New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-16
EASY GOING FOR GIANTS
Defeat the Cardinals by a Mar
gin Of Four Runs.
CIRCUIT DRIVE BY MERKlE
prucke None Too Effective, but
Pitches His Team to
Victory.

rHttIs resistance 70 the onward sweep OF
IRE Giants was offered by the 81. Louis
Cardinals in the second game OF the series
on the hilton yesterday afternoon. and New
York decisively defeated It's opponents by
scora IF 10 10 s. IL was q slow game, ana
While the fielding was clean. the leisureiy
work Of -he two twiriers helped 10 draS
the contest along.
Although the Cardinals tied the score
twice early in the fray. the Giants Kept
forging ahead by piecemeal. and always
rad a fair lead after each inning closed.
McGraw's men scored at least one run IN
everv frame except the third and eighth
Not once during the game were they re-
Tired in order. and had they squeezed the
nsx,rnun, OF runs out of the many oppor-
t,n,,,es 10 tally which were presented they
would have rolled up huge total
Golden appeared on the mound for Roger
presnehsn, and in his seven innings OF
lshor rave nine bases on balls and was
,orns for eleven hits These included
home YIN 20 the centre field bleachers by
r-.s Nartle. IN the second inning. and
ao,,h,,s by Bridwell and Murray. Josh Dc
v1re end De,1in were the only ones VINO
,s,,s5 n hit safelv. Josh drew four passes
IN
lin .acr1Aced twice Even Louis Drucke hit
safely IN the eighth and fletcher' WIZ
tool DevIin's place. rsttened his average
With a hit IN the ninth. Snodsrass' MurraS
and Meyers got two apiece
Iouis Drucke OBLIGATED in the box for
New York. and. while he was hit hard. me
eefetiee were ~ we'll scattered tnat tney
r,ved noor run setters While the car
,rl1 .,x runs Rv contrast. the Giants,
with twelve hits. Tailed ten runs LOUIS
uss guilty Of a balk, hitting two batsmen
end giving three bases on balls. He s'ruVH
out four batsmel, among them the hero-
hitting Konetchy. The brilliant nrst pase'
man got two doubles a single and pass
however. on his other trips 70 the pla'e.
Roger Bresnahsn was the other big olouter'
with three singles, only one Of which waa
clean.
Those .hstty littln inAelders Hugeins and
Eausar we're indust1ously occupied
Throughout the afternoon, and Kept the
runners who reached second base on the
lump every minute. Higgins accepted
eight chances without a flaw while Hauser
took as many. but had one error chalked
I'D AGAINST him. Nowrey also played me
brand OF ball at third base. TIE Giants
WOULD have been credited with an erroriess
rame had not Josh Devore been little
too confident IN handling Mowrey's ny N
IN. sixth and let II drop. Both Bridweil and
DoyJe were in top form handling SIX
chances apiece perfectly and pulling off a
sparkling double play. in conjunction with
Merkle. in the FIRST inning.
Larry DOYLE and Snodgraes worked
double steal in the third inning on their old
friend, Bresnshan. While Devore pifered a
bag neatly IN the sixth. By contrast, Bird
we'll did a heady bit OF work IN the hth
when the Cardinals essayed a double steal
catching KonetchY at the plate TOT inc
third ont and retiring the side.
The two teams played on fairly over
"a. >.r.ns ior the first FIVE innings. ST Louie
forged anead, with two tallies. tN dint o'
an error ard three singles I'm the sixth. the
Giants. however. made good use OF two
tasees and two doubles I'm the last half OF
the same inning. scoring three runs and
added three more when they batted around
m the seventh. two passes. three singies
snd an error helping 10 turn the trick.
Elis's triple and Konetchys double. with
tuo out in the ninth gave the Cardinals
another run.