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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM June 17, 1912 ... The Boston Red Sox made it a great getaway day this afternoon when Charley Hall outpitched the famous Ed Walsh and the Chicago White Sox by score 4 to 1. The Sox smashed out 13 hits off Walsh for a total of 23 bases, while Hall pitched one of his best games and would have scored an easy shutout except for a wild throw by Larry Gardner. Heinie Wagner did not play today and therefore Clyde Engle came in and played a clean game at shortstop. The hitting of Tris Speaker was a feature of the game and clearly appreciated by the partisan crowd. Speaker cracked out four hits off Walsh, and Duffy Lewis had a good day at the plate also. The Blaine Club of Cincinnati paraded around the field to home plate today before the game and presented National Commission president and former Reds owner, August Hermann with a chest of silver from the White Sox rooters. The players posed for a group picture and then the battle was on as Walsh took to the mound. Both clubs went up to the plate and went back to the dugout without scoring a run until the fourth inning. Then for the Sox, Tris Speaker opened up the inning with a double to left and Duffy Lewis followed with a triple to left-center to score him. Larry Gardner came up and bounced one off Harry Lord's shin to score Lewis and give the Red Sox a 2 to 0 lead. In the sixth inning the Sox got another run off Walsh, when with two outs, Hick Cady singled and scored on a hit by Hall that went over Ping Bodie's head, good for two bases, making it 3 to 0, as Hall got thrown out at the plate, trying to stretch the hit into a home run. The White Sox got that run back in the bottom of the seventh, but the Red Sox got one more in the top of the ninth. Steve Yerkes got a base hit with two outs and was followed by Speaker and Lewis who also got base hits, making the score 4 to 1, where it would stay as Hall retired the White Sox in order in the bottom of the ninth-inning. After the game the players rushed from the field to the locker room, changing their close quickly and hurried off to catch the 5:30 train out of Chicago for New York, that was held up for 10 minutes at Englewood to accommodate the ballplayers. |
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