New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-02
Braves Carry Holiday Battles
Into Extra Innings and
Keep Big Crowds
on Edge.
RARE FEAST OF BASEBALL
"Rube" Marquard and Demaree
Garry Prospective Champions
to Victory with Help of
a Little Stickwork
When Needed.

emerged a double victor over the Boston
Braves at the Polo Grounds yesterday be-
fore crowds that were estimated to total
at least $1,000 men and women. The morn
ing game went ten innings and was won
by the Giants by a score of , TO IN
fitting preamble TO the herculean STRIFE
that consumed the afternoon.
Fourteen innings of nerve racking' SEN
sational baseball marked the second
game. and when the Giants pounded out
a to victory in the final frame the
crowd went wild with enthusiasm
"Rube" .Marquard and Dick rudolph
uere nitted against each other in the
afternoon contest. and each twiried
game that was respondent IN all inc
Qualities that 20 10 make pitching Hie
ant MarquarG had an added incentive "
win. for he became the father OF So"
yesterday morning. Consequently
Jack Murray drilled single 10 lelt le'u
IN thu gathering twilight and sent Freu
Merkle homo with the winning run MAI
guards face broke into broad smile anu
he trotted off the field, the happlest ilidii
on the Western Hemisphere.
Roth the elongated New York southpaw
and Rudolph had everything on the od'i
IN that final struggle. Each had MS suai
penetrated ten times but Marquaru "ou'u
not have been scored on at all anu inc
game would have ended at the ciose y.
the ninth inning as per convent"
par;den had not punctured the "kuoe
Gang froid by peeling off drive that se'-
,,ed in the left field bleachers LOT Ho'''
run That happened in the h1th ili"."e'
.rd II took nine more long innings oeio'1
,ba Giants were able 10 break the Tie th"'
that mighty wallop established
~, .ba whole IL was a day Of supernhe
pitching. The battle between Al Deii''-e
and Otto Hess in the morning was oo'i
rletelv overshadowed by the alteiHooii
strugq,e Of Marquard and Rudolph ou'
the nitching Of the former pair was Ho'
without merit. 49,
Hess had the better of it, but IN tne
final innings he grew wild ana uhsteauS'
and the Giants. quick TO take adVah'aee
~ every opening that offered, mser'eu
tba;r wedge and split Hess's delivery III
twain. Their winning run came III tho
tenth inning and practically was eii''
for Hess, in trying 10 get Edole vi an
AZ third in an attempted double stedI OS
the Harvard alumnus and George Burns
tbrew the ball to the border of flowers
alonq the grandstand and Grant rompeu
TO the pan.
Light hitting was the one besetung SIN
of the Giants all day. and their Work IN
the morning game was no exception. IN
tho fen innings that they went 10 pat
against Hess they were able to pry OH
only seven hits. while the Braves "ele
making free with l)emaree to the extent
OF eleven safeties
The Giants owed their success almost
entirely 10 Chief Meyers, who stepped
into one OF Hess's curves In the second
inning and whanged il into the rlght
field stands. Fred Merkle had singled
inst before the chief unloosed his thuh-
derbolt. and when the dust cleared away
the Giants found themselves in 'front.'
with a two-run lead. After that frame
they were extremely shy on hits Ihey
got one in the third. and went aiohs
through FIVE arid innings before they got
sight of another. In the ninth fletcher
connected. and in the tenth the chiei
came TO the front again, this time with
mining tvo-ba gger down the third base
line. II was this hit that put Hess out
Of the running.
The beauty Of Demarees pitching was
that he let the Braves peck at il until
they seemed about 10 convert couple OF
drives into a run or two: then he tight
ened ND. and the Braves retired. That
happened in all except the fifth and eighth
innings. when the Bostonians made good
their threats and pushed runs across SUI
fcient 10 tie the score.
Larry Doyle's temperament vas little
out OF killer in the opening fray, ana
twice he got Demaree into difficulties.
One Of the times run-the tieing run at
that-sifted across the plate. In the
seventh inning he let a grounder propelled
by Hess whistle between his legs. and In
the eighth he overran short fly by
Schmidt and the ball fell safely fo7 hit
Dick Rudolph, who was numerically
whaled by the McGraw clan the last
time he faced them. stepped 10 the
mound in the afternoon contest with
a world Of confidence in his ability to
humble the prospective champions.
1t was not altogether his fault that
b he did not succeed in his ambition. Tor
he set the Giants down inning after
inning with nothing that bore even faint
relationship TO run. In eight Of the
fourteen innings the denizens Of the
Polo Grounds were retired without even
a hit to their credit. and only in three
frames were they able TO cola borate
for two hits This happened in the third.
thirteenth and fourteenth sessions, and
runs resulted in two of these three in
tervals Of sequentiel batting
When IL came 20 choking off incipient
rallies Marquard was past master. He
showed his real cunning in the second
inning by tanning three men in row
after Sweeney had torn off the first or
three hits He kept UP the good work
in succeeding innings by lacking him
self out of holes when II seemed that
nothing at all could save him.
Rariden's home run was one hole,
however, out OF which he could not
climb. and he had TO smile with the
crowd when the Boston catcher trotted
around the sacks in the fifth inning
after depositing the ball in the left field
bleachery. He seemed ready to cave in
again in the eighth. when Sweeney sim
gled. with Hap" Meyers on second. a
rafting throw by George Burns into
the depths of Chief Meyers big NIT and
a little sleight-of-hand work by the
Indian warded off disaster