New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
Crippled Clan Donovan
Takes Opening Game
from Indians.
ANGEL ARRAGON Is
ON INJURED LIST
Cuban Is Out of the Game,
but Bill, the Red Avenger,
Pounds Invaders.
By GRANTLAND RICE.

The first act OF that splCS u4N'"'
shooting Holes in the West; or, Don
ovan's Revenge" was unfolded with
astounding eclat no later than yester-
day afternoon.
Smiling Bill had his heart and por-
tions of his soul cut out on the last
Western jaunt, when the four CLUBS
that inhabit that section rammed his
battered cast from first place into the
sixth abyss, and he has been dreaming
CORY vengeance ever since.
"When they come East" said Bill
"weIl peel their hides off, one by one.
As a starter young Allen Russell
subjugated the Indians with three hits
and drove them across the haunted
ravine by the margin Of to 3. The
revised Yanks fired practically all their
ammunition away in the first charge
when they blew the Indians out OF their
trenches and scattered mangled frag-
ments up and down the field.
They first caught Davenport Al Gould
in a ricketty attitude, and shot all the
fuzz off his system before Lee Foil had
a chance to rush another arm to the
mound. Al heard the sirenic, soul
stirring call Of the wild the moment he
arrived. and his first official act con-
sisted largely in passing Magee, High
and Peck in succession.
Indians Are All In.
At this spotted juncture Foil rushed
Klepfer to the outlying precincts TO
iron out the kinks in a warming up
process, but before Klepfer could I'M
ravel the last kink Pip and Baumanr
had singled, three runs were over and
the game, for Cleveland, was what you
might very easily call total loss.
Klepfer stopped Gedeon as Pipp and
Peck advanced, but Miller raped a
single to right, and two more rampant
Yankees crossed over into the prom
Used land.
Speakers double and Smiths single
had counted one Cleveland tally in the
first, but with this four-run lead 10
work on Russell sailed into the Indians
with such speed that they were soon
gasping for breath. The Richmond
ranger hid a fine variety of stuff At
work, holding the enemy to one badly
scattered hit in the last eight frames.
This hit came from Tuck Turner's bat
in the ninth after Chapman ana
Speaker had walked, so two runs came
over. But the game had already been
blown before Al Gould was trans
planted beyond the range OF Yankee
bats.
Like Yanks of Old.
DESPITE another Fallen Hero, the
Yanks looked more like the Yanks Of
old before the gaunt Jinx descended
than ever before. They played jam-up
ball back of Russell, and while they
refrained from hitting Klepfer OF
Morton after the first inning, they
fought back with unusual pep. Klep-
fer held them to three hits in seven
innings, but when you have five runs
back Of q pitcher who is shooting
the opposition full of holes why run
up larger count?
The latest addition to the line OF
Fallen Heroes was Angel Aragon, the
Cashing Cuban. In practice before the
game Wally Pipp pumped fast one
at the sprightly Senior and as the
ball bounded away a portion OF the
Senor's thumb went with IT, This
makes twice within ten days the Gu
ban has suffered the horrors of war
in Yankee harness, but he should be
thankful that il wasn't his right eye.
With Aragon finally carried out on
a stretcher. Paddy Baumann resumed
at third and il was Paddy's poke in
h.f urovad tvrO ~, n {
and gave the Yanks a big bulge for
ward.
A Battery of Kids.
The Yanks' kid battery. Russell and
Walters, made a decided hit with
Wilbert Robinson and Jack Coombs,
who adorned one of the boxes. Both
the Brooklyn delegates were i'm
pressed with Russell's repertory, while
Walters drew constant commentator
for his fine work. The kid catcher
not only soaked Klepfer for a triple
in the sixth, but his work back of the
bat was first class in all the particu-
lars there are. Here is one outstand-
ing example: In the third Jack Granev
thumped one TO Wally Pipp. Russell
started to cover. but failed TO arrive
in time, so Pipp's assist went on by.
Graney ducked to second. but as II
happened Walters had rushed over TO
back up the play and his peg through
TO Peck nailed the Indian by stride
The young Texan is a great hustler,
slw=ys alert, and by next year with a
seasons experience packed away in
his system he should be one of the
leading stars of the league-a Schalk
or a Schang if his improvement con-
tinues at normal speed.
Cleveland made a game battle of II
after the first, but found it hard 70
smash through the Yankee defence
which once more was fortified to a
finish.
The two clubs will resume this af-
ternoon, when Donovan expects TO abb
sorb another hunk Of revenge.