New-York tribune., 1909-05-20
RUNS THICK AS PEAS
POD FULL FOR GIANTS.
Cincinnati Plays the CIo1Cn an Bur
les0ue on Baseball.

Some one said the other day that Il was pity
the Giants couldn't hit the ball So II Is. II tneS
had been able TO hit yesterday they might nave
been able 10 beat Cincinnati by worse score
than Is 70 s But, owing 10 their lementable weak
ness with thu bat. as a result OF which they were
able to make only sixteen safe drives. tneludlhg
home rln, a triple and five two-oaggers' tles
had To be content with that score. Mccormick
mas ,srrio1lIar1v weak As batter He was up i've
times got base on balls once, and four slhsleS-
Arv good hitter. q course. would have made some
extra base hits. under the circumstances bu'
small as the score was. il got the Giants out OF
last place, that position being occupied no" py
Boston
The real ability Of the Giants TO hit was shown
early in the game Dubuc started the pitching for
Cincinnati He started wei, for Egan threw ou'
Teuney. and Doyle lined into Dubucs hahoS- WIN
Two out Dubuc contemplatively passed Mcoor-
mick Murray singled. of course, that being his
habit and O'Hara got base on balls The bases
were fun and Devlin walked 10 The plate
Arthur evidently forgot that he Wac on team
thar cannot hit the ball for he drove one right
down the third base line. 1t was not a nice thing
for Kim 10 Do for. being Jhrd haseman himself
he must have known that Lobert couldn't field the
bah. Anyhow, il q clean tWo-eagger ana
ernptied the bases. Then came BTidweil. and ne
singled. sohlei was really vicious. and sent Bird
well home with = two-bagger. Wiltse tried TO go
ont but Ieu-nev made bad throw, and George
was safe. He stil bent on saving the scorers
7rouhle however so he tried 10 steal and Schlei
iran aT
had beer scored and the game slowed away
HrjdzyeH tried hard for AiitcheIl's scorchiHg hit
in the second inning but. although he stopped II.
he couldn't recover in time for The throw to first
So Mitchell got a HIT hut BT1dwen snuffed out
the next two men who came up on clever catches,
and Paszert struck out
The Giants were gentle in their half OF the
second inning and only scored once. On pass 10
Teuney. McCormick's first single and a wild pitch
Perhaps II was because DUbuc had retired and
1,-~a mas nnT
known here before yesterday. but he viii be Popu-
lar the next time he appears He held the Giants
nicely IL the third inning and they went out III
order
Then came the fourth when some more real hit
ing came in handy. and seven runs were scored
II happened Ike this. WilJse singled. and Hob
~ ne noon ca1t b59 savage Shocked his screamer
into Downey's hands and the runner vas out al
WIi1se scored Murray walked. and o,Hara beat
out an infeid hit and filled the bases DeVn uaea
10 clean Up again hut got hit himself on the m
TIst eff fbe bases fun but Bridwen could only
hit tHo-bagser. 1t sent three runs home, and
schlei got base on balls, Mclean went out to
talk earnestly to Savioee. while Schiei s walked
down 20 first. so Schei didn't wait there but start
Cd for second at GnCe- Savldse had the bal IN ms
hsrds and trieo to throw II 70 Alc1eah WINE ,f I & I
well raced for home But Mclean let the pan ron
10 the stand. 50 that Sehlei lad TO come home too
lhaL mace nc score r. 10 10 - y ~. ~ 5:is,1te II the
next inning Tenney smashed p home run to the
fence Doy1e doubled. Mccormick singled again
J}owney made an error and Fletcher. who went in
for De1lin. singled Then the score was i to o.
Witse tripeo in the seventh inning and scored
On O0zies ont after Tenney had walked MCCor-
mi-k followed Doyle with his fourth hit so that
Viltse would have scored anyway Ienney- got
tired after he his base in this inning and
asked Afc(Sraw send AIeTkle in for him, which
done
Srfaefer relieved Murray right field Ii WAS the
END Of savidge. too, for Cantwell finished the game
for the Reds.
V-iltse pitched q brilliant game while he was in
The box He lei the Reds down with hits one
Of which would have been an out i IridweIs good
ifs-enrlosls had fruit. and gave not single
baSe an balls lie and Durham both got good sup
port fine one-landed catch by Mccormick being
feature Schaefer made great catch of Roth :
fo1l in the seventh inning, and in the ninth Fletch-
r ailV electrified the few left IN the stands by
slnazing stop and stiu amazing throw Of
I5OagneE's
Durham allowed six hits and gave base on
balls one the hits WAS two-baEEer by Egan.
p1r II didlr make any difference, Of course, al
fbourh The Reds got consolation that three runs
coule give