New-York tribune., 1909-07-14
GIANTS BEAT THE REDS
AMES DOES HIS PART.
Derlin Also Helps Along scith
-Four Timely DriUes.

Clarke Griffith and his Cincinnati Reds bearded
the Giants in their lair at the Polo Grounds yester
DAY and were beaten by q Of 70 4. Ames
pitched one Of his good games. and not only held
the visitors reasonably safe With nine hits to their
credit, but took leading part in the batting rally
ih the second inning when four runs were scored
shd the Giants obtained strong and commanding
'ead- The victory needed the Pittsburg
fFates which won four out of six games from the
Giants in tie last few days found easy picking over
III brooklyn. while the Chicago Cubs won two
games from Boston. The game needed FOR
another reason. Cincinnati has been travelling
at fast pace and is threatening the hold the
Giants have on third place
The thro1gs which forked 70 the grounds 70
the Pirates perform were not conspicuous yester
DAY, but good sized crowd some six thousand
persons turned out in the hope of getting a little
consolation and went home satisfied as tine Giants
mt the ball hard. Devlin in particular making
safe drives including double and triple.
Tenney began the game with clean two-bagger
against the left field fence and went down third
on Doyle's sacrifice. After Mccormick was out
a fly and Murray had gone 10 first on balls 2 dar-
ing double steal tried. but Tenney was caught
at the plate
The second inning more productive however,
After Cincinnati had been disposed Of O'Hara heat
out bunt by fast sprinting and took second
Devlns clean single third base. Both
ners advanced BridweIl's neat sacrifice and then
campbell. who was pitching for Cincinnati. pur-
posely gave Schlei base on balls preferrinE to
wait for Ames. Just to prove that ''the best laid
schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gey." Ames
stepped to the plate and smashed n clean drive
10 right field. scoring O'Hara and DevIn and send
ing Schlei to third, while the roared its ap
proval. Tenney then walked to first once more
hIng the bases and Schlei scored on Doyle's long
sacrifice fly to Oakes. Mccormick followed with
single over second base, scoring Ames but rally
ended when Murray flied out
To all inIents and purposes the game was won in
tba of
Giants the necessary confidence to go along
smoothly Cincinnati scored run in the third
inning on two hits and by Mccormick but
the Giants added two in their half After
Ames struck out, Tenney dropped a Texas Lacquer
back Of second base, and all the way 10 third
when DOwney fumhled Doyles grounder to short.
Doyle drew a throw to second, and while the Reds
were trying TO him down. and failing. by the
way. Tenney scored. Mccormick struck out. but
Murray drove single to right field and Doyle went
70 third In attempt to catch him mapping Nc
Lean made wild throw and the second baseman
scored.
There was more scoring in the fifth inning, tn.
Reds getting Loberts single and Downey's
slashing drive to right centre for circuit Of the
bases. 1t looked like batting rally visitors
when Bescher drove single to right field, but he
was out et second in trying to stretch the hit on
Murray's accurate throw 10 DovIe
Devlin led off in this inning for the Giants with
two-bagger, went down to third Bridwells sacri-
fee and scored the throW-fn OF SChlei's long Av
to Oakes in centre field.
O'Hara's pretty throw 10 third base on Mitcheu's
single caught Egan at third base in the sixth inning
and cut off run. s Hoblitze1 followed with a
safe drive to left. scoring Mitchell.
The Giants added one more run for good measure
in the eighth inning Murray's safe hit and Dew
Inns three-bagger TO The fence The latter tried 70
earn pair Of shoes by stretching his hit into
a home run, but caught the plate
The score follows: