New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
NATIONAL LEAGUE sTANpI

New York beat Brooklyn at Washington Park
yesterday by a score of TO O. Nearly twenty
thousand baseball rooters saw Christopher Mathew
son pitch one of the most brilliant games of his
long career. Twelve of the Superbas were retired
strikes. and every instant of the full nine innings
Matty in supreme command of the situation.
Brooklyn had few chances TO score, for with men
on bases Matty always let out link and pulled
himself out Of danger.
During large part of the game light drizzle
fell and made the ball difficult to handle. Several
errors were due TO other reason than that the
ball was slippery. Pastorius. the Brooklyn south
paw had his troubles controlling the pesky pellet.
and though few hits were made off him. he hit
three and gave free passes to twice as many
more. The Brooklyn team played fast and also
foolish ball Some OF the felders made brilliant
catches and others guilty of just unpar-
donable errors.
Threatening weather had terrors for the fans,
who filled every in the immense stands Hun
dreds had TO stand in the aisles and crowd into
every available inch of space. 1t was a typical
Saturday, about many Giant partisans as Brook
lyn followers being in attendance. Cowbells and
whistles were added to the din and enthusiasm ran
riot all through the game
It was New York's first appearance OF the season
In the greater city in league game. Matty had
the honor of pitching the first local game. The
Giants started off with rush. Shannon, the first
man up. was hit by the first ball pitched. Pas
torus could locate the plate and Tenney walked
Donlin forced Shannon at third base. Seymour
popped up to Patee and then Bresnahan hit for two
bases, scoring Tenney and Donlin, but he was out
himself at third base on Maloneys quick return to
Alperman.
There was no more scoring until the seventh
inning when the Giants got tallies
Bridwen safe Bergen's attempt TO make a
grandstand catch of his pop fly Pastorus tried
TO knock off one OF Matty's legs. and the big
pitcher took his base. Shannon sacrificed the run
ners Tenney singled down the right field limo,
Bridwe racing home Donlin's long fly to Ma
loney became a sacrifice when Matty home
on the throw-in. That ended all the scoring.
To show Matty's fine control il is only necessary
to describe few OF the chances the Superbas had
to score With two out in the fourth inning Lewis
and Bergen singled and Pastorius got free pass.
filling the bases. Pattee implored by the
Brooklyn fans TO hit it out" He dumped a weak
hit to Tenney who felded to Matty at first in
plenty of time retire the side Several times
there was a Brooklyn runner on third base with
only one out, but Matty held him there, retiring
the batters strikes making them nit into
the air
MaIoney went to bat four times and struck out
three times. Bergen was the only man on the
Brooklyn team who could do anything with the
bat. He got two singles and double Lumey
batted for Pastorus in the final inning. but the
big sugger retired at first.
Shannon, Brdwell and Matty each got first base
by being hit by the pitcher. Hummell caught six
flies to left field. while Spike" Shannon never had
ball in his garden all the afternoon.
Roger Bresnahan led the Giant batters with a
single and a double, and Fred Tenney got two sin
giles Devlin the only other New Yorker TO
get hit.
The New York felders had little to do Mathew
son and Bresnahan playing half the game between
them.
The score follows: