The sun., 1918-08-15
YANKS SLIDE BACK
INTO LOSING FORM
Conouerors of Red SOx Prove
Easiest of Propositions for
Clcvcland-ScOrc, z to ..
Ry FREDERICK G. LIEB.

After weaving their usual spell owe.
Che Red Sox in Boston the Yankees re-
.,r,ed to the Polo Grounds yesterday
and acted Just like the normal Yanks
ina, everybody kicked around out In the
,rss, cleveland found them as soft as
l,,,er Of cream puffs at % in the
made and snndbagged its way to victory
BY to =
That little tow headed yonngster.
Terry Turner. who has been with Cleve-
,nd since 1904 and is the dean o: the
american League. is most DESTROYS OF
icing the Indians figure In worlds
s.riss before he retires on his pension.
Terry gave the Yank fly chasers a lot
q, exercise. as he sraacked out a triple,
noir of doubles and a single in Ave
Zines IN on three occasions Cottontop
cashed his hits into runs
Fifth Homer for Wood.
Then Icsephus Wood blew himself to
s,oiher box Of socks by knocking his
ef,h homer Of the season on the Polo
Grounds Joe doesn't play any favor
rss Yesterday he sent his homer into
~, right field stands. He now has
',.orkcd three souvenir balls into the
len feld bleachers and two into the
grand stand
jim Bagby. the pitcher. got his full
snare II Cleveland's fifteen hits as he
lad a perfect average with three singles
md sacrifice in four times M. Jim
Il, down the Yankees with six hits. half
q, them made by Frank Gilhooley. He
also struck out eight men, Love. Walters
and Heating contributing Ave of the
strike outs Prior to yesterday Bagby
tad pitched four successive games with
out recordlns.a single strike out
Feature plays Of rather insipid
zane were catches ~ Jacques Fourier
and Ham Hyatt. Fournier went into
.e!d box though he were charging a pill
hoy and scooped in O'Neilrs foul in the
second. while Hyatt displayed an arhaz-
.re burst Of speed in coming IN for
Fvanss short fly in the fifth.
No one actually pitched for the Yam
toes Yesterday as Love, Heating and
Sanders Just threw the ball up 20 the
7late and the Indians mauled II all over
me place The smartest thing that
Love did was TO retire Speaker twi4 for
the third out with the bases full
Mispinys Help Indians.
Cleveland got n run in the first. Chap
ran beat out bunt. but Love threw on
Chapman taking second. After Speaker
Mad famed Wood walked Chapman
stole th'r1 on an attempted double
seal Walters threw the ball back at
Love. who muffed il. and Chapman
scored
The Yankees tied it UP in thelr half
on Gilhooley's triple to deep right and
Pratt's sacrifice fly. Gilhooley might
have had the second homer OF his career
had not Higgins been so discreet in
coaching AZ third base.
The Indians took the lead again in
the second inning when Turner doubled
70 left took third after O'Neill fouled
10 Fourier and scored on Bagby's sin
F'e TO left. Cleveland scored a carbon
copy Of this run in the fourth Turner
again doubled to left, took third on
oNeiIls fly. and BagHy again brought
him in WITH single past Baker.
Wood orened the fifth inning with his
homer. after which Heating took hold
NJ New fork's pitching assignment.
Heating got by until the eighth. when
Turner started off by sla shng n triple
n deep right He scored ON O'Neurs
siuzle 10 centre. On Bagby's sacrifice
Kea'iug threw too late to force O'Nelll
AZ second Graney then singled to CEN
re, scoring O'Neill. Sanders relieved
Heating at this point, and singles by
Chapman and Heating let in Graney.
The score: