The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-27
YANKS AND SOx
JOLT D0PESTERS
Their Showing so Far in American
League Race Has Been Big.
sest Surprise in
Years.
ROWLAND MAKING GOOD
Man Who Went UP From Bushes, Is
Doing Great Work Under Big
Tent-Tiaers IN 'f1
Race.

[By Hal, Sheridan. Written for the
United Press.f
NEW YORK, May 27.-Not in the
history of baseball has the grand old
game got such a series of ~iolts as 1t
| did on the getaway this year. Sur
! prise piled on top Of surprise and the
! experts and statisticians who settled
! the races during the winter months,
| shuddered and wept as they saw the
teams they had picked for one-two-
three go humping along in the rear.
winning about one game a week.
Probably the one biggest jolt
handed the dope was the way the
rejuvenated Yankees, under Wild Bill
/ Donovan, fox-trotted out In front IN
Ban Johnson's loop. "A mere flash
/ in the pam said many. Be that as
! it may, they must admit now that It
! is "some flash" The Yankees are
still tearing along at mighty for
! mitable clip. They lose lots OF
games Of course. But they are still
winning more than they are losing
and will keep them up there in the
| front ranks.
| Donovan necessarily draws the bulk
of the credit for the improved form
Of the Yankees. Wild Bill, has in
/ fused his cohorts with the fighting
spirit and he lashes them along
whenever they show signs Of weak
! ening. But there are some other fac
| tors that enter into the good show
| ing of this gang.
| High and Pipp, the two. ex-Tigers
lassoed by the new Yankee manage
ment have been playing a bang-up
article of the national pastime all
spring Both have been hitting right
around a three hundred clip and field
ing almost fauItlessly. Pipp grabbed
1 the first base job away from young
Andy Mullen after the hardest kind
of battle. Since. however, he has
! chosen that he Il entitled to the job
| by whaling the ball in terrific style.
MaiseI Great Base Runner.
Lutte Boone at second and Fritz
/ Maisel at third have played cham
pfonship ball all the way. This pair
{ will come close to crowding any two
at similar positions in the league for
! the honors. Maisel is smashing rec
ords galore in the base running de-
partment. This youngster boasted
before the season opened that il he
batted 300 he would steal more than
one hundred bases this season. So
| far he has made good. He has bat
! ted close to three hundred and he
| has swiped an average Of one base a
game. AS there are 154 games on
| the schedule and he maintains any
thing near his present clip. he'll
chalk up his hundred stolen bases
and then some.
In the pitching line. Donovan has
| been getting some nifty work. The
| three Ray's-Keating, Caldwell and
Fisher have been winning consist
! emily. Jack Warhop has been twirl-
! ing classy ball but he has lost sever
al hard luck games. Paddy BaImann
/ an ex-Tiger, is also hurting a good
brand of stuff for the Yankee crew.
Comiskey's White Sox form anoth-
er surprise. though not as great a
one as furnished by Donovan's outfit.
! The Chicago bunch. before the sea
son opened. presented problem. No
one knew exactly how to figure them.
There was big "if'' in connection
with them. In the first place, the
/ manager, Clarence Rowland, was an
unknown quantity in the major
leagues. He had come out of the
bushes with a good record as a man.
ager, but whether his stuff would
win games in the big tent was cues.
ton. That he is making good is evi.
\ denced by the standing of the white
hosed athletics in the percentage
column.
Fournier Hits Like F1end.
! JACQUES Fourier, the big French
man who has been with the Sox for
several seasons, is hitting like a
fiend this year. He collects, among
divers other hits, brace OF doubles
almost every day. Eddie Collins is
adding great strength to the Comis
key clan and if they continue to get
fair pitching, they will be battling
the leaders all season.
Hugh Jennings has his Tigers back
in the running after several years
back with the trailers. the willy man
ager set about putting 1t together
again with young blood. OF course
he has some of the old crew left tc
work with. Cobb and Crawford. fol
instance. bump the ball with the
regularity that they did in the days
of old But Jennings has added some
valuable young blood to the club and
again has a contender in the field.
Up Boston way. the fans are pull
ing for the Red Sox twirling staff tc
round into shape. That's about al
Carrigan needs to have his club ir