New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-11
No Link of Old Team Left
When Frank Schultz
Is Taken Out.
MARQUARD HOLDS
CHICAGO SAFELY
Fine Catch by Fred Snodgrass
Saves Big Lefthander in
One Bad Inning.
BY HAYWOOD BROUN.

'Phelan batting for Schultz" announced
Rigler IN the ninth inning of yesterdays
game between the Giants and the Cubs
at the Polo Grounds. The substitution
made no difference in the game, for
Phelan flied out, and the Giants won by
a score Of 4 to 1. but the move did mark
the passing of the last player who was
with Chicago back in the days when the
Cubs were bears
In those bygone seasons no one could
bat for "Wildfire" Frank Schultz, even II
a left-hander were on the mound. When
he faced the pitcher the outfielders moved
hack. and when he hit they usually found
that they must travel still further from
the plate and toward the fences. Those
were the days when Schultz led the league
in home runs and general cussedness IN
the pinches.
He made no outfeders work yester-
day, but twice Meyers had to stoop a
little to catch the third strike. and once
an outfielder was forced to step out a
pace or two 10 get his towering fly
The game did not even rattle the dry
bones OF memory. The Chicago players
gave no suggestion of the team that was
For q time Tom Needham murmured
mournfully Keep a workin," but when
nobody obeyed his Injunction he lapsed
into silence. Only in the perfect peace
of Paradise will the faithful rooter have
a chance to see once again the old Cub
machine, with Johnny Evers chewing the
ear of the nearest umpire and Frank
Chance close at hand growing his ap-
prevail.
Several times this season Schultz has
been forced TO give way to a younger
player in a pinch. and in all probability
he will not last through the season as a
regular. Even IL the big black bat has run
dry of homers Frank Schultz will not
have to worry, for he owns peach
orchard in Georgia of 627 acres Yet from
an artistic standpoint one cannot help
but mourn that a man who was a mighty
batter and a great fielder should spend
his declining years knocking fruit out OF
a tree and catching ii in basket
Only once was the big lefthander in
danger. In the third inning three hits
filled the bases after two were out, and
Heinie Zimmerman advanced toward the
plate swinging three bats. OF course. he
had to throw away two, but the one he
kept was large and black. and he waved
IL ferociously. Heinie hit hard and low,
not far from the foul line In right field,
but Fred Snodgrass. starting quickly,
was able to sprint across the path OF the
drive and capture the ball while on the
dead run. Even Zimmerman hailed it as
a great catch.
The Giants set about the task OF win
ming Yesterday in businesslike fashion.
They scored once in the first inning. again
in the second and twice in the fourth inn
ing. In the opening inning McGraws
men did not buckle down to work until
two were out Eddie Grant drove low
liner. which missed the head OF Larry
Cheney only by few feet. The hit was
a single Grant at once stole second
Rresnahan making high throw. Always
inclined to stockiness, Roger Is now posi-
lively aldermanic.
Larry DOYLE followed the lead OF Grant
and selected the pitcher for target HIS
drive would certainly have carried away
the head of Cheney II the twirler had NOT
ducked and allowed the ball to speed into
centre field The hit scored Grant
With one out in the second inning Mil
ton Stock received a pass. and when
Meyers collaborated neatly in hit-and-
run play Stock went all the way TO third
Marouard hit to Zimmerman. SLOW
tantaIIzing tap, and Heine. throwing with
more grace than effectiveness. tossed too
high 10 Bresnahan and Stock scored.
Cheney, Leach and Safer all hit sareiy
in the third, but the last two singles were
scratchy. Then came Snodgrass on the
run 10 interfere with the progress OF Zim-
merman's line drive Stock struck out
In the fourth inning. but Bresnahan could
,ot hold the ball. and the runner got 10
FIRST Bescher's drive almost cleared the
wall IN right field. but it was good Tor
three bases. even though it failed to hurdle
high enough for homer The hit scored
stock and a single by Burns INTO centre
brouebt Bescher across the plate
BERT Humphries pitched the last inning
Tor the Cubs and did IT well.
Hank O'Day, who umpires In odd sea-
CONS and manages in even Ones STUCK
deen IN his bench throughout the game.
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