The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-16
Joe Wood Yields Winning Hickory, Collecting Four Hits, One a Homer Gov eleskie Holds Yanks in Check While Teammates Pound Joe Finneran.

New York, July 16-Conjurer Starl- ley Coveleskie bewitched the Tanks out of another ball game up at the Polo Grounds yesterday, the Cleve- land sorcerer pitching the Indians to a 5 to victory. The Tanks can do a lot of things in a lot of different ways, but they can't beat the Sha- mokin Polander. For a while yes terday Huggins' lads gave the inn pression that they had at last shaken off the Coveleskie hoodoo, for they slammed Stanley for four hits and three runs in the first inning, which is more damage than they ever exc cuted against him before.
 Little by little the Indians crept up, and when they arrived at the seventh inning Cleveland had the score tied. Joe Wood intrduded a home run into the pastime in the eighth and showed Cleveland into the lead The defeat again trips New York down into third place, while Cleveland takes the second berth. Tn them eantime the Boston Red Sox kept right on plugging ahead at the front of the parade.
 Joe F'inneran and his trick pitch ing ran up against Umpire Brick Owens, and Joe, who was accused of using tallow on the ball some time ago by Umpire Moriarty, was under suspicion. Owens saved one ball which the Cleveland players claimed had been tempered with. Brick will send the souvenir as Exhibit A to Ban Johnson. The Cleveland players said | that Finneran was using something on the pill to make it slip easily out l of his pitching hand. They didn't l knew whether it was rattlesnake oil | or just plain axle grease. Anyway, | they did lot of talking about it and 1 kept Owens peking at every ball that 1 Finneran pitched.
 The draft board of East Orange re- gently ruled that Finneran's pitching was an essential occupation. With | this verdict Cleveland heartily agrees. l There wasn't anything on the ball but
 one large healthy bruise when Wood
 punched it into the left field bleachers 1 in the eighth. z
 Finneran's t. low ball wasn't the only trouble which Owens had on his hands. Before condemntng the ball which Finneran used, the umpire
 heard a lot of arguments pro and con,
 a little pro and much con, and the de- fense given to Joe's pitching by Man
 ager Huggins was a masterpiece. He | spoke freely and at some length, in- | forming Mr Brick that the only trick
 in Finnerans pitching was the plain garden variety of curve which fooled the Cleveland batsmen so easily that they were peeved.
 Two of the Cleveland players, | Wambsgans and Steve O'Neill, were
 exiled to the bastile for kicking. In the first inning Wamby was called
 out on strikes and he talked so much
 about it that he gassed himself right | out of the game. In the second in-
 ming O'Neill hit grounder to Peck i who threw the ball high to Pipp. 1 Pipp didn't touch first base, but he | did touch O'Neill as the runner came into the sack. Umpire Tommy Con- molly was evidently watching Pipp's I feet and hec alled O'Neill safe. The
 Tanks raised a yell and Connolly ap- | pea1ed to Owens, who declared that | O'Neill was out. O'Neill made brief remarks to Owens and then followed | Wamby on a course southeast to the | clubhouse.