The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
To-day's schedule.
Detroit In Chicago.
81. Louis In Cleveland.

One Of those obscure and minor side
issues OF modern baseball. a baseball
game. was seen a, the Polo Grounds yes
terday. II was baseball itself. now al
mos. obsolete with all the oral. letter
writing. confabbing. recriminacng. mag
nate. contract jumping. warning. ad nau-
seam kind Of baseball now so fashion
able. The Yankees and the Athletics en-
,ertained with this old fashioned display
and the Yankees won by a score OF III
10 3 Strange to narrate. there was a
big lot OF people who seemed to be
still greatly interested in seeing the game
itself. n lot OF people who hadn't for
gotten what the national sport was or
iginally created for and to whom the
doings of the Kauffs and the National
Commissions and the what not OF That
sort were of little moment compared
TO the actual playing OF the game.
The Yankees kept w the conquerinE
manner Of play which they have been
doing this year Their batting was
strong. their fielding neat and brisk their
pitching efficient. although Ray Caldwell.
who did IL. was lavish with his bases on
made little trouble for him or his team
because his pitching wasn't hi,table to
any material extent by the Athletics.
Murphy and Mclrnis and Barry and
Schang OF the old boys wee there. but
the thump and finish and confidence, the
gifts with which the Athletics were wont
to win their way TO championships were
not there There was no Collins. no
Baker. no Bender. Larry Lajoie played
good enough ball for anybody at second
base bu, yet the Athletics no more were
THE baseball club. Just A baseball club.
and. based on the game they played
YESTERDAY not very good one.
The Yankees made runs in a variety
OF ways aud made them easily. They
had little trouble fetching in base run
rers. II the Athletics didn't boot the
Yankees hit The one time masters
couldn't keep up with the home team
in any department. Yet the Athletics
looked less ike a dead team than one
which hasn't started yet They were
defunct, but probably only temporarily
so. and their efforts were In contrast "a
the cayenne and cleverness with which
the Yankees delivered the goods. Maisel
was the busiest deliverer. He delivered
-four hits and four runs. Maisel was
part Of q smart working infied.
The first inning ended all even and
in that round two Ydnks We're snuffed
out AZ the plate. Strunk tripled for
the Athletics and came in on Schang's
single. For New York Maisel singled
Hartzell walked and High walked be-
fore anybody was out Pip hit to La
joie for force and Malsel scored Cook
grounded to old man Larry, who threw
out Hartzell at the plate with all the
success and grace of ancient. ten day
clause times. Peck singled to left and
| Walsh. with a dandy throw, cut dowr
Pipp at the plate. Walsh couldn't have
given the ball to Schang better had
! he handed 1t to him.
The Athletics We're class in that in
ming. but they retrograded The New
Works took the lead In the second or
! nits by Sweeney and Maisel. n base or
balls Hartzelrs sacrifice hoist and q
| lurid throw TO first by Schang. Schans
| hurled the ball not into McInnis's NIT
! but into Highs clavicle.
On four desultory prods the Athletic,
amassed two tallies, one in the third
/ one in the fourth. then they Withdrew
! as active factors Manager Bill hate,
/ to do II. but business is business and h,
! kept egging his men for more run,
even though the game became onesided
/ Not that he wanted to rub II into tn.
Athletics. but he didn't want his mel
to acquire any tendency toward sur,
. thing Incidence. Boone pumped a hom
run to the top of the right field wal