New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
Donovan's Men Helpless
Before Vaccinations OF
Weilman's Port Arm.
CULLOP LOSES HIS
SECOND CONTEST
Locals Make Desperate At
tempt to Win, but Are
Outplayed.
BY w. o. MCCLELLAN.

Tho nerveless fingers with which the
crippled Yanks gripped the second
rung Of the American League ladder
slipped yesterday and the invalids shd
through space to fourth place.
The Boisterous Browns, Of ST. Louis
through the magic stuff in the port
arm Of the altitudinous Mr.. Weilman'
climbed ponderously into second place
beside the Detroit Tigers. At present
writing there is no such position as
third place. the Tigers and the
Browns being automatically, morally
and ethically even.
The Vaccinations of Mr.. Weilman
were too much for Wild Bill Donovan
the Red Avenger of Coogan's Bluff. lie
had nearly everything in that offside
wing of his yesterday, and whenever
the cripples showed signs Of rising IN
their wrath he tanned them.
There is no alibi for the Clan Dono-
van this time. They were outplayed IN
every department of the pastime. They
were trying all the time, though, those
Yanks, and it was not until Peckin-
paugh famed in the ninth inning that
the humid multitude abandoned hope
that somehow the Yanks would hoist
themselves up again by the simple de-
vice of lifting themselves by their
bootstraps.
e
nartlv due TO a wild and excited heave
b. Charlie Mullen, but all the others
were Just naturally pounded across the
pan according to the simplest strategy
of the great American game.
Register Against Cullop.
Incidentally, the Browns registered
against Nick Cullop, the most highly
successful of the Yankee twlriers, his
second defeat of the season. The
sombre Southerners had punched the
hits frequently enough on Nicholas TO
build up four runs, when Bill Donovan,
in the Yankee half OF the fifth, holsted
Cullop to enlist Nunamaker as pinch
hitter.
After that Slim Love, the tall Cali
fornia redwood tree, worked two inn
ings for the Yanks. Love started by
tanning Weilman on three pitched
balls, but he was removed in the sew
enth. when Alexander rushed to the
colors as a pinch hitter.
Alexander batting for Love-" said
the announcer.
what dye mean for love-" demand
ed the gallery. Tennis stuff, huh !"
And Alexander in chagrin flied out.
The confidence in the ability of the
Yanks to rush the most impregnable
trench was manifested yesterday when
the crowd, instead of filing out to the
gates, waited until the last cartridge in
the old ammunition box was fired off.
With the score to against the gal
liant defenders of Coogan's Bluff the
onlookers felt that there was still a
chance, and they watched the last half
of the ninth inning with bated breath
and prayerful visages.
AL Walters, the first up, made des-
perate swipe at the ball, and it might
have travelled for a mile had it not
been Just within range of Lavan, who
speared it with a desperate effort. Fritz
Maisel was removed from the operating
table and brought from under the in
fluence of the ether TO bat for Mo-
gridge. Fritz squeezed nice hit along
the third base line.
Ltt MdEtt maui a lhbSt ~ a oiO"
one from Weilman and sent it far into
left field. But Shotten, ambling like an
agitated antelope, dashed after il and
got beneath it just before it touched
the ground. That made two out and
the Yankee rooters began to feel quite
hopeful. For the past month or so the
Yanks have always waited until two
were down before they started rally.
High Raises Hopes.
"Come on, now" the optimist began
TO below. 1.-TWO out and it's time TO
bust her up" When Hughie High, of
the Yankee landstrum, pasted one safe
ly into left field it began to look as
though the Yanks were about to pound
out a victory despite the barbed wire
entanglements pitched by Mr. Weilman.
Roger Peckinpaugh faced the altitu-
dinous one with a wicked mace, swing
ing suggestively. Even when Peck
fouleG them off for two the crowd still
hoped. Then came a slow one and the
mace descended, but il descended upon
nothing tangible. The ball was con-
spicuous by its absence. As the swish
of that futile swing disturbed the at
mosphere the Browns assembled to Sec
ond place, while the Yanks slid silently
and sorrowfully downward.
The score follows: