New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
Hank Gowdy Chief Of
fender with Wild Throws
TO Catch Runners.
TYLER DRIVEN OFF
THE PITCHING MOUND
Tesreau, After Poor Beginning,
Steadies and Holds New
Champions in Check.
Nv HAYWOOD BROUN.
BY HAYWOOD BROUN.

Upon meeting Mrs. Menelaus some
little time after her return fr m Troy,
Asia, a gentleman, poetic rather than
polite. exclaimed: "Wss this the face
that launch'd a thousand ships and
burnt the topleSs towers of llium
Just so the Polo Ground rooters gszed
at Boston's new-lsid National League
champions yesterday and asked, Are
these them :"
When the Giants won their first
worlds title, way back in 1905, they
promptly recorded the fact on their
shirt fronts. The Braves should take
similar pains 70 advertise their Ma
tional League success, for yesterday
they might have been mistaken for the
Ole tail-end Braves of early season.
Even the Giants made them look bad.
The score was IL to 5 in favor OF New
York. Six errors were charged against
Boston.
George Tyler, one Of the Boston trio
who will face the Athletics, gave most
unimpressive exhibition of pitching for
three innings, during which he was
found for three runs. Behind the bat
Hank Gowdy proved that he could be
worse than he was on Thursday.
Hank Varies MOnotony.
Sometimes Hank would hurl the ball
straight into the ground in front of
him, hoping, perhaps, that II would
burrow its way through somehow or
other and get 10 second ahead OF the
runner. Next time he would switch
and. raising the range, throw the ball
all the way 20 centre field.
Richard Harding Davis, in a recent
story about Rheims, explained that ar
tillerymen begin a bombardment with
brace shots for testing purposes. One
shot is sent short of the mark and an
other beyond il in an effort to deter
mine the exact range. This might con-
seivably be the system of the Boston
battery man but for the fact that Mr..
Davis specifically explains that not
more than three brace shots are needed
by the good gunner. Hank has had
,ozen and he is still wide of his mark.
Whaling started the game as Bos-
,on's catcher, but had enough in t"o
innings. a passed ball was his only
offence. JEFF Tesreau was in the box
tor the Giants, and after all indifferent
start he had no trouble IN holding the
Braves safe. II is perhaps fair TO say
that the Boston team did not put KS
pest foot forward. Johnny Evers took
a day off and Ducey was at second.
SCnmlQt played part OF liS saHc a.
first and then retired in favor OF
V-hitted. Cocreham was the successor
If Tyler.
Tesreau began by passing Moran and
Dugcy Connolly sacrificed from Stock
70 Merkle and Schmidt's single scored
both runners. Bob Bescher hit a
homer to left centre in the latter half
Of the inning. New York took the lead
in the second inning when Dugey
tumble of Stocks tap was coupled with
passed ball by Whaling, Merkles
single and Tesreaus double Two runs
came across on this combination.
Singles by Dugey and Whitted and
double steal enabled Boston to &c
the count in the third inning. The
Giants inched the game in the fourth
when they scored three times. Cocre-
ham took the mound in this inning
and began by passing Meyers and les
reau. Bescher hunted. and when Hank
Gowdy threw the ball 20 left field
Meyers scored and Tesreau went to
third. 4 sacrifice fly from Burns 20
WhitteL brought Tesreau home and
Fletcher's single scored Bescher. This
vas enough for the Giants, although
they added five runs later in some fur
ther skirmishes The fighting was
dcrce.
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