Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18
COURT GIVES
PERRY TO MACK
Injunction Granite d a t
Cleveland Is Only Tempo.
: rary. However
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Cleveland, o., June 1S.--The national
baseball agreement between the Ameri-
can and National Leagues Is in danger
Of being abrogated as a result of a suit
| fled In Common Pleas Court yesterday by
| Manager Connie Mack, of the Athletics
| asking for an injunction restraining the
Boston Nationals from interfering with
his playing Pitcher Scott Perry. awarded
to the Boston Nationals by a majority
vote Of the National Baseball Commits
sion.
Common Pleas Judge Morgan granted
the restraining order. allowing the Ath-
letics full and uninterrupted use of Perry
pending final hearing of the suit. Perry
pitched for the Athletics against Cleve-
land here yesterday.
Perry was purchased by Boston from
the Atlanta cup last year. partial pay
ment being made. After seventeen days
cub duty rd, Perry isft the Boston
| serve list last winter. and Manager Mack
| signed him as free agent and he
| nitched three full games and part of an
put in a ella i'm for him, according to
Manager Mack.
Macks Leave Cleveland
The Athletics departed for home last
evening. having neglected to accom-
plish what they visited the sixth city
| for-to win one or two games from
the Indians. just as they did when the
Indians dropped in at Shibe Park last
month.
Connie Mack thought that, with Scott
Perry, granted permission by Cleveland
court yesterday, to continue pitching for
| the Athletics. in the box. his team would
come close to grabbing the final game,
especially as Fohl was calling upon
Stanley Coveleskie. who had had only
two runs scored behind him in some
thirty-fve or thirty-six innings prior
to yesterday.
And when the first inning ended and
showed a three-run dividend for the
Athletics and nothing for the Indians.
1t seemed certain that Coveleskie's jinx
was still on the job. But the ball that
Covey pitched during the next eight
innings was such as to discourage all
the jinxes and hoodoos that ever invaded
a baseball field, as he allowed only three
Mackmen to reach first during the rest
of the game, Gardner twice and OldrinS
once. Gardner twice strayed as far
as second
But all that sterling work in the box
would have availed nothing had not the
Indians managed to get next to Perrys
low stopped the locals entirely for four
innings, slipped a trife In the fifth and
then exploded in the sixth, when three
singles and a pass were backed up by
home run by Joe Evans, all of which
netted Ave runs and made 1t rather
easy for Coveleskie to smile once more,
a habit that he had almost forgot.
Superstition Again
All the baseball superstitions were
| resorted to by the Indians prior to the
game in the effort to chase the Cove
leskie link. The players refused to let
President Jim Dunn even sit on the
bench before the contest started
Speaker spent his practice session in
center field hunting for four-leaf clo-
yers. Steve O'Neill who has caught
every game that Coveleskie had pitched
for Cleveland prior to today. was
benched in favor of Chett Thomas, who
never had caught the splitter before. 1t
also was decided that the sacrifice hit
should be thrown into the discard and
more reliance made on the straight
away steals.
Larry Gardner finally came through
with some of the batting that always
characterized his work In Cleveland
when he was one of the Red Sox. He
made two singles anu uouoie ana
was robbed by Speaker of hit on the
other time up. These were the only hits
made by Larry during the series and,
of course had to come on a day when
his teammates were not doing thing
with the ball.
Dugan put up another brilliant game
at second base in the last game of the
series, accepting eleven of his twelve
chances. slipping UP In the Anal inning
on a hard chance.