New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-09
Big Pitcher Makes Double
After Meyers Draws
Strategic Pass.
: CARDINALS GIVE NO
TROUBLE TO GIANTS
Mammoth Twirler Holds the
Visitors TO a Single Run and
Allows Three Hits.
~, HAYWOOD BROUN.

lief Meyers Is opposed 10 n0lsV'l'l''
te charity He has always SHOWN
.nCness 10 hit the ball Just as far and
hard as he can. but pitchers continue
l. pauperize him with free passes 10 hrs'
SINCE Yesterdays pass was purposeiui
.,,o & also reflected on JEFF Tesreau. VINO
& owed the Chief in the batting order
ne twirlcra answer TO the slight was
= Cooale 10 deep right, which scored two
ron. Tho Giants defeated St Louis by
score Of 20 ]. Tor Tesrcau pitched just
IS W, as he hit. Fred Nerkle was back
.; Arst base after III absence OF several
days.
ST Louis never looked dangerous at an!
time during the afternoon. but from aloI,
came frecu.;., threats AGAINST the lead OF
NcG-.w-s mon. Thunder loud as YANKEE
base Mus m1vmured LOW and again from
a rrsa, distance, but not until half a
game had jocn played did the rain fall
and syen .hca the 6ownpour was not SUI
a-icnt 20 check the contest.
Something must have been wrong with
the vearhcr. Perhaps !. was the humid
~. 5ut at any rate Higgins growled at
HisIer and MoGraw spoke unkindlY TO
Ma, Eason. IF had 20 learn anything
from you Id be in bad" was what the
leader Of the Giants said.
The n! feeling was engendered IN the
FIRST inning when Eddie Grant hunted
little fy which got away from Beck
Eason decided that it was an inf1eld ny
md called the batter out. McGraw, as re-
corded, took an exception
The New York manager was not the
only person on the field who has suffered
from decision. Kurt Hageman, the ce!c-
brated lest case. was in the box Tor the
Cardinals for just an inning or So il
would be difficult. to say exactly how long
he pitched. for a rooter could hardly turn
his head without finding new Cardinai
on the mound bending them across the
plate.
Jeff Tesreau. himself more or less Ia
miliar with courts and counting had the
-. Louis batters easily under control
For the most part he contented himseli
with forcing them TO hit high flies, but
whenever pinch hitter came TO the plate
T,sreau would strike him out. He al
lowed only three hits. II Bobby Bescher
had Judged Wilson's long fly bit more
keenly in the seventh inning Tesreau
might have had his third successive shut
out. At any rate he went twenty-four IN
uings before a run was scored.
The Giants took the lead in the hrst
inning. Bescher walked and stole ana
steele also passed Burns. Grant then
hunted and the runners moved up OUT
the batter was called out by kason.
nice point i'm scoring was involved In TINS
MAY but the opinion was that Grant
should get a sacrifice hit. Doyle GROUNDED
out 20 Miller and Bescher scored nut
Merkle was an easy out for Steele.
In the second inning with two men out
Movers hit one of the longest drives ever
seen on the grounds to deep right centre
For the chief it was a two-base hit. les
reau's grounder through higgins sent
Meyers home
In the fourth Merkles smash to left a
sacrifice by Snodgrass and Stocks single
"a centre put men on second and thlrd
with one out Steele passed Meyers ana
il was the seco I'd strategic base on balls
for the catcher in this series. Tesreau
double sent Merkle and Stock home. Nhen
Rescher hit to Miller the ST Louis hrst
baseman touched the bag and then GOT
Movers between third and home, as the
Indian was forced by Tesreaus bad base
running.
Nulers single to left and Wilson 5
double to deep centre gave 81. Louis It's
lone run in the seventh.
Jack Jolly, the golfer, saw the game
but the hitting did not impress him. He
referred 20 the long drive by Meyers In
.he second inning as a ''mashie pitch.
The score follows: