New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-15
"Rube" Marquard Gets a
Shock as Magee Lines
Out Two Home Runs.
DOOM AND HIS MEN
BUILD UP TEN RUNS
Clan McGraw in the Mean Time
Gets One Man Over the Plate,
and That's All.
IBy Telegraph to Tn, Tribune

York Giants, WIN huDo +"i
the box and Milton Stock at third
where Tilhe Shafer used 10 shine were
uoauled and humbled by the shot 10
nieces" Phillies here to-day as the Ma
,,onal League season was duly opened
with loud acclaim. The score was ~
10 1. and no score ever told more
clearly the story OF a game. For one
brief moment the National League
cbampions flashed in the lead. casting
a little gloom over the fans. but then
well. the score explains what hap
{ pened.
, CAPTAIN Sherwood Magee occupies
MACE in the affections Of the fans to-
might beside that OF ]. Franklin Baker
and not without cause. Almost single
handed Magee sent the Giants gray
cling down 20 defeat. he smashed OUT
two home runs with men on bases and
accounted for FIVE of the ten runs
scored by his team.
In the fourth inning he came up and
finding Bobby Byrne on second base
oarelessly planted the ball into the left
field bleachers. That might have been
accounted a days work for some men.
hut not Magee. The next time he came
TO the plate--in the sixth inning. TO be
exact-Byrne and Lobert were both on
base. The fans called for another
cleanup drive, and under the condi-
tons there was nothing else 10 be done
1,on
nose and again Il fell TO earth in the
north side pavilion. That Cravath
tripled and scored on fly by Luderus
in the same inning mattered not, That
performance paled in the face OF what
had gone before.
Governor John x. Tener has lost
many OF his constituents. With the
New York Giants. arch enemies Of Phil
adelphia teams in general, opening the
season here, the newly elected presi-
dent OF the senior organization cast to
one side his allegiance TO home ties and
traipsed off TO Brooklyn to throw out
the first ball. In his place Mayor
Rudolph Blankenburg performed the
office in painstaking and efficient man
me-. His more or less perfect throw,
which all critics scored as wild pitch'
found its way to the pitcher in due
course and while the fans roared
themselves hoarse the season was on.
Bright. warm April sunshine glad
dened the hearts Of the fans, and those
office boys who maliciously sent the
mortality rate OF the city soaring SKY
ward laughed with malignant glee.
That those same Office boys may be
hunting a job matters not. They were
on hand when Captain Magee's men
sent the Giants limping off the Held
dazed and wondering just how 1t al
happened
McGraw surprised the fans by play
ing Milton Stock, the youthful recruit
from the Southern League, az thirC
base. II was believed that snodgras'
would get the call by virtue Of his su
perior hitting. Snow" warmed up II
, practice, and earned the crowds ap
! plause by making some hard stops a
) third base When the game began
however, It was the peppery youngste
who held down the position. Stoc
made a favorable impression, too. H
failed 20 get hit, but was all over tn
field. pulling down everything tina
came his way He fitted into the ma
n chine well. too. and shafer may not b
missed. after all.
n Tho usual ceremony attending mos
opening days amused the big crowd an
the PLAYERS were cheered as they marche
ACROSS the field.
"Rube" Marquard's life was made par
tculary miserable once the fun begar
He browsed around until the seventh inn
ing. and then the Phillies lost all pa
thence and knocked him out OF the box
Arthur Fromme was elected TO Ill IN
vacancy, which he did in capable style
Those seven innings however. must hav
brought TO Marquards mind visions o
another field in this selfsame city.
In six and one-third innings q roun
dozen hits were torn from his port side
delivery. Misfortune never comes unat
tended. either. The greater number o
these blows came along IN clusters an
punches.
Fromme allowed only one hit during hi
tenure OF ONCE, but by that time IN
game was signed. sealed and delivered.
Bill Killifer. for whose services IN
Philadelphia club carried the war on IN
Federal League into the United State
courts caught the game for his team
The strain OF jumping back and fort
from one league TO another APPARENT
had little effect on his ability. for he no
only did his full duty behind the plate
out also got two rousing hits.
Grover Cleveland Alexander pitchet
against McGraw's men, and was NOR
than effective. He allowed seven hits
one OF which was a double by Bol
Bescher. Alexander was a bit shaky Il
the first inning, when the Giants got I'VE
hits or him. but George Burns died a
the plate trying 10 count when Knife
allowed crsvath's throw on Doyle's single
20 left TO roll away. Killifer recovere,
the ball and threw 10 Alexander. wht
made tn put-out
TWO bases on balls and Cravath's erro