New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-18
@bUGS" GIVES GAME AWAY |
So Kind to Pirates That Giants
Suffer Defeat.
DRUCkE'S EFFORTS WASTED
Change Of Pitchers in Ninth,
with Score at 3 to 2, Ends
Disastrously.

! Bugs Raymond allowed his emotions to
get the better Of him at the Polo Grounds
Yesterday afternoon and he presented the
Pirates with victory by score of TO 8.
| a learned authority advocates sentiment
without sentimentality, and the trouble
with Raymond was that his sympathy for
| the visitors verged on the sentimental
when he the Giants in a whirlwin6
game heartlessly robbing the Pirates of
runs by brilliant fielding. Consequently
when he entered the bog ne decided TO give
them run for their money and ended I'D
| by giving them several
me Pirates actually earned one run but
they came TO the conclusion that they
didnt need to earn them when thew were
handed out on silver platter with the
Injunction 70 take them or leave them
they took six and passed up the rest. The
score was TO al the opening of the
ninth inning. in favor Of the Giants \
slhgle and a pass put Gibson and Nc
hechnie' the first two men up on the
oases McGraw then called Drueke out of
the box and sent for RAYMOND
! Bugs proceeded TO set all the sl~zy
rockets off at once. He touched off the red
me- with the first hail he pitched. throwing
u over Aeyers's head, SO that Abbaticchto
]
and McKeehnie vent to second. He gave
| an illuminated pi.awheel effect when he hs+
Campbell and filed the bases. The rest OF
the team were pulling strong behind hin,
stu, however, and when Leach grounded
70 FLETCHER Ahbaticchio was forced At the
plate Byrne sent 4 sacrifice Av to Seymour
eEad McKechnte crossed the plate with the
run which tied the score
Raynond's big set piece was thing Of
beauty and 2. 10y forever Hans Wagner
AFTER swinging hard AZ tie ball. knocked =
NUS grounder into Raymond's hands The
lsEter made z throw to Nerkle which Hal
Ihase himself couldn't have touched. and
Cdh2pbeH and Leach cavorted across the
pate The sentimentelitv which SO i'm
nueo RAYMOND was evidently contsg io,ys
IS MEYERS caught it and determined 70
snare in the charity He threw n sa,--
nour to catch Wagner stealing secon5 AND
ms runner got TO third. The Pirates wore
YET TO get hit while all this was going
on oot single was Just about dine and
Miller was the man TO send the bs1I 70
centre field, bringing Wagner home.
Bugs was by no means az the end ~
MS resources. and he hit HYATT and a.
lowed wilson single, filing the haeez
again Abbattcchio came I'D to the hat
again in the due course Of events and
smashed wicked hit, marked for : single
at Merkle. The latter. however. was AonaI
TO the emergency and made hesuttf,,}
stop, retiring the side
II was unfortunate that McGraw did not
alloW Drucke 20 STAY in the box during
that last inning. He could hardly have
done worse than Raymond. His previous
record was enough to convince any one
! that the Pirates would have been lucky to
get away with run. Three times the
youthful twir1er pulled out of bad holes.
many of his own making as he gave five
passes and hit ore batsman. hut none NJ
these scored Twice he struck out Hans
Wagner with men on the bags In the first
! inning Byrne singled and stole second. but
Hans struck out, retiring the side, while in
the third Leach and Byrne both walked,
Easy grounders answered for Wagner at
! the other two times he was up while
| Drucke was in the box, and he didn't see
! first until Raymond made his error
Drucke held the Pirates to one hit for
six innings The brilliant fielding Of De-
| wore and Murray, however, helped him i'm
| measure bly, and was the sensation of the
game. Devore jumped for Hyatts long
drive in the second and pulled it down with
! one hand Just as the ball passed over his
/ head. while Murrays leap for Miller s
drive in the fourth, which resulted in a
one-handed catch, nothing short OF
wonderful. Seymour, too, was a star in
! oUtfeld circles, d fine throw to the plate
of Campbell's single catching Wilson.
The Giants pounded Babe Adams for
! nine solid drives. In the sixth Devore led
off with a double to centre field and scored
! on Murray's single to right Devlin walked
in the seventh. took second on Merkle's
out and scored on Meyers's single. Devorc
then tripled after Drucke grounded out
and brought Meyers home.
Pittsburg scored the first run in the third
| when Campbell walked and went ali the
way home on Meyerss throw to catch hin
| stealing. Seymour fumbIing the ball. Sin
giles by Byrne and Hyatt answered for the
only earned run in the eighth.
The score follows: