New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-30
GIANTS TRY INSIDE
BALL, THEN HITS WIN
Shafer and Fletcher Check Fly
ing PhilIieS in the Four
teenth Inning.
M'GRAW USES STRATEGY
Also Seventeen Players in a
Battle Line That Waivers
and Wabbles Toward
the End

Inside baseball. the simon pure stun.
with hitters to match. pitchers and all
the other frills and furbclows Of the mod
ern school. ran riot at the Polo Grounds
Yesterday afternoon until a simple little
single TO right by Arthur Shafer and a
mere drive TO the centre field fence by
Arthur Fletcher solved n problem to
which two Of the most brilliant tactcians
Of the game had been trying to find the
answer for fourteen innings. This short
iseQuence Of hits brought to an end the
first pitched battle between the Giants
and Philles, with the former on the big
end OF a 10 6 score.
McGraw swung broadside Of his
heaviest armament against the foe, Dem
faree. Crandall. Marquard and Tesreau all
fbeing ordered into action in "A supreme
effort 20 down the flower Of the Phladel-
,phia pitching corps. Alexander and Seaton.
Success attended the local general, but his
army was almost annhilated in the process,
the battle front at the finish being scarce
ly recognizable as the gay purple-gar
nshed battalion that marched so jauntily
on the field In the first frame. Seventeen
players were pressed into service. These
Included George Wiltse. who tried his
hand at pinch running. shades Of the
speedy Devore and Groh. the light of
foot
II mus; be said for Seaton that during
his administration of six innings he al
lowed only tue hits. but unfortunately
these were punched right where they
meant the brilliant twirlers first defeat
Of the season and the ending of a winning
streak Of eight games by the PhIllies. 1t
was the demon pinch hitter, Harry Nc
Cormick, that placed Seaton In a position
10 lose his first game.
Alexander. working under rather
comfortable lead, did not see the hand
writing on the wall when Chief Meyers
lined the ball into the bleachers IN the
seventh inning. Consequently. he was not
unduly alarmed when Fletcher and Doyle
up and singled in the eighth Merkle hit
into a force-out, which put two down,
leaving everything up 10 Mccormick. the
first Of the reinforcements. After short
parley Harry doubled to right. just a.
every one expected he would. cleaning up
the bags and sending across the two runs
that tied up the game.
This put a wholly new aspect on af-
fairs. and when McGraw saw Doc
Miller a left handler 90 in TO bat for
Alexander in the ninth. he dismissed
Crandall and summoned his redoubtable
southpaw. RUDE Marquard, to the mound.
This was, Of course the very acme OF in
side stun, but the entrance Of the RUDE
was not by any means so COlOred with
this sort of strategy as his exit After
holding the Phinies hitless and runless
for three innings Rube Came to bat in
the eleventh. with Wiltse on second. The
latter ran for Meyers who was safe on
Knabes error and took the midway on
IN "a sacrifice
VI MarQuard worked Seaton for three balls
y and one strike. and then Tom cut loose
with a wild pitch that put Wiltse on
third AS only a sacrifice fly was needed
20 win the game, Marquard was eX-
tracted and Wilson came to bat The
catcher famed. and Burns hit to Cravath.
Thus was Tesreau required TO polish off
the victory. lie did not allow a hit and
gave only two passes JEFF and Rube be-
tween them held the Phnhes hitless in the
last six innings
McGraw swung the aXTe freely through
out the game. finally swinging himself
out. Herzog is ailing, and Shafer was on
third. with Snodgrass at centre when the
struggle began Then came the rally I'm
the eighth. when at one fell swoop the
Little Napoleon amputated two-thirds ~
his outheld and his FIRST baseman. Muir
ray gave way to Mccormick. while Cooper
ran for Merkle. This necessitated the
importation Of Snodgrass from centre 10
third. giving Cooper chance 10 make
bis first extended appearance in a game.
But this arrangement was not for
long. and led one to ask what il profits a
manager TO tie the score and wreck his
team. In the eleventh the patChe1-up
lineup in the field began TO crumble. and
Marquard showed the stuff that is In him
by holding the men together. Mccormick
started of with mufting a fly Dy Dolan,
who batted for Luderus IN the eleventh,
giving the runner two bags. DoOlan had
the Office TO bunt and made half-heart-
cd offer at a bali. The ire of Snodgyass
was aroused when Hank O'Day refused
10 call a strike. McGraw sided with
Fred, and quicker than you could say
Jack Robinson both were banished to
the clubhouse. Thus was Grover Hartley
introduced as second assistant first base
man. The Giants We're cracking badly
without their leader, and DOolan's bunt
put Dolan on third. The shOrtstop was