New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
A Passed Ball
In the Ninth
Loses for Hug
Truck Hannah Fails to
Hold Quinn's ''Spitter'';
Ty Cobb Fans Twice
BY Charles A. Taylor

A passed ball in the ninth inning
gave the Detroit Tigers their first VIC
tory of the season over the league
leading Yankees yesterday afternoon.
The score in favor of the visitors was
6 to 5, and winning streak which
had reached five games and carried
the home team into first place was
broken.
The Tigers overe~me a handicap of
four runs, which Murderers' Row
inning, much to the delight of Hughey
Jennings, who has been in q state of
etreme melancholia ever since he
brought his band of ball tossers here
last Tuesday. Hughey figures now on
making clean sweep in the two series
yet to be played in the East.
Strange to say. Tyrus Cobb played
but minor part in the triumph of the
Tigers. Worse than that, the famous
Georgia Peach famed the breezes
twice in his five trips to the batter's
box. Allen Russell, one of the three
relief pitchers pressed into service by
the frantic Huggins as he saw his old
ball game slipping away, was the man
who performed this unusual exploit
But Tyrus did get a bit of revenge on
Allen after all, for it was the Peach
that started Russell and the Yanks on
the downward path by drawing a base
on balls in the seventh.
Dauss Warmly Greeted
George Dauss, who has always made
heaps of trouble for the Colonels' boys,
was on the mound for the Tigers when
hostilities opened, and the Yanks got
most familiar with George right at the
outset. In the first inning after Sam
Wick had been retired by way of pitch
er to first Peckinpaugh singled to cen
tire. On the hit and run play Baker
drove a hit past Young, Peck hating
at second. Lewis doubled to left,
tallying Peck and putting Baker on
third. Dauss was wobbling and Jen-
nings instructed him to pass Pipp,
thus filling the bases.
With Pratt at the bat the squeeze
was worked successfully, Stanage
obligingly dropping the throw from
Dauss and letting Baker over the plate.
Bodie varied the attack by singing to
right, and Lewis Tailed. Truck Han
nah next officiated in the squeeze"
and was out to Heilman, unassisted, as
Pipp counted.
The Tigers got back one of these
rams in the second on Heilman's single,
safe bunt by Flagstead, a pass to
Jones and an inhed out, but the
Yankees gathered another tally in the
third and sailed along again on their
four-run advantage until the sixth,
when the Tigers picked up a run on
singles by Veach and Flagstead, and
pass to Heilman
With Hughey Jennings yelping and
dancing in front of the visitors dug
out, the invaders broke loose for fair
Ia the seventh and tied everything in
knot. Shorten, pinch-hitting for
Dauss, beat out hit to Pratt. Young
popped to Hannah and it didn't seem so
bad after all, but the next batter was
the disgruntled Cobb, who worried Rus
sell into giving him pass.
Heilman Delivers Timely Blow
Veach next walked, filling the bases,
whereupon Heilman singled to centre,
scoring Shorten and Cobb and sending
Veach to second. Fagstead hit safely
to centre and the bases were again
clogged. Jones beat out a hit to Peck
and Veach Tailed. That was all for
Russell, and Mogridge was called to
the box by Higgins. Baker tossed out
Stanage, ending the rally
Neither team could advance a man
around the paths in the eighth, but
in the ninth the Tigers collected the
necessary run. Veach singled, only
to be forced at second, when Pipp made
fine play on Heilman's attempted
sacrifice. Flagstead doubled to left,
putting Heilman on third and Mog-
ridge was supplanted by Jack Quinn.
Cunningham replaced Jones at the bat
One of Quinn's spitters got away from
Hannah and rolled to the screen, He'll
man scudding across the plate with the
ball game.
The st. Louis Browns will be the
guests at the Polo Grounds this after
noon.