The sun., 1912-07-04

Two interborough games were played at
the Polo Grounds yesterday and the Giants
won them both. They were sulphuric bat /.
ties both. and both Tough, to a bitter
nnish. surcharged with fine pitching In the
nrst game. hard hitting In the second and
wransling with tie umpire. with Bill
Dahlen. the presiding genius OF the Brook
iyns. senior wrangler. The scores were
10 In the first game. which was
ritching fussle between Marquard and
fucker and 10 to ? in the second game
IN which the batting was much harder
with twiriers coming and going In droves
ana even more exciting scrap than the
hrst. though there wasn't the sentimental
interest of the first.
what added an extra zest TO the first
game was that II was between Rucker and
Marquard. IL MarGuard survived the test
ne would nave won nineteen straight and
creatcd new record In major league base
nail Tor straight wins by pitcher He
did win it. but he was skating on thin
Ice so often that time and again IL looked
AZ II Rucker was the boy who was going
10 stop him
Tho Giants made four hits on Rucker
and the Brooklyns nine on Maruuard
The Brooklyn luminary also was much
stcadler than Marquard, who was very
nervous and wilder than is his wont
really with men ON bases, and that. with
the glittcring support he received resulted
IN fourteen Brooklyns being left on bases
Ruckcr pitched a splendid game and de-
served better than defeat. lie had an
"nigmatic change of pace. a slow drop
which was the poetry Of motion and as
seductive as woman's curves. but the
. utter inability Of his mates to land An oo.
casional blow when opportunity beckon.d
i'm
the ground from under Fuckers f.e,
through no fault OF his
In the second game the Superbas ratified
on eighteen hits to New Yorks nine and
had ten men left on bases That was a
total OF twenty-four who perished on the
sacks during the afternoon. Both teams
scored IN allopathic quantities in tn. sec
"nd. but the Giants were more successful
IN getting men around once they started
10 clrcumnaNiEate the buoys In that
scheme OF things which nets big scoring
IN proportion To hits the Giants nut il all
over the SupcrDas, who battled lust az
hard but not with the same get there
results.
Il was a slashing fight all the way in
hoth games touch and go. and the fans
sion, Nter the calm of the Boston eri-
Hasemcnts thcs" wer" rcd no, mills Dab
len al the outset Of the first game objected
to the position OF Marulard's right foot
deciarinS that II was behind the rubber
but Fireman wouldn't listen to the claim
and finally sent Bin to the bench. Hut
Iared 10 the turbulent kick promoted by
',ahisn and other Brooklynites in IN.
eighth inning of the second game The
iranstubeines got all heated up when
SnodGrass. as they said, interfored with
play At the plate and so put the Giants in
the way of two runs "
The Biookyns were a run ahead when
tne pIay arose and two runs made n heap
81 dincrenr. To them Previous to this
called strikes, and their mood was far
IRON IRON enc, ,chGruphio' nahlen and North"n were
delay near the dinner hour ere tranquility
and brotheIly love We're restored
Whats ny loft two Superbas languish-
ing "n the bases IN tn. first inning OF
me second game. In the second inning
liummcl walked, Toolcy hit 10 Marquard
@ VINO h"lh IN" hall to- long and didn't
ners with n single. There was none out
Iut thr'" outs "manated from as many
fGesoa nles nIeody n""Eo scoring cor In New Yorks
on his way back when Iier2og flied To
Moran and was doubled
The RrooklNns had three on bases in
the third with none out and vet pu,
only onc run in III" trophy room, To
begin tho outs TIuminel fanreu Toolcy
sent n nv To Becker The latter in MS
hurry 70 throw /" the plate m,,ffcd
and and E"d smith h'."d home Becker had
second for fore" Of bauhcrt. hut threw
too high. However. his sccord case OF
Icmissn"ss cost nothing, as Miller and
Ruckrr popped flies and lcft the bases
tenantcd I" their capacity.
The Giants tied the score in the fourtb
and without IN" suggestion Of "A MI ,
There were two out when Smith made
y poor throw on Mu,ra>. lie ~ the
Titian thatch stole second Becker ,ut
M al inii"ld ny II was baubcrts ball
hut that citizen of the Long Island n"'
tropolls backed away, and Toolry
dashed over from short and tried 10
hard that he dropped the bnll. MURRAY
scored ON tho error and Becker scootrd /
all tho way to third. lie was left whom
Miller brok" into the literary set hv
reaching over and taking IA foul in tn. ,
press gallery,
The Giants nelled swiftly blaukiug th,
J'rooklyn> right along. despite the FACT
that the latter had men ON bases in cvert .
inning of III" game. Moran tried to steal .
third IN tho sixth as Smith struck out ,
lterHog mad" an amazing back handed
stab and tagged Moran sample OF tho
way ~" New Works were PLAYING
In the seventh MurrH, doubled Ia dec,
'"f' sud R""kor ou,fno'"d ~ hunt IIc,
2"c ~ tn Moran was too short for Mur. /
ray 10 last loose from third. but he took
III" TRAN and scored whcn Meyers ioltcd
long hN to Wheat. Northon and Dauh.rf |
sNNbsd IN the ninth. and with one out