JACK STANSBURY

THE LAST ONE FOR 86 YEARS
Babe Ruth hammers out three two-baggers

July 11, 1918 ...  In a game that was built for speed and Babe Ruth, the Red Sox triumphed over the Chicago White Sox by a score of 4-0 at Fenway Park today. The whole show was run off in one hour and 24 minutes. Ruth propelled the ball to extreme left field three times, each of his smashes being good for two baggers, and at first base he had 20 putouts. His lightning doubleplay on Kid Wilson, and Shano Collins brought the festivities to an abrupt finish, when the visitors had the bases jammed and only one gone in the last inning.

Carl Mays and Eddie Cicotte did the pitching and Mays held the White Sox to just two blows up until the ninth inning, when without warning, they started to figure out his delivery.  Eddie Murphy shot a hot one to Dave Shean and was retired on a close play at first. Solid smashes by by Nemo Liebold and Eddie Collins, followed. Mays hit Chick Gandil with a pitch to load the bases. This brought up Shano Collins, who always smacks the ball in Boston and manager Roland nominated Wilson to run for Gandil.

Shano busted a beauty which was zipping toward right. Babe knocked it down, but the way he played the ball confused the rookie pinch runner, who thought Babe had caught it. He was less than 10 feet away from first and Babe slid into first, getting him out to end the game.

Carl Mays was very effective and did his usual great fielding job, having eight assists. George Whiteman nearly caught Cicotte's two bagger with one hand in the third inning, and that was the only hit off Mays until the seventh, when Gandil belted a single to center.

Amos Strunk, drove the first Boston run across the plate in the sixth inning. In that frame Dave Shean beat out a deep infield blow to Eddie Collins and dashed to second as the peg to first was faulty. Strunk lined one to right scoring Shean, but Strunk, who rounded first, was nailed before he could make it back to the bag.

In the seventh inning, after one had been retired, Jack Stansbury in trying to duck away, accidentally hit a single to right and went to third on a hit and run. Whiteman planted one to right field that scored Stansbury. Eddie Cicotte played a tapper from Carl Mays in front of home plate, who beat it out for an infield hit and Whiteman scored from second, as the peg to Gandil went into the dirt.

Ruth's double, an infield out, and Buck Weaver's low throw on Stansbury's grounder, provided the Sox with their final run in the eighth inning.