New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-10
aG|ANTS WIN THE THIRD
CAPTURE Odd Game in Series with
PittSburg Pirates.
.MATTY HOLDS HIGH HAND
Peerless One Is Invincible, While
Leifeld Tries to Repeat
and Fails.

Pittsburg. June e-The pugnaclous OAHU
of New York Giants frightened their hoiu o''
arst place by soundly trounclng the r-'.'
burg Pirates in the final game OF the se'i.'
pIayed here to-day. The score was W o.
The Giants outsugged the Pirates anu
once in the lead were never headed IL was
Tho second time the New York nine nas
csntured the odd game of a series, the rec
ord standing SIX Victories 20 two deleaVs
with the Pirates
deem blue gloom that rivaileo inc
.yokv bue ~ the city crept over the cro"o
:, so,,o cocoon thousand fans" when the
.tento-ian tones Of the umpire announced
that the mighty Christy Mathewson was
20 mitch for the Giants The big fellow mas
always paid special attention 70 the van
ou,sh.nc az jhe Pirates. and the 1ac' una
This was 10 he The final game added some
zest 60 hs .ahorS
Natbeveor was hit rather freely the
Pirate rakius him over the Goals Tor elsi.
.afetios including home run by FREQ
Clark which hanpened in the seventh lnh-
inc with ono ou the bases. The MI was
really q double NJ tho most. but ShooSIaSN
fell down m helding the ball ana the
srhera rolled to tho fence. In the pincHes
howeyer. the big fellow shoro forth WIN
au his hrilliancy. and although he passed.
three men. and his team mates MADE
brace Of errors nine Pirates were Ie1t on
the bags Rot content with twirilnS IN
peerless STYLE. M1tty accepted SeNe"
chances in faWieSS style.
The arch enemy Of tho Giants. Lefty
Jejfeld. twirled for the Pirates. but 1t was
not the dav for The southpaw Blenders the
Giants found him for 3 bakers dozen oil
safet,es which were good for seventeen
fascs Fred Snod~rass ard NNrk,e each
made a double. while little Josh pevore
vhacksd ont a lusty triple which scored
two runs.
The game was fast and snappy' Mil!er
tossed in the only other error OF the Sloe'
but made amends ~ taking care Of hali
dozen hard chances Fred Merlle played
leading par IN the fight. and the big feiioW
had eleven opportunities 20 show his worth
The batting honors We're divided between
Snodgrass. who made three hits. Devore'
Wilson, Devlin. Carey and Clarke. all OF
whom secured a brace of safeties
Although the Giants had men on the
Maths in the first two innings they neg
Iected 20 tally until the fourth. Larry
Doyle worked Leiheld for pass 70 the
lines and took the ar turn when Snodgrass
met fast curve for two bases 'Red
Murray smashed one high and far. but
Clarke raced back and caught IT, Doyle
scored easily, while Snow captured third
The next two men were unequal to the
emergency. however. and Snodsrass died on
Inc paths. -
A slashing rally gave the Giants two
more m the following frame. DeVnf
opened by hitting 10 centre. and although
Arthur Wilson famed ont with great en-
1husiasm. Matty singled 70 right and Devlln
took third. The moment had come. ana
Devore Won his spurs by driving out mp
pine triple to distant left. bringing Mathew
son and Devlin home. Singles by Wilson,
1ovle and Snodgrass gave the Giants the
game in the seventh inning. Matty eased
Gown a little toward the END, but the n
rates we're not able to overcome the lead;
Movers was put out of the game IN the
third inning for disputing a decision.
Th- score follows.