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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM September 11, 1912 ... The Red Sox put up one of their smoothest games and romped to a 6 to 0 victory, in the second game of the series with Chicago. The final score was 6 to 0 and Ray Collins pitched outstanding for the first six innings, holding Chicago to only one base hit. In the last three innings, he passed three men and was touched up for five safe hits, but remarkable fielding behind him, prevented Chicago from crossing the plate. Eddie Cicotte was on the mound for Chicago and for the first four innings, he sent the Red Sox back to the dugout in order. The knuckleballer had something on the ball, but he was discovered by the Red Sox batters and hit easily in the sixth and ninth innings when Boston scored five of their six runs. Heinie Wagner has probably never put up a finer game at shortstop, making seven assists, while his counterpart Buck Weaver, who had eight assists, was just as brilliant. Several throws to first were made by Weaver on the dead run and underhand throws to second, without raising his head, in perfect form. The day was cool and nearly all the Boston men displayed more life than in the first game. Manager Jake Stahl returned to first after a good day's rest, but Tris Speaker was quite ill with a bad cold and still insisted on going into the game, although very weak. Olaf Henriksen took Speaker's place in the seventh inning. The first ball pitched to Wally Mattick, after Henriksen went in, was a line drive to left-center and Henriksen went after the ball, and with his back to the infield, pulled it down after a long run. It was a high class play and a delight for his teammates. Henriksen continued his great work with the bat, getting two hits in two times up, showing that he was an able replacement for speaker.
The great all around work of the Red Sox team brought liberal applause of the home crowd, who could appreciate the position Boston now holds as leader in the American League. Harry Hooper opened the game with a base hit but was thrown out trying for second. When Cicotte struck out Speaker in the inning, he was given a great hand from the crowd. Collins looked good from the start and got the first three men up on easy chances, striking out Harry Lord. The Red Sox scored their first run in the fifth inning on a single by Larry Gardner, a sacrifice by Stahl and a single by Bill Carrigan. Two more runs went over the plate in the sixth on singles by Hooper and Speaker, followed by a triple from Duffy Lewis. The Red Sox put the game on ice in the ninth-inning, scoring three runs. Stahl drew a pass and then with two down, Ray Collins hit for a double and four more hits followed from the bats of Hooper, Yerkes, Henriksen and Lewis. The White Sox rallied in the ninth-inning when Mattick drew a pass, but remained at first while the next two men went out. Then Babe Borton and Rollie Zieder knocked out singles to fill the bases. Bodie was called upon to break the shutout, but the best he could do was produce a long fly ball out to Lewis. The Red Sox looked more like themselves this afternoon with the cooler weather to work in. The team figures that three more games or 97 victories will win the pennant but that doesn't mean that they will let up for some time. They want to attain 100 wins. The Sox will leave here tomorrow night at 9 o'clock for St. Louis, where they will open a three-game series on Friday. |
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