New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-28

Christy Mathewson pitched one OF
the most brilliant games of his career
against Babe Adams at the Polo
Grounds yesterday, and the Giants won
from Pittsburgh by score OF TO l.
These two veterans attended to bus
mess from the very start and COM
pleted their performances with sucn
dispatch that the game was ended IN
an hour and ten minutes, the POLO
Grounds record for the season.
II was about as near a perfect base
hall game as could be staged. Inc
oai,, ~ 10 have improved it would
have been to put Larry Doyle.s nome
INN, which scored Robertson ahead OF
him. in the ninth inning instead OF III
Tho 6rst Thus the dramatic suspense
might have been greater. ii
%eitber Mathewson nor Adams nina,
cd the cold. which kept the thousanu
fans shivering in the stands. Inc
rates made seven hits TO hve 1or the
Giants Mattv would have had less
nleasant afternoon had he not been sup
norted by brilliant fielding. but ne
was set TO win. bofore
.bo came Chief Meyers cried out IN
cIee 9t the sight of the stuff Matty was
Tutt;ng on the ball. Matty carried that
itnF INTO the game with him, ana al
,Longb no never has been strlke-ouS
ni+cher. he famed seven Pirates, SIX oI
them in the first four innings. 49,
Those fortunate fans who braved the
,o,ro,,e or the frozen north saw the nine
Giants who started the game Stuck 10
ihe finish Seldom is 1t in these trou-
HE'D times that McGraw uses only hihe
mon in game. But yesterday, the
r;ne that started were playing such re-
markable baseball that not even Vne
assistance Of Darlington or helly was
needed. - .bo
tart. With Burns and GranC ouL,
Fletcher beat out a hit. Wagner
reached the ball by PLAYING 1t cieverly'
~ Gould not recover to throw to hrst
IN time 70 catch Fletcher. Doyle dug
lis toes into the turf and whaled the
ball into the right field stands. sending
IN Fletcher ahead Of it Merkle nled
or+ That was all the scoring the
Giants did. but so effective was Matty
mat two runs happened TO be enough;
HIS only bad inning was the fourth.
Carey flied to Robertson and Colllhs
truck out. Johnston singled over
first. Hinchman singled to centre,
Johnston stopping at second. wagner
zipped a single down the third base
line and Johnston scored from second
Mccarthy struck out.
After the first inning no Glant
reached third base. Outside OF the
fourth inning no Pirate was past first:
ONLY one base on balls was given, ana
that was handed to Carey by Mathew
con in the eighth inning.
Wendell. the Bronx boy. who is lust
breaking in with the Giants hanNIed
Nathewson's stuff in great style. Only
one Pirate tried to steal and he was
slain in the act.
AZ least three hits. In the second inn
inc Hinchman drove the ball at Matty
with such force that it carromed off
enc of Mattv's shoes toward Doyle.
who nabbed il and threw out Hlnch-
man.
Fletcher dashed over to second and
made a one-hand stop of Carey's
smashing grounder in the sixth. catch
ing Carey by a shade. In the same
inning Johnston hit a slow one through
Brainerd. Doyle backed up Brainerd
and Mattv covered the bag. Johnston
was out, Doyle to Mattv.
Good fielding stopped Pittsburgh's
attempt to rally in the ninth. Johnston
started the inning with single.
Hinchman was ordered to swing q. the
ball. and he swung il into a double
play. Hans Wagner hit the ball so
hard he cracked his bat in two and
carried the handle with him as he ran
10 first, where he was thrown out by
Fletcher