The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-07
NEW GIANTS DELIGHT
POLO GROUNDS FANS
HOlke. at First Base, Comes In
for Praise and Ritter
Pitches Cleverly.
DOUBLE HEADER DIVIDED

The closing games Of the National
League season at the Polo Grounds yes
terday afternoon presented many new
faces to the few thousand fans on hand
In fact there were so many OF them that
Il would have been hard to convince
sceptic that the Giants were the team
opposed to the Phillies. In place of John
McGraw. Mike Donl,n was the manager
for the day. and practically every young
ster recently acquired by the club was In
the field. In tho place OF the old familiar
veterans. The 1edglings acquitted them
selves with credit. breaking even with the
Quakers and showing here and there
flashes OF high calibre work that bears
promise OF a bright future. The young
Giants won tho frat game by a score OF
TO 1 and lost the second by TO o.
First Baseman Holke won his spurs by
brilliant execution Of nearly everything
he was called upon TO do. one play by
him. in the seventh inning of the first
game, reminded onlookers OF Hal Chase
in his prime He went nearly half way
to the pitchers box for "A burning liner
from Irelan's bat. had to make a sidewise
flying leap to nail II with his bare hand.
and with the same motion shot the ball
TO second bass for a double play. squelch-
on the apparent hit. The rest of his
fielding was good, though he made one
| excusaDle error. his throw hitting man
| who was caught In runup, and he
| clouted the ball solldy for clean single
| In each game. Holke, who Is from the
Seattle club OF the Northwestern League,
is the whole key to the problem OF finding
new first baseman. according to one Of
his newly made admirers.
| Next to Holke and Harry Smith, whose
| catching wares already had been exhibited
to the regular attendants. Pitcher Bill
| Ritter was the young hero of the day.
| This youth from Scranton, who once was
| spoken Of enormously as "A southpaw, did
some of the righthandedest pitching of
many weeks in the opener. After Marty
| OToolc had a one inning warmup Ritter
stood the Quhkers on their heads for the
remaining eight He allowed only four
| hits and his sole visible fault was pass
ing the first batter up In an inning. All
| four walks by him came at such times,
| and one OF the passes 10 lrelan In the
sixth inning scored the Phillies' lone run.
on Dooin's bounder Holke tried to throw
| Irelan out on a force play AT second.
but was not quite quick enough. lrelan
took third on Mayors single and scored
| on Martins sacrifice fly. ON which PEE
made a weak hur home.
! Another stripping Erickson. whose first
name was said to be Knute, spelled with
X and final 2, began the mound
work in the second game. He was un-
fortunate in having poor support, all OF
the Philles' runs OF him coming after
chances had been offered to retire thre,
men. Little Beatty. likely looking
youngster at shortstOp, had "A particularly
bad day OF 1t. making three errors, and
young Brainerd at second was guilty 81
one, but otherwise handled himself well
Huenke pitched the sixth and seventh
rounds, yielding one tally through straigh
hitting in the first of them, and ther
Umpire IN Chief OConnor announced tina
the game was called on account Of dark
ness. though the sun was shining brightly
Tn to that time Baumgartner had shu
out the Giantlcts and. Judging from tn
way he was going the home team would
have had TO be extremely lucky 10 scor'
= against him In two more innings. TIT
scores.