New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

, In the games with Boston yesterday
the Yankees pitching tightened, but Del
Pratt, Peck and Pipp spoiled it all by
their atrocious fielding. Up until this
spasm of errors the Yanks were re-
garded as unsurpassed on the defence.
The new wrinkle of weakness intro
duced by Colonel Ruppert's men to-day
was sieepiness on the bases Gilhooley
was the first to get caught mapping and
his example was followed later by Wal
ter Plpp and Ping Bodie. The sudden
demise of Pipp occurred at third base
IN the fourth inning, with Miller Hug
gins himself on guard in the coaching
box.
A man in Miller's position has no ex-
cuse Tor taking siesta during a ball
game. II he were in the trenches and
committed such crime, the penalty
would be bullet or two Colonel Rup-
pert has good grounds for summoning
maps the Yanks might have turned the
tide and broken the winning streak OF
the Red Sox, which has now reached
six straight games.
II there is to be real pennant race
this year in the American League,
snoozes on the part of rival teams of
Boston must be eliminated. This Red
Sox nine is going to be sufficiently hard
to beat without taking maps while at
tempting the task.
Huggins selected Slim Love to do the
pitching for his boys, while Ed Barrow
called the under-handed Carl Mays to
the box for the Sox. Mays had distin-
gulshed himself by twirling a one-hit
game in his first start of the season
against the Athletics, and was there
tore logical successor to the two Bos-
ton aces, Bush and Ruth.
Mays came through with a victory,
but the Yanks fattened their batting
averages by accumulating eleven hits.
When they are awake the Yanks can
hit the ball, but what, pray, does it
profit them if they "hit the hay" after
getting on base?
Ihe hrst inning put the Yankees at
a decided disadvantage, for three of
the four runs collected by the Red
Sox came then. Hooper walked. That
Is habit of this fellow when the balls
served him are not to his liking. When
they are to his fancy, Hooper usually
connects in the most vicious fashion.
Ihe hero of two world series also is
a nee. man on the bases, and he proved
that he had lost little of his cldtime
speed by dashing to second on the 6rst
ball pitched to Shean. This person
Shean, who has spent most of his base
Dali career in the minors, with an
occasional visit to the maj jors, drove the
ball to centre field for double, scoring
Hooper. Wally Schang, who replaced
Strunk, who hurt his finger in attempt
ing to bunt, contributed another
double, which brought Shean across
the plate. Hoblitzell sacrificed, Baker
to Pipp, and Schang scored on Nc
lnnis's single to deep short. A double
play ended the agony Slim Love was
suffering.
The Yankees in their half of the
first had Tailed one run as result Of
singles by Miller and Pratt and
double steal. Huggins's boys added
another counter in the fourth, when
Pratt walked after Miller had famed
and crossed the platter on Pipps
double to centre field.
In the sixth the Yanks tied tha
score: Gilhooley drew base on balls
and Miller singled through Hoblitzell,
sending Gil to third, from where he
Tailed on Pratt's sacrifice fy to
Schang. The best Pipp could do was
to force Miller at second
The winning run for the Red Sox
came in the eighth. Hooper doubled,
took third on Shean's sacrifice, Baker
to Plpp, and counted on a perfect
squeeze play engineered by Hoblitzell,
who dropped the ball to the left of
Love in such fashion that Hooper was
across the plate before Hoblitzell
perished at first
Pipp and Baker singled after two
men were out in the first half of the
ninth, but Ping Bodie lined to White
man, who made a fine catch.
The Yanks must brace.