New-York tribune., 1891-04-24
GIANTS IN DISGRACE.
BEGINNING THE SEASON BADLY.
sHooK1NGLY DRUBBED BY THE BOSTON NINE
THE SCORE.

eHoCKINGLY DRUBBED BY THE BOSTON NINE
THE SCORE.
In the wild woolly West the spectators a ball
vame when decision an umpire dspleases them rise
up in might and want to lynch him. and suggest
Mana modes OF determination In Cincinnati they throw
beer glasses and bottles at the umpire as a mild but
emphatic means Of showing their disapproval. New
York however, is peace-ovng community, and does not
look upon such proceedings with favor.
But suppose the Giants were located in OF those
risky towns and had the record they made
in the games the vengeance OF the spectators
would been terrible and a wondrous tale OF woe
could told by the fortunate player who escaped the
1t is good thing for the Giants that they
live Harlem where the natives exhaust their wrath
upon the elevated road SYSTEM the dirty Harlem River
and the frisky Harlem goat
There thunder and lightning and comedy and trag
edy the Polo Grounds yesterday when the athletes from
Boston threw poor Giants around in the mud and gave
them disgraccfu drubbing. Tenan played good game
Glasscock did fairly we'll. and Richardson did superbly
The rest OF the seemed asleep Denny acted like
man with umbago; o'ROurke like spawned Guttenburg
skate" Connor II he had in his stomach and
Whistler like wooden Indian afraid OF his shadow
Buckley caught well enough but handled the bat it
was stick Of candy and he was afraid Of breaking It,
He struck out every time he went to the bat
But the collapse OF Timothy Keefe soulfuly sad
He pitched like his old self until the fifth inning and then
went all TO pieces Seven runs to Bostons list
FIVE OF them earned and Timothy escaped the clubhouse
and there was not shed by the 250S spectators pres
ent over downfall Some people will be charitable
enough 10 excuse Keefe the ground that he cannot
pitch water ball. but this excuse is fimsy, as
he did superbly the second third and fourth innings
Gore was disciplined yesterday for his monkey shines"
on Wednesday. There is need OF some more 1t might
be well Captain Ewing to take hold OF his infants ana
bring them out the blind wilderness in which they are
wandering.
The Giants never could play ball anyway except when
Ewing present tell them how storm swept over
the grounds second inning and feeling OF nausea
WIS manifested from the fifth to the seventh Innings
Tho sting
Injected into the Giants with excellent effect THESE
games are for the championship and not for fun The
Bosons played superbly but team could have done
that against the hesdless Giants yesterday.
Each side BANKED in the opening inning, but In
the second the got and took the lead Con-
ball to suit him. and he went to first
on called balls Richardson's artistic sacrifice put Connor
on second and Dennys clipping drive to right field sent
Connor across plato with the first run of the game
The score remained 0 until the fourth inning when
an error by Denny instrumental In giving the athletes
frap modern Athens Sullivan sent the ball at
penny but the little sphere eluded that players fingers
Quinn followed with hit. Consecutive sacrifices by
Brodie and Nash allowed Sullivan to score.
An old-time shout went up when the New-Yorkers
scored two runs the fifth inning again forging ahead
After two men out Nichols sent Keefe to first on
called balls with the usual fatal results Whistler fol-
lowed with hit. then hit to right field for two
bases and Keefe scored ohinn In his anxiety made
wild throw to the plate and Whistler also scored
In the last half Of the inning the Boston batsmen
knocked the ball all over the field scoring runs
five Of number being earned Keee was knocked out
Of box, and the popular star retired amid general
gloom Nichols hit safely and Stovey sacrificed Tucker
made home-run drive through the ropes in right field
Then Sullivan and Quinn hit safely. and BrOde went to
first on called balls Keefe had lost his cunning Nash
then hit the ball left field, and ORourke fumbed it,
He threw the ball 70 third and Denny allowed it to pass
him. While this comedy being enacted, Sullivan,
Quinn and Brode had scored Camel hit safely and
Nash ran home making the to in Boston's favor
The spectators back wearied and exhausted. The
substitution the "Smiling Mickey Welch, with his
expansive grin could not dispel the gloom. The New
Workers went o halfhearted way and scored three
runs in the seventh inning on hit by Glasscock, two
bagger by Tiernan an error by QUINN wild pitch and
pIssed ball got in the sixth and two
more in seventh inning and then Umpire Lynch de-
cided tired to play longer and
he called game Here the dismal result and the
statistics will show laInentable condition Of things to
those understand baseball figures: