GENEROUS TO HOME NINE.
Four Runs of Hub Men Are Really Gifts; Sully Is the Champion Slugger.
[BY SY.] Boston, Mass., Aug. 16.—[Special.]—The White Sox put it all over Boston again today in a contest which might have resulted in a score of 9 to 0 as easily as the actual figures of 9 to 4 if Jones and his cohorts had exerted themselves as strenuously on defense as they did offensively.
The Sox began hammering Harris hard at the start, and kept it up with brief intervals to regain their wind. Roy Patterson, who opposed Harris at the get-away, found he could not cut loose his usual speed, and although he escaped runless in the first round, he was hit some and willingly surrendered his job to Altrock. Nick had been out of form for some days, but immediately demonstrated he had regained his old foolers with something in addition and held Boston back helplessly until the Sox had so long a lead that everybody got a bit careless.
Tanny Threw Into Bleachers.
It was this carelessness which let Boston scratch in three runs in the sixth on Tannehill’s low throw which escaped into the bleachers instead of retiring the side runless, as it should have done. Boston’s fourth run in the eighth was likewise a pure gift. Aside from these two moments of overconfidence, the Sox played irreproachable baseball and fought every inch of the way as if the score were close. They backed up Patterson and Altrock brilliantly except in the two aforesaid rounds, and hit the ball with a steadiness and purpose that was refreshing as well as telling. Papa Sullivan did the most effective execution to Boston’s hopes with his swat stick, finding Harris’ moist curves for a home run, a three bagger, and a single, all clean drives, in five times at bat. Eddie Hahn was a close second to the new parent with two singles and a three bagger in five efforts. “Chick” Stahl bagged three hits from the enemy, but one of them was a rank scratch.
Some Topliner Plays.
Fielder Jones pulled off one of his copyrighted running backward catches which spoiled a home run for Harris in the seventh, and Davis and Tannehill were designated by black type in fielding the same as capital cities and metropolises are on the maps. Davis speared one drive with his naked hand which earned him the plaudits of the big hostile crowd, and Tannehill took care of hard ones, but made his one wild fling on his easiest chance.
Chicago put handcuffs on the game in the opening round. Hahn started correctly with a three base slam through left center, leaving a clear trail for later drives. Jones poked a single over second, scoring the first tally. Isbell tried to sacrifice himself, but Grimshaw foiled him by muffing Peterson’s good throw. David did sacrifice and Donohue popped out, but Dougherty lacerated his old college chum’s feelings with a three bagger along the right foul line, shooting two more Sox across the plate. Pat was left when Sullivan flied.
Patterson Retires Early.
Boston hit Patterson some in its first inning, and managed to fill the circuit with three singles, two outs being sandwiched between these biffs. Grimshaw left the bases full of beans by skying to Dougherty. Patterson then retired, and Frank Smith, batting for him in the second, sent a three bagger down the trail already blazed by Hahn, and Eddie scored Smith with a single, after which the Sox retired only to come back strong in the third. One was gone in that session when Dougherty was passed. Sullivan smashed a liner down the runway in left center so far away that he completed the circuit on it without extending himself, driving Pat home ahead of him.
Altrock was so airtight the Sox had no need to score more runs, but in the sixth they added a couple on Sullivan’s single, Tannehill’s walk, Altrock’s sacrifice, and Hahn’s safe drive to left.
Courtesies to the Host.
It was in the sixth that Boston was handed three runs outright. Two were out when Altrock tied to sneak a slow one over on Stahl, who cracked it to left. Nick passed Ferris, and Hoey hit an easy bounder to Tannehill. Lee then threw low and Donohue failed to block the ball. It bounded past him, then shot over the low railing into the bleachers, and three Beaneaters crossed the plate.
A single by Davis and Sullivan’s triple counted one for the Sox in the seventh. A muff by Hahn and a misunderstanding between Davis and Jones on Stahl’s little fly gave Boston one more run in the eighth.
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Notes of the White Sox Game.
The Sox have only one more game to play in Boston this year.
Despite Wednesday’s one sided game another crowd, close to 5,000, was out today.
Patterson apparently has a slight cold in the shoulder, which tied up his speed today.
That’s thirteen straight, and the Sox made thirteen hits. There’s luck in double hoodoo numbers.
Today’s game, like yesterday’s, closed with a double play, and in each case it was the only one made during the game.
Altrock narrowly missed a home run in the sixth when Stahl ran back and pulled down his long drive amid huge applause.
Catcher Peterson started the game for Boston, but was so lame from a foul tip blow of yesterday that he retired before a man was out in the first inning.
Sullivan complained of a slight touch of rheumatism before the game. After watching him smash out hits the Sox were all trying to catch the malady.
Davis caught Corrigan napping and stole third in the fifth, then tried to catch both members of the battery asleep by stealing home. He was out only by an eyelash after a beautiful slide.
Altrock retired fourteen successive batters without letting one get to first base. Stahl was the fifteenth batter and after fooling him with one enormous curve Nick tried to repeat. Stahl spoiled it with a single.
Jesse Tannehill had his weak ankle examined today and the doctor told him an operation would be necessary to remove a piece of broken splintered bone before he could pitch again. That probably will put him out of the game for the rest of the season.
