New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-22
GIANTS WIN IN TENTH
FIetCher'S Scratch Hit Through
Tinker Defeats the Cubs.
MARQUARD AGAIN ON TOP
Gets the Honors in a Bitter
Battle with Richie, New
York's Arch Enemy.

Getting off to a flying start in the all
important series against the league-leading
Chicago Cubs. the Giants climbed within
five points OF the pinnacle by nosing out a
tenth-inning victory over the Bruins at the
Polo Grounds yesterday. The score was 3
TO 2. A hit, the scratchiest OF the scratchy
kind, rang off the bat Of Arthur Fletcher
after two were out and the shades Of night
were rapidly falling over the grounds Joe
Tinker did the unexpected and played the
ball poorly, letting Beals Becker score from
third with the winning run.
Becker opened the tenth In an suspicious
manner by hitting one TO Zimmerman and
beating the throw by a step. Richie added
to his own downfall by pulling barry"
ION Merke's sacrifice hunt and throwing
Fred out at first, when he could have
caught Becker by ton feet at second. Dew
lin rolled one along the first base line, and
was out, while Beals took third The stand
was in frenzy when Fletcher strobe to
the plate. With two strikes on him, Ar
thur drbhled past the box and Joe Tinker
swooped down on the hit He overran the
ball, however, and before he could recover
Becker had crossed the plate, and Fletcher
had already touched first and was on his
way 10 the clubhouse.
Snodgrass was hit with the ball as a
starter I'm the fourth inning, and took sec
ond when Becker was passed. When Mer-
kle beat out hit to the pitcher the bases
were crowded, and the fans implored
Devln for one Of the oldtime hits that
helped the Giants to two pennants and a
Fletcher laced a wicked one at Jimmy
Doyle, whose perfect throw to the plate
forced SnOdgrass Meyers smashed
grounder through the box that Tinker by
a most remarkable stop managed TO in
tercept, although he tumbled down in the
effort Becker scored from third, but Mer-
kle, when he tried to tally from second.
was run down on the lines
Recovering from a very wabbly start.
"Rube" Marquard pitched a brilliant game,
and after the fourth frame he had the
Bruins eating out Of his hand. Half a
dozen hits were made from his port side
delivery, and four of these were punched In
the third and fourth innings, when the
Grizzlies did all their scoring He passed
three men, but rose I'm his might and
famed ten with ease and dispatch. A sem
sational running catch by Becker OF
Archer's fly in the third inning prevented
trouble for Marquard. The drive looked
good for two bases at least and was fol-
lowed by hits by Richie and Schultz and q
base on balls 10 Sheckard A rafting
double play by Meyers and Devlin, when
Tinker famed and Sheckard tried 10 steal
third aided greatly in the rescue.
After disposlng Of his men in the first
and second innings Marquard wavered IN
the third Becker got Archer's drive after
a hard sprint down 10 the foul line, but
Richie beat out a hit to Vanguard. Sheck-
ard was passed, and on a perfectly execut-
ed hit and run play Schultz poed out a
single 10 centre field on which Richie
scored easily. but Sheckard stopped at
second As Tinker famed Jimmy tried for
third and Chief Meyers threw him out 10
Devlin by five feet
Camping on the trail OF Marquard, Ztm-
norman beat out a hit TO Fletcher In the
fourth. He moved along to second base
when Jimmy Doyle sacrificed TO Marquard'
and when Circus" Solly Hoffman laced q
hit to right field the Bronx boy raced
home Solly was forced at second on "a
grounder to the box by Safer, and Archer
ended inc frame wien hc 4'N '''~ ~
Herzog.
The Giants tied the score in the slxth
inning. Devln coaxed a pass from Rlchle
and went third when Fletcher doubled
{ 10 left field. Up in the air went the CUP
twirler, and he uncorked beautiful WIG
pitch, on which Devlin scored with ease
and Fletcher took third. Arthur was
pinned on the bag while Meyers was
thrown out at first, and when he tried to
score on Marquards grounder to short
tinker heat him out by a perfect throw TO
Archer.
From that point until the tenth INNING
the game was a pretty battle between the
pitchers, but Richie waVered enough io'
New York TO win.