New-York tribune., 1912-08-16
CUBS DOWN GIANTS
IN ROARING BATTLE
Marquard Routed by Chicago
Forces, Who Score Five Runs
in Fifth Frame.
RICHIE SAME OLD JlNx
Thirty Thousand Fans Cram
2ield to See First Struggle
in Series Between Two
Bitter Rivals.


fBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune
Chicago. Aug 15.-The New York
Giants began their final invasion OF the
West for tho season 1912 disastrously to-
day when they were beaten back by the
Cubs In n seething game by a score OF
to !. Rube Marquard, upon whom the
champions counted for so much, failed
them at the crisis. and tonight they
stand only five games ahead of the Cubs
in the percentage column--a lead that by
no means assures them an easy time in
the next two months before the curtain
is drawn on the pennant fight
one of the largest crowds that ever
jammed into the West Side Park pushed
and mauled into the field long before the
game began. Only when the Cubs have
been engaged in q worlds series nave
there been 40 many persons on hand as
were there to-day. II seemed as II the
entire populace forgot all about business
and bodily marched out to the ball
grounds to see the Giants slipsback an
other peg. Thirty thousand was con-
servative estimate of the number who
saw the contest.
II was a game that sparkled with sem
sational work at every angle. Each team
strove with its utmost strength to break
down the other, and II was the Giants
that gave way under the strain. For
four innings Marquard had held the Cubs
off, seemingly gaining strength with
every ball ne pitched. Lew Richie, for
Tf,,1Na oef al
smart fielding by his mates had saved
him from what seemed inevitable disaster
IN the second frame. That danger passed.
however, Richie never let tho Giants set
away from him again.
Marquard, on the other hand tOttered
and then weakened shamefully in the
fifth. There were two out when the hnai
blowout came, and despite all the big
New York pitcher could do he was
powerless TO stop the batting onslaught
of the Cubs, who tore into his delivery
with a viciousness that indicated more
clearly than anything else in the whole
days play that IT was a game between
Titans for more than honor Old scores
were TO be repaid by the Cubs and new
wounds were to be healed. The suspen-
sion of Johnny Evers, a sad blow 70
Chance and the entire Cub team, was to
be avenged, and the Cubs gave no Offer
of quarter. Nor did the Giants ask fol
quarter. They were battling TO regair
the prestige that has been gradually
slipping from their hold, and the entire
team. from manager down TO bat boy
went at the task in hand with the deter
mlnaton 20 90 or die.
Hit after hit smashed off the once in
vincible Marquards twirling in that fate
ful fifth inning. There seemed to be nc
end 10 the overfiowing tide Of Chicago
runs There were two on bases when TIE
real onslaught began. When it ended
there were still Two on the bases. bu
five runs had been scored. and Marquarc
had given way to Crandall. Pandemoniun
reigned in the stands. Every fan" mel
and women alike. let their pent-up feel
ings burst forth. With each Chicago run
the cheering and hurrahing increased il
volume. until at the end. when the las
tally had been made and score ha
been run up that meant nothing If il di
not mean victory. there was not a perso
IN the vast thrOng who was not tremblin
After that tornado of Cub hits had bee
checked the game settled back into tn
contest of sharp fielding. light hitting an
unassailable pitching that 1t had been be
fore the Cubs broke loose. Never ono
did the Giants falter, even when certai
defeat stared them in the face, and the
fought till the last man was out
1t was game such as has seldom.
ever, been witnessed on an America
field. Only in those stirring battles {
1908 could anything like a counterpart q
to-day's struggle be found. Then a
now. the Giants were in the lead. and III
Cubs were the contenders, but the CT
ants had not enjoyed what seemed to b
safe margin of victories, and If any
thing. they probably fought with just
little more dash than did the Giants {
1912 to-day. But all the bitterness an
rancor of those hotly contested days wer
in evidence. and later events may prov
to-day's game 10 be as decisive as, c
even more decisive than, any Of the game
In which the two teams fought four year
ago.
Despite their defeat. the Giants playe
by far the best that they have In
month. There was none Of that listless
ness that marked most of their playing
New York. Every man fought his bes
and, with the exception OF Marquard.
was, man for man. every whit as stron
combination as the Cub machine. Tn
champions made six hits off Richie, an
the Cubs made eight off the two Ne
York pitchers There the balance in ia
vor of the Cubs ends. Each team mad
one error, and the Giants had seven me
left on bases to the Cubs eight. Wher
McGraw's men were unfortunate was
their inability TO turn their wallops int
runs. Hit after hit was wasted, and whe
an opportunity that was full Of promis
did come the Giants fell down.
No fewer than seven two-base hits wer
recorded In the nine innings OF hect
hattie. Herzog, Murray, Merkle an