New-York tribune., 1909-05-26
GIANTS BEAT ST. LOUIS
ONE RUN QUITE ENOUGH.
Murrag's HIT ard Her@og's Daring
Slide Bring Victory.

r5arsor. who went in 20 play left field in place OF
Mccormick bea: ST. Louis for the Giants yester-
<lav. by a wonderful slide to The plate under bIes-
uahan scoring the only of the game from hrsl
gsase on Nurray-s singing double down the lel-
field foul line Bresnahan had the bail as her-os
started his slide hut never had chance 10 touch
aim All this happened in the first inning ana IoF
the res. Of the game there was a nip ana LUCK od'
lie between Bugs Raymond and Saliee-
Raymond pitched a great game for New YORK
F5e struck out nine men. and capped the climax n
the eighth inning by fooling Roger b'esEdiiaIi u,
three balls that the plate. with me pases I'M
Sallee proved himself something OF : Pl'o".- P,a
ar,errencies too notably III the fifth inning "neh
sscblai and RAYMOND singled. with ncne out -
wonderful catch. however, of Tenney vicious nnei
TO right by Konetchy helped 10 save MIN tien'
Konetcby would have had double play on nay
,,ond II any one had been covering second out hao
= ,5-n- 81 .lird and Schlei had time TO get back
10 that bag before the ball reached ByTne- 1henl
movie tanned an easy grounder 10 Huls|itt' VINO
caught Schlei at The plate, and Herzog popped u
Koneichy. 10.
.,,e only nniscues being made by Doyle and huis-
witt Neither was costly, though Doyles nisHt
have beer if Raymond hadn't pulled hi1nseIl S 01'
of = had hole in the tumultuous eighth IliIe'
There was not so big crowd as on MONDAY Oi
hand TO watch the game, but those VINO were uNl
80 Faresnahan a welcome when he came up Ao'
the first time in the first inning. Win wv - =.
Roger waltzed out TO meet the ball. an oio ~ IN -,
his thar he has taught his team, aI1o oluleo tS
,,on6 into giving him his base on balls. one ol u
-. ,.-ra5 70 The New York pitcher in the whole
game RAYMOND got Konetchy easily lo"e' -
snd the Giants went in and won the game 3s -
turned out -, +o, and
.bro,r in New York's half. and Doyle "3IAeu
zys-zo. rr,+ a roaring welcome when ne "en' -
r,s+ hut the best he could do was TO 1orce DoS
second His speed. however saved d uou -
The st Louis outfielders moved away oul 104 -
TTa-T01TC
ray and Jack fooled them by slaInIii,Ns It'll,
,sovn mast third base Ellis got the ban QuloA-'
-z made q perfect throw to Bresnahan' ou' NJ
s+Cber could have touched the diving Herzos' ai'u
the game was won -. --,n
There were number Of times Nhel nc -
be,a, m look small however. Shaw singled WIN
- owe ont IN the fourth inning, and went rignl
sou-n 70 second on the hit-and-run play Ivy
raced over TO take throw. and BIeSiahaI - -
the hall into right field just over the spot L"1-
bad le,t Konetchy hit TO Doyle, who held the oai'
-, ao-,.b 70 hold Shaw on third and then go'
r. ba,ter .. first Evans also sent gTouhoer IL
0cz,le and Shaw in trying 10 score was cdueN' q
+he Mate Ellis then drove one 10 Brlo"e"' WV
,,,,,gbt I7resnafan at third for the last out
RAYMOND who tries hard TO help ms team o"'
-, -,-u9a5 IN the seventh, with two down, but
Tenpev fled 20 Evans Murray got another W.
barEer in the eighth inning, but no one couio Orie
him home ,..A
The real sauaT Of the game broke IN the elghln
,r,,np with the Cardinals batting. but the sun ol
-e-5s ,,,o5 rirb1 arm emerged from the clouds
IN time First Of ALL Doyle made mess OF
Charles's grounder. after a good stop ana ana ~ t1ut
-i,+,e timely single put him on third with none
ont the situation looked serious but hayHloha
sel5ea Sallee's BUM 10 first and struck out bS'h'
A e,oar vert up when Raymond passed shaw MI
in the bases But even though it was the nlgnS
B-esnaEan who came UP, the Dig piicheF was hOt
worried and promptly struck him out
Roger never even struck at the ball Inc HIs'
,,ne was plain strike. Then came three balls IN
succession and the fourth Bresnahan lhIe"
his bat away and started to walk He dlo the same
80, ~, the rer+ and then kicked so hard when
the rlpire SAID Strike threet that most Of those
IN the stands thought he had been put out Of the
psn,e. It was close call for the Giants.
The score follows: