New-York tribune., 1913-07-20
Griner Fails to Withstand Nc
GraW'S 0nruShing Band.
CARDINALS THREATEN ONCE
In Seventh They Attempt a
Rally, but Sharp Work
Keeps Their Scoring
Within Bounds.

the preSumptuouS Cardinals, the blantS
went out yesterday afternoon and at
tached q lustrouS victory to wind up an
other week OF pennant hunting. \ Soodly
crowd OF some twenty thousand spec
tators attended the matinee at the Polo
Grounds to begin the gathering Of data
for the big event in October, and the
champions went out OF their way to give
"A good exhibition Of themselves. They
showed ample cause why they should be
setting the pace by walloping the West
erners in the fifth game of the series.
The score was to 3.
our old friend Rube Marquard was on
the range. with his varied assortment OF
curves cleaning in all their pristine
brilliance After moving along smoothly
for five frames the southpaw woke up TO
the sudden realization that he was in
danger Of doing something rash. lie was
actually working his way into the
shadows of a no-hit game. Such things
will occasionally happen among the best
regulated pitchers. but the Rube had
enough Of records and all that sort OF
thing last year. AS soon as the sixth
inning arrived he saw TO IL that Larry
Mclean picked a drive through Shafer
for a single, the first hit made by the
Cardinals. and got that off his mind. Then
when the champions had harvested a
comfortable supply Of runs Richard eased
up in the seventh and coasted along foi
"A while The mechanism being bit rusty
Rube had little difficulty in applying
the brakes when the time came. and the
visitors tailed three runs on pass and
four hits. But the Thespian soon got the
invaders under control. and finished out
the game without more ado. 1t was his
thirteenth victory out Of eighteen starts.
Dick retired the side I'm order in the
! first five innings without giving hit.
one man received n pass, but died steal
! ing. A little brisk action centred around
the sixth. seventh and eighth, but In the
ninth il was one. two. three again. Six
hits were cullcd off the delivery of the
New York twirler. and he gave three
passes. but famed seven men and handled
the entire situation with the greatest skill
and precision.
Grner gave Marquard battle for four
frames. hut weakened under the strain.
and soon the champions were picking up
the runs In couplets. An even dozen OF
safetles were required for the manu-
facture OF the victory, and Griner grace
fully yielded these He kept the hits
scattered TO a certain extent, so that the
damage wrought was not as great as II
might have been. -Four bases on balls and
a hit batsman helped the cause along.
from upstate. who is bowling along at
the Cobb rate in hitting these days, did
lot Of crisp stick work. He got 10 frst
every time he came TO the plate. rap
ping ont three sparkling singles. drawing
pass and hitting into force-out which
netted a run. Three of New Yorks SIX
runs came spinning across the plate pro
pellcd by the Utican's bat. With the
bases filled in the fifth. George forced
Marquard at second, sending in Meyers
from third. When the same situation OF
loaded stations confronted him again In
the sixth, although there were two out
and two strikes on him, he popped
single 10 centre, scoring two men.
Fletcher. Murray and Meyers got in
brace Of lusty wallops apiece.
A fast game in the field was played by
both teams The Giants did not make an
error and gave clean cut impression
all around. The star bit Of fielding, how
ever, was committed by Konetchy. who
in the seventh inning romped over to
the flower garden. where they park the
automobiles, just outside OF the right field
line, and corraled Larry Doyle's high
foul.
The Giants scored their first brace OF
runs In the fifth. Meyers and Snodgrass
opened the inning with singles Marquard
attempted sacrifice bunt. and double
crossed Konetchy who was playing In. and
beat the ball 10 first, filling the bags.
Burns forced Rube at second. Meyers
scoring and Snodgrass taking third, so
that he counted on Shafer's sacrifice fly
10 Evans. Fletcher singled TO right, put
ting Burns on third. but Doyle popped TO
OI,eary. With one out in the sixth
Murray hit safely 10 centre and took sec
ond on Meyers's out. Snodgrass received
the signal compliment which is extended
only 10 the great when he was purposely
passed in the hope that Marquard would
die easily. Marquard and Snodgrass
pulled double steal on Mclean after
Griner, who had lost the key to the sit
uatlon, walked Marquard, filling the bases.
Rurns's sharp single TO centre brought
Murray and Snodgrass home. Shafer
lifted to Whitted. Gathers opened the
seventh for St Louis with n double TO
left. and went to third on OIeary's single
tc the same territory. Whtted walked,
filling the bags Konetchy's long fly TO
Murray was good enough to bring Gathers
home. Cans's bounder got away from
Fletcher so that the bases were filled
again, and McLean's single through short
tailed OLeary and Whitted. Mowrey
popped TO Burns and Grlner famed.
The Giants sewed up the game in the
last half OF the same inning. Fletcher led
off with a double TO left and took third
when Honey pulled down Doyle's foul
with a remarkable catch While Merkle
was being tossed out at first by Mowrey
Fletcher counted Murray singled and
stole second. coming home on Meyers's
safe hit 70 left. The Chief died stealing.
NEW YORK. ST. LOUIS.
abr 20 a abrh po ae
BURNS. f4O - ool Magee 2b... 400 10
Shafer. 30. 40 3 ! O Gathers. H.. 412 90
FIetch'r 80 81 0 30l O'Leary ss 31i o
T,a,,,a o. IN z I oil Whitted cf 91O o