The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29
CLEAN SWEEP FROM QUAKERS.
NTCHOLS'S PITCHING HIT HARD
BY THE CHAMPIONS.

NICLULSS EAIChINO NH hAnD
BY THE CHAMPIONS.
McGinnity VERY EhectiNe-Three Shutouts
In the National eague-Bostons. Pitts.
burgs and ChlcagOS Win From Brook.
lyns. Cardinals and Reds Respectively.
Where were three shutouts in the National
League yesterday, The New Yorks did not
figure in them but they won their fourth
straight victory from the Philadelphia.
and Notwithstanding the fact that Mathew
son has not pitched a game they are sailing
alonR smoothly in hrst place The shutout
victims were Brooklyn, st. Louis and Gin
cinnati. Their respective conquerors we're
Boston. Pittsbure and Chicago. The race on
the whole is a scattering one and thus far is
without material evidence that the teams are
better matched than LAST wear. The re-
suits
New York, =: Philadelphia. 2.
Boston. 4; Brooklyn. q.
%PlttsburG, 10; ST. louis. o.
Chicago. i: Cincinnati, q.
STANDING OF TIE oLups.
Ss sa* PORK Il / i 3 2so pn G,g5i y ! + Sc Sc
& SE' fSSs.. ! F: sc g: &c S S5SSR.es' ! Il r r
NEW FORE Is. L.. = PHILADELPHIA q. L..
. lu6 NeM lOIhS UtSdu ~ pu44lSL MINUS :
pitching in yesterdays game at the Pc"
Grounds as soon as The game began. prac-
bicaly, but sharp fielding by the Philadel-
phians repealed them from the plate Tor 2
while. 1t was only for a while Laoersting
, raps that had been, going on, 2 bee line 10
runs accrued thereIroM Niehols's. hlrgs
were 100 easy. Tor scoring 70 be prohibited
thh rubber in any of the first four innings,
piled over the plate sing!y arI;d IN tNos IN each
and il Would have been a shutoGt for the
Phillies ifthe New Workers fielding mad been all
McGinnity pitched in mastery style and
was deserving of a s%coreless game on the
:. part OF bis, opponents The ordinarily az
thumb and were without the, agSressivenesso OF
their other three games here. McGinnity
they scored first. they were on tie defensive
from first to last. The veteran Nichols. a
COZ troll. among other things. was. very Wild
YESTERDAY. Balls that were intended Tor the
edges OF the plste Went clear outside balls
vent overhead, and balls that we're intended 70
san In knee high h!{ the sround before reach.
20 a severe test, and Red earned encomlums
by the way be put his heart into a IosiiG
.MoGinnity vas able to get those fine shades
, Of control on his pitching Which battle batters
while Nichols vas not Fu1therm3re, McGin;
nifty had behind him a team which improved
with age, So to speak, and worked together
at the bat. every man doing his share in the
concerted effort. The QuakerS played as u
the spirit had been taken out OF them by their
reYerses here.
tt was som time before the New Yorks
got together at the bat, Four Of them reached
hrst in the first inning. and nobody scored
Browne stole second Donlin flied out and
bases on balls to Mccain and Strang, filled
the cushions. Dahlen hit the ball hard, but
Doolin smothered IL. In the second inning,
drst without, any run resulting Gilbert
doubled and McGlnnity and Bresnahan walked.
Brownies scorchIng liner was grabbed by
Bransfeid. who stepped on first for a double
Browne dropped a fy in the fourth inning.
on which error MaRee' scampered to second.
Titus hunted and Gilbert. who covered first
base, dropped, Bresnahan'sr throw On
stFsngg ran in TOO far on Th9m95,s III lin in The
him in with a single to right. Ward was
fooled by the throw in His greenness per
mitted him to think the throw was going TO
the he R!st e u It T Tsn d6 to M'qTbtg s pl,v i? setys3
to tee em MStS wS New TT% Y 9 r viglitsndpes.a ' ''N
The New Yorks made their frs. rln in the
fifth inning but base hits played no ,part
therein Bresnahan gss hiti adygqa:ed on N
on Gleason's miss OF McGanns %grounder.
pevlin S triple, Gilbert''s single. McGinnity's
sacrifice, a base on balls 10 Bresnahap and
Brownies slashing hi, sent two of the home
Bases on balls TO NIcGann and .Strang and
two baegers by Donlin and Gilbert dove
tailed in the making OF two New York runs
IN the ,ssy e r,,,t The e III T dTirni+ in t he eiShts
on balls TO Bresnehan. q single by Donlip,
Gleason's muff of Doolin's throw on a force
and a one Dagger by Strang. 1t simmered
down to two runs. The score