TIMELY WORK WITH BAT.
Chicagoans Take First Game by Score of 6 to 1 and Second by Same Margin, 11 to 6.
New York, Aug. 22.—[Special.]—Chicago’s White Stockings today thrashed the New York Highlanders twice in their final meeting of the year here. The scores were 6 to 1 and 11 to 6. This double victory gave the Chicagoans eighteen straight, which equals the New York National record of 1904 and the old Baltimore record of 1894.
The Sox beat the Highlanders by making their hits count in both games and getting their runs in bunches. Griffith’s men gave evidence of a return of batting vision. Their hitting was less emaciated than in the games immediately preceding, but they were capsized twice3 by the at present invincible White Sox.
New York managed to outhit the coming champions in the first game, but with this difference, the hitting of the hillmen was smeared thinly over eight innings, while the Sox did batting that was timely. Two New York pitchers had to retire under batting of the leaders, and in the main the Highlanders were mere foils for the speed of the Sox to display itself.
Sox Make Hits Count.
In the first game not a single man struck out. The only score made by New York was due to a home run rap by Conroy—a crashing liner past Jones to the center field fence.
The Sox began to load up with runs in the fourth inning and, apropos of their run getting, the fact they made six hits produce six runs shows what a hustling, well ordered “inside” game they played. Two bases on balls in the fourth inning gave them an opening, then Davis beat out a bunt. The bases were filled, with nobody out. Donohue and Dougherty were retired with no damage, and it looked as if the Sox for once would slip up in a pinch. Not so. Billy Sullivan banged a hit to center which brought in two runs.
With two out in the sixth and a man on first the Sox mixed things up resourcefully at the bat. Donohue singled to center. Dougherty dumped a bunt and drew a bad throw from Thomas. Sullivan was safe on a scratch hit, which Chesbro lumbered for but failed to pick up. Lastly, Keeler, in trying to take a fly which Williams should have attended to, missed the ball. Four runs were the net salvage of this inning.
Two Pitchers Get “Theirs.”
It was mostly hard clustered hitting that smothered New York in the second game. Much of it was right field hitting. The Sox sent the ball shrieking to starboard with a frequency that indicated a set design to perforate that particular demesne. Hogg was batted to the bench in the second inning when the Sox went gunning for him with heavy ordnance. Then they riddled Griffith’s managerial slants for five consecutive hits. It would have been a hot battle but for that, for New York played the best ball in the second game it has for weeks, smashing Owen’s offerings freely and hard.
The star of the game was Tannehill at third. Tannehill was hungry for ground hits and gorged himself with all sorts of slashing stops and throws. But the Sox on the whole fielded raggedly in this game. They made no misplays that counted until they had acquired a big lead. “Jiggs” Donohue made a foolish error in the eighth. He thought the side was out and threw the ball down on the ground, letting a man come in from third.
Four Hits for Hahn.
Griffith had rearranged his batting order in the hope of sidetracking the Sox, but it was no go. Griff’s castoff, Eddie Hahn, stroked the sphere for four assorted singles in the second game, but the most consistant hitsman of the day was Chase, who accumulated three hits in the first game and two in the second.
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Notes of the White Sox.
Six runs on six hits and one run on seven hits about tells the story of the first game.
Towne, the Sox’s recruit, caught the second game and not only played without an error but made a single when it meant runs.
In the fourth inning of the first game Umpire Evans let Jones walk. Chesbro kicked wildly. Evans also walked Isbell, and Chesbro threw down his glove. Griffith ran to the plate to protest and Chesbro finally went back to the rubber.
The Sox left for Washington tonight for a series of three games with the Nationals. If they keep up the pace they set while here the Comiskeyites have an excellent chance to equal the record of twenty straight, made by the Providence Grays of 1881.
The Highlanders hit Walsh harder than they have been doing of late. But the ex-miner refused to hand out hits in bunches. Conroy cracked a plank in the center field fence and made the circuit on the hit in the sixth inning. Otherwise Walsh would have scored his third successive shutout on the Broadway boys.
