probably forgot all about IT.
A much pleasanter result might have
been achieved if Pieh had begun the
game instead of Ray Fisher. Cy. al
lowed only two hits during his four
innings of service, and was not scored
upon, while Fisher yielded ten hits and
seven runs in the first FIVE innings
Only the best of pitching could have
won for the Yankees, for Harry 20,
valeskie allowed seven hits IN all ana
three Of these came IN a nlnth inning
rally. when the big lefthander was IN
clined to ease his efforts Just olt.
Harry Covaleskie is the man who
orce dcprived the Giants Of a pennant
ana inspired Billy Murray with his best
baseball anecdote. We haven't seen
The story in print for almost a year
now. but maybe we can remember H.
II seems there was man on nrsI
~ Herrv was pitching. when Of a
sudden. 70 the horror OF all OF ms men
PHILADELPHIA teammates, he took a long
wind m and the runner trotted down
N second. As the inning ended and
the team came back to the bench knaoe
and mansfield and Doolan and Grant
followed close upon the heels OF Cova-
Ieskie and pelted him with abuse.
"Honest. Mr.. Murray" said the
nitcher as soon as he entered the aug
out. 81 never knew there was anybody
A burst Of blame from the infelders
greeted the explanation.
stop" said Murray sternly. You
Eddie and Kitty and Otto and Nike
whenever you have man on your oase
7 want YOU to 90 over and tell Cova-
leskie about il. I'm not gong 70 nave
anv secrets on my ball club
much about base runners yesterday
because there were so few.
Almost 1000 fans turned out TO see
the Yankees in their first home game,
and thew found scant cheer, for the
team was not IN it's usual fine fielding
form. Added 70 a weak offence was
loose defence Peckinpaugh and tlsher
were the particular offenders.
Covaleskie. who batted as well as he
pitched. began the attack for Detroit.
He singled TO centre in the third Inn
ing. Witt hunted. and it would have
been only a sacrifice but for the fact
that Pipp threw badly 10 Baumann, who
covered first base. The pitcher went
on to third and Witt reached second.
Pep Young singled over short, scoring
Covaleskie, and Cobb's safe smash to
left brought Witt home.
Again, in the fourth, Covaleskie
n singled, 10 short this time, and when
A Peck made a bad and belated throw
the pitching Pole went on TO second.
Singles by Witt and Young brought him
home.
Singles by Maisel and Pipp, Cooks
sacrifice and Cree's infield out gave the
Yankees their first run in the latter
half of the inning.
The next, however, was very bad.
The Tigers scored four times in the
fifth. Crawford began with single,
and Veach got a life when Peckinpaugh
fumbled. Burns beat out bunt toward
third. and the bases were filled, with no
one out. Bush sent a short fly TO Cook
in right, and fast throw to the plate
made the runners stand pat. Fisher
then grew wild and passed Stanage,
forcing home Crawford.
Covaleskie made his third hit at this
point, and it was bunt in front of the
plate which tempted Fisher into wild
throw past first. Veach and Burns
scored Stanage came home on short
passed ball when Fisher dropped Nuna-
makers toss. That made four runs
for the Tigers and seven in all. There
they rested while Cy Pieh laboriously
locked the stable door.
The Yankees saved their rally until
the ninth. Maisel singled. but Mullen,
who had replaced Pipp, famed for the
second time. Cook outsprinted an in
field tap, however, and Cree was hit,
filling the bases. Baumann's fy to
Cobb brought Maisel home and Nuna-
makers double TO left scored Cook.
Caldwell batted for Pieh and Young
threw him out.