The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-16
JOE WOOD WIELDS
WINNING HICKORY
Outfieldcr's Four Hits, One a
Homer, Figure Large in Cleve-
land Victory Over Yanks.
ny FREDERICK G. LuEB.

Even Babe Ruth, the converted pitch
ing ou,felder, might have turned green
with envy had re beheld the antics OF
Toe Wood. a former brother hur1er OF
the Red Sox. on the Polo Grounds yes
,.rday Josephus annoyed Joe Fin
neran OF East Orange and Harlem all
afternoon but up to the eighth inning
Wood didn't hit anything stronger than
single. He had reeled of three OF
these small sized hits.
When Wood came UP I'm the eighth
the score was to 3, but II did not re-
main that way very long. Joe took one
Q. his healthies and pooled the pellet into
the left field bleachers for his fourth
straight hit and his fourth homer Of
he season on the Harlem ground. The
Yankees wilted after that. and Cleveland
won by to 3.
Including the game played in Cleve-
and last Sunday. II gave the Indians the
series, three games out of five. The
Ohio redskins again jammed the Yanks
into third place, advancing to second
themselves.
II Ruth and Wood each played seven
'y-seven games year on the Polo
Grounds they should have a great car
nival to decide who Is the leading home
run hitter In America. Ruth has made
,hree home runs in five games on the
Polo Grounds and Wood has hit four in
eight games. Three OF Woods home
run shave sailed into the left field
hleachers, a zone in which not a single
Yankee slugyer has been able to land a
home run this season. All Of Woods
Harlem homers have decided games in
Clevelands favor.
s. Coveleskie on Mound.
The came pitchers that twiried the
opening game of tho series-Stan Cove
'eskle and Finneran-'-ied 1t again. but
neither was up TO Ills form Of last
Thursday when Coleveleskie won. l to
The Yanks got aboard "Covey" for
ihree runs in the FIRST. but after that he
made the Yanks behave themselves
Finneran did not look good. and Il
seemed only question as to when the
Indians would get TO him. II was a
turbulent affair. Cleveland accused Joe
Of 'Tallow' tactics. Owens cross ex-
AHMED Finn and put aside one OF the
balls, which will be sent to the league
chemist for an analysis. According TO
the Indians the East Orange draft board
should have ruled that tallow is more
essential to Joseph than he is to the
league.
Several Indians got pugnacious early.
$50 ''''SN was no InOO1 IOr
monkey shines, and Bill wambsganss
was shooed to the cooler in the f,rst IN
mig. with Steve ONeill following an
inning later Seldom before had the
Indians behaved in such unruly fashion.
Wood did not get all the Cleveland
htting honors. as Roth also collected
Your hits in five times up. drove in thre.
runs and scored fourth when Wood
knocked him in. Speaker reached base
hve times. thrice on passes and twice on
hits.
Some Fast Fielding.
There were some pretty bits of field
Nng on both sides. and Ffnneran never
would have got by as long as he did
Han IL not been for fast. errorless sup
po7 speaker made a grand catch on
Ppp in deep right in the sixth, but in
the next Caldwell went him one better
with a one handed catch I'm deep left
centre on Chapman.
cleveland got run in the first when
Finneran was strange melange Of good
and bad. He walked Chapman and
Johnston popped to Hannah. Then he
walked Speaker and Roth's single sent
IN "Chappy." Wambsganss struck out,
hui differed with Owens and paid the
penalty. Wood then singled. filling the
bases. after which Evans famed.
The Yanks started =. as though they
finally would give an assemblage OF New
York fans chance to gloat over the
humiliation OF Coveleskie. Gilhooley
beat out a bunt to first. and Peck out
sprnted another when no one took the
precau t!on to cover first Baker. still In
Ills slump. lifted to Wood. but Pratt
rocked a triple to right centre. scoring
GIL and Peck. Pipp singled to CEN
ire, scoring Pratt.
New York stopped scoring then and
there. By plugging away the Indians
finally overhauled the home crew. They
picked up all their runs one at a time
and scored the second one In the third
Speaker walked and the busy Roth SIN
gled to third. Finneran fell field
ing Tt. TAP. but Joe threw out Iris
at the pl' while sitting on the green
Wood kno- ed his second single to left
and scored Roth.
Cleveland Ties Score.
The Indians tied the score with two
and scored from first when Roth bounced
double off the left field fence.
Woods homo run opened the eighth
and put Cleveland in the lead. The hi,
was the office for Finneran TO depart
and Hank Robinson succeeded him
Hank was punched up for five hits in
me eighth. but got by with only one run
scored on him. Speaker singled In the
ninth. stole second and scored on Roth's
fourth hit
Detroit comes here to-day and will
start the ball rolling with double
header Tho score.