The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21
YANKS DROP FIRST
GAME; WIN SECOND
After st. Louis Takes Opener,
3 to 2, Locals Even Matters
With 5 to 8 Victory.
$4,000 FANS SEE CONTESTS
~ FREDERICK @. LIEB.


With his face grimy with sweat. but
htSll wearing the old smile. Fritxy Maisel
or "a II Freddy now remarked At the
expiration Of yesterdays twin bill on the
banks Of the Harlem between the Yanks
and the Browns. III that aint working,
I'd like to know what them statesmen
feilers call I'll"
Whether the Yanks worked or whether
they played, when they got through with
the Yank- Browns on the Polo Grounds
yesterday they were in the came posi-
ton as when they started. The Brownies
thumped Slim Love in the opener by q
score of to l. while the Yankees
plugged out victory in the second by q
score OF 8 to 3. 1t wasn't a particularly
profitable week for the Yankees, even
without Secretary Bakers finding. as
they won only two out OF eight games.
Nevertheless q crowd close to rs. 900
came out for what may be q farewell
Saturday peep at the Yankees. Ping
Bodie feared that the season might shut
right down without a single Yankee
Knocking a ball into the left field seats
during 1918. 60 he piloted the sphere into
that enclosure in the second section.
Allan Sothoron. the burly Brownie
epitballer, who Fielder Jones predicted
would be to St Louis what Ed Walsh
was to the old White Sox, pitched his
farewell game for tho Missouriana AL
Ian. however. Is going into tho National
Army. He was about to cast anchorage
from the Browns before Baker rendered
his order.
Clever Work By sothoron.
Allan celebrated his departure with
quite q clever exhibition. He blotted out
the Yanks with fve hits and would have
shut them out but for a Brownie error
epidemic In the sixth inning. Sothoron
also knocked out two hits, which sent
HouS st. Louis runners across the plate
eothoron first began to paste Love
around the field In the fourth inning
Joe Gedeon. formerly Of second base
Polo Grounds. walked. and Smith famed
Old Les Nunamaker hit to Love. who at
ter q moment Of indecision threw into
centre neld trying to force Gedeon at
second However. Love never had a
chance for a play there. Sothoron then
spanked an exceeding long single to left
scoring Gedeon. Sothoron was caught
overrunning first, but while he was be-
ing run down Nunamaker made a dash
DOR the plate and made 1t in safety.
In the fifth Caldwell Committed a
tAIee base mum on Sisters line drive,
and the famous Georgia scored on Dem
mitts single. Size" played a remark
able fielding game but he was batting
as though the "Work or Fight" order
a. he collected only one hit in the two
ganea
Sothoron Scores Two Runs.
In the sixth Gedeon singled md
smith also was credited with a single
when no one took the trouble to cover
either second or first, which was con-
sidsrats to say the least Sothoron
then hit to the same spot as before,
but this time It stretched into a double.
scoring Gedeon and Smith.
In the Yankee half the locals picked
up two shabby runs on a mum by Maisel
on Baker, Austins tumble on Pratt.
Bodies single and Austins tumble on
Peckinpaugh.
In the second game tho veteran Mo-
sridge opposed Joe Bennett, a St Louis
youngster. In his big league debut.
Jimmy Burke must have had a sense Of
humor to break a new pitcher in yes
terday. st. Louis scored run in the
first inning. when Maisel walked. took
second on Austin's sacrifice and scored
on Sisters single.
The Yankees tied in the fourth in
ming on Caldwell's double, Bakers sin
gle and Pratt's sacrifice fly. They put
It on ice with two runs in the fifth.
scored after two were out Hannah
walked and Mogridge singled to centre.
Smiths throw in to catch Truck of sec
ond hit Hannah. and the big fellow strug-
gled TO third. Sisler tried to play sec
ond base. and detected Gilhooleys rap
away from Gedeon for a single. Hannah
scoring. Mogridge going to third and
GIL taking second on the throw to
third. Caldwell then knocked a single
to centre. scoring the pair.
In the sixth Bodie hit his homer into
the left field bleachers.
The Browns started an uprising in
the ninth. but 1t ended two runs short
of tie. Smith and Mummy singled and
Tim Hendryx was called out on strikes
for the second out. Gilhooley tried for
a shoestring catch on Maisel. and the
ball eluded him for triple. Smith and
Nunamaker scoring Austin ended the
game with a lift to Bodie. The scores ::
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