New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
DRUCKE REGA|NS FORM
Victory of Giants Over Reds
Largely Due to His Work.
1T TAKES ELEVEN INNINGS
Polo Grounds Men Weld Hickory
and Ash Tellingly-Doyle the
Particular Star.

It took the Giants eleven innings Of sharp.
aggressive playing, both at the bat AMI
in the field, to beat out the Cincinnati Red,
at tho Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon
bur the long drawn out battle made tht
victory all the more glorious in the end
Runs for both sides dribbled across the
plate at infreQuent intervals. and when the
tally was made at the end Of the ninth
the teams were even. with two runs apiece
IN the eleventh Beals Becker batting for
Big Chief" Meyers, drove out long sac
rifce fly into centre field that let Murray
dash home with the winning run and gave
the game to the Giants by score of TO Z
Credit for the victory should be given IN
full measure to Louis Drucke. the young
Texan pitcher. who performed with YET
eraE-ike calm IN the box Drucke's return
II form was one OF the brightest features
OF the game. He showed his ability to pun
himself out Of tight places. ard when HIS
team. mates saw the cut and dried way IN
which he cut down batter after batter they
played with an added incentive He was
hit altogether six times. but four Of these
came in the second inning, and until that
fatefuI session had run It's course the
Texans stay in the box zFas somewhat in
doubt In that inning the Reds squeezed
one run across the plate. Drucke at one
time had the bases filed, with none down.
but he caught sharp line drive OF Phe-
lan's bat and shot the ball to Devlin,
doubling up Paskert, who had taken a big
lead off third. After that the young twirler
had the game all his own way.
While Drucke was holding Clark Grinth's
crew in check, the Giants were doing yeo-
man service with their own war clubs.
They did not find Gaspar very often but
whenever they did lay into the Cincinnati
twiriers delivery they made everything
they got count.
Larry Doyle covered himself with
glcry, both on the field and at the bat
He made three safe hits In five times az
bat. and the other two times only splendid
fielding by Paskert and Mitchell prevented
him from getting his base in safety Fred
Snodgrass almost kept pace with Doyle in
his batting, garnering two singles and
base on balls IN his five times up
The star catch Of the day was made By
Paskert In the fifth inning. when he pulled
down a long high fly by Josh" Devore-
The Cincinnati fielder had TO run way
back into deep centre and Just nabbad the
ball as IT sailed over his head He was
cEeeTS0 10 the eClO lot LilS C6I~44
kert's throw in the third cut of poten-
tiaI New York run. when he grabbed
m Gaspar's wild heave to get Drucke an
second and shot the ball in TO Phelan IN
time to get the Giants pitcher by hair
at third.
The fielding tactics Of the local players
were all that could have been desired in
the first inning, and they connected with
Dnt-Ie enFriTO his
first hit In this session Drucke's rnornen-
-arv lapse in the second was soon forgotten.
although everybody. from the manager
down 10 the boy in a treetop on Coogan's
Bluff, had temporary paralysis Paskert
was a leading trouble maker. FOR he got
nice single in one of the first balls pitched
Dr,1cke intensified the uneasiness by walk
ing big Larry Mclean. and moment later
Dovvnev laid down a hit that filed the bags
Then came PheIan's drive and It's clever
by Drucke- With two gone
things looked a bit easier. but Gaspar IN
expectedly hit the ball and was SAFE
Boscher hit an easy grounder 20 BTidweH
and under ordinary circumstances Mclean
who was on third. would have been caught
at the plate but the Ianky catcher had
tremendous lead. and only had TO take
step 70 score. Bridwells throw caught
DOwney at the plate -
The Giants waited an inning before com
ing back Drucke started the ball a-rolling
by dropping a hit back OF second base a1ter
Movers had flied out DevOre drove the
horsehide at the pitcher and Gaspar, taken
uuawares, tossed the ball 70 centre held
where Paskert got it and caught Drucke az
third DevOre by this time was on second
and scored on DOyle'S SlaShlnS drive Al
though SnodgraSs followed with nit anu
Murray had a base on balls. Bridwen failed
in the pinch
There was no more scoring until the
eighth when MCCTraw'S clan got their sec
ond run on successive singles by SnOdSraSS
and Murray and a sacrifice fly by BridwelL
With D-ucke going so well the game
seemed all but won. But in the ninth the
unexpected happened in the form OF a triple
by Mitchell, his first hit OF the day. and a
sacrifice fly by PaSkert. That hit knocked
everything askew and the task OF winning
had 10 be begun all over again
Drucke passed up the Reds in easy fash
ion in the tenth and eleventh In the last
part of that session q base on balls TO MIR
ray and a scratch hit by Bridwe1 started
things Devlin sacrificed and then GaSpar
made the grievOus mistake Of passing
Merkle, hoping 10 get an easy mark IN
Meyers. MCCfraw showed his strategy ov
putting Becker in Cor the Indian. and
Becker drove out fly that won the game
The score follows,
NEW YORK CINCINNATI
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