New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-07
GIANTS WARM Up IN
A TINE RECORD GAME
Take Thirty-three Minutes to
Beat the PhiIIieS Over Full
Nine Innings.
LOBERT DEFEATS THORPE
Indian Outrun in Century Dash,
but wins Fungo Hitting
Contest with Long
Drive.

Tuning up for the worlds series. in q
little exhibition game at the Polo Grounds
Yesterday afternoon. the Giants and
, Phlllies completed the contest Of nine
innings in exactly SO minutes. which IL
a record for two teams Of the big league
players.
Hitting the first good ball pitched AMI
running off and on the field between inn
ings the two mines managed TO complete
their afternoons work in trihe more
than half an hour beginning at 1874
o'clock and ending at 400. The Giants
won the game by a score OF to ].
| Previous TO the game a few field day
J events we're run off. and Hans Lobert, the
| speed boy of the Philles. defeated Jim
| Thorpe. the great Indian athlete. In
} lOO-yard dash. The third baseman OF the
! Quakers led Thorpe a full yard TO the
/ tame in the fast time OF 2-5 seconds
| Iobert holds the record for the distance,
/ running in full baseball regalia, as ne did
| the century in 10 seconds at Cincinnati
/ on October 4. 1905.
! Jim Thorpe won the funso hitting con-
/ test in a match with Tesreau. Marquard.
| Meyers. Paskert Mayer and Luderus. he
! sent the ball 404 feet, driving 1t from
! few feet behind the plate almost up TO
! the centre field bleachers on the ny. The
record is 4ls feet inches, made by Ed
| Walsh, the White Sox pitcher, in Chi
! cago, on September 80. 1911.
/ In circling the bases Lobert again wonS
defeating Goulait, Cooper and Stock, OK
the Giants. His time was 10 seconds. as
against the 10 3-5 seconds. made on Octo-
Der 2, 1910. in Cincinnati. Ty Cobb has
! mark of 10 40 seconds, made In Chicago,
on October 10. 1905.
McGraw refused TO let any Of his FRS.
string men compete in the events on the
eve of the worlds series. although Tes-
reau. Marquard and Meyers did little
fungo hitting.
The two teams deliberately set out 10
| make a record in the way Of short
game. The Giants hoped to beat the
mark OF 80 minutes they set in Easton.
Penn. some years ago. when they scored
10 runs against their opponents. They
came near setting a worlds record. The
shortest game noted in the books was
| played between Atlanta and Mobile, in
the Southern League. on September 49,
| 1910. The time was 90 minutes.
The contest at the Polo Grounds yes
| terday was a regular one. and there was
not a single instance OF player dellb-
| erately trying TO get put out. although
| no great effort was made 10 beat odl
| inGeld grounders. 1t took only few sec
onds 10 retire the side in the NTH inning
for Wlltse pitched only three balls when
/ Magee. Miller and Luderus hit directly
at the infelders. so that easy outs result
ed. Neither sidfe lost any time in getting
to their positions, and as soon as one man
had batted another took his place almost
instantly. The men were on the jump
! every minute.
Wilson kept the bat boys busy putting
on his shin guards. The contest went
along so rapidly that the score board iost
two full laps. and when the last half Inn
ing rolled around Byron, the umpire al
the plate. was compelled TO announce tnat
they were playing the ninth inning and not
the seventh. as the score board hao J"
Only one pass and one strike out was
recorded in the contest.
McGraw started his regula- lineup IN
I'm centre field. but he brought IN tne
recruits rapidly. and by the fifth fran'e
all the regulars were dismissed eAceP'
Charlie Herzog. who held down thiro pass
in brilliant fashion. and Doyle, VINO con
tinued at second. The Giants managed
pick up eight hits off Chalmers, MerNe'
Burns. Doyle and Herzog each maHins
, one. while Jim Thorpe hammered OUT
double and a. triple. The regulars seemed
10 be in fine form in the short time tns'
played.
Schupp, Wiltse and Hesrne. three SCUM
, paws. each pitched three innings apsoe'
the two first named allowing only one n''
each. while Hearne was found for Two,
Jim Thorpe let Paskert's single 70"
through his legs for three bases AZ .r'
start OF the sixth, and Chalmers So
tce iv 10 centre brought "Dodo' hon'
with Philadelphla's only run.
Tho SCORE follows.