New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
Tense Baseball Struggles
Give Teams a Game
Apiece.
CUILOP LOSES FIRST
AND BAKER Is HURT
Home Run King Out for week
and Spell Of Nick Is
Broken.
n, cRANrLAND RICE.

through Eve hours and forty three
minutes ~ hand hand fighting. ne
yant. arc stili Boz possession Of INC oid
uam,sicad on Happy Mountain. one
ION game to the good
p.rl ir Nav fhc Yanks and Tigers
remained ~ ono another's throais TOT
.I..,.o innings ~ a. % draw lcster-
t.t fhcv snhf twenty four innings mo
Two .sefions Of twelve reels each. ne
rIrcfs harrcd Che first section at 80
Tho Yanks attached the second 81 -
inst as the shades OF night rs VIZ
fonrfciiow has said so cloquently' were
Ascending with amazing repidity.
rt, vqrks held the TOP and advanced
. h.fr came further beyond the beaten
fr8Ians as "a result Of this vast amount
81 .r rif,d warfare. but there were two
rrfavafd incidents that marrcd the
f.r~.frawn out occasion In the hrst
ramc Nick Culiop's extended winning
..resk of nine in row blew up WIN
terrific dctonation in the twelfth canto'
when rs Cobb led an attack on the
ChIihowic entry. that nctted four runs
De- the second game. as he pursued
Rurns's high foul boo the fourth inning
John Franklin Rakcr crashed WIN
icnvy force against the concrete ana
iron ~ the stands back OF third hase'
ana dropped 90 the field with the ottath
hammered from bis body baker chest
rrrtaed with Che wall. and he was so
hadl, bruised and shaken up by me
t,ft thaf a physician had 90 be called IN
..t 49, announcement was made that
"a orulf be- fully week before the
bruised hatsman would be ready 20 re-
..rc Quite fortunately no bones
,err. broken. but even "a weeks Ab-
..rcc lust a. this epoch Of double. head
.r. and crucial spots BE- no light blow
Two Tense Battles.
No two ball clubs ever fought two
t.,tcr battles over tougher route.
Prom 1880 90 7.l3 the various tides OF
.,o,hai swung back and forth as charge
End counter charge were made and re.
,.f.,d After the Tiger attack had
i,rn..d in the twelfth inning OF the
o,erirr game and had battered its way
ttfouoh Cuilop and the lank defence
t.r four-run clincher. young Alien
pu..cu made his third appearance OF
10 ueck for the second spasm, and
Tor the third time pitched almost IN
blatable ball.
Min the breaks Of battle all against
him and Fate blocking his way AT
,.rv turn. Russell held the hard-hit-
fnc Detroit machine 70 six well scat
tered hits in twelve innings tanning
n0 less than eight men where the Hst
embraced the immortal Iyrus as
double victim. Russell famed ~ IN
tho FIRST and the eleventh innings, and
in the last six reels. where the STRAIN
MAS IA its worst, he allowed but one F.
.rIlar eingle and ono infeld scratch
With a combination that included fine /
.poed and p well controlled splitter. the /
Richmond entry kept up CALLING hre
that never slackened until Lee Magee
.oakcd a double in the twelfth, ana
Roger Peckinpagh drove him over with .
line wallop 20 right centre between /
Cobb and Heilman. far out OF reach. /
peck's winning blow would have been /
GOOD for 8 triple, but single was
an that he needed 20 send the cheer
ing remnants Of 10000 fans home for
an early breakfast.
In the first section Cullop got the
lump on his rival. Willie Mitchell,
when Lutte Boone drove brace OF tai
lies over with homer into the right
field stands Heilman's four-base
drive 20 right centre tied the score IN
the sixth. and from that point to the
twelfth Nick and Willie had the
deuce Of time. The Yanks had a
greaf GfAiff 10 VIII w INV tiSHNHf
when Baumann singled and High sac
rifced But Witt robbed Peck Of the
winning hit. and. after Pipp and
Baker had walked into a full house,
Mitchell stopped Magee
Cobb Clouts Cullop.
Cullop had permitted only six hits
through the first eleven innings, but
the noisy detonation that blew away
the tenth straight win came In the
twelfth. Ty Cobb, who had already
Clipped of two hits. was the citizen
who hung crepe upon the courthouse
Of Chilhowie and threw that pleasant
community into heavy gloom. Ty
started with a slow infeld tap TO
Baker, which John Franklin, IN his
hurry 10 help the fleet Georgian,
peggcd into the stands. This left Ty
AZ second Neach sacrificed. Burns
singled. and as Cobb scored both Gull
Top and the Yank defence crumbled
away until four runs were over.
Beaten In the first encounter, the
game Yanks plunged back into the
fray. determined to win. Even with
Baker injured and out OF il. they
fought along bitterly against hard
luck and the steady pitching of George
Cunningham With Baker gone.
Boone was moved 20 third, and Gedeon
WAS returned to second. Boone field
ed the job brilliantly in Bakers alb
sence. checking two rallies by fast
work around the bag.
Russell's great pitching. however,
was the main feature of the closing