New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-26
MATTY RULES PH|Lu|ES
Holds Them Off While Giants
Score Three Fat Runs.
SEATOM PITCHES GOOD BALL
Lame Support Brings About His
Undoing-Snodgrass Pulls
a New One.


Philadeiphia. April king Matty ruled
IN his own ROYAL style At National League
Park here to-day. and swayinS the Grip
pied and defenceless Philies IN tho hollow
of his mighty right hand. beat them by a
score of 8 10 !. The tribe Of the absent
Doom was favored by one Of the many
breaks in baseball luck, or they might
have been shut out, for a fluke single "hlcn
bounced off the shins of Matty In the thlrd
inning was followed by hit to right field
and an error by Larry Doyle, all OF whlch
accounted for the single run.
An incident occurred in the sixth inning
which was unusual TO say the least. Shou'
grass poled a hit 10 left field which looked
foul to the batter who ran half way 10
first base. but then returned to the pla'e
Cravath lost no time in fielding the pau
and relaying it through Downey 10 Luz
derus al first. Rigler at once calico inc
New York man ont. There were ho"is
from Rome-not forgetting the Giants as
body--but the decision stood as haue.
Next time Snodgrass will run out any old
kind Of hit.
II was the same old Christy Mathewson
who mounted the hilock for the Giants
smiling and confident in his matchiess
ability. The seven hits made off his deliV-
cry were strewn through the nine innings
AZ wide distances. Only IN tho third did
two come in the same frame. ana theh
tight fielding would have prevented score
| At times, however, Matty found II mourn
bent upon him to let himself out, ana this
he did These were dark blue intervals lot
the Quaker City marksmen and seven OF
them walked right up and turned arounu
10 walk right back to the bench. In mo-
ment of alteration Matty passed a man
while the crowd wondered at his big heart
edness
DOYLE roved about at second base ana
reaped IN eight hard chances In fault-
less stvlc. Charley Herzog made two
pretty stops and got his man at irst pase'
and Matty himself was called upon 10
make a few plays, which he did. Al nrst
base Merkle covered himself with crehit
and took care of thirteen chances. Some
OF his pick-ups OF throws saved a Few er-
rors for his team mates.
out on the mound for the crippled ana
wabblng Phillies was Seaton, the California
nitcher. He was almost as effective as
| Matty, but the team behind him played poor
d
/ scarcely bo otherwise. for OF tho entire
+ SQUAD only Titus. Paskcrt and Luderus
filed in al their regular positions. As fast
as one regular returns to the fold another
| drops out. Otto Knabc IS the latest to lay
| of. and S,einbrenncr filed In AT second
! base.
| Seaton allowed only four hits, but he was
trife wild. -Four bases on balls. win
! hit batsman, and errors formed conoI-
nation too formidable for any one to neat
and the Native Son" was forced to bow
70 the Inevitable Peaches" Graham was
unable to stop grand larceny, and Murray.
Herzog and Doyle each stole base
The Giants continued their picking on Cy
Rieler. the umpire, and Arthur wilson
walked Spanish 10 the clubhouse IN the
| fourth inning for airing "A few choice re-
| marks on homes for blind and incurable
umpires Wilson was inclined 10 daily. but
threat Of a 80 fine duickened his pace
perceptibly.
The Giants assumed the offensive right
away. Devore was passed but ran into
Doyle's hit, and was ont for Interference.
Larry however romped right down to Sec
ond base. and scored when Murray hit 70
right for a base. Murray stole second Dut
| died a lingering death. Seaton got them in
order in the third. after a narrow squeak
| in the second, but came by his bumps In the
/ fourth.
With one out Merkle hunted safely and
took the primrose path 10 third when Brink
| CT shot the ball 10 right field. Iierzog
walked and a this juncture Wilson In
CURED the official dspcasure and left bur
/ riedly. Shafer flied TO Paskert and Merkle
scored on the throw-ir Herzog stole sec
ond base, and rested not his twinkling feet
until he was safe at home. The occasion
Of said twinklng OF feet was Graham's de-
! sire to throw the ball over the centre field
fence by way OF catching Herzog at sec
ond So ended the scoring.
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