Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
GIANTS WIN IN
BATTING RALLY
FAST FIELDING FEATURES THE
CONTEST
PHILL,Ee PULL OFF TRIPLE PLAY
IN SECOND
National League Leaders Give Math-
ewson Excellent Support at Bat
and Are Victorious by
to Score
LEAGUE sTANDING
BY Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-A batting
rally by New York in the sixth inning
gave the visitors g. victory over Phila-
delphia today, to l. The visitors took
rather kindly to McQuillen's curves,
but triple play saved him in the sec
ond inning, and New York scored a run
in the third on double by Mccormick
and a single by Bridwell. In the sixth
inning New York hammered McQui-
lens delivery hard, and the latter be-
came very wild. Doyle opened this in
ming with a single and steal, and scored
on Bresnahan's double. An error by
Bransheld on Donlin's bunt was fol-
lowed by q single by Deviin and a
single by Bridwell and two force outs.
With three runs in, McQuillen made
wild pitch and gave tw bases on balls,
forcing in another run. Foxen, who
pitched the last three innings, held New
York in check, only ten men facing
him.
The triple play was the feature of the
contest. With Donlin on second and
Seymour on first, Devlin hit to Doom,
who tossed the-b ball to Knabe, forcing
out Seymour. Donlin rounded third and
started for home, but Knabe headed
VI.
line and finally was put out by Doom.
The latter then snapped the ball TO
Grant and retired Devlin at third base.
Score:
New York 5, hits IL, errors 2.
Philadelphia /, hits 6, errors l.
Batteries = Mathewson and Bresna-
han; McQuillen, Foxen and Dooin.. Um-
pires, KLEIN and Emslie.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 5.--Over 11,OOO
spectators seemed to enjoy the affair
at Exposition park this afternoon when
the Chicago champions walked away
with the game from Pittsburg by a
score OF IL to o.. The fourth and fifth
innings resembled comedy OF errors
five errors to their credit. These. with
seven hits secured by the visitors,
gave four runs in the fourth inning
and five in the fifth. The batting
streak cropped out again in the nintn
inning, when Chicago added three hits
to their credit for two runs. The nome
team did not seem to make any efrort
to score after the fifth inning: heui-
bach pitched a splendid game for Chi-
cago allowing but four hits. Score:
Pittsburg O., hits 4, errors 8.
Chicago IL, hits IL, errors 2.
Batteries-Vail, Young, Leever, Sui
livan and Gibson; Reulbach and
King. Umpire-O'Day.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 5.-St. Louis
gave Cincinnati a scare by scoring
four runs in the ninth inning, mis-
Judged fly and an error assisting the
visitors. Manager CAMEL was. put off
the field for disputing decision.
Hoblitzeil and Beecher, new men. made
good impression with the local team.
Score:
Cincinnati 6, hits 9, errors 8.
st. Louis s. hits II, errors l.
Batteries-Spade and Mclean; Hig-
ginbotham, Sallee and Ludwig.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 5.-Pitcher Rucker
of the Brooklyn team established rec
ord for the National league season in
the second game with Boston today.
He struck out fourteen men and allow
ed no hits Only thre of the visiting
team reached first base, and they got
there on errors. Scores:
First game:
Boston 4, hits s, errors 2.
Brooklyn g. hits 5, errors 3.
Batteries-Ferguson and Smith; Will
helm and Bergen. Umpire, Johnstone.