New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-25
Big Bullet Scores Third
Straight Win Over
DOnoVan'S Grew.
FRANK BAKER MADE
ONE HIT IN SERIES
Speed King Slackens Pace IN
Ninth and Permits Pair
of Runs.

Washington. April "a Walter John
son pitched for the Senators this after
neon. In consequence the Yankees are
no, leading the American League this
mornine. The speed king has faced the
Donovanites three times this season
and each time he has sent them grovel-
ling into the dust Of defeat. 10 IS worth
remarking that the only games Don
ovan's men have lost have been 10
johnson.
However. iii Things human are vul-
nersblc. samson. shorn o. his locks
became a weakiue. achilles. stabbed
in the heel. succumbed 20 his injuries.
Maybe # johnson were kicked IN the
shins or he'd the ligamcnts OF his pitch
ing arm severed before o game he
might be beaten, too.
In any event, the score to-day was
10 Q
IL was a typical Johnson day. I'm
eight innings the Big Bullet allowed
only two hits. one a weak. puny and thor
oughly miserable scratch by !. Frank
lin Baker. There was not even the
suggestion Of a threat on the part Of
che Yanks 10 score run IN all that
time.
In the ninth frame Walter relented
bit and. lobbinc up q few slow ones.
allowed four hits 10 score TWO runs.
After that second run was over he
remembered dinner engagement. how
ever. and coerced Walie Pipp into loft
ing TO Rondeau.
For the first six innings only eigh-
teen Yankees faced the speed kings
fire. ID was pop-up after pop-up
throughout tho game. as the few as
sists bv the Senator infeld will attest
The Washington fans cheered Justify
and rooted for a no-hit game. II might
have been. perhaps. that the demands
for such a performance put the linX
on the thing. for Fritz Maisel, the first
Yankee man I'D in the seventh. hit the
ball into right field for a single. He
was the first Yankee 10 even approach
making q safety. Hughie High forced
Maisel and Doc Cook flied 10 Milan.
At this juncture J. Franklin Baker,
eminent trail-hitter, came up. His bat
was struck by z lightning bolt. other
wise known as Johnson's fast one The
ball dribbled safely past second base
IL was his first hit in seventeen times
=
lation By the Yankees.
Baker has been meeting the ball all
The time. and many of his wallops that
were converted into outs we're much
harder than this one. which finds its
way into the averages. But he hit in
hard luck. for there was always a
fielder waiting for the ball
Yanks Used Three Fingers.
Bob Shawkey. Nick Cullop and Ur-
ban Shocker furnished a little opposi-
ton for Johnson. II was not much.
though. Shawkey was wild and inef-
fective He lasted three and one-third
innings Cullop was Ineffective and
wild. lie lasted one and two-thirds
innings. Shocker was sent in to finish
The game. no matter how bad he was.
BY the time he got into the box u
didn't matter much. But. seriously. he
wasn't so bad. lie allowed only two hits
in three innings while Shawkey al
lowed FIVE and Cullop the other two.
The top Of the batting order Of the
Yankees did all the hitting. Maisel,
who got the first hit Of Johnson in the
seventh. repeated IN the ninth. and
turned in an average Of 800 for the
afternoon. Joe Gedeon showed no dis