New-York tribune., 1918-05-16

second, scoring him, Demmitt. BY
and the twelfth inning, and, though
KEGS, better so than that they shoul
bicycle race basis. Yea, brethren.
1t was writ somewhere by the sew
cnth son of seventh sun dodger that
the St. Louis Browns are destined al
ways to give our Yankees and thei,
incurables much distress. When the
advent OF the Browns becomes virtually
a homecoming for cxpatriatc Yankees
who have left the lights and the sights
of Broadway for TRANSMITS issippi soli-
tudc il is evident that this customary
distress reaches its apogec-which is
very distiessful.
The Yankees took a two-run lead
over the cXYankees at the start yes
tcrday, lost it along on the fourth fur
long, sank without murmur in the
seventh, and then, when everybody and
lop for the feed bag the Yanks tied
it up, at a. The Yanks and the cx-
Yanks were rooming together through
the tenth and eleventh frames, but in
the twelfth the ex-Yankees, who arc
known as the Browns, made a run by
the sterling formula indicated above
and the present Yankees bowed to the
past Yankees.
Breaks Too Many to Explain
There were so many "breaks" in yes
,crday's game that it would take from
here to Jericho to explain them and
their relative Importance in the uti-
mate order of things. The Yankees
passed up a number of chances to win
played sloppy ball on the defensive, par
ticularly Truck Hannah, who neglect
ed TO touch Joseph John Gedeon as he
slid over the plate on his hip pocket in
ging Gerber in the fourth. and gener-
ally acquitted themselves as the Yam
KEGS do when facing the ST. Louis
Browns.
But the manner in which they scored
two runs in the ninth frame and tied
the game after two men were out al
most caused every one except Fielder
Jones. manager Of the ST. Louis eX-
Yankees, TO forgive them their tres
passes.
1t was the-rilling. 1t was more. 1t
was stoop- -pendus. Urban Shocker with
his H O delivery had banked the
Yankees for seven straight innings. al
lowing them two scratch hits when it
happened. With one down, he walked
Albert Walters. who had succeeded
Hannah in another inning. Then Ray
Caldwell hit fly to Raw Demmitt, and
the good citizens and bad started reach
ing for the nickels that they were mis-
chievously holding out on Mr.. Shonts.
Little Gilhooley was up and nothing
much was expected. But he kept hang
ing around the plate, and there seemed
to Aar-n .ho1 L.
tween Umpire Billy Evans. the than
whomer of all umpires, and Pitcher
Shocker. Shocker thought he had
famed Gilhooley, but Billy disagreed
with him 20 the extent Of calling the
ball Shocker thought was a strike a
ball. Shocker began muttering to HIM
self. That made it nice. So ultimately
he passed Gilhooley, but even then
here seemed no occasion to run up
any flags.
Peckinpaugh singleo to left. scoring
Walters. The Earl of Smith. from
Smithful, Omaha. picked up the ball,
and it is believed that it was his in
tention to prevent Mr.. Peck and Paw
from going to second, thus keeping him
out Of scoring position. This is only
Smith threw the ball all the way to
the right field stands it behooves no
man to be too sure just what he was
thinking of. So little Gilhooley ran
over the plate with the tieing run, and
If George the Sizzler hadn't rescued the
ball from right field. and half dozen
other Browns who were threatening to
pick it up, it was possible that the
present Yanks might have won right
there, as Mr. Peck and Paw kept lag
ging along for the plate and seemed
indisposed to stop.
Sisters peg to Nunamaker. however
was fast and accurate, and Captain
Peck and Paw let the winning run
drop out of his arms as he skidded
into the plate, and "Nuny" stabbed him
on his pearl studs with the old onion
as they say. But the score was tied
and it went along until the twelfth
frame before the present Yankees post
to the past.
Shocker Deserves Victory
AS matter of fact. Urban Shocke,
deserved to win, in that he pitched {
gllt-edged article of baseball, omittinf
the hrst frame. A finger on Shocker':
pitching hand was broken in the frs
league series of the season. and yester
days was the first full game he ha.
twirled for the st Louis ex-Yankees
His splitter was working venomously
and Gihooley's double and Pipp's sin
gle In the fifth and sixth innings wer,
'h> only two hits made off him, ex
cepting the first frame and Peck,
drive IN the ninth, and each of thes,
bordered on the scratch.
Slim Love, for the Yankees, actet
rs though he wanted to hand all hi
eS.teammates et an Annie Oakley for tn,
nrst sack, passing five in the first fou
innings, and he was withdrawn Wit.
aalIaerity by Monsieur Higgins in tn,
MIN inning, when Sisler led off with ,
double That brought Ray Caldwell
ne taii tetegrapher, into the game, an.
!, begins TO look as though RAY shoul,
do ms pitching in a tent this season
Esen so: he got along fairly we'll unit
fhe crash in the twelfth.
u Save for the first inning, Murderers
Row spent a passive afternoon, The,
srowied and threatened and fourishe,
'heir iethal weapons. but there wer