The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-12
YANKS CAN'T CHECK
WINNING STREAK OF
WESTERN POEMEN
Harry Covelesk1e and Detroit
Go to Six Straight With
Their Aid.
CALDWELL IS WEAK IN
THE EARLY INNINGS

DETROIT, June 1f.-The Yankees
m this trip are playing 80 1-3 per
cen baseball. one-third productive and
two-thirds non-productivc. and that won't
get them very far. To-day the Detroits
beat them 4 to 1. They. the Yanks. are
running into Western foemen when the
latter are in tho thick OF IA winning
streak. and they are prolonging those
winning streaks for the Western foe
men The Browns went TO six straight.
with the Yankees for opposition in the
last two games of the six. and the De-
troits made II six straight to-day.
The two Yankee defeats In st. Lou
were due to chuckle headed base run
ming. The knickerbocker boys didn't
get any chance to run bases to-day.
They were not on them often enough.
The high class pitching OF Harry Cove
ieshie was their undoing. They couldn't
hit. 1t was the real merchandise In
pitching that they couldn't hit. but stu
they couldn't hit.
Before the Yankees had their bearings
the Detrolts had damned home a safe
lead. Early drubbing OF Slim Caldwell
did the business. Caldwell. neverthe-
less, although he inflated his long losing
list. pitched well. lie was not cffec-
tive enough In the first three innings TO
hold the Tigers. but from that on he
did the best pitching he has done this
year. There was more steam on his fast
bali lie pitched as IL he was nearing
his real form, and among his achieve
mcnts was the striking out Of Cobb once
and preventing that mighty man from
getting n base hit or anything like H..
He had Tyrus the terrible quite tanned
vcach q Terror for Yanks.
II Caldwell could have drawn the
claws of Tiger Veach II would have been
a close game. Veach pronged the offer
ings OF tho Slim server for three singles
and drove in three OF the domestic
runs. Again II would have been n closer
game had Gedeon not wrestled a losing
bout with Bush's grounder in the first
inning. That malfeasance lowered the
drawbridge TO one Detroit run, and IT
IL possible that there wouldn't have
been any in that period II Bush had
been turned back. as he would have
been by the acceptance OF an easy
chance. .
There was an overflow crowd and
ground rules. but tina ground rules were
unnecessary. for no ball was hit that
far. AT the Polo Grounds Il would have
been Just an ordinary attendance. not
f!ling the stands. but here people were
on tho field.
Tho Yanks developed a mania FOR
bunting, but those tactics did not nus
ter or reveal any eakncs In the work
Of Coveleskie. Not a N that was
not taken care OF by Coveleskie or his
aida Tho Yanks chung to this form or
attack pers!stently. II that IL a virtue,
but showed more sticktoitiveness than
skill at the prodding process.
After Gedeon had cuned Bush's
erounder In the frst Wit singled. Cobb
sacrificed and Neach rushed two home
with a single. Witt singled In the third
and was safe at second on n tielder's
choice when Peckinpaugh. with good In
tent!ons but defective judgment, tossed
Cobb's round to the midway instead
Of making a play for the batter al first.
Neach battcd Witt home. Cobb taking
third. Neach was collared stealing,
Cobb clingirg 10 third, although he
could have scored on the play. Still this
unusual caution on the part OF the Peach
didn' matter. as He!lman thrust a
single to centre and scored the eminent
Ceorg an.