New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-31
Slim Holds Dolly Stark
and His Tennessee
Brothers Safe.
GIDEON AND BAKER
HELP YANKEES WIN
Joe Knocks Down Eight Daisy
Cutters and Frank Makes
Some Hits.
lEr re..sr,rh 70 N. r1nnr. /

Memphis, Tenn. March 80. Another
exhibition Of faultless fielding by the
Yankees. coupled with one big inning
in which New York hits were punched
with errors by the home team, gave
Bill Donovan's men a victory over Dolly
Stark's Memphis Chicks at the local
ball field this afternoon. The big
leaguers had trouble getting started,
but after the sixth, when they batted
around and collected four runs, there
was no doubt over the outcome.
The score was 9 to T.
Slim Love, who resides only a few
miles from Memphis, was given
chance to show his pitching wares be-
fore a number of townsmen who flocked
in TO see their most altitudlnous citi-
zen. Slim surely did his part to please
the boys from home and TO help the
Yankees win. He is still limping from
the Spraincd nstep sustained AT Macon,
but he was able to show almost at his
best this afternoon.
Loves battling speed tied the
Memphis crowd into knots. and five Of
the first eight men to face him went out
on strikes. He allowed three hits and
one run in five innings, the scoring
being the result of triple and a
single, which were punched in the third
frame.
The Yanks did nothing spectacular
in the fielding line. but their work was
clean TO the point of perfection. Their
nine innings OF errorless play to-day
made total Of tnirty-two scoreless
innings since Pecknpaugh' wide toss
at Nashville last sunday.
Joe Gedeon had "a busy afternoon at
second base, handling eight chances
without a slip. Frank Bakers bat
counted heavily in the scoring Of the
Yankees. In the previous exhibition
games against the Southern Leaguers
Baker has been content TO string along
with a hit per game. but to-day he
broke out with a pair of blows, each a
timely one.
Baker grounded past second base in
the opening inning, with Magee on
third, and the Nanks went ahead. In
the seventh Baker came up with sec
ond and third bases occupied, and his
contribution to the cause was healthy
cout to deep left centre, which Melted
him two bases and chased two runners
home
Lee Maree climbed out Of his batting
stump Win par VI S4HEtf0 anu JUG
Gedeon accounted for a single and a
double.
Love and Russell divided the pitch
ing for the Yankees. and the former
was the more effective by a wide mar
gin. In the third inning Pitcher Kerr
got single and Hemingway hit to
deep left for three bases. This ended
the scoring against the tall finger.
In the sixth, after Russell had
walked two men. Runt Walsh and Ezra
Midkif hit safely. two runs resulting.
The last run by the come team was a
home run into the LETT field bleachers
by Dolly Stark IN the eighth inning.
The Yanks got busy IN the opening
frame after two were out Magee
scratched single past short, stole
second, took an extra base when Mig
Ciarke's throw bounded away from
stark and scored on Bakers single.
This was all the hitting and scoring
the Ianks did against Kerr, south
paw from the Texas League.
In the sixth Howard Merritt, who
once had n tryout with the Giants, took
up the pitching burden. Nine Yankees
faced him before the side was retired.
Mnisel and Magce got hits. Gllhooley
and Baker got on through errors aud
Cocoon was hit by Il pitched ball. The
net result was four runs.
In the seventh two more runs were
added OF Merritt on passes 20 Maisel
and Gilhooley. MageFs sacrifice and