The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-23
To-dny'a Schedule.
shington In New York.
Philadelphia In Boston.
St. Louis In Chicago.
Detroit IN Cleveland

Phils lphis in Boston.
St. Louis in Chicago
Detroit IN Cleveland
The New York Americans had their ,
hrst fling on their own hearthstone yes
terday and got away tagging on the
homo port OF their schedule allotment
Grffi,h's washngtons. pennant poten-
tial,ties, persistently thereabout II never
quite there at the finish. came in with /
the cool wave TO help ponovans men /
open the Sew York season. and helped
so willingly that they won the game
bv a score Of 10 !.
Enthusiasm and interest In the hrst
appearance at the Polo Grounds OF the
New Yorks with Donovan as manager
and presiding genius were warped by
unfit weather. II was UNIT for an opeH-
ing. For an ordinary baseball day
such a raw and chilly weather diet could
have been stomached more readily
taken in a more philosophical spirit,
but conditions which keep people away
leave greater impress on gaia oc-
CASTOR than an ordinary day. IL was
skinny attendance which sat huddled
and wrapped IN the stsnds-not over
10000 at the most.
The defeat OF tho New forks set
IN soon after Mayor Mitchell threw out
a ball of spotiess white 10 the New
York pitcher. ball which al once
went into somebody's souvenir store.
for IT was not used IN the game. Pre-
horSa-
sheo Of flowers with several strug-
cling men as a supporting cast moved
across the field and was presented TO
Bill Donovan. Except for fragments OF
music the rest OF the afternoon was en-
tirely baseball and with what Was con-
vIncing in that respect coming mostly
from the Wash'ngtons.
Whatever latent drive and power ana
dash the New Works may have they were
wero Kept At low pressure yesterday pN
the pitching OF shaw, sth."art Speed
shooter who has bailied them before al
me Polo Grounds and who, though
wild flung a lot of stun down from
ire crest Of the turtle back. which
,.,ttated the trunche1Hs Of the New
Works and made their attack sponsy
and useless from the start. Vim ana
hounce and fir. the New Works never
nad "A chance 70 dlsplti.
Tho WashingtOHs. outhittlug tho home
team And keeping up steady thous"
scattered rain # hits Oh Marty Nc
Hale collected runs in drlhlets, bu,
often enough with the dribets 20 win
easily. There was nothing very stylish
about their play. not that they aren't
capable Of II. us. indeed the Sew Works
may he. but this was a colorlcss game
and long drawn out The Washinstons
were alternately lively and asleep on the
bases and couldn't Concentrate enough
vigilance and hitting 10 make the most
of their chances.
Poor base running cost the New FORKS
one chance TO get into the game ana
they weren't fully alive to taking ad-
vantage of flaw IN the base running Of
their opponents All In all they didN';
enter their first home shindig swinging
their shilleahs and cracking their heels
together rather did they side In "a
10 say: we aren't very clipper TO- !ay,
hut we'll cut loose later"
Roy Hartzell who was the only mem
Der of the New Yorks who made a. un-
broken success or reaching hrst base
on Shaw, and that by the passive proc
ess of waiting. drew HIS ttrst pass IN
the first inning. He was the only
player of either side to get to first In
The opening inning. At reaching first
he Washingtous entirely restrained
themselves until the third but for New
York Doc Cook hit the pcripateuc route
10 first In the second inning. lie was
tho tirst man up, but after Peck's sac
rifice, a fly and an inr"id grounder i'm
moIated him at the second stake.
The Washingtons n mayed TO scrape
together a run from 'hr,e hits IN tho
third. They weren't 'rJubled much 20
nit NcHale. once the" began. Henry
~loughed a liner 10 right, Mcbride sac
r.Hced Accstt struck out and Eddie
Foster hit treaksh hit TO Pipp. II
was a slow, rukcy affair. which Pipp
finally laid hands on and then found
nobody al home at first. that Is no
body except Foster and he an un-
desirable. Foster made a hit Of II by
sliding under pipp az the latter reached
Tor him. The hit was good for run.
There were two ont in the third in
ming when the New Works started a
runpus. Hart2ell walked again, cree
singled on the run and hit, but Nilan's
grab held I1rtzell at second Pipr
snElci down the first base line Can,
On made . nnc stop, but II was the turn
for wits 10 be wool gathering On tn,
WASHINGTON side ana nobody covered
first. Likewise nobody told Cree that
GaudN mad stopped the ball, ana with
HartZell who saw the play, pulled nj
nj third, Birdie came rolling into that
bag with tine speed throttle wide omen
canal tossed 10 Morgan, who IAN nm
down.
In tho fourth tho Washington
tnrtfcs th"mselves up on the bases N
much ~" same way hu, tho New YorA
inheld wasn't QUICK TO act ana an inIpru
dent washington wander-r returned n
safety 20 hts proper bailiwick ACosts
scored IN the NTH on base on balls
rosters single To rlgh,--a run and hi
piay--hnd Mhan's out al 1rst Room,
threw out Milan The bail came To hin
too lari)y FOR him to have d play at tn,
plato,
SosteE, the Titles, National, was tn,