BILL WAMBSGANSS

THE LAST ONE FOR 86 YEARS
The Red Sox are beaten
by the Indians and Joe Wood

May 21, 1918 ... Every time, the Red Sox have an opportunity to win seven consecutive games, along comes Dutch Leonard.  After winning six games in a row, the Red Sox were beaten 6 to 5 yesterday by the Indians, principally because Dutch Leonard did not have the goods.

Manager Fohl and some of the Cleveland players were persistently complaining that the balls Leonard was throwing were tainted with licorice and umpire Dick Nallin threw many of the balls out of the game and gave warnings to the Red Sox dugout.

Whether the balls that Dutch delivered had licorice on them is a matter someone else will have to decide, but in the clinch, the lefties offerings were soft picking for the visitors, who got 12 hits. Leonard's control was not there as six passes were issued.  Dutch had good intentions because he likes to win, but beyond that he had not a little of his old-time effectiveness.

The Red Sox came from behind in the fifth, wiping out it Cleveland lead of three runs and giving them two to work with, but he promptly permitted the visitors to knot the count in the very next inning, and a few innings later they snatched the ballgame away from him. Johnny Enzmann, who last season pitched at Newark, started for the Indians, and held the Sox to one hit until the fifth inning when they knocked the foundation out from under him. Southpaw Frtiz Coumbe, a Fenway graduate, finished it out and the Sox did very little to him.

A number of sensational plays were pulled off, the headliner being Ray Chapman, whose all-around efficiency stood out prominently. Everett Scott's great catch of a line drive, he nearly turned into a double play, proved a respite for Leonard in the six inning.

Joe Wood, Bill Wambsganss and Harry Hooper had a great day at the bat. The Indians scored in the first inning when Chapman doubled, taking third on a wild pitch.  Wamby lifted a single to right scoring Chapman.

Two had been retired in the third inning, when Tris Speaker and Braggo Roth pushed across a couple of hits that Fred Thomas could not handle. A pass to Wamby loaded the bases and  Joe Woods' base hit to left scored Speaker and Roth, giving the Indians a 2-0 lead.

In the fifth, the Red Sox landed on Enzmann.  There was one out when Scott walked and made it to third when Wally Schang singled to right.  Leonard was passed filling the bases and Hooper singled to right sending Scott home.  Dave Shean's infield hit which Terry Turner could not make a play on, scored Schang.  Leonard and Hooper scored when Otis Strunk singled to center.  As George Whiteman forced Otis Strunk at second,  Shean scored the fifth run of the inning.

Joe Woods' double and Steve O'Neil's single developed one Cleveland run in the sixth inning. This was followed by a single from Rip Williams and passes to Ed Miller and Ray Chapman which forced in O'Neil.  Miller's triple and Chapman sacrifice fly furnished the winning run in the eighth inning.

Tomorrow will be bat and ball fun day at Fenway Park.  Twenty Five percent of the proceeds will go to Clark Griffith, to buy baseball equipment for boys in the armed services. Babe Ruth has tonsillitis and is getting along very well.  Hobby and the others have visited visited him, but being kept indoors is annoying him.

Former Red Sox catcher is Thomas will not join the Indians until they return home. He refused to report to Connie Mack and the Athletics and became a motion picture actor. The Indians bought him last week.