The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-23
TO-dny's schedule.
New York in 81. Louis.
Washington In cleveland.
Philadelphia in Detroit.
Boston In Chicago.

ST. Lotus. May :2..After holding the
lead in the American League pennant
chase for ono entire week the Yankees
were bumped of the pedestal here this
afternoon in a collision with another
belated batting rally by Branch Rickey's
Browns. One Brownie had been safely
laid away In the eighth inning and the
Donovan boys were resting on the heavy
side of a : to l score when the heavy
artillery cut loose. When the wreckage
was cleared away the score was 3 to .
and the Nanks did not even threaten to
cause trouble in their half of the ninth.
II was Marty McHale who got the
late slam this afternoon just as Ray
Fisher got 1t yesterday. 70 seven in
nings the pitching thrush went along on
the even tenor of his way. with only one
slight disturbance in the nth inning 10
mar the harmony. In this frame he
was bumped for three solid hits after
allowing only a single in the four pre-
ceding chapters. and he rallied from the
Onslaught well enough to pitch hitless
ball in the sixth and seventh.
Thanks 10 the form displayed by the
warbling bpXman the Yanks seemed TO
ave victory planted when Hank Severed
was thrown out at the beginning of the
~ SUI A'''' i"fS P'oNN' W Nv ciis
the calm before the storm. which broke
out in furious fashion before Marty
could retire the side. This one chapter
produced five solid blows and one which
carried "A scratch label. hut was good
enough to keep the rally going. The
entire ST. Louis batting order got a
chance to maui McHale's offerings in
this one frame and most Of the Hickey
ties accepted.
The Yankees had their first chance
TO score In the second inning. when
James handed passes to Cook and
Hartzell with one out. Then he tight
cred up and neither Boone nor
sweeney could hit the ball beyond the
infeld.
In the fourth inning Donovan's men
broke the ice with two runs, High
knocked jimmy Austin's hands apart
with "A tabasco grounder and promptly
I stole second. After Cook bad walked
High saw a good chance to steal third
and set sail while Cook held his base.
Sevsreld's low peg got away from Austin
and before Jimmy got the ball again
Cook had moved along to second base.
Hartzell singled to centre. scoring High
and putting Cook on third. Boone fol-
lowed with a drive which bounded ON
James's glove and Cook scored while
Austin was throwing Boone out at first,
This ended the Yankees scoring. al.
though they had a fine opportunity In
the eighth and had a runner On second
with one down In the ninth.
The Browns simply played dead he
fore McHale's wizardry in the first -four
innings. getting just one runner to frs
base in this time. In the NTH the,
broke out with three hits which nettet
- run. with one out l.eary doubled e
left, advanced on ~ out and scored
on Scvereid's drive between Maisel ano
~Peckinpaugh. James followed with I
clean hit to centre. which put Severeit
OF third, but Maisel's quick relay t,
Peck cut James down as he slid init
second.
This was all the scoring up to til,
Browns half Of the eighth. and this in
ming started quietly enough whei
SEVERED rolled to Peck. Then Erni
Walker. batting for James, started tn
trouble with "A double to left centre
Shotton's grounder was going straigh
to Peckinpaugh, hut il hit something
and shot upward, Peck merely touching
II with his finger tips. Walker wa
over with the tying run before Peel
could get the ball back to the plate