New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Assemblage of One-Time
Giants Add Tone to the
Ceremonies.
FIELDERS TAKE EARLY
LEAD ALL IN VAIN
Brooklyn Team Takes Kindly to
the Rescue Work of Bob
Groom in Both Games. /

There were many attractions nj
Washington Park yesterday. 1t was
the first day of double jitney baseball
at a double header. The Tip Tops won
two games. And numerous ex-Giants
and ex-near-Giants held an old home
week on battle ground that was IA
miiar to most of them long before
IT, Federal League was ever dreamed
of.
Fielder Jones's troupe OF trained
baseball players. whose home town is
St. Louis during the summer season at
least, furnished the opposition, such as
it was, for the Tip TOPS and were twice
beaten for their pains. They were de.
feated in the first game by a score OF
8 to / and fell again before the Brook
lyn team in the second, this time by a
score of to !.
PERHAPS the crowd that turned out
for the first double header at real bar
gain rates did not come up TO the nu-
merical expectation of the Brooklyn
management, because by the most eX-
travagant estimate one could not mag
inc more than 5000 spectators at the
game. The dime bleachers in centre
field were damned like a West Farms
local at 8 o'clock and the quarter seats
in the pavilion were well filled. But
there was a vast gap in the upper half
Of the grandstand which was hard TO
explain. The counter attraction at Eb-
bets Field probably had much to do
with that big hole.
John McGraw's feelings would have
been mixed if he could have seen the
assemblage IL onetime Giants and near
" onetime Giants who gathered on the
diamond under the banners Of the rival
Federal League teams.
Hooks Wiltse, now with the Tip Tops,
and Doc Crandall, who sports the liv-
cry of the Fielders, had a long chat
between games and seemed tickled to
be within reach of each other again
Grover Cleveland Hartley and Al Bird
well each had share in the days
doings on the St. Louis side of the bat
tie. while Claude Cooper. who deserted
McGraw Just when he was on the point
of getting a regular assignment. was
busv in Brook yn's cause. These five
have all seen their day with the Giants
In the gathering, but not entirely OF
il, were Jim Blue Jacket, the big Indian
who skipped to the Feds just when
McGraw thought he had shared him,
and Benny Kauff, the young man who
was Giant for day.
st. Louis went of in the lead in
each game. but Brooklyn bided its time
and when an opportunity came along
to 90 ahead the Tip Tops were not
slow in catching on. They jumped to
the front in the seventh inning of the
first game, but in the second encounter
they waited only until the fourth frame
before discounting the one-run lead to
which they spotted the Fielders in the
second inning.
Bob Groom had the distinction of
figuring as a rescue pitcher twice and
was unwarranted. He succeeded Daven-
port in the first game, and in the Sec
ond he took Wetson's place.
In the first the Tip Tops just got a
speaking acquaintance with him by
getting one run off him; in the second
they hammered and pelted him for half
a dozen runs and Crandall haC 10 come
in and do some pinch pitching. He was
the Otey of old. The Tip Tops got
one run off him, and that was all.
Joe Finneran and Jim Blue Jacket
upheld the pit,hing end for Brooklyn.
Between them they held the Fielders
to seven hits. Finneran was touched
up for five safeties, all of which were
scattered, while Blue Jacket let the
st. Louis tribe down with two. The
big Indian was so wild, however, that
his good pitching was almost negatived
by the number Of bases on balls he
distributed.
Armada Marsans went through both
games for the Fielders and got only
one hit in the day.
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