New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23

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The game was strictly a pitchers
battle. Any one who undertakes 10 give
Alexander an argument is almost GER
tain 70 run into a pitchers battle. Rube
has been associated with no; few af-
fairs Of this sort, but his name also has
been mentioned in connection with en-
tertainments known as batting bees. In
fact. Rube just fits from bee to battle
and back to bee again. Marquard was
ever an extremist
Some folks like bees and others pre-
fer battles, but give US battle all the
time. Just look at the way q bee muses.
I'D your scorecard Why, there have
been evenings following bee when
we've spent as much as half an hour
irving TO remember whether the star
FISH we used in the third inning on the
card was intended TO indicate three
base hit or a wild pitch. We could
score a game like yesterdays all night.
In fact, for a time we feared we might
have 10.
The first inning promised bee, but
nfter that the game was all battle. bolh
teams scored once in the first inning
and thereafter not az all. Grover OIeVe-
land Alexander permitted the GIANTS 70
hin him safely twice in that first Inn
inc Perhaps he had neglected TO work
himself into a sufficient perspiraton,
and then again II may have been Henry
Fabian's high mound which bothered
him.
range and sweat he was 100 per cent
efficient. He allowed no hits in the last
eight innings and gave no indication
that he ever would permit any more
He passed two men and hit another.
Chief Meyers never did have any luck
He was the man who was hit.
Marquard allowed seven hlts' but
there was no continuity TO the attack
of the Phillies. Not more thah one MT
came in any inning.
In speaking Of pitchers battles, there
il no intention to give the impression
that the result hung solely on the Ell
forts of two men. When Joffre defeats
Won Kluck, or vice versa, to keep II
neutral. others are permitted 10 snare
in the battle. and just so Rube and
Grover had need of their reserves.
Yet in the main fortune was syn
chronized with the rise and tall OF
left arm and a right. In the closing
innings the mastery OF the pltchers was
narticularly complete. for The fast gath
sTing thunderstorm left a batter hardly
light enough TO dodge, let alone Int.
The game was more than pltchers
hattie. il was a duel between right arm
and left. overarm and sidearm. The re-
suit makes for tolerance. Judging from
the afternoons proceedings, left-
handler is every bit as good as rlght-
handler so long as he behaves himself,
John NcGraw has always maintained
that there is one right way TO pltch,
and that is overarm, but Alexander mas
persisted in his sidearm heresy, and
what is worse, has succeeded IN MS
schsm. 80
Having said so much for the pitch
ers. il is only fair to give the batters
a chance and tell what they dld IL me
Arst inning. RUDE Vanguard began by
striking out Bancroft, but Byrne was
pAssed and came home when Cravath MT
the ball a long, long way TO left centre.
But for tire trouble Gabby might have
made a home run. Third was as far
as he could lumber, and he went no
further.
With one out in the Giants half OF
the inning, John Lobert cut double
20 right. Larry Doyle singled IN the
same direction, and Lobert came home.
Burns and Fletcher both went out on
infeld grounders. The Giants had no
chance thereafter. Merkle went as far
as second base in the second inning as
the result of a pass and an inheld out
and Meyers also reached the halfway
mark in the eighth, after he had been
hin. Robertson, who walked in the
fourth, went out stealing.
Bvrne began the last inning with
single. and went TO second while
Fletcher was throwing out Niehot;
Cravath flied 20 Burns and Marquard
tossed out Iuderus. The Giants went
out in order in their half Of the inning.
The tie permitted the Giants TO take
sixth place in the league race, as
Brooklyn lost.