DAVE SHEAN

THE LAST ONE FOR 86 YEARS
Dave Shean comes through in the pinch

May 25, 1918 ... Lefty Williams of the White Sox, in the 10th inning of today's game found it necessary to pass Harry Hooper purposely. The following batter, Dave Shean hit a solid liner to deep left field, sending Wally Schang scooting over the plate with the winning walkoff run. The score was 3 to 2 and was the first extra inning battle that has been staged at Fenway Park this season.

A crowd of 10,000 fans saw a great duel between Carl Mays and Lefty Williams.  Although the home team was a battled by the White Sox and Dave Shean delivered at the most opportune moments, it was nip and talk all the way with the visitors getting a run over in the second.  The Sox made two in the fourth and holding  the advantage until the sixth, went through the agency of a double steal the White Sox tied the count and that is the way it stood until Wally Schang supplied the big wallop in the final inning.

George Wightman made some wonderful catches in left field, going everywhere for every ball hit. The eagerness of Whiteman in the second inning was logically responsible for the scoring of the first run by Chicago because had Whiteman not taken so much latitude a slam by Shano Collins  probably would've been caught by Amos Strunk.  As Whitey was coming toward him full speed, Strunk had to back away to avoid a crash. Whitey missed it and fell down.  By the  time the ball was retrieved, a run had scored and Collins was on third base.

Thereafter, however, Whiteman shown conspicuously. In the fourth, he plucked a hit from Shano Collins and doubled Happy Felsch before he could return to second base.  In the seventh he made a great running catch off Ray Schalk when the White Sox had the bases jammed. And with two outs in the 10th, he made a fancy running catch off Felsch.

Chick Gandil's double and Collins' triple in the second gave the visitors their first run.  But in the fourth inning, Williams let the Red Sox score twice.  Williams passed Shean and then made a poor throw of Amos Strunk's bunt and filled the bases by hitting Whiteman. A smash by Stuffy McInnis scored Shean and Strunk.

The White Sox tied the count in the sixth inning Eddie Collins and Happy Felsch got singles and advancing when Mays, threw wildly trying to get Collins off second base.  When Gandil hit to McInnis, Eddie Collins was tossed out at the plate, but a run counted when Felsch and Gandil pulled off a double steal.

One was out in the 10th inning when Wally Schang lashed a double to the bank in left field. Then Hooper was passed, and Shean supplied the winning wallop.