New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29


and after proposing that everybody
boycott the Giants they went out TO see
if anybody was so doing. And again
the Giants double crossed the fans and
their manager. The New York baseball
club suddenly came 70 life, and after
they dropped TO the bottom so hard
that it ratified their teeth they began
to play as good baseball as anybody
h exhibited az the Polo Grounds this
season.
For instance, there was yesterdays
game, which started in the rain. The
Giants beat the Cubs-oldtime enemies.
bitter rivals and all that sort of stuff CD
by score of 10 0. II was the third
victory for the Giants out of their last
five games, and they played as fine
baseball as you would ever hope 20 see.
jeff Tesreau pitched for the town
boys and held the Cubs to three hits,
striking out eight men. The Giants
made only eight blows off Humphries
and Adams, but eight was plenty. In
fact, the New Workers would have won
bad they been held hitless. for one Of
their scores came without the aid Of
any sort of hit whatever.
Three singles in the first gave New
York one run. Burns started with a
single TO centre and was forced by
Grant. Robertson's single put Grant
on third and Merkle's hit scored him.
The other run appeared in the third
Burns waited and walked, reaching sec
0nd when Grant was safe on Fishers
tumble. Robertson sacrificed Burns 20
third, from where he romped home on
Doyle's sacrifice fly to Williams. That's
all the news to-day about the scoring
Tesreau at His Best.
Tesreau was almost as good as any
pitcher ever gets to be- The day was
dark and damp. and his splitter was
breaking hither and thither -hither
when the Cub batters swung thither
and thither when the swing was hither
He gave three bases on balls and hit
one man. The one man was Umpire
Cockhill, so it didn't make the festiv-
Il any the less enjoyable.
The impression Tesreau gave was
that he hit Cockhill accidentally, and
cured in the second inning and Cock
hill hadn't missed any close ones on
the bases.
Zimmerman walked in this memoir
a inning. Safer grounded out to
Brainerd, Tesreau covering the bag
zimmerman overran second on the play
and Tesreau shot the ball at Fletcher,
who was covering second. Tesreau's
aim was bad and he hit Cockhill harm
lessly on the back. Had his aim been
good, Cockhill probably would have
been carried off the field.
Roger Bresnahan ran out on the field,
not, as you might have guessed. to
sympathize with Cockhill, but to pro-
test that Zimmerman ought to be al
lowed to take an extra base on the play.
Zimmerman was told to stay on second.
Pinchers Not Needed.
For the second time in two days Nc
Graw used only nine men in a game.
There was no need for pinch hitter
n for a pinch pitcher. The Giant
pitchers all have been in fine fettle in
the last few, very few, days. Perritt,
Stroud, Matty and Tesreau on their
last outs have worked like league lead
ers. Benton didn't do well on his first
appearance, but McGraw expects better
things of him when he works to-mor-
row or Tuesday.
With this state of affairs it looks as
if the Giants might win the pennant
after all. All they have TO do is to
win thirty-six out of forty games that
remain on their schedule.
This short squirt put the Giants up
in sixth place. But be not too joyous.
Following the Cubs will come the Phil
lies and the Braves.