New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
Conquer Tribe of Jones in
Final Game on the
Polo Grounds.
BAUMANN AND PlPP
MAKE TIMELY HITS
Drive Home Runs Which Help
Their Team Along Royal Road
to Victory and Top.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.


Those blessed Yanks rose buoyantly
20 within three and one-half games Of
the peak yesterday by rolling the
Browns around in the rain-sprinkled
dust Of the arena. BY concentrating
their fire in two rounds. with Pipp and
Baumann leading the attack. they drove
Bob Groom TO the dug-out after the
fifth with seven runs over, and then
turned the rest Of IL over 20 Nick Gull
lop. the Chilhowie southpaw NICK
drifted with the tide until the ninth,
when he shortened his stride, and jim
my Austin's home run produced two
Brown coated tallies. But they were
not enough, the scrimnage closing at
: tob.
The last Brown contest closed out
the first Western invasion, and this
afternoon the rising Yanks will at
tempt 20 lift two patches Of hide from
the Red Sox. the first game starting
AZ 1880 As the Red Sox are now
pressing Donovan's young men loosely
for third place, the douole-decker
should be a rousing affair from first 70
last
The first Western invasion Of Man
haitian left the Yanks about where
thew started. Out Of eleven games
plaved they won five. lost five and tied
one-which is as close 20 $50 as the
limited numerical system we follow
Will PERM
Team on the Rise.
A slow start with the Western clubs
had the home cast crossing the Dutch
border They won but two out OF the
frst six games with Chicago and Cleve-
land. but began TO brace up when the
Indians moved on TO Washington. The
Yanks dropped only one battle 10 the
Tigers and Browns. winning three and
tieing one. This is in the nature Of a
decided Improvement from the start,
and may mean a good deal or nothing
Al all for the Red Sox series, such be-
ING the uncertainty of our national
frenzy.
There has been very little doubt at
pnv time about the Yank defence, and
the most cheering feature now Is that
the team is hitting. Even with ), r
r.. of Trappe. Nd, out Of the cast they
are laying with robust vigor up against
opposing pitching Yesterday the Dono-
van entry continued its blasting out
process with Brown pitchers operating
as unwilling targets. The attack was
not a heavy one all through the game,
but il was sharp and decisive IN two
innings. backed up with lot OF power.
Wally Pipp, after a belated start,
is coming back where he belongs. HIS
batting was one of Wednesdays feat
ures. and Yesterday he whaled out
single and a triple. Still another wal
Top of Pipp's would have been good for
three bases if Miller had not planted
his spikes out by the right field exit
where Wallie's only chance was to
punch one into Eighth Avenue. While
Baker is resting his rusty knee, Paddy
Baumann is driving in runs by the
hogshead. Paddy drove four OF his
mates and scored twice himself in the
Brown final. participating in no less
than six Of the seven runs.
Have You Fielder's Goat?
No wonder Fielder Jones left town
last night frothing at the mouth. In
the closing battle the Browns made
eleven hits to the Yankees eight; they
made but one misplay, while the Yanks
were making four, and yet Nick Cullop
had no trouble winning his fourth
battle of the year. The score would
never have been close If the crafty
citizen Of Chilhowie, Va, had not de
cded 10 drift in the last inning or two
with a heavy lead TO float on. Nick
had the visitors stopped tidily enough
until his club was safely out in front,
and having a wise bean he could see
no reason in overworking his wing
under these conditions.
The Brown athlete who bothered him
most was George Sisler, the Michigan
Cobb. This sturdy youth, who has
been hitting heavily all spring, stung
Cullop four times, rounding out the
afternoon with a batting mark OF 500.
Unless Tv gets started soon Sisler may
be the fellow to break the Georgian
ten-year reign in the broad Kingdom
Of Swat
There was very little left TO the game
after the first inning. Facing Bob
Groom, Gilhooley opened with a double.
Macee sacrificed and Glhooley scored,
the others advancing when Shottoii
mufed Gedeon's short fly. Baumann' 8
single scored Gilhooley and Gedeon.
Pipp prodded a long triple TO right
centre, scoring Baumann, and Wally the
walloper counted breath later on Lutte
Boone's sacrifice fly With four runs
"a work on, Cullop breezed along hrs
way. The next Yankee outbreak came
in the fifth. when, with one out, Groom
walked Gilhooley and Magee. Bau-
mann doubled and scored both. depo,-
iting the third tally Of the inning when
Pipp cracked one to centre.
Bobby Groom Retires.
After this Jones dropped Groom from
the menu, while Fincher and Park nm
ished the game. holding the Yanks
thereafter 10 one blow. The Browns
scored two in the fifth on errors by
Gedeon and Walters, hit batsman and
Sisters safe rap. Doc Crandall led
brief rally in the seventh that Melted
another. and in the ninth Austin's
home run into the left field seats scored
johnson ahead of him.
In addition TO hard hitting the CON
test was featured by Shotton's fine
catch in the sixth, when he robbed Al
Walters of a triple and by two fine
plays on the part Of Baumann and Pipp.
The Browns, in spite Of their speed,