The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-06
HOMER BY COLLINS
UPSETS YANKEES
Circuit Drive With Bases Full
Causes Defeat Of Locals by
White Sox, 5 to 1.
EDDIE MAKES HISTORY
His Hit Is One Of Shortest
Four Basers on Record-Ci-
cote and Shore in Duel.
BY FREDERICK @. LIEB.

By FREDERICK G. LIEB.
One Of the easiest things in baseball
over which to stir up an argument 10
the matter of lengthy homo runs. AL
most all old time fans will bring for.
ward some claimant for the distinction
OF propellng the horsehide Just a little
further than any other member of his
craft
II it is such an honor to hit the long
est home run II also must be some little
distinction TO hit the shortest. So in
behalf OF Ed Troworidee Collins, erst.
while OF Tarrytown and now Of the Chi
cago White Sox. we claim the honor OF
hitting home run on the Polo Grounds
Yesterday just a little shorter than any
other big Lacquer has done heretofore.
Eddie's homer cleared no fences in
fact, It struck the turf no more than
ten yards behind the inield But Il made
up In productivity what It lacked in dis
lance Three fellow sox were on the
trails when Eddie fred in the eighth
inning. and the score between the Tanks
and White Sox was / to /. Eddie CT
cote and Ernie Shore were having quite
pitching duel at the time. but the
duelling stopped promptly with the
homer; 1t enabled the former Chicago
worlds champions 10 win the first game
Of their series from the Yanks by
score OF 5 to /.
SehaIk starts the Rally.
Ray SchalS. the capable little Sox
catcher, opened the eighth with a hot
single through the box. Long Shofe
saw the shell coming and Tow bridged"
just in time. or It would have exploded
against his ears. cicotte sacrificed and
Baker thought he had a charice for a
force play at second. His guess was
~ nj
10 Pratt Leibold also tapped an at
tempted sacrifice bunt to Baker and had
the good luck to beat It out. That filled
the bases, with none out. and no one
coming up but Buck Weaver. Ed Collins
and Joe Jackson
Buck was extinsuished on a pop to
Pipp. and then Collins broke the short
distance home run record. He sent
looping liner into short right. Wick
easily could have played 1t for a single,
but he came skating in on his nose to
make shoestring catch. Sammy
missed connections. and the ball oozed
through him and rolled slowly to the
oleacher fence By the time Ping Bodie
closed in on It from centre field the en-
TIRE White sox procession-schalk. Ci. /
cote. Leibold and Collins had trotted
past Truck Hannah's reviewing stand.
Prior to that hit the teams were as
even as. two peas Both Clcotte and
Shore pitched grand bali. while the sup
port on both sides matched the pitching
Each team closed the day with eight
MS and no errors, though the Windy
city hits were longer, including three
doubles and Ed Collins's homer.
Big Turnout for Yankees.
The fans were all fused up over the
home coming OF the Yanks and extended
verbal encouragement wherever oppor-
tunity presented. The welcome home
committee was made up of 10000 fans,
anC the famous United States Marine
land put jazz into the programme
Cicotte ran up his tenth victory in
eleven games pitched this spring The
fsnks have been beaten SO often in re-
cent years by Eddie that they new re-
gard 1t as q habit.
Higgins sent Shore against the
stocky knuckle ball expert, >as Ernie
had been quite a White Sox tanner in
MS Boston days, He. beat Chicago
eleven times in nineteen contests prior
. Yesterday.
The fanks touched up Cicotte more
freely than usual in the first inning and
Tor few minutes there was hope that
the abused Yankee worm had turned
Nlck led off with a single over second
and took second on Pecks sacrifice.
Baker lashed a single through shane
j. tsanklin on second and he moved to
third when Pipp jolted an infield single
out of Cicotte's glove. On an attempted
double steal Baker was out at the plate
oy distance equivalent to that from
Hoboken to Montclair. Frank accepted
the situation philosophically he didn't |
even try to Aide home
sox Tie Score in Second.
The Sox tied the score in the second
inning Jackson, of the shipyards got |
credit for single when Ensign Shore !
couldn't pick up his boupder after |
knocking II down. Hap Fslsch forced |
Shoeless Joe and stole second Z After |
sending two balls into the left field !
o,eacheTs, which were foul by few feet |
John Collins doubled over LewTs's head, |
scoring Felsch.
Rsberg. the next Sox up, lifted an |
ordinary fly to Bodie, and John Collins, |
thinking IL was the third out, raced TO |
me plate despite the fact that the Hon. |
ND Gleason, coaching at third, did his |
best TO impress on Shane that only two |
were out 1t was easy for Bodie to
double Collins or second. Gleason didn't |
say much, but the kid looked as though |
ne would like TO have used his famous |
razor strop on John.
Ihere was an amusing play In the |
eighth inning. though George Halas |
probably didn't relish the Joke. After
chicago had scored It's four runs in the |
nrst half OF the eighth. Truck Hannah |
opened the New York half with a single. |
huGginS sent Halas to run for Truck and |
Doul to hit for Shore. While the an
houneer was informing the multitude
mat HAAS was running for Hannah.
CIcotte made a snap throw over to first
and neatly picked the young tar off the
bag. The sc9re
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