The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-10
ny WILLIAM H. HANNA.

1NV nilt yesterday thc 'idles WYNN
the Reds firmly in hand and reduced
them. They had to be up and hustling
TO do IT. but jumped on them all the
more decisively for being challenged
vigorously by the visiting federation In
each game. Retaliatory rallies were
necessary each time. In the first the
Reds tied the score In the sixth inning.
The Giants replied In the eighth and
won. ) to 5. In the second the Reds
showed the Giants aside in the eighth
and took the lead. but In turn were
crowded out Of the way In the ninth.
! The score OF the second game was 4 to 3.
The games moved along with vigor
and snap. not perfection. but we'll played
and we'll fought The Reds made "
disturbing rallies. but the Giants had
something IN reserve to Offset each. and
the New York pitching-the entire
games considered-was too good for
the Herzog invaders. 1t was "A shade
better in each strife than ~Cincinni.atis.
which had two or three innings OF re-
lapse I'm each game. whereas the New
York pitchers had only one inning each
OF a relaxing Of their grip on the situa-
ton.
Ralph Stroud. although necked harshly
in one round Of the first game. neverthe-
less came through II with honor and an
increased reputation for efficiency.
Stroud is one those pitchers whose head
always is where II should be. lie never
loses II. come veal or woe. For hve
innings yesterday he did not let "A Red
reach first base. His pitching was per-
fection-not a hit. not a walk, no'hing
by which "A Red could traverse the nrst
lap.
All OF a sudden in the sixth the Reds
fell on him and raked him for four hits
and three runs. The change on the part
of the enemy from supine to slugging
was enough to shake cast iron COM
posture, but Stroud never batted an eye
nor huttered a nerve. He took the on
slaught as part OF the days work, con-
contracted on what was ahead. "A la
Travers on the links, instantly regained
his winning stride and4 came through
the game without having drawn a long
breath.
Stroud had extra incentive to win, the
same superinduced by the presence OF
all Dover. Everybody knows that Dover
is in New Jersey-when 1t isn't in New
York watching stroud pitch-so 1t isn't
necessary to say go. Stroud comes
from there. Yesterday his Dover friends
brought along a. gold watch and chain
and gave him the c|hronometer and its
complementary gaud. So he served pitch
ing which, while slightly contaminated
with brass in one inning, was as n full
games worth OF a rich alloy. If the
inscription on the timepiece indicated the
lightness with which worries sit on its
recipien, II read Ralph Iceberg stroud"
Eight runs were made in the first
70 ma anA Axnp ~ chan, IuT M in u1fh
two out. There were two out in the
first inning. when Doyle singled.
Fletcher followed with a hit TO right.
which Griffith fu,nbled and Doyle came
home. Fletcher advanced on the error
and Merkle batted him to the plaIe,
Burns doubled to left in the fifth nniug
Robertson was the second out on a
blistering g%rounder to Groh and Doyle
singled Burns to the plate.
The first Cincinnati hit was a single
by Olson. and before the Reds subsided
ii took the finest kind of fielding by
Snodgrass and Merkle to keep the tally
output down to three. Mollwitz put "A
hit in right and Rodgers. Herzog's latest
conscript and a youth of confident bear
ing, bussed the bulb for a clean two
Dagger, Olson crossed the plate, Clarke
struck out and Herzog hit to Stroud,
who neatly nipped the ball out OF space
all' ''sSt' INV ouN ~ Nv plbtt.
Wingo drilled a liner to the foot Of the
bleachers In right centre. "a drive which
was "a nsctarine. and it took handling
OF the same degree OF excellence to
thwart the ambition of the Ivy mauler
lvy's ambition was to stretch the hit
to a home run and tail Rodgers and
} iIerzog to the plate, lie was beaten
by the accurate relaying OF ~Snodgrass
and Merkle, Lear wasn't as puzZling
as Dale. Hits by Doyle. Fletcher and
Merklc sent in a run in the eighth. but
the second score was n narrow squeak.
With Merkle on first and Fletcher on
third Lobert flied to Griffith. Merkle
had run down the base path too far,
! ana a good throw to first would have
: double him before Fletcher crossed
the ~plate-would have doubled him for
the third out, What saved him was
that thu throw wasn't good.
: Pete Schneider had smoky speed in
. the second game. but the Giants hit
him in emergencies. His smoke didn't
stand M so well against the good hit
ters. but 1t made Poll Perritt look as
II his bat was a mass of perforations
Poll. however, was In there chiefly "a
pitch. and he did that well. II was less
his fault than his supports missed
throw by Merkle-that got the team into
a serious Jam,
Wingo's walk and steal. on which
Doom dropped the pitch, and Killifer's
single rushed a Red home in the frs
inning. hat was Dooin's only slip
His inaugural as "A McGraw scrvitoI
otherwise was successful. He caugh,
BASEBALL. TO-DAY, EBBETs FELL