New-York tribune., 1914-08-05
GIANTS WIN FIRST
CLASH WITH CUBS
Marquard Holds Visitors
to Lone Tally, Out
pitching Vaughn
DONLIN Willis BEFORE
STERN GAZE OF KLEIN
arry Mclean introduces the
"Aeroplane Slide" TO Great
Dismay of Safer.
By HEYwoOD BRoUN.

By HEYWO0D BROuN.
In advance everybody had called 1t
crucial series, but the first game oe-
tween the Giants and the Cubs was
disappointment 10 the 10000 rooters at
the Polo Grounds yesterday, even
though the Giants won by score OF =
20 1. Not pop bottle was thrown
No epithets we're hurled. NO move
mont endancering the life OF eitner
umpire wss even suggested, ana NC
Craw was not put out OF the game
Yet in this last matter no one was
much to blame. for just before hostill'
ties began the manager received hotlCC
that ne had been suspended for uNe
DAYS. so. failing the privilege OF pelne
IN. il Was hardly possible TOT McuIaW
30 be put out. He was not eve" See
In the neighborhood. A..
Rube Marqusrd, who pitchea Ior w
Giants. did a good deal 70 tame w
until he weakened in the sixth; put II
was Bill KLEIN who was chiehy resPon-
sible for taking the game out OF WY
war zone. IL is true that ohlus
leach upon one occasion looked at tne
umpire long. angrily, scornlu!lE hnv
eorroufullv. but the outieloer sara nov
- uord and as there is nothing IN the
niles covering facial expression neu-
irality was maintained.
Donliu Quickly Squelehed.
Mike Donln was the only man who
tried 10 make an active protest. Iusn-
INC ont Of the bench 10 teach Klein
l;,elc about the rules, but when the
nmnire +urucd about Nike reDouhdeu
80 tbe bencb again. There seems TO be
something gorgou-like about biii mem. Mem.
Under his gaze the stoutest oaiIpla!ei
turns to stone.
Giants have adopted commission
form Of government. The oestihiSs oi
~ tesm are in the hands of Mathew
con. Doyle and Meyers. Mathewson
eclerts the pitchers. Doyle IS heid
csptsin and ruler of the pinch hitteIs'
While Mike Donlin attends to the
coaching and the umpires. The Cups'
outnumbered three TO one IN managers
had little chance, except At the very
beginning Of the game, when ancient
Tommy Leach, first man up, put the
bsu into the left field bleachers.
Tbe rest OF the Cubs failed to follow
.bc example set by the patriarch cl
baseball and paid dearly for their
crror Seemingly the Cubs had ths
idsa that II was possible TO make MT
y-;tbout going 70 the extreme OF hanl-
rnering the ball out Of the lot, but they
forgot Fletcher. The shortstop Of the
Giants took everything that came his
wav and some others as well. In the
eighth inning he climbed up hand over
hand and pulled down a looping liner
.b;t nv Roger Bresnshan, thereby dong
much to discourage a Chicago rally
Warning Shout Saves Safer.
Yet from the standpoint of many the
feature Of the game was Larry NC
leans new slide to first base. IL re-
suItod eventually in q run, but THIS
bsrdlv covers its importance, for un-
less some action is taken IN the matter
baseball will be rcvolutonlzed. Larry
began By hitting high bounding mop,
Der 70 Zimmerman, who threw the pan
tovard Safer. Just as the hrst Dsse-
man was about 70 eaten the Dali 1ot
,the put-out he heard warning shout
from his teammates. He looked up IN
time. Larry Mclean was falling dl,
rprtlv toward the bag. Safer lodged
fGu0 niHndEtu W hliONh NV H"'' 49,
the same time. First base was crushed
Ast as pancake and Larry Mclean
a had scored a hit simply by terrifying
the enemy.
All home runs look large, but that
bv Leach in the first inning had special
qualities Of bulk, for "Big jim Vaughn
went five left-handed innings IN I'M
pressive fashion. Nor would he have
been defeated, perhaps, but for some
strong-arm work by an outhelder whose
name is Good but whose throwing is
something else again. In the sixth
Bescher put a single into centre held
an WAS Immediately forced by Doyle.
Burns walked and Snodgrass raised
high fy for Sweeney. Fletcher singled
10 right and Good had plenty OF time
TO catch Doyle at the plate, but his
throw few even above the tip OF
Archer's glove as he lesped with arm
.outstretched. Doyle scored, and Burns,
too, while Fletcher raced to third'
where he was left
In the seventh Larry Mclean extort-
cd hit byethreatening to crush SAFER
and Stock sent him TO second with
single 70 right. Green" Piez ran for
Mclean, but did not have TO go very
fast TO score on Bescher's two-bsgger,
which sent Stock 10 third. Doyle's sac
rifce Ay TO Good scored Stock.
The score follows:
NEW YORK n. I. CHICAGO n l..
abrh poae aorh 20 q
ts,..ber r. 4Os1 OlI.esch. e.. ~ o,
povle. %. 8l0 20 Goode. n go. tVV ~,
Bvrns n. All / 0oI Kniseiy. n. +09 70,
Il ma ~ q ! 7 O.