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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM May 22, 1912 ... Charley Hall gave one of the most sensational all around performances today, that has been seen at Fenway Park. So fast and accurate was the pitching, hitting and fielding of the Red Sox pitcher, that manager Harry Davis and his bright young men from Cleveland, were unable to get a man is far as third-base in nine full innings. All this as the Speed Boys rolled up nine runs of their own. Hall was not satisfied with just pitching a shutout, he joined in the hitting with two singles and a double, that drove in three runs. He also scooped up seven chances in the field, often on balls that were hit back at him with a sign of trouble. The longer he went, the better he played and he could have kept on for more hours. He had seen Joe Wood and Buck O'Brien pitch gems and get victories in two days and he was bound to make it three of a kind, which he dis. In four of the three games this week, the Red Sox have been scored against but only once. The game was a Boston procession with the Cleveland team simply looking on, as the Red Sox had men on base in every inning, with 18 altogether. Cleveland got 10 men to first but not one got to third. Each pitcher struck out only one man, all passed three and George Kahler passed two. There was never a moment when Hall did not have the Cleveland batters in his sights. Tris Speaker carried off the fielding honors by taking a low line drive from Hank Butcher's bat on the dead run a few inches from the ground. Roger Peckinpaugh made one great assist off Duffy Lewis and Butcher made a great throw from deep left, getting Larry Gardner, who was trying for three bases. Speaker, Gardner and Hall each got three base hits, including a double by each man. Les Nunamaker started the third inning by reaching first on Neil Ball's fumble. Charley Hall sacrificed him to second and then Harry Hooper walloped the ball over Joe Jackson's head for three bases. Steve Yerkes and Tris Speaker both then singled. Duffy Lewis hit one to the shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh who nipped Yerkes at the plate. Gardner, next up, hit one to right-center, and Lewis tried to score, but was thrown out at the plate by Buddy Ryan. But the Red Sox scored three runs and Cleveland had another uphill fight. Cleveland went out in order in the fourth but Boston scored one more on a fumble by Peckinpaugh and Charley Hall's double. They scored another one in the fifth on a double by Speaker and Gardner's single. In the sixth with one out, Wagner reached on a fumble by Peckinpaugh. Nunamaker reached on a base hit and Hall sent both men home with a sharp single to center. Two more in the seventh on a fumble by Neil Ball, a pass and singles by Speaker and Wagner. In the eighth it was Charley Hall, who banged out a double only to see the next three men retired. Hall was pitching like a prairie fire by this time. In the ninth Ball was thrown out at first, Yerkes made a fine running assist on a ground ball and Hooper pulled in a fly ball for the final out. The crowd cheered as Hall left the field satisfied that he had pitched as well as anybody on the team. |
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