New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-27
Had Comfortable Lead

Portable / TO score at the start OF the
eighth. and it looked so soft that Frank
Stevens. who predicts that the next
world series will be confined entirely
t. the Polo Grounds, left the place fiat
and started on MS first vacation in
twelve years.
{ Things began to happen and accumu-
late in caianiitous fashion. Strunk
beat a hit that just glanced along the
tips of Peckirpaugh's dgits. Ping
Bodie, who used 10 bust fences on
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, resumed
his old neiarious ways. lie slammed
the pellet against the right field wall.
/ The ball glanced of and started TO roll
about half lap ahead Of HendryX, and
Ping, who is nc hurried circumnaviga-
tor, managed TO reach third OF the
blow. Strunk walked home.
Bates slashed hit into right field
and scored Ping McInnis bounced
( hit over second. At this juncture villa
| William Donovan began 20 discern that
/ it WAS not Cullop's afternoon. He mo-
3 toned Nicholas 20 retire 10 a place OF
. safety.
/ Slim Love, the attenuated left
handler, tried % save the day, but IN
ten seconds or less he had passed
Gooch, filing the corners and was pre-
pairing 20 walk Walle Schang. Wild
/ William went wilder and hurried Shaw
+ KEY into the breach. Robert struck
out Schang and looked like ssve-the-
/ day man. Grover hunted and ShaWkey,
4 In his eagcrness 10 XII the run, man
handled the ball and Bates scored with
the run that tied.
+ The Yanks made desperate effort 70
retrieve he day in their half of the
eighth, but he couldn't jam over even
one.
Wild Williams gloom increased in
the ninth when the Apathetics spurted
right into the lead. Strunk bounced
q hit over second and WINS sent along
+ bv sacrifice contributed 70 the gen
/ erql co, 5ternation By Ping Bodie.
Bates punched a hit 10 right and
: Strunk scored. The hit and run signal
was flashed 10 McInnis. Shawkey
4 pitched wide, hut Mclnnis threw his
/ bat AT the ball. which rolled along the
/ first base line and Stufy was safe.
Gooch bounced hit OF Shawkcy's INIT
and filled the bases.
Another run seemed certain. Schang
+ lifted a short fly 20 lc't. Then SHAW
+ key went a bit wild. passing Grover and
forcing in Bates TO- a run.
Il was a sombre but not altogether
hopeless moment In the Yankees. hall
+ OF the ninth. with Wild William Dono-
van staring az Coogan's Bluff while
suicidal thoughts filed his once cheer
/ full soul.
/ Leslie Nuramaker drew base on
balls. Moves had bunch that ne was
dangerous and let him by. As Leslie IS
still dragging "A lame dog, Lee Magee
1 q a f. o.
the dugout 10 do his travelling for him.
Paddy Bauman went in as a pinch nit
ter. and was out On three pitched balls.
Suicide then seemed 20 be the only
thing left for Wild William.
The Last OF the Tins
But Timothy Hendrix. the last Of the
Tins, struck for the fading glorles OF
his name and achieved a Texas Lacquer.
High forced Timothy and Magee went
TO third Maisel ripped hit past first
F base and Magee scored. NOyes became
ratified then and threw wild. The ball
rolled back 70 the Pest Box and Mr..
High came in and tied up the score.
Wild William then turned his gaze
from Coogan's Bluff and his thoughts
from self-destruction. lie was too
Young 20 die. he reflected Plpp
smashed a hard one at Glover and
Naisel CAME rushing through with the
winning run. The game and Wild Will
lam were saved.
The Ianks got their first three runs
in the opening inning Off Joe Bush. who
was wilder than Dim.tri Dimitriof, the
only Muj!k in organized baseball. A
two-bagger by Maisel, three passes, a
hunt and an infeld on. did the damage.
Peckinpaugh drove IN another run in
the sixth with his daily ,wo-base hit.
Strunk's homer, which had the effect
of rousng the Apatic..cs from their
long Information, came I'D the sixth. K
was q healthy drive into the right field
stands ne Apathetics also exhibited
Cy Faikenberg and lot Of other anus
ing things.