New-York tribune., 1910-06-08
GIANTS MISS A CHANCE
Fail to Take Lead in kegleCting
to Beat st. Louis.
WILLIS STANDS IN WAY
Goes to Rescue of Lush and Puts
an End to Ninth Inning
Rally.

II took Vic Willis. the old Pittsburs
PITCHER, TO e1ectuslly sauelch a ninth In
ming rally Of the Giants st the Polo
Grounds yesterday afternoon. and the St
Louis Cardinals won by g score Of 10 T.
Only one run was needed to tie up the
game and put New York in first place, but
willis was equal to the occasion.
After Wilson had opened the inning with
8 single Lush was called to the bench in
Favor of willis. while Becker went to
bat for wiltse, who pitched the last two
innings for New York. and McGraw sent
Devore in to run for Wilson. At the first
crack out Of the box Devore died ct second
on a close decision I'm attempting 10 STEAL
and Becker smashed out a grounder which
Konetchy had no difficulty in handling. All
was not over. however. Snodgrass drew a
mass and succeeded in stealing second, and
DOYLE also walked. Willis pinned his faith
on striking out Murray. While he did not
succeed in this the willy veteran kept his
head and Murray's infield grounder to
Moprey forced Snodgrass al third and
ended the struggle.
Bugs" Raymond was on the mound for
the Giants in the first seven innings and
pitched q fairly strong but somewhat
uncertain game. His curves seemed TO be
breaking all right at times, and the visitors
never succeeded in punching more than two
hits in an inning off his delivery. But an
error here and a pass there, with a hit now
and then. allowed the Cardinals TO score
five runs. A hit batsman. q single and
pass filled the bases IN the second after one
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of the hole in good style. He was equally
effective in the fifth and sixth. when he
retired the visitors with runners on the
bags.
Raymond did his part, too. with the bat
and scored three runs by his timely hitting,
q double TO left field tallying two in the
second inning and a single sending Deviin
across the plate in the fourth. When
Meyers went in as a pinch hitter in the
seventh wiltse took up the burden in the
box. II was his first game since the injury
which he received at Pittsburg, and he was
q trihe wild. Although he got himself In a
hole with a couple OF passes in the ninth.
he pulled out safely.
Bridwel cut dashing figure at short
making a clever catch Of Hugginss fly in
the first inning as well as recovering
Jush's srounder. which had slipped
through Raymond in time to head Of the
runner in the fourth. Murray made a
wonderful throw TO Devlin in the third TO
catch Konetchy on 9 sacrifice fly by Evans.
but the ball was a trihe too late.
The Giants had little difficulty with Lush
in the first four innings. collecting bunch
OF six hits. good for four runs But the
southpaw tightened up and only allowed
two hits for the rest of the game. The
singles by Phelps and Lush. but the Giants
came beck with two runs in their half.
With two out Lush made wild throw Of
Merkle's Erounder. and the runner was
safe. Wilson drew q pass. and Raymond
slammed the first hall pitched TO the left
field fence for two bases and brought both
home
ST. Louis tailed two more runs I'm the
next inning and again took the lead. Oakes
walked and stole second, scoring on Ko-
netchy's double. Evans's sacrifice fly put
the latter on third, and he scored when
Phelps drove a fast grounder to Bridwell.
The Giants were good for two more in
the fourth inning. Devlin smashing a
single TO centre field and being safe on
second when Huggins fumbIed Mowrey's
throw Of Merkle's grounder. Wilson ad-
vanced both runners with sacrifice Dew
ling scoring on Raymond's single and
Merkle crossing the plate when Snodgrass
forced Raymond at second with q grounder
to Hauser.
The Cardinals tied the score in the fifth
inning. Ellis singled and Oakes walked,
konetchy advancing both with sacrifice
Raymond hit Evans and flied the bases.
Doyle fumbled Phelps's easy little grounder
and Ellis scored Hauser then dumped the
ball in front of the plate, forcing Cakes at
the plate and being doubled up at first him
self when Wilson threw 10 Merkie
The winning run was Tailed in the sixth
Inning With two out, Higgins singled
stole second and crossed the plate on EIlis's
double.
The score follows.