New-York tribune., 1916-07-14
Capt. Peckinpaugh's Men
Rout the Indians in
Rainy Battle.
NEW WORKERS SNATCH
GAME BEFORE STORM
Triple by Yankee Shortstop
Turns Tide Just in
Time.

TpTCC
inc rain the valiant Yankees scaled the
beiehts of Coogan's Bluff yesterday
and after some hair-raising hand-to-
hand fighting. drove the Indians out Oh
their strategic position. first place. ! ne
Yankee communique gives the result NJ
s to 3.
The turning point of the battle came
when Roger Peckinpaugh drove III
wedge in the shape Of three-pase hl.'
which tied the score. klepier, VINO was
in the box for Cleveland, began 70 snow
signs of Generalization In the lace OF
the curtain of fire and he was retlevsu
by Covaleskie, the Nemesis OF .he
Yankees. But once up the slopes, the
boroo Guard could not be turned. The
Indians retreated sullenly, leaving 'he
Yanks in possession Of the lead.
II was no day for baseball, but the
stands were pretty well sprinkled with
the faithful when the time for the en-
gapenent started. In the meantime
The players had about decided that
there would be no game, and IRIS
Sneaker and Germany Schaefer were
staging a pitcher and catcher comedy
stunt. But the Cleveland management
insisted that the war go on, ana the
Yanks accepted the challenge.
Yankees Get Early Start.
The Yanks started early. Roy Hart
zell scsmpered over to first while MI
Wambsganss was juggling with tap
that took a lively and eccentric bound
Hugh High slammed one right over
the head of the second baseman with
The trick name. Peckinpaugh's out ad-
vanced the pair. Then Walter Pipp,
the human lath, swung with all the
leverage Of his long arms and clouted
one right through Turner. This brought
Hartzell through with the first run.
The Indians came right back in the
fourth. Iris Speaker lined one at
Boone, sending the ball against Boone's
hare palm. II was so warm that Boone
thought for an instant that he had
stopped one of the bolts OF forkeo
lightning which were shooting across
the murky sky. His fingers seemed to
smoke when he tried to field IT.
Elmer Smith brought CONSERVATION
70 the home defenders when he clouted
a long one into that portion OF the
right field in which Roy Hartzell dld
not happen to be at that particular mo,
ment. By the time Hartzell had
cranked up and travelled for the pail
Sneaker had scored and Smith was on
third. A sharp rap into left held scored
Smith.
In the fifth the Indians followed up
their drive with a discharge of small
calibre swats which netted another run.
Dalv led with a single. Klepfer shot
out an inaccurate bunt which forced
the Cleveland backstop. Graney singled
neatly and nicely. Wambsganss tried,
but the she'll fioated straight up in the
air. 10 be nailed by Boone. iris Speak
er. who covers the outfield and intield
on the defensive, raped smart single
that scored Klepfer.
By this time it began to look pretty
serious for the Yanks. II seemed GER
tain that the charging Indians would
sweep them off the heights of the
American League for keeps. But just
as the sorrowful fans were thinking
about getting under cover before the
storm broke in its violence, the counter
drive of the Yanks came.
Artillery Gets Into Action.
II started unostentatiously, that drive
Of the Yanks, in the gathering gloom.
Hartzell let four of Klepfer's bends
whiz harmlessly by and took base.
=
artillery into action, sending a shell
into distant right field. With the report
of the bat the Yankee partisans took
heart.
Hartzell wheeled over to third and
Roger Peckinpaugh trundled up to the
plate with the real heavy artillery OF
the Yanks. He got out the range finder
and waited. The ball came just at the
right angle and he swung. Just as he
landed iris Speaker started to run 70
deep centre, and Iris is some runner.
II was a race between the hurting
pellet and the greatest of all the fielders.
But the pellet propelled by Rogers
healthy swat had the edge on the
fielder. The mighty Tristram blew up
and the ball rolled TO the fence, while
Peckinpaugh reached third.
This tied the score, and Klepfer was
all wilted under the curtain of fire.
The game was halted while Lee Fohl
wig-wagged for Nemesis Coveleskie,
who many a time and oft has repelled the
most determined attacks of the Yankee
swatsmen. But the Donovan troops
we're in a fighting fury by this time,
and could not be checked. Pipp came
up and clouted the first Offering of
Coveleskie for a long sacrifice fly, and
Yanks run ahead.
BY this time the rain was coming
down in a steady stream, and the fans
were beginning 20 clamor that the
game be called. The Yanks had won,
and they felt that honor had been sat
isfed. In that same inning Lee Magee
missed a home run by an inch. The
ball dropped in the right field stand,
but Hildebrand ruled that IT was foul.
Discouragement for Indians.
Coveleskie the first time at bat was
discouraged by the acrobatic feat OF
tain and shortstop caught one that
would have been "a safe hit anywhere.
He did il by running backward and
spearing il blndly.
More encouragement came TO the
Indians in the eighth, when Shawkey
famed Smith. Gandil and Chapman
on nine straight swings. BY this time
the rain was particularly healthy, and
the pitchers box had plenty of nice
dark mud in IT, Shawkey wrapped the
ball in a coat of this mucilaginous soil
and the Indians could not see it for
mud.
But the gloom and the mud did not
fool the Yankee heavy artillery. They
let the wild ones pass. Peckinpaugh
and Pipp both walked. In sheer des-
peration Coveleskie shot a wild one at
j. Franklyn Baker. and both men ad-
vanced. They scored when Wambsganss
fumbled tap by Boone.
BY this time the Yankees were sat
urated with triumph. the Indians were
saturated with gloom and the umpires
were saturated with plain rain. The
game was called at the end of the