Evening star., 1925-06-14

produced, IN years to come the men
this season as the most arduous in {
The Nationals have been more for
tunate than players of other clubs in
the matter of toiling beyond the usual
nine rounds. Washington's team has
been in only two eNtra-inning engage
ments, both on foreign fields. 1t went
through II innings at Chicago on
May 10 and through a like number
of rounds at New York on June 8.
Perhaps it is just as we'll that the
Nationals have not been compelled to
so into more overtime tits. They
lost to the White Sox and the
Yankees.
The Yanks, by the way, have been
the busy boys in the long game
league. Six times so far they have
gone beyond the customary limit and
even though they hold no command
ing place in the standing of the clubs
they have done right well in these
gruelling struggles. In addition to
disposing of the Nationals. the Hug
men took the measure of the Browns
and Indians in 10-inning encounters.
All of the Yankees overtime victories
were scored in the Gotham stadium.
Eddie Collins rejuvenated White
Sox have been setting the pace for
rival clubs in battling to victory after
the ninth inning. Four times they
have had to do extra work in
Comiskey Park and three times they
have left the field with the long end
of the score in their favor. The Ma
tionals were the first victims of the
White Sox in prolonged game. Fol
lowing their 12-inning triumph over
the world champions, Collins men
noSed out the Yankees in 10 innings
and the Mackmen in IA. Then their
streak was ended by the Tigers, who
clawed their way to success in the
tenth.
That win over Chicago is the only
one the Tigers have registered in an
extra-inning game this season and
they have participated in five. The
Indians have been particularly bad
medicine for the Cobbmen in engage
ments of this character. Three times
the teams have fought past round 3,
with Speakers bunch finishing in
front each time.
Tyger.Tribe Game Longest.
The Tribe took a 15-frame match
in Detroit April 90 that stands as
American League season. In Cleve-
land on May ! it downed the Tigers,
s to Z, in 10 innings and the next day
won by the same score in IL innings.
A couple of days before the Cleveland
series, the Tigers dropped 1O-round
game to the Browns.
Cleveland has not been able to out
last any club but Detroit in over
time play, however. The Indians were
trounced by the Browns in 10 innings
at Dunn Field on April %, and bowed
TO the Yankees just last Wednesday,
Athletics and Red SoX have been
staging a. merry duel, having met IN
three extra-inning affairs. The AS
have triumphed twice, once in IL in
nings and the other time in 10. The
Red SoX gave Boston fans GOOD
treat on April 25, though, by taking
the measure Of the league leaders in
IL rounds.
The Red Sox also trimmed the
Yankees in a battle that lasted doz-
en- innings, while the Athletics have
broken even in a couple of l4-innlng
nixups. The White SoX got the bet
ter of the Macks in Chicago, but the
latter beat the Yanks in the four
teenth in Philly on the afternoon OF
Memorial day.
overtime games, all away from st.
Louis. and won two. Cleveland was de-
feated in 10 innings and so was De
troit. Then the Yanks headed the
Browns, after 10 innings in New YORK
last Monday.
Games Well Distributed.
Comiskey Park in Chicago and Yam
kee Stadium in New York nave hog'
eed most of these extra-fnning con-
tests. Each has been the scene OF four
Three have been played on Dunn
Field in Cleveland, while Fenway Park
in Boston, Navin Field in Detroit and
Shibe Park in Philadelphia, have had
two each.
Four legal games of less than nine
innings have been played by the
American League clubs this season.
Indians and Tigers struggled TO a
6.to.e count in seven rounds at Cleve-
land, and in a game of the same
length. at St. Louis, Browns and yam
KEGS played to a 1-to-1 score.
The Nationals beat the Yanks, to z.
in a six-inning encounter in New YORK
in the first week of the campaign, and
the Red Sox nosed out the Athletics
in a five-inning engagement at Phil
adelphia. But Old Sol has been on the
lob too much to allow the athletes to
escape naany innings of toll.