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SPORTING S BOT ION SPORTING SECTION Baseball . Boxing . Racing Mm Jtocrk tribune Tennis . Golf . Basketball II FOUR PAGES PART SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1918 * * PART II FOUR PAGES VanKs Beat Tigers by 5-Run Rally in Seventh-Giants Lose Puts Exterminator Pirates yard Up-Hill Fight The Days of Real Sport._* briggs Repeat; Men in Favor Wins Classic Giants Swallow Haggms's High Kentucky First Shut-Out Home Team Lifts Pelts of Ferocious Felines After One of Derby Grandest Free-for-All Tussles Ever Seen on Was Rank Outsider.Escoba McKechnie'sDazzlingDouble Any Ball Field Runs Second, War Cloud Play Takes Punch Out Not in Money of New Yorkers By W. J. Macbeth Midîret Miller Huggins and his Yankees won a home for themselves in LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 11..Wilmer By Charles A. Taylor hearts of metropolitan fandom at the Polo Grounds yesterday after- Sharpe Kilmer's recent purchase, Ex¬ PITTSBURGH, May 11..The Giants the by lifting the pelts of Hughie Jennings's Ferocious Felines after one terminator, captured forty-fourth are getting more and more respectable stand-up, free-for-all tussles ever seen on any ball lot. It renewal of the Kentucky Derby, which every At the rate are Ttbec grandest day. they going squeeze, 6 to 5, and the Cats fought in a manner to justify the was the feature attraction of the open¬ now and by the time they strike the ^gjjt ing day at the Churchill Downs race home that the family is possessed of nine lives. sward again they will be back in .UCir-»5L. course here to-day. The event was run its frenzy and thrills and S the National League. And these Bezdek Bot in all over a sloppy track. The victory of and maddening change of Buccaneers are the boys that are sav¬ heartaches the rank outsider was a surprise. ing the for ex-Governor fr°m start t0 f«11«3«1« n0 hat- j day Teneres fortune rehearsals, could I Both War Cloud and Escoba, be¬ circuit. m, after a hundred One Big Inning! tween whom it was expected that the to the fact fight for the honors would did not The Pittsburgh piuggers not only de- w better calculated prove lie, feated this little, old Manhattan has two race up to expectations. Escoba fin¬ the McGraw men to-day for the Kit its DETROIT <A. L.) one second time in but clubs on which to divide ab r h pe . ished second, length behind Exter¬ succession, also shut -J ball Bush, them out. The score was 2 to 0. .we this year of grace. h.3 0 12 4 0 minator, while Viva America, the only s \ ankees Dressen. Ib . 2 I 0 II 0 I filly in the race, was third, eight It was the first string of goose eggs this season Huggins cf . 3 2 2 4 I 0 Already It Cobb, in rear. Cloud did the Giants have had served to them this done much precedent husting. Veaoh. If . 3 I 0 0 0 0 lengths the War |ad did Heilman. rf . 4 0 I I 0 0 not season, and the fellow who cooked for them, as they yester- 3b I fancy the going and finished fourth. '.jwasined from Vltt .4 0 2 0 0 of the ten entrants went to them was one Wilbur a south- come .o manfully away Young. 2b . 4 I I 2 3 0 Eight the Cooper, ka to o with whom the New in the closing rounds, to snatch Volle, . 3 0 I 3 3 0 post._ The majority of the record crowd paw York nine cot kehind sure defeat. Jams«, p . 3 0 0 0 2 0 on hand to favor War Cloud's very well acquainted some years back. from apparent C. Jones, . 0 0 0 0 I appeared Viciory of p 0 In fact, have come to know that before the largest crowd .Spencer . I 0 I 0 0 0 chances. they Cooper jad tDyer . I 0 0 0 0 0 so well that treat season out to pass judgment on Exterminator, a chestnut gelding out they invariably him 4ke of local of McGee-Fair was kindly. gain the seal &p- Totalt .31 5 9 24 14 1 Empress, purchased But ttea.to in the past this club has NEW YORK (A. L.) by Kilmer several days ago, when his Cooper is not alone .responsible «retal. For for this second over the been too prone to play the very ab r h po a e favorite thoroughbred, Sun Briar, was victory Giants, ¡¡«ays it could conceive on big Gllhoolcy, rf ..'...I 0 I 0 0 0 withdrawn, owing to his unsatisfac¬ | a victory which has awakened all Pitts- «.Merest game Pecklnpaugh, u a. 4 I I I 2 I this is a and to be round asleep every Bakor. 3b .?.3 I I 2 5 0 tory trials in preparation for the fixt¬ burgh.and big town.and (has ¿eea»ions, for respect Pratt, 2b .,.3 I 2 5 5 0 ure. It is not believed that the Bing- called from the vaults of the past/ all opportunity clinching Plpp, lb .4 0 2 12 0 0 the It;;fee came at the door. hamton owner paid more than $5,000 prancing ghosts of fanatic fandom «id favor knocking Bodle. If . 3 0 0 0 10 which haven't been out Miller, cf .»... I 0 0 0 0 0 for Exterminator. If so. the victory since Hans Gameness was P Yanks Displayed High, cf . I 10 2 0 0 to-day netted him an $11,000 profit on Wagner interned in the Home for o . 13 2 1 one of the twenty-odd thousand Hannah, 3 0 the The winner's share the Used-to-Be's. No Walton, o .,.. I I 0 2 0 0 investment. that sat in at Brush Stadium yesterday Love, p .2 0 0 0 2 I was about $14,500, while Kenneth S. Cooper Makes Double Play that Huggins com¬ iCal.w.ll . I 0 I 0 0 0 afternoon can deny SFewstor.0 I 0 0 0 0 Alexander, owner of Escoba, received Another old a resourceful owner acquaintance of the ma-ids a powerful club, Russell, p . 0 0 0 0 0 0 $2,500, and C. T. Worthington, Giants, and, in a as one to which the word fact, former Giant .¡1ub, as well Totals 6 9 27 17 3 of Viva America, $1,000. himself, did far more than his to an absolutely foreign char- \ .27 bit "quit" nas to Had Veteran Rider aid Cooper in checking the big drive. »ct?_. If ever a team had reason "Batted for Yelle In the ninth Inning. His name is and turn to the con- j .Batted for C. Jones In the ninth Inning. Willie Knapp, the veteran jockey, plain Bill McKechnie. It .feel discourag.d of iBatted for Love in the seventh inning. who had the mount on Exterminator, was Bill who drove in the first run for solation of possible betterment §Ran for Caldwell In the seventh Inning. the Pirates in the fourth and same was the Yankees I 0 showed sound judgment and skill in inning, future days, that Detroit . 0 0 0 3 0 0 1.3 rated the again it was Bill who, with second and New York . 0 I 0 0 0 0 5 0 X.6 handling his charge. He aft. r six innings of yesterday's battling third base3 both populated the foe rolled into ancient history. Two-base hits.Vltt (2) and Young. Three.base gelding behind the pace for three-quar¬ in the by -hid that Bill James hit.Baker. Stolon base.Cobb. Sacrifice hits. ters of the distance, then went to the eighth, speared a savage liner It wasn't so much big Dressen, Bodle and Gllhooley. Sacrifico les.Mil¬ from the bat of Ross and com¬ the of his life. And lo.- ana Pratt. Double plays.Yelle and Young: front. He had to shake up his mount Young was pitching game and and as pleted an unassisted double which was is no denying Baker, Pratt Plpp; Pratt. Pecklnpaugh considerably in the closing yards play { .ames good.there Plpp. Left on bases.New York, 5; Detroit, 4. Escoba was on fast rescued the faltering Cooper. that Nothing would break right. That First base on errors.New York, ; Detroit. I. coming dangerously The for one, .was Bases on balls.Off Love, 4: off James, 3. Hits. and threatening to overtake him. triumph scored by the home little cuss Donie Bush, Off 6 In 7 off 3 In 2 team in the of a killer al¬ Love. Innings; Russell, The horse_ slipped around the track opening game yesterday of himself enough joy Innings; off Jarnos, ß in 6 1-3 Innings; off Jones, I in the mud at the end both had put the oldtime fire in the Pitts¬ most for an entire series. He was In I 2-3 Innings. Hit by pitcher.By James slimy and over the (Baker). Struck out.By Russell. 2; by James. 3. jockeys and horses were covered with burgh fans, and some fifteen thousand there and everywhere Winning pitcher.Love. Losing pitcher.James. Yaîe Shuts Out were on hand to cheer here, in the mud. The route of one and a quarter Perm's Two Crews Defeat Farrell Wins the magnificent and outfield, bobbing up of infield and and miles was covered in 2:10 4-5. pitching Cooper and the equally most unexpected ways places on magnificent all around of off base hits with every bob.