New-York tribune., 1909-10-03
GIANTS BEATEN TWICE
HUMBLED By QUAKERS.
Lose Second Contest Despite Good
Pitching by Matherson.

The Giants. who have been making Pittsburg and
chicago look like amateurs in the West, returned
10 the Polo Grounds yesterday and looked like bush
leaguers themselves while the Philadelphia nine
was winning two games Even the double header
didn't prove much of attraction because not
more than five thousand turned to see the VIC
tories Of the visitors, which won by scores of
TO and 10 !, respectively AS might be sus-
pected, Marquard pitched in the first game and
Matty was the keystone of the crumbling arch in
the second encounter. It wasn't his fault. There
are times even with Matty pitching, when one run
isn't sufficient TO win a game.
Young Mr.. Grant, who plays third base for the
Quakers and is distinguished by a long face res
cued the afternoon from dreadful monotony He
was monotonOus himself, really, but he provided
excitement Just the same, because he whaled out
seven straight hits the first seven times he faced
a pitcher. getting five drives in the first game
in as many times at the bat and In the second
before Matty got his number, He nearly got his
eighth straight, too for Devn in the sixth inning
Of the second game, got in the way of a hot drive
and the bali just beat Grant 10 first base How
ever, seven hits in a said be a record
and il is unusual. at all events
Marquard usual received miserable support
but he far from effective aside from the quality
Of the fielding behind him. The tall lefthander
did well enough until the fourth inning, singles by
The ambitious Grant providing the only break Then
he gave Titus pass and hit AIagee, and both
scored when Kitty Bransfeld smashed the ball into
the left field bIeachers for full grown home run.
Fletcher getting a single in the fifth inning
broke the ice for the Giants and the plate
when Meyers doubled and Marquard was thrown
out by hnabe Then in the sixth inning both sides
got run, with figuring extensively The
/ Giants got their when Merkle got pass with
the bases full. Moore kicked iercely that Stern
berg the umpire, put him of the game. and
McQuilen completed the task of subjugating the
Giants
Three hits and two gave the Quakers three
more runs in the seventh inning. and various
feVered moments in the remaining periods gave
them two tallies.
The Giants should have won the seo6nd game in
all conscience. McQuillen kept right on doing the
! pitching for Murray's men, and pitched well, too
but not so well that there chances TO score
runs. The Quakers a lot alert on the
bases and in all ways than were the Giants and
they reaped the reward Of superior intelligence
and greater enterprise. That is why they won
Grant for instance knowing Mattys old old
trick of starting with fast. straight ball, waited
not al all al the start Of the game. but made his
sixth single the first ball pitched Bates sacri-
ficed-a useful play tried by many visiting teams at
the Polo Grounds. Titus singled right and Grant
got home. Then Magee doubled. but Matty threw
Titus out his way TO the plate on a tap by
Bransfed. and a double steal went wrong a mo-
ment later. One run small punishment for so
much hitting. Knabe singled in the sixth inning,
took second sacrifice and third on an out and
scored on McQuilens single. this being as il
proved. the deciding tally.
The Giants scored in the sixth inning and
would have scored more had 1t been for un-
foreseen circumstances. Natty struck out but
Doyle singled, and Cy Seymour went him one bet
ter with clean twO-bagger. Mccormick walked
filling the bases, with out, but Murray hit
straight 10 Doolin who threw him out while Doyle
scored, and Devlin shared Murray's fate. no one
scoring this time That proved to be about all for
the afternoon.
There will be another double-header Tomorrow
which will wind up the Polo Grounds season. save
for the post-season games with the Boston Ameri-
can League team All the naval officers of the fleet
in the harbor have been invited to attend. and
believed that number viii be present.
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