New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
Outfelder Drives Out
Home Run, with Two
Men on the Bases.
MARQUARD PITCHES
SHUT-OUT BALL
Matty Shows Oldtime Cunning
by Retiring Side with Three
on the Bags.
BY HAYWOOD BROUN,

Beaumont. Tex, April 3.-"Jame.
Thorpe. the worlds greatest athlete."
shouted the gentleman announcer at
Magnolia Park for the enlightenment
of the crowd. And it was@" Lawrence
Doyle" Arthur Fletcher" and so on
down the line. without any attempt at
undue familiarity, but with now and
again an embellishing bit of comment
or biography. But the courtesy was
more scant for the visiting left fielder.
"Red Murray" said the announcer, and
let it go at that.
Yet it was this "Red" among the
Lawrences and Arthurs and the
Jameses who made it possible for the
Giants TO defeat Beaumont by score
Of to 2. In his case it was not neces-
sary 70 rake past history in order TO
impress the players greatness upon
the fans.
Murray achieved his own fame by Sc
Letting one of the fastest shoots OF
Joe Martina and sending it under the
centre field fence for home run which
carried two others across the plate.
The centre field fence is a long way
from the plate, but the ball was moving
rapidly when it burrowed out OF view.
The hit all but spoiled fine day for
Beaumont.
Folks around here rather fancy Joe
Martina, and they believed that he
would defeat the visitors. Probably
Joe shared the belief, for he played
with great effort and was most peevish
in his conversations with the umpire.
AS matter of fact. he held the Giants
more in hand than any pitcher has sue
ceeded in doing for many weeks. Nc
Graw's men made only eight HIS. This
was not sufficient consolation for either
Martina or the fans. but there is balm
in store.
RUDE Marquard. who pitched shut
out baseball for five innings, gave way
to Mathewson. Most of the rooters
rather expected the great pitcher to
strike out every man who faced him,
and there was a sigh of relief when
the first batter succeeded in tapping
ball to shortstop. but in the eighth
inning Clarke, the left-fielder, sudden
ly amazed everybody by driving a
home run to left field after two strikes
had been called upon him.
Rudyard kipling once related the
misfortunes which befel the two Eng
! lshmen when the natives came 20
realize that the strangers were not
gods, but merely men. Just so the
natives of Beaumont suddenly began
! TO urge their players on with wild
roofing as soon as knowledge dawned
| that Mathewson was just tossing a
baseball like any other pitcher.
In trice, or perhaps half a trice. a
/ hit, an error and a pass had filled the
| bases. Now, Matty knows that exhibit
ton games mean nothing in the final
reckoning. but he was never of a dis
, position to enjoy run making by foe
men. As the home folks began TO ex-
press a desire for home run with
which to tie the score, Matty put a
bit of the old summer sweep into his
delivery and brought in play a trick
or two.
Three balls he bent across the plate.
and the last one fooled the hitter so
badly that his bat went flying into the
middle of the diamond when he made
vain swing. "The boys don't seem
TO be bit scared of that. Mathew
! SON." remarked rooter. and. indeed.
they were not. The Old Master was
found for another run in the ninth. bus
the rally had come too late to save
| the reputation of Martina or 10 impair
that of Mathewson.
The score follows: