New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
Browns Drive ShaWkey
from Mound at Start
of First Game.
SECOND CONTEST
GOES TEN INNINGS
Wild Bill Pitches Here for First
Time This Season and Gets
Real Peevish.
BY HEYWOOD BROUN.

this season. Stories have come in from
the West now and again which limited
that Bill was surreptitiously hurting
the ball at the plate or whereabouts. but
as a rule the box score showed that ne
was no more than technically guilty OF
! pitching.
IS a rule these appearances OF Dom
ovan celebrated something or other. IL
an out-of-tow manager could dig up
| hundredth anniversary OF this or that
ne would suggest that IL would be only
fitting for Donovan 70 get out and pitch
Immediately after the parade OF the
G.. A. K. veterans.
Bill celebrated nothing at the Polo
Grounds yesterday He just deliber-
ately put himself in TO pitch when he
saw that Bob Shawkey would never do.
Donovan pitched from the third inn
ing until the ninth, inclusive, and in
that time he allowed only two runs,
both of which might have been pre-
ve.teG if Alexander had cut runner
off at second. IL was not the fault OF
Donovan that St. Louis won the game
by a score of to /. The second game
va called al the end OF ten innings,
when the score stood at 70 4.
No, there is nothing about the pitch
ing of Bill Donovan which should make
him timid about showing II off 70 the
home folks. The reason for his long
delay in mounting the mound at the
Polo Grounds is a Thu entirely apart.
The fact of the matter is that before
the beginning of the season the mana
ger of the Yankees was extensively
billed as Smiling Bill Donovan. He
was never pictured except in the act Of
ginning from ear 10 ear and reporters
from the Southland took pains 20 in
form the public that the smile was re-
liable.
The impression gained ground that
the smile was genuine. IL seemed as
if Donovan might be the worth while
man whom Ella Wheeler Wilcox had in
mind. You know. the one who could
smile when everything went dead
wrong. A man, in fact, who could
manage the Yankees and keep his tenn
DER at the same time.
The myth dissolved az the Polo
Grounds yesterday when Bill Donovan
pitched. Smiling Bill indeed! Every
time ball came within foot or so Of
the plate Donovan insisted that il was
a strike. Not once did he 90 to tbs
berch without pausing TO berate SILK
OLoughlin. By the final inning he had
worked himself into a perfect fury OF
resentment, and even after the game
was over he tried to talk little more
about 1t. Bill is pretty steady pitch
er, yet he is only an erratic smiler.
Jimmy Austin was the most cheer
full man on the field, and he had a
right 70 be- He ran off five hits in
row in the first game and made IL
six straight by singing as soon as
ne had a chance 10 90 70 the plate IN
the second game. He almost made IL
seven straight in his next tr., but
Roger Peckinpaugh caught him at
first, after an exceptionally good stop
OF hard-dryen ball.
Austin came back 70 his stride again
and singled twice more. With eight
hits TO his credit, he failed TO send
the winning run home from third in
the ninth inning. At this critical
Juncture of the game his best was
fly to Cook. A triple and a home run
were among Austin's many trophies
OF the afternoon.
Hickey allowed the big crowd 10 see
two young pitchers OF rapidly rising
fame. Bill James hurt several fingers
Unfolding burt in the sixth inning
OF the second game, and Slsler, OF
Michigan, went TO the box. Slsler did
not have 70 go very far He simply
tossed away his first baseman's NIT
and put on a ielders glove.
Fortunately, Sisler did not throw
the mitt very far, for there was need
OF 1t again ere long After he had
allowed a hit by Boone and had served
two balls TO Nunamaker, Branch
Hickey decided that no matter how
the public might feel about IL, ne per-
sonally had seen enough Of SISTERS
pitching. And 80 he sent him back
to iirst again. Koob succeeded the
collegian.
The Browns quickly took the lead
in the first game. They scored three
times of Shawkey in the first inning.
Austin, Sisler and Pratt singled and
Walker chased them all home with a
triple. Severeid's single, Hamilton's
sacrifice and Jimmy Austin's single
gave the Browns another run IN the
second inning and Bill Donovan took
Up the burden of pitching at the be-
ginning of the third.
Earl Hamilton, one of the most err
ratio OF left-handers, pitched splen-
dldly. He began the game wearing a
red shirt, and later removed Il, but
this was the limit OF the Yankees
success until the ninth, when they
escaped a shut-out.
The runs scored against Donovan
came in the sixth. Shotten walked
after two had been retired and stole
second. He kept on 70 third, when
Alexander threw badly. Austin hit a
liner over Cooks head for home run.
A surer outhelder might have made a
catch.
Crees single and Boones double
gave the Yankees run in the nin>h
inning. WARRIOR went all ten innings
for the Yankees in the second game.
st. Louis hunted itself into a lead
in the first inning. Shotten doubled
TO left and Austin and Slsler both
beat out bunts Walker added Il sac
rifce fly, and the inning Melted two
runs pass 20 Pipp, Cooks double
and Barney's single gave the Yankees
a run in the second inning.
Boone's error, Walkers sacrifice and
Towards single were the factors in
the production OF run by the Browns
in the sixth. The Yankees also scored
once IN this inning on a pass 20 Pipp,
who was forced by Cook and singles
by Barney and Boone.
Two passes, a wild pitch and 4 sto-
len base put the Yankees in a posi-
ton 70 score twice and take the lead
in the seventh inning, when Cook sin
gled 70 right, but II was this same
Cook who permitted the Browns 70 tie
the score in the ninth. Layan singled
to centre and Agnew beat out a ount
when nobody covered first. Koob's
bunt was a little fly into the hands OF
Pipp, but the first bsseman threw
past first in an effort 20 double Agnew
and Cook threw wildly past the plate.