New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-24
GIANTS SLUG AND WIN
TOO STRONG FOR REDS.
Terrific Batting Bee al Polo Grounds
Lcaurs Home Men Ahead.

the August air AZ the Polo Grounds yesterday
/ Giants ana Reds peppeTed the delivery OF half a
dozen pitchers with fne mpartiality- and when the
slaughter ended the Giants with record OF thir-
teen smashing safeties. had garnered twelve runs
while the clan Of Griffith making only one less hit
had three less. making the Giants vtctors by
the unusual Of p TO Q. The Giants got nine
OF their hits and OF their runs In the fourth
inning One man out because a batJed ball
hit him. and another fe,; down while he trying
10 run the bases but such help couldn't save
the Reds in that session. and Seymour. McCor-
mick and OHars got brace of hits apiece In that
one inning
Crandau began 70 pitch for the Giants He
lasted one inning and then gave way to Mar
guard who appeared for the first time since MerkIe
spiked him in Newark The big left-hander lasted
until the fifth inning. when he gave way Ames
He gets the credit OF the victory vever for the
Giants were ahead. although by only a small mar
gin when Ames was sent TO the rescue Ames
was bumped pretty hard. but the Giants having
acquired the habit OF scoring. cut loose like demons
on the bases and kept safe lead Their cluster IN
the fourth session would have done them little
good. however II they hadn't managed 10 nlake IL
centre for the addition Of more tallies II wasn't
good baseball game in the technical sense but
as spectacular affair and one worth watching Z
was wholly satisfactory.
The Pirates and the Cubs won too or course
bur one Of the leading trio mas got lose
one game to-day. because the Giants and the
Pirates will engage In a dOuble-header One fire.
ItfitL dELeuudnf az the Polo Grounds said ne
thought there would be = good deal OF interest in
the series and that several thousand spectators
would h. present Inquiries revealed the fact that
this opinion was general
Craudali looked nervous when Miller iuulped on
che OF his first halls and sent a screaming liner
toward right field but Erinned when DovIs annihi-
lated a probable two-bagEer with a fine catch.
Then Tennev dropped Bridweli's throw To put Pas
kert out AT first. and Young Mr.. Hobtzell sent the
ball bounding away 10 the fence IN right field for
ETr al
three-base hits Murray wasn't I'm right field by
the way. giving way TO O'Tiara because OF a boil.
Esan walked after Mitchell struck out. but LObert
fled OHara
Marquard started well in the second inning He
famed Downey. and BrfdweU threw Roth out Mr.
Casper struck ont. Marquard was good for a r1In
In the third session however after beginning n
vith beautiful one-handed stop OF Rescher's liner
Then he gave PasSert his base balls. and Paskert
stole second Hoblitzell didn't repeat with another
home nm He Just popped VI 10 Tpevlfr hr.
Mitchell co5Intered with a single. and Paskert
scored Egan walked. but Lobert forced him
The fourth inning began wei and ended with the
crowd In a state OF superlative JOY In the first
half Downcy struck out. Roth popped a ~ 70
DOYLE Then Casper popped UP a fly over short
and BridveH lost It in the DOYLE kept his eye
on the bali however, and raced over under Bird
wells feat 20 make pretty catch
Then came the fireworks Seymour started with
a rwo-basEer TO left McCormcsl followed with a
single and O'Tfara also drove out safe hit But
u touched SEYMOUR foot il whisusd nv third
base. and Cy vas out Lob~rt getting the put-out
under the new rule DevIln singled past third hut
Mccormick fell fat or his face IN rounding third.
and had TO race back 20 that bag This left the
bases full with one and no runs in although 2
tTo-bagser and three successive singles had been
made
The crowd roaring for some one II score n
run. and O'Fiara and Mccormick obliged by rae
ing over the plate together when BridweH sent a
tWo-oagger 70 night Merzle singled 10 left. SCOT
ing Devln and B-idweu and putting the Giants
ahead Il was the sixth consecutive hit too. and
Msrke wound up third on the throw 70 the
plate and Bercner's Wild toss
Griffith. who had acquired enough unpopular
IL with Rgler Monday 20 keep him out q uni
form. leaned over from his seat in the press box
as Meyers came 70 the bat and sent CampbeU IN
~ relieve Casper. incidentally ordering him 70 give
The Indian base balls. This was done and
Marquard. ss planned. struck out
ohahiy~eiriffth figured that the lightning
wouldn't strike twice IN the same place but after
Movers and 1ierkle had worked a dazzling de-
iayed double steal. Nerkle scoring and Tovls had
drawn base on balls. Seymour came M again
and sent Iioyle and Meyers home on the hit and
-un play with splendid drive down the first base
line. Singles by Mccormick and O'Hara each |
ike Seymour, getting second hit IN this one |
inning. filed the bases. hut a sigh 81 relief was !
heard among the scorers when Devlin fled - |
Mitchell
But the game wasn't yet by a good deal |
The Reds came back just as soon as they could /
get their. hards their bats and were within |
a OF tienE she score. Rescher droped a short
ny safely into right field and scored on Paskart-s
two Dagger Hoblttzel came nearer repeating hts /
home than before. and sent Paskert fu with a ]
three-bagger Whereupou Marquard got the gate
and Amss in. Mitchell singled on him and
scored Hoblitzeu. Egan sacrificed putting mitchell
on second. and then I>oDert struck out and Ames
eliminated Dowuey.
Dubuc finished the game for the Reds. and in the
sixth inning Doyle got an inheld hit. He stole
second. and Seymour walked. They worked
double steal. and Larry scored on Mccormick
long fy. The Giants got three extra runs in the
seventh inning Dubuc hit OFIara. and the latter
stole second. Dubuc dropped the throw 10 first %
DevIin's grounder, and Arthur was safe O'Hara B.
scored Egan's bad throw 10 the plate on Bird
wells grounder. and DevIin having reached third
Bridwel stole second, Devin scoring on Roth's
weird throw Merkie walked. and stole third
three men having accomplished that feat in this
inning. Brdwell scored when Ames singled The
Giants got their last run In the eighth inning sav
mour walked. and Devore ran for him IIhe took
second McCornick's and stole third
O'Hara walked and stole second. and Devore scored
on Fletcher's ny. Fletcher having replaced Devlin
The Reds scored on Roth's double Dubuc's single
and an out IN the eighth inning. and added two
taes in the ninth period. Hoblitzeu the demon
hitter OF the day. added second three-bagger 10
his string. giving him ten bases three hits and
scored Lobert's single Lobert got around nv
stealing second and waiting for Downey To single
Roth struck out.
The score follows.
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