New-York tribune., 1909-05-13
1TGRS TO THE RESCUE
nP1TES IN TWO RUNS
,,,,,-Baggcr IN Ninth Gioes Giants
Victorg Ocer the Cubs.

%, ,,,-s-s rau1e 10 the rescue Of the
-Be - Polo Grounds yesterday with time
GGs :, rfe seventh inning which sent IN the
FSe "a rra score, and crashing thfee-Dag-
. - ninth inning which sent BrldWeh across
= u n'-i.1, '-' a run that spelled victory for New
. p9s safest for Chicago, by a score Of ) 10 :
ITL - la-l,s were due. perhaps, 10 M Tinker
sIt - one Of three that he made, In the
rhsss LING gave Bridweu what amounted to a
sf' rir and so MADE < possible for Myers
sFeL L,,, home with single, and many thahks
e g. --.eb credit were due to Rube Mar
is - man who cost the Giants S1,00O last IAN
s~.es q strong. heady, one might say Drill
81 holding the hard hitting CUPS 10 nVe
81 - striking out seven men. Overall, who
taTss 1--r 1,ox -oT Chicago, also pitched strong
trt he weakened slightly at the end. Wheh
E-A1 he Giants. at least. solved his delivery.
fls ..t,ean5 7ersous more or less saw the game
70 - +bsir moneys worth The air was soft and
r b- 2 ,5ke real summer, and the game was fun or
g. 3D., situations that kept everybody stirred up
I'd IA end The Cubs took the lead by
~ -. one run in the first inning, and for time
y, m kept growing bigger and bigger unuI II
u .bs size OF the Flatiron Building They
- one more IN the sixth inning. when the
--..s also scored. and then came the lucky sew
- the happy NINTH which sent the fans
e. e. sof,fr,- even those who had been growing
= r-yr7bliDg and counting the game lost
lin with E,ers led OF IN the opening inning
= ts-5 hir hail which Doyle could not handle,
- 6ovn 10 second on sacrifice, took thlTc on
.soa kind Of a play when Schultz was out al
So N Tsuny unasssted, and scored when chance
=, slow bounder to Devlin. which he helded
,l..,ly but could not get across the diamond IN
- close decision at first base cost the Giants
-, :, ,re same inning. as Tenney LED of with a
-. s-ole second and went down TO third on Nc
---v,l,s sacrifice dy. Murray was called out at
-. tovrever although he appeared 10 beat the
- m Tnker's throw OF a slow grounoer.
,4.sr that things went along smoothly 70 the
s-.h inning, with AarquaTd doing practically al
,te work for the Giants. wnen the cubs scored
.,.f- second run Schultz began with clean single.
=. a ssoond On Chances sacrifice bunt, third on
z5ls mich and scored when Murray coilided with
-oresrnsn and dropped Steinfeldt's long fly 10
-. with ~, out in New Yark's half OF this
4,Ti,r Mccormick drew base on balls and scored
~ successive hits 10y Murray and O'Hara. Devlin
ended the chance to Tie the score by little fly 10
Tinker
The much needed run came. however. in the next
.nning Bridvell was safe on Tinker's tumble and
vsrt down 70 second on his wild throw TO first He
raosi across the plate moment later, 10 the de-
Hrious delight q the fans. when Myers drove a
prstry single 10 centre field. There was none out
a The time but after NarquaTd had retired on a
sacrifice Holman caught Tenney's short fly back OF
second and doubled up Myers
The eighth inning was quickly played and the
Cubs we're retired in the ninth although Moran did
get his third hit OF The game Two were out, how
ever when the hit came. and MarquaTd sent Over
al 10 the bench CT three strikes Then came the
happy ending. OHars, who is getting his eve on
The hall made his third hit. sharp two-baggeT to
left centre. Dsvlin put mp another pop fly TO
Tinker but Bridwen slashed out single that
looked good for the game As III luck would have
il the bail struck Hara, who was spTinting down
70 third, and the runner was ont With Bridweu
third and tive out. Big Chief Myers stepped
70 the bat. Almost before the crowd had ceased
begging Cor homer ne drove the ball TO the fence
in right centre labelled A pair OF Shoes and Bird
vel gaIioped home with the winning run. II was
ne kind Of game and the kind Of ending that make
baseball so popular.
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