New-York tribune., 1910-09-07
MURRAY HALF THE SHOW
Plays Leading Part with Bat as
Giants Beat Boston.
MAKES THREE SAFE DRIVES
CrandaIl Holds Visitors at Bay
While Red Hammers
Out the RU1-.

Ped" Murray helped along oS course
by Otis Crandau ard seven other New York
p!ayers, defeated the Boston Doves at TIC
Polo Grounds yesterday by . score Of TO 2
Murray was directly responsible for five %
the six runs scored by The Giants. with
three singing drives in as many times az
the bat He played only FIVE innings. too.
as McGraw decided TO give him The rest o,
the afternoon off as a just reward, per-
haps for his strong, offensive WORK
Becker took his place in right field az 'he
opening Of the sixth inning
While Murray was using his oat 50 eL-
fecrfveIy in producing runs FOR the cIla'llS
CrandaU did his part in promptly deIehulAs
the home plate from the assaults OF tflo
visitors by some clever pitching Crarda-
has proved particularly eHectlVe asdil'71
the Doves this year. and the ''go-to-the-
rescue pitcher Of the Giants had the Sans
faction Of playing through the whole game
with only his own burdens 20 carry As
happened. these burdens were not hard %
hear. as he held the visitors 70 six hts,
two Of which came together in the NINTH
inning. when. according 70 DevltH's oft re-
peated instructions. Let EN- nit ~ leo
him TO take things a bit easily
Na-tern was IN the box for the Boston
team. which. by the way, came over 20
New York a day early TO play of post
poned game He was found for eight sate
drives. quite enough 70 bring about MS de-
feat particularly as ne was rather 1ree
with bases on balls II was fairly inter-
esting game, but not lively one, although
II was played in quick time. as the players
were glad 70 ger out Of the sun whlcn vas
whiting in is intensity
The crowd was not clanoring at the gates
two hours before the game began. ana
scarcely more than ~ men and women
were loyal enough 10 go up 70 the grounds
70 welcome the Giants home after more
or less disastrous trip Perhaps the double
defeat in Brooklyn on Monday had some
thing 20 DO with it; perhaps the depressing
weather was the cause. or perhaps the
conflict with the Yankees. who were enter
tanning the near-pennant winners was re-
sponsible But, any way, the crowd was
wofully small
The Giants scored their first run IN The
second inning. Murray led OF with q clea-
two-bagger. took third on Br1dweus 5 sacrl-
fee and ronped home when Arthur Devlln
drove a clean single TO centre Held IL
looked as if they would score a1otner N
the third when. with Crandan out. Devore
slammed A three-bagger 70 right centre
The latter was OlL at Lilc DletAcs --oFN
in irving TO score on Doyle's little tap 20
Shean. The fourth inning was more pro-
d11ctivA. Once more Murray led of. this
time with a single to right He took second
on Brfdve1Fs sacrifice. and scored with
DeyIfn. who drew base on balls. when
Movers drove a timely single 70 left field
Three runs followed in the fifth inning
This time Devore led of with his second
safe hit while Snodgrass got a free pass
after DOYLE had flied out Murray then
came to the front again and drove in two
runs with a slashing tvo-bagger- Mattern
gor himself in a bad hole by letting Brid-
well and DevIin walk 10 first BridweH was
caught at second on a double steal IN
which Murray reached third safely and
the latter scored moment later on another
double steal, as Shean juggled smith 5
throw down TO second 70 catch Devlin. ard
consequently could not return the ball N
time 10 head of Murray
BOSTON scored one run in the fourth inning
on an error by Doyle. Shean's hit and an
ont The other came in the last inning on
Herzogs two-bagger and another single by
Shean
Smith led of with a safe drive at the
opening OF the eighth inning. but was
forced at second by Mattern- Collins then
stepped I'D. but a fast double play, in which
Crandau, Doyle and Nerkle took part,
ended what looked like an incipient rally
The score follows