BOB GEARY

THE LAST ONE FOR 86 YEARS
The Red Sox are shut out by the Mackmen, 5-0

June 19, 1918 ... It was not a very impressive exhibition of baseball that the Red Sox offered for a homecoming at Fenway Park. They were whitewashed 5 to 0 by the Athletics, with only one base runner making it to third base.

Mr. Robert Geary registered a win over Joe Bush, principally to the fact that he was supported better in the field than was the Red Sox sharpshooter. In the case of the young life of Mr. Geary it has been a long time between wins, but yesterday the boy showed why he was there.

A couple of clean hits, mixed up with a sacrifice, gave Philadelphia their first run in the fourth inning, which was enough to beat the locals. But in the sixth, a bunch of hits, errors and passes completely swamped the Sox. It netted four runs for Connie Mack's men and put the game right away in the icebox.

The visitors hit Joe Bush safely ten times while Geary held the Sox to seven scattered hits.  Some great plays by old Red Sox favorites Tilly Walker and Larry Gardner helped the youngster tremendously. Walker robbed  Fred Thomas of a triple in the second inning, making a backhanded catch of the rope that Thomas sent shooting toward the bank in center field.  In the fifth, when the Sox thirdbaseman was trying to score from second, on Joe Bush's single to center, Tilly cut him down at the plate with a pin point throw.

In the fifth inning.  Larry Gardner speared a hot liner that Stuffy McInnis hit.  McInnis made a couple of nice catches on foul flies, going out to the Sox bullpen for one, and getting another leaning into the dugout.

Dave Shean after playing 55 consecutive games had to take the day off because he was suffering from a bad cold.

The Athletics loaded the bases, after two were out, in the first inning.  Shean's replacement, Frank Truesdale, made a nice nab of Wickey McAvoy's liner and their chance to score was averted. Singles by George Burns and McAvoy manufactured a run for Philadelphia in the fourth inning.

In the fifth inning, the Red Sox lost a possible chance to tie the count when, with two out, Thomas tried to score from second when Joe Bush stung a line drive to center field.

Philadelphia batted around in the sixth inning. George Burns opened the frame by slapping a single to center.  When Larry Gardner tried to sacrifice bunt, catcher Sam Agnew made a bad throw to second base to miss a force play.  McAvoy singled to center, scoring Burns and on Amos Strunk's throw home, the ball zipped past Sam Agnew so Gardner took third and McAvoy took second.  Joe Bush then passed Joe Dugan to load the bases and a pass to Geary allowed Gardner to walk home.  On Red Shannon's grounder to Everett Scott, McAvoy was forced at the plate, but a fine single to center drove by Rube Oldring, drove in both Dugan and Geary to make it 6-0.

The Tufts College infielder Ford worked out with the Sox in practice. Heinie Wagner took him under his wing. 

Pitcher Elmer Myers of the Athletics left the team, word having been received from his home near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that he be had been called by his draft board