New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-12
Sight of Ancient Foe Brings
Back Former Skill OF
Chicago Machine.
MATTY LAPSES INTO
STREAK OF WlLDNESS
Big Jim Vaughn, Though Very
Weary, Easily Holds the
Men of McGraW.
By HAYWOOD BROUN.

Walter Pater, after gazing on the Mona
Lisa, wrote Here is the head upon which
all the ends of the world are come and
the eyelids are a little weary" But Mr..
Pater never saw Big Jim Vaughn, of the
Cubs. pitch during hot day or he would
have curtailed the claims Of the lady.
At least FIVE or six corners Of the globe
rest squsrely on the back If Big Jim, and
his WEAKNESS, which extends far beyond
me eyelids. is something .Aerce.
Although the bulky lefthander was all
awash at the end Of the torrid after
noon, he lasted long enough to defeat the
Giants by a score of to T. Perhaps, In
his very lassitude, Vaughn saved energy
for Mathewson, who worked, as usual, in
fast, businesslike form, Jared i'll.
Big Six" was hit hard and showed
more wildness than in many a day. Three
men drew passes and Mathewson also
made a wild pitch. From the other side
Of the plate Chief Meyers was equally
wild, throwing the ball all over the field
IN his efforts to check base runners. A
bunting attack by the Giants failed to
disconcert Vaughn.
Frank Schultz proved a poor corpse.
His restlessness spoiled funeral which
had been planned for him on Wednesday
In the first encounter between the CUBS
and the Giants Schultz struck out twice
and was finally retired in favor of :" pinch
hitter. Many decided that 1t was about
time for the last Of the old Cubs TO quit
the game and take TO his orchard in
Georgia.
ancient
foe inspirited the veteran outhelder. Just
for the sake OF aud lang syne Schultz
swatted the ball three times, and one OF
his hits was a double. "Wildfre' Frank
will give no aid this year in garnering
Georgia's peach crop.
Schultz need have no regrets when he
leaves baseball, for everybody knows that
Fame is a jade. Jim Thorpe knows It,
In the seventh inning Jim came up to
bat for Mathewson, but Hart, the umpire,
forgot to announce the substitution I'M
mediately from all over the field came
the cry, WHO is he? What's his name?"
Several rooters thought that the batter
was Larry Mclean until they saw him
sprint to first He was thrown out by
a shade on an infield tap, and retired
from the game in the same anonymous
manner in which he entered. 1t is I'M
derstood. however. that he was once iden-
titled with football and track athletics.
Both teams scored in the first inning
A line drive OF Saier's, which got away
from Snodgrass. accounted for Chicago
tally. and the run of the Giants was due
TO a double by Bescher and another by
Burns.
In the first part of the sixth inning
all sorts of things happened TO the ball.
The Cubs hammered il and the Giants
fumbled. Chicago batters sought out
Matty's fast ones and fadeaways with
equal indifference.
zimmerman and Schultz began with
singles. Sweeney hit TO Grant, and Helnie
would have been out at the plate II Mey-
ers had not dropped the ball. A wild
pitch brought Schultz home, and then
Mathewson passed Heating. the weakest
hitter OF the Cubs Bresnahans clean
hit to right sent Sweeney home. and he
catcher took second when the ball was
badly handled. A single by Vaughn car
ried Heating and Bresnahan across the
plate and brought the tally up to Ave.
A single by Burns, a fearfully wild
throw from Heinie Zimmerman on an
easy chance, Doyles sacrifice fly and
Merkle's single gave the Giants run In
the sixth, and their last tally came in the
seventh. on an error by Sweeney and an
inheld out. Burns robbed Sweeney of a
throe-base hit in the seventh inning by a
!eaping catch.