The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-17
GIANTS HAMMER
! MON TILL He
HAS TO DEPART
Five Runs in Eighth Put End
to Chances of Pirates and
Make Score 8 to +.
BRAINARD GIVES GREAT
IMITATION OF STATUE
NJ WILLIAM n. HANNA.

FrT-sprno, sept is-The pitching Of
Robert Harmon was too inviting and
~breakahle to-day for the fine faculty OF
the Giants for wasting opportunities
to count materially against them. and
they beat the Pirates 3 20 4. Usually
a day of for me Giants means a slump
IN their playing. hut that wasn't the
case following yesterdays vacation, for
the New Workers. already were al the
bedrock bottom of q slump and could
not become my slumpier. They
Jumped in and won to-day. and, facing
the pitching Of Hickory Bob, hit the
ball 30 hard that the stitching cracked
under the strain.
n eighth inning put the Pirates out
OF their misery. for IN that round the
Giants heaped up FIVE runs, but before
that the inmates OF eighth place gave
ono OF their Incompatible exhibitions
OF how to slap opportunity In the face
n bid her be gone. On several occa-
SONS the playing OF the Poloists when
the outlook was favorable was of the
sort to encourage apoplexy in a New
York rooter. but tho sixth inning was
the acme of acute disappointment and
is worth telling about.
Fletcher begaa this wet blanket sixth
with a single. Becker made a safe
bunt, and when Grant did likewise the
bases were al'ed with mono out. Right
here Messers. Harmon and Gibson used
their brains, and when opposing teams
take to doing that the Giants are apt
to be outclasSed. Meyers, who had
made two hits, tapped a fly to Wagner.
Bratnard, the pinch hitting wonder.
bulked large a: The plate n took a
strike. The ball came over big as a
cantaloupe. Another came over, big
as a pumpkin. ard Bra,nard ooked It
over Another came straight over, big
and corpulent as a medicine bail. and
right UP thsrs on his shoulder, nesting
cozily. stayed Brainard's bat. George
Burns also struck out, but George had
enough conception OF what he was there
for TO swing Il. the ball.
Tina was the only good pitching
Harmon did. the only time he deceived
the Giants. They made one or more
hits IN every inning and. though their
attack often lacked cohesion. their hit
ting was clean and spirited and their
fielding 4 -cidrdly good. stroud. who
began The game. probably would have
won il had he stayed in. lie did all
right after the first inning. and with
the help Of tidy support pitched we'll
with men Un bases. He resigned for a
pitch hitter, the aforementioned mo-
t~Ioulcss Braintrd.
The first uf seven three baggers-fve
by the ilIrts-was made ny Burns in
the first inning. There were ten bucks
in Il for any stalwdrt who made a home
run, ana the athletes thumped the bulb
far % furiOusly. but all were Just
short OF the p%rofferz d emOlument. The
s~uffraE.sts We're offering the ten simo-
Icons reward, but they dispersed "A good
H. % 80 H.
there were five iron men in II for every
artisan who made a run. Before the
game the players marched across the
field carrying balloons tinted with the
suffrage color, gathered In front OF a
box In which SAT Lillian Russell. set the
flock Of balloons afloat and then began
the battle with the ball thrown out by
Miss Russell.
The sticks OF Burns, Robertson and
Meyers ard Il walk and steal by Becker
figured in the first two New York runs.
The Pirates made two in the first on a
double, a triple and a single. They
didn't tally again until the ninth. when
Tesreau became a little careless and in
serted a wild pitch between two hits.
Doyle and Fletcher tripled in the sew
enth. ard in the eighth Harmon was
batted from the box. a fate he was
lucky to escape so long. Grant singled.
Meyers tripled, Tesreau singled. Burns
sacrificed, Robertson walked, Doyle
doubled. Gibson muffed a throw to the
plate and Fletcher sacrifice flied.
Young Becker. who had showed pro-
ficiency at nabbing flies, making hits
and speeding on the paths. showed a
good throwing arm to-day. Gibson, who
was on third with one out. tried to
score on Johnston's fly TO centre. Gtbby
was doubled at the plate, where Beck
er's good thrown was handled cleverly
by Meyers. The score: