New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
Bill Donovan Substitutes
Slim Ray as Batter and
Wins Game.
BATTLE REQUIRES
TWELVE INNINGS
Athletics Carry Yankees Along
at Hurricane Clip, Kopf
Starring on Defence.

"Slim' Caldwell and his bat set a.
naught the cunning Of Connie Mack a,
the Polo Grounds yesterday afteruoo,
After Connie had ordered the waking
of Cook and Hartzell, thereby filing
the bases to take a crack at Lutte
Boone, Bill Donovan sent Caldwell m
TO the plate with express orders n
bust that pill out Of the infeld." Bin
did not specify that il be a safe nit.
long fly would have fulfilled the Dur.
pose, for it was the twelfth inning.
and one run was needed 70 win the
game.
But Caldwell scorned the subterfuys
Of sacrifice fly. He wanted a hit. and
he got it, too. In the records il count,
as single, for Maisel scored before
"Slim" had got 70 first, but il mgh.
have been a double had necessity div.
en-. The score of the game was 3 70
2 in favor of the Yankees.
Connie Mack has always beer ac.
knowledged as a master strategst. bu.
even a Machiavelli may overstep him.
self. Maisel opened the last frame with
an infield hit. He drove one down 70
hOpl a. ouOl LcLop. Inc ldLleF maze
miraculous stop, but in his effort to
complete the play made a wild throw
and Fritz busted 20 second. Pipp sac.
rifced him 10 third base
Mack chose to fill the bases BY pass.
ing Hartzell and Cook and take
chance on Boone hitting into a double
play. His orders were carried out but
instead of Boone coming up il was
Caldwell who faced Wyckof. lie ht
the ball a mile, and the game was over.
The machine of the Athletics has
indeed been racked. IL bumps along
over stripped gears, and to reassemble
it will be a work of time But the ways
Of the champion still linger. and the
remaining few Of the erstwhile mon
archs of the baseball world rise and
make their presence felt
They carried the Yankees along II
hurricane clip yesterday before they
were finally caught in the eighth inning
They performed prodigies Of defensive
baseball. too, for the Yankees had 70
fewer than fifteen men left on the
bases. And their burden was made the
heavier by Kopf. The last named per-
son was spectacular and dismal in
spots. He handled a round dozen
chances perfectly and booted three
others which should have been easy.
J. Weldon Wyckotf pitched for tho
Athletics, and ran the gamut in et-
fectiveness. He was hit for a bakers
dozen of safeties. and included in these
were a double by Roger Peckinpaugh
and a triple by Hughie High. But when
the blast of war sounded Wyckof re-
sponded in famous style and barred
the road to the plate with variety Of
curves that bafiled. He was undone in
the final frame by a combination OF
circumstances, of which Caldwells bit
was the eliminating incident.
Cole directed the forces OF the hons
team from the pitching mound. On his
last appearance the jov:al King lost
game in which he allowed only three
hits. Yesterday afternoon he strung
eight hits along through twelve inn
ings. Two of these came in the second,
when the Athletics did all their scoring.
Cole was parsimonious in the ex-
treme with his passes, but lost control
for a moment and hit Kopf with the
ball The King was sorely pressed In
the eighth inning. when, with two out,
Wyckof, Kopf and Strunk hit safely,
but not a run resulted, Strunk's single
being rather sickly affair TO the in.
field
And Cole will never complain Of III.
support he received. The Yankees
worked with a unity of purpose that
could lead to only one result. Each
man Wed with his fellow in taking care
of everything that happened along. The
Yankee infeld was brilliant Roger
Peckinpaugh, Boone and Pipp were the
sons of toll. They reeled off two double
plays in faultless style and put an end
TO possible trouble. There was Peek
with a dozen chances and Boone win
six, many Of them nard. Pipp, how
ever, caught the eye of the fans. Ne
had twenty chances, nineteen OF them
resulting in put outs. He leaped IN
the air for the ball, reached out fot
il or dug it out of the dirt. IL mat
tered not whit TO Walter where they
were; he grabbed them all.
Walle Schang was a catcher. ne
was one Of the best in the American
League. He is now a third ,acker' ana
his actions are causing the fans 70
forget J. F. Baker, Of the Delaware
County League Except always thst
the aforementioned J. +. B. could smlte
that old horsehide. Wallie made
catch of Hartzell's foul in the SKIN
inning that was most dazzling and de-
ported himself like real ball player
throughout.