The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
By WILLIAM PEET.

With the best pitching talent in the
McGraw stable opposed to couple of
kid fingers, the New York Giants were
only able to defeat the Griffmen in the
Concrete Coliseum yesterday, 4 TO 3
Christy Mathewson, veteran of several
worlds series. and Rube Marquard, the
eccentric left-hander, rated as one of the
best in the National League. worked five
and four innings respectively against Mel
Gallia and Joe Boehling. and it was the
opinion of many that the Giants were
lucky to win.
Because of the rough ground in the
outfield a line drive by Fred Merllle got
away from Milan and went for fluke
home run. The smash sent in two men
ahead of the big first sscker, and the
trio of markers put the enemy on easy
street
Chick Gandil collected three singles out
of four times up, while Joe Boehling. the
Richmond thunderbolt, gave the National
leaguers one hit in four innings and
held them scoreess, coming through with
the best display of pitching he has shown
since wearing a Washington uniform.
Johnny McCiraw was in scrappy mood
and made life miserable for Umpire Col
lhower. also venting his spite on Ray
Morgan. Griff's young second sacker, for
some remark the Baltimore kid had
passed. and Mc(iraw's loquatious tactics
Tiled up the local crowd considerably,
who lost no time i'm hurting uncompli-
mentary epithets at the Gotham leader,
adding much life and excitement TO the
afternoon frolic.
Grif was perfectly satisfied with the
showing of his young charges. particu-
larly the pitchers. Hits were even seven
for each side, while a one-hand circus
catch by SnodgraSs of Shanks' Texas
Lacquer in the fifth proved the feature of
the combat
More wild Base Running.
The Giants pulled off another bone
headed base-runninc stunt. Merkle again
figuring as the goat" much to the
delight Of the crowd, and AS an added
attraction. Manager McGraw trotted out
Jim Thorpe, the famous Indian athlete.
to bat for Christy Matthewson in the
fourth, and the rcdskin gave an exhibit,
ton of his marvellous hitting powers
by striking out.
Taken all i'm all, the game was a good
one and worth the price. and while the
Grifmen failed to pull down the bulky
end of the score, they forced the
mighty Giants to display everything they
had IN the shape of baseball wares in
Guiding the famous pitchers, as stated
in the foregoing.
Showing that there was nothing in
tine name of Matthewson to scare an
ordinary ball player, Danny Moeller met
the first ball pitched in the Nationals
opener and sent il screaming over Red
Murray's thatch in right field. Danny
tried to stretch the blow into a triple,
but underestimate the strong arm work
OF the enemy, and was nipped at the
far corner by an eyelash. Matty re-
tired Foster ard walked Milan. The Ten
nessec Flyer yenturing too far off first
was neatly caught and run to earth.
Gallia smoked along until the
fourth, when his own ncgs. linked
with Merl5Ie's ,frCa- bonner Won the
game for the ''Gints."
Three Runs for Giants.
Burns opened the fourth with a high
f. to Milan Doyle uncorked a single
to center and a wild pitch sent him to
second. Murray was passed, and in at
tempting to catch Doyle mapping, Gallia
threw the bah away, with the result
that the Giants captain skipped down
to third Merkie sIashed an ordinary
Single to center and Milan came dash
ing i'm for the ball but it took weird
little hop Just before he reached after
il and did not stop rolling until the
center field fence was reached. Merkle
chased Doyle and Murray over the plate.
Gallia then settled down and retired the
side.
Had the field been level and in good
condition the chances are that Milan
would have thrown Doyle out at the
plate and smut off the Giants runs in
th" fatal fourth.
The Nationals got one of the four runs
back in the other half of this inning
Moeller was retired, Doyle to Merkle, and
Foster blasted the pill through Burns
paws taking second when Milan grounded
out to Merkle. Gandil singled to center,
ard Foster scored.
The Giants scored again in the fifth IN
a single by Snodgrass. A pass to Shafer
Burns out, Gallia to Gandil, and Doyle's
sacrifice fly to Moeller.
In the New Workers. fifth, another ex-
hibit:on of wild and woody base running
was presented. Boehling was on the
mound for the home folks, and MerkIc
greeted him with a single to center. Her.
FOG was passed. Meyers drove sharp
croundcr at Eddie Foster, who imme-
diately headed off MerkIe, chasing him
hack to second. After the ball had
changed hands several times, Foster
caught sight of Herzog, running to sec
ond and tossed the ball to Morgan ahead
of Herzog. forcing the Giants infielder
at the keystone sack. Then Merkle
hi<ed back to third and in trying to
sneak past Foster while the midget held
the ball, was declared out for not keeping
in the base path boundary. In the mean
while Chief Meyers raced to second be-
fore the ball could De tossed to Morgan
or Mcbride. Herzog stood within foot
of second base while this was going on
and Capt. Mcbride claimed triple play,
asserting that HerZog had interfered so
that neither he nor Morgan could get the
ball to make play on Meyers, but UNI
pire Colliflower refused to see it that
way. The ball changed hands so quickly
that it was hard to keep track Of the
plays from The press box.
With Rube Marquard on the mound
when the Nationals sixth opened the
southpaw appeared to have perfect con-
troll His only bit of widness, i'm the