New-York tribune., 1909-07-20
GIANTS LOSE, THEN WIN
ERROR By TENNEY FATAL.
st. Louis Wins on Mufed Ball an
,Sirteen-InniRg Battle.

,Tl,e C;ianfs beat St Louis at the Polo Grounds
YESTERDAY by a score Of 3 TO @. as the shades of
evening were descending, and the victory came as
much needed salve for the loss Of great sixteen
inning battle which took up most Of the afternoon
Under ordinary conditions much would be made
Of the victory and little OF the defeat but under
the circumstances the first game was so outstand-
fnsy the feature that the fans found little else
10 talk about last night The score Of that first
game was 20 3. and, as i'll luck would have it, ST.
Louis scored the winning run on an error by the
reliable Tenney. who dropped hastily thrown
ball for the third out
II s not altogether fair perhaps to blame Ten
ney for the loss OF the game, as the Giants had
plenty OF chances 10 win with hit OF almost any
old kind. The much needed pinch drive, however.
was always lacking. and the game was lost that
in the opinion of nine out of Of those present
should have gone TO the credit Of the Giants.
Raymond pitched the full sixteen innings for
New York. and quite held his with Harmon,
who alse went the full distance for St. Louis but
the former was directly responsible for the first
run scored by the visitors the fourth inning, on
a wild pitch. Outside of this. he as steady as
q rock and held ST. Louis nine hits Harmon.
recently Of the Shreveport team Of the Texas
League, was more or less OF puzzle tc all the
Giants except Mccormick and Doyle. and was par
ticularly strong al critical times when hit would
have broken w the game. Early in the struggle
looked If 2he Giants would have no difficulty
solving his delivery. but he tightened up after
To begin with. Harry Mccormick, with two out
in New York's half Of the first inning. duplicated
his great drive Of Saturday, and sent the ball
sizzling 10 the fence in centre field for the fu cir
cuis of the bases Nothing much happened in the
second inning. but the Giants came back in the
third with runs and the fans sat back
quite satisfied that everything running smooth
ly In this inning Schle drew base on balls,
but was forced al second by Tenney, after Ray
mond had flied out Doyle came along, however
with a three-bagger. sending Tenney across the
plate, and scored himself 2 moment later wheh
Mccormick made his second safe drive, a clean
single 10 centre. The rally was over when Nc
Cornick tried to steal second and was an easy out
81. Louis scored one run in the fourth inning in
this wise: Derlin made q remarkable stop of hot
Frounder off Byrne's bat but did not have time 10
get properly set the throw. and the runner vas
safe Byrne was forced at second when Ellis drove
6oander 10 Doyle, but Phelps came along with
-bagger that sent Ellis to third, and the last
named scored wild pitch by Raymond There
was only at the time, but Raymond re-
deemed himself by knocking down Konetchys hot
drive and trapping Phelps between third and home
Bresnal4an objected so strenuously to the decision
on this play that he was ordered off the coaching
lines Evans then made the third out on q fly TO
Mccormick
The seventh inning decidedly unlucby for the
Giants as St Louis tied the score konetchy LED
OF with single. but was forced at second on
Rridvrelrs good stop OF hard hit ball by Evans
Ieiahanty then paved the way for ultimate victory
for his team by smashing the ball into the left
field bleachers for a home run, scoring Evans be
fore him
From that point TO the sixteenth inning neither
side could score and the fight wsged steadily and
aercely. Raymond did his best TO win his own
game in New ToTks half Of the seventh inning by
arlving cut a three-base hit TWO were out at the
time however and Tennev's liner went straight 20
the hands Of Evans. Aonther chance came in the
twelfth inning when Schlei had opened with two
bagger 20 left field He was caught at third how
e-er cl Raymond's bun,. and after Tenney had
walked DOYLE and Mccormick each had chance
20 drive in the winning run, but failed
Again, in the thirteenth inning, O'4IaTa and Dew
i.s were On the bases thanks to free passes. with
only one out. bIt Bridwel and Schlei failed TO
er the necessary pinch hit In the fifteenth inning
Ielelanty robbed Murray Of a possible home run
with q pretty catch in deep centre and then came
the sixteenth and victory for st Louis
Konetchy was hit in the back and went down 10
second. after Evans had flied out TO Doyle as
Delehanty thrown out at first Hulswitt then
Gent bounder. which got away from Raymond
Doyle recovered the ball time catch the runner
at first, Ut Tenney mufed the throw and Konetchy
scored the winning run. The Giants were retired
in one two three order in their last time at bat
Il was almost dinner time when the second game
began but most OF the ten thousand persons pres
eBt stayed TO the tired Giants take the field
once more and beat the exhausted Cardinals by a
score OF 8 to 0. The game was called at the end
of the seventh inning for ST. Louis, as gloom was
settling ever Coogan's Bluff
Aznes pitched one Of his brilliant games for New
York and not only held the visitors to three hits
but struck cut eight the innings four
being in succession. Just TO help along. the Giants
found little trouble IN hitting Bschman. making
eleven safe drives in six innings, three Of which
went TO the credit OF Bridwe-
The Giants scored in the second inning
after Byrae after brilliant double play, unassisted,
failed easy triple play by bad throw.
Murray and OHara singled and Devlin followed
with hard drive, which Byrne pulled down with
great jumping catch. He touched third, doubling
Up Murray, but threw the bah Charles's head
in trying for triple play Bridwell then scored
O'Harz with single.
4 two-bagger by Deviin and another single by 1
Bridwen gave the Giants another in the fourth
inning. and they added one more in the sixth for
good measure
The scores follow: