New-York tribune., 1912-08-11
WITH TESREAU IN BOX
GIANTS LAND ON TOP
9iu TwirIer Holds Cardinal Bat
terS to Five Hits and
Two Runs.
BECKER HITS FOR CIRCUIT
Drops Ball in Almost Exact
Spot Discovered by j.
Franklin Baker
Last Fall.

The Giants took turn for the better
Yesterday and hammered out victory
over. the Cardinals that was well worth
while. They more than turned tine tables
on the 81. Louis crowd. for they enjoyed
q respite from the tide that fas been
overwhelming them and beat the Cardl-
nails bv the score Of s TO ,. Nearly every
hit that they made counted and the re-
cent falling Of having runners left on
bases was happily discarded for the day.
al least II was one OF their oIa'line
games and they won easily.
one mighty clout al the very outset plt
the St Louis team out OF the running
Tor hy II two runs were scored anc the
Giants obtained q margin when was
never in danger OF being wiped out. bea'S
Becker was the man who turned the
trick. He was the third man up ln 'ne
6rst inning and ne lifted the ball into
the upper tier Of the right field grand
stand. II was the first time the feat mas
been ACCOMPLISHED since J. Franklin BAKER
belted a ball into that self-same Ter one
lowering october DAY asst year.
Some even went so far as 70 say that
Rockers drive hit in exactly the same
spot Be that as II may the end achieved
was much the same. because Becker :
hit did 70 St Louis what Baker 5 hit dlo
20 the Giants. Captain Larry Doyle
arDbled home ahead OF Becker and as
Snodgrass had previously scored Oh
two-bagser BY Doyle. the three runs thus
attained in the first session were enough
70 sink the Cardinals into oblivion.
on the whole the game was not one OF
scintillating briuiance. although the NJ
teen thousand fans" who braved the
threatening heavens enjoyed themselves
perhaps more because Of the fact that
the Giants won than that they had seen
game which would I've through al east
ono dav because OF some one outstanding
feature.
Big Jeff Tesreau pitched for the Giants
and he twirled a game that stamped him
still more positively as a coming star
Tesreau, in fact. pitched one OF the oest
games Of his short career a. a Giant he
held the Bresnahan crew down 10 I'VE hits
and only one OF these. double py Maeee'
was an extra base clot.
In the third inning the Cardinals were
successful in getting a pair OF hits the
ONLY time Il happened IN one inning ouI
any potential tallies that might have been
slowed away in those hits were cancelled
bv rafting double play. Big Jeif's con
troll was q little wabbly, for he issued four
passes. but he acquitted himself 90 Wei
otherwise that such an item as four
masses considered in view Of those I'VE
scattered hits did little 70 mar the lusre
Of his DAY.
For the opposition Steele was Tesreau
immediate rival steele pitched very
matter Of fact game. but he let the Giants
hit IN clusters. with long periods OF bar
-er,ess I'm between. and in that he spelled
his own defeat II he had spread the
hits out a bit ne might have pulled
through. because the Cardinals neldlns
was almost alright as a drumhead. ANY
hits that the Giants made had 70 be
driven through mighty narrow openings
Nine hits were the total Of the Giants
dAnredstions. but they were all oppor-
tune.
Tesreau's pitching was not conducive
OF the Cardinals part al least TO any
vivid OF lurid activity although when
Magee came through with his double IN
the eighth with Huggins on hrst, there
was something much akin to activity for
Huggins shot around the bases anc
scored. while Magee waited expectanty
on second for Mowrey 10 uncork an
other wallop. such as he delivered in
Fridays game.
Larry Doyle was pretty much alive al
the time despite the fact that he had 70
retire 70 the bench after only few
minutes of preliminary practice and that
he umped around when not diving after
hit and thrown balls. Captain Larry
was the main works in a couple Of dou-
ble plays. acting as the intermediary be-
tween Tesreau and Merkle when Evans
and Hauser were retired in the second
inning. and again tagging Steele out on
the paths and whipping the ball to Merkle
IN time 10 nail Hugg1ns at first in the
third frame. Larry had four put-outs
and one assist even II he did mess VI
Evans's grounder IN the fourth.
Tesreau got himself into difficulty with
Huggfns. the frst man 10 face him. be-
cause ne let him walk and thereby gave
the Cardinals the chance for the first OF
their two runs. Higgins was sacrihced
along 10 second By Mowrey. and when
Movers let one OF Tesreau's strikes
roll all the way 70 the Giants bench
Huzgins scuttled home with the initial
tally Konetchy. too, got base on balls
but he died stealing.
The Giants began their playing even
more auspiclously than the Cardinals.
snodgrass was rewarded for patient
and persevering stand al the plate and
walked after a dozen balls. more or less
had been hurled al him. Then followed
a steal and Doyle's double and Becker :
homer. and the Giants were two runs 10
the good Fletcher cracked out hit in
the second frame. but nothing came Of II.
and Herzog did the same In the fourth.
with the same result. In the sixth, how
ever. base on balls 10 Becker put him
in a position 10 score when Murray
singled, and he lost no time in scamper-
ing across the rubber.
There was a lot Of spirit left in the
Giants. and with two out in their end Of
the eighth inning, consecutive singles by
Murray. Merkle and Herzog. sent two
more runs across the plate. That virtu-
aifN ended the game