New-York tribune., 1913-04-01
MATTY STRIKES A SNAC
Birmingham Boys Pound the
Famous FadeaWay.
THE GIANTS WIN, HOWEVER
Plenty of Free Hitting in Open
ing Innings-Marcan Gets
Two Homers.

lFrom sian Correspondent Of The lriouneI }
Birmingham Ala. March 3l.-Christy
Mathewson. the valiant twirler OF the
New York Giants essayed 10 go the fuii
nine innings of the exhibition game with
the birmingham Barons here to-day. anH
received one Of the severest poundings
that he over got in mis- life although ne
escaped with a victcry 10y q score Of b 10 D.
The local team took particular dcnsht
in hammcring the famous madeaway TO
all corners Of tho field ana pick'd up q
batch Of sixteen hits. Probably the ul"S'
well thought Of young man IN brhi'ns
ham tonight Is youns Mucan. the IVeP
second hascman. who touched UP MAUI
for four hits I'm five times 1t bat TWO u
his drives being home runs. II was Il
glorious day for him.
Tho Giants were i'm good form all
around. taking advantage of the hot sun
to show lots Of pepper In tho field ana
on the bases. They picked up eleven
safe drives Of the curves of Prough ana
carl Thompson. punching them right
whore they would do the most good. Sha-
fer annexed a double and two singles.
while Burns. Merklc and Meyers mdde
two apiece Larry Doyle had a great
day in the field. handling five put-outs
and four assists without an error.
The Barons picked up a run in the first
inning. when Shafcr paved the way for
"A tally by fumhling Marcan's roller.
Mcsscngc, followed along with lucky
scratch hit. which bounced over Doyle's
mead. putting Marcan on third Mcbride
dropped clean single into the centre,
scoring Marcan; McCilvray sent fly tn
Murray and Carroll hit into a force play
at second.
Encouraged by the damage done 10 the
fadeaway In the first frame. Birmingham
started operating again i'm the second,
which ELAN and Mayer opened with clean
hits. Matty then put on fun steam ahead
and brought IL into a double play, Big Six
to Shafcr. to Mcrklc, Ellam being held on
third. Marcan squeezed hit through
Shafer scoring Ellam but Messenger hit
into "A force out
For the next two innings Matty and
Prough had things just about as they
wanted them. Marcan accidentally col
lided with the ball in the fifth inning and
raped it nearly to the centre field fence
for home run.
Thompson, young pitcher formerly
with the Yankees. started operations in
the sixth. and little of any account oc-
CURED until Shafer and Burns collabor-
atcd on a run with a couple of doubles
i'm the seventh. Doyle then came up ana
tried 10 put the ball over the fence for
a home run. but struck out. After Wiltse
had called the third strike, Doyle threw
his bat at the arbitrator: no damage was
done. and both men continued TO perform
their respective duties.
That ended the scoring for the Giants.
but the Barons still had a punch left in
them. and they fell upon Matty with a
glorious rally In the ninth inning. Marcan
drove his second home run into left field.
and hardly had the fans stopped raving
before Messenger connected for a triple.
Matty frightened up and forced the next
two men to pop up easy flies. but Nc
Gilyray snatched a bunt through Doyle,
scoring Messenger. Then Carroll popped
to Murray.
Tn. score follows: