The sun., 1916-09-28
CARDS COME CLOSE
TO HALTING GIANTS
IN OVERTIME TILT
New YOrks Make 1t Twenty
three in a Row, but Get O
Severe Scare.
ON BRINK Of DEFEAT,
HERZOG STARTS RALLY
~ FREDERICK G.. LIEB.

~ FREDERICK G. LIEB.
Tho great winning streak Of tho
Giants looked deader han Dickens's
doof nail on the Polo lawn yesterday
when the ninth inning came rolling
around. with two out in the ninth and
the Cards leading at . to o, the boys In
the stands were edging toward the ex-
it,. Then came the explosion.
A warm slap to right by Charley Her
o was converted into a triple by owen
Wilson's keystone komedy fielding. and
Lew McCarty and George Burns rushed
home with tho ticing runs. The st.
Looey lads then STAYED or defeat for
n inning. but gave way before a Har-
lem attack in the tenth. After three
straight singles. Bob steele let Heinie
Zimm romp home on IA wild pitch. en-
abling New York TO score It's twenty
third consecutive victory by 4 to 4. IL
was by far the most exciting tin OF the
etreak.
steele Nearly Docs II.
Bob steele. the young left handed re-
cruit from 81. Paul. was Huggins's last
hope to wreck the New York winning
streak. steele pitched one of those
three shutouts suffered by the Giants
when the McGraw band was last In Mis-
souri,. and the kid kithogue came
within one putout OF repeating and
bursting the Giants streak in tho bar
gain.
In the first eight rounds Steele
pitched as though he had an arm OF
steel truly enough. as he set the record
breakers down with four hits. all com
ing with two out. lIolkc n Raridei
pushed out singles with two gone In
the second. but Hornsby tossed out
Anderson. Robertson's single In thu
third was a fruitiess blow. while kauf's
triple In the sixth was permitted &c
wither by the roadside when Holkt
whitfield.
The ninth opened as though Steele
would go right through with his stce
act. He erased Holke on n fly to Jacr
Smith. \ faint ray Of hope was aroused
when Lew McCarty walked. but th!'
hope sagged quite a bit when Kelly. hit
ting for George Smith, lifted an nor
fensiye pop to Bethel.
Then came the fireworks. Burns
lined a hot single to left. placing Nc
Carly on second. That put II up to Her
zog. who had failed TO get on base II
ten successive times. But Charley
middle name is Pinch" When tho,
are needed Charley can produce them.
Charley Roosts on Third.
He spun a hit to right field. which
with any kind Of fielding would haze
been only n single. But Chief Wilson
tried to throw the ball home before II,
had 1t. bu, never did get his hands oil
i. The hit glided by J. owen. hit th'
wall and bounced back, with Wilson IL
pursuit. by the time he succeeded II
picking up the ball both McCarty ant
Burns were nome and Herzog was roost
ing on third base. IL was UP to Robert
son., but he expired on a liner to Bohen.
After Bill Ritter knocked the Car
dinals down three in "A row in the Hug
gins half Of the tenth steele came vi
groggy when he faced the Giants. The
youngsters face showed the tensio, In
vas working under. Zimm greeted hin
by ramming a single between Miller AM
the first base bag. McGraw instructe,
Fletcher to sacrifice. and steele fell try
ing TO field .Artic's bunt. and 1t went foi
a scratch single.
KaufY also was instructed TO bunt. ant
Steele now was gaspins. Benny bunte'
perfectly. Steele saw he had no chance
for a play on Kauf and made n useless
peg to third to force Iimm. With Nc
Carly up. steele pitched one into tn
dirt, which bounded away from Snyde
for q wild pitch. Bronx Heinrich SCORING
the winning run.
Fred Anderson. who has been knocke,
out of the box in two other games whicl
lie tried To contribute toward tho Giants
record drive, met "A similar fate whe'
McGraw gave him "A third opportunit.
10 do something for the cause. l,ut 70
stupid work by the Cardinals on tn
bases they would have scored nue.
heavier on ANDY" than was the case
In two and n third inninFS they bange,
him for six hits and he walked two. ye
only two runs scored and one was let 4
on . wild throw by Rariden.
Saith swats Anderson.
with two out In the FIRST chapter Snltl
slugged a single to left and stole second
Meeting such fine success. he started
new thieving expedition with third has
as his objective. Bill Rariden pegge,
two yards over Heinie Zimm's knob
stop him md Smith kept on to the plate
Tho Cardinals put together anothe
run In the third inning. After candy
brcezed Steele he walked Bescher. Bohe
singled to right, sending Handsome 20
80 third. He scored when Smith crashe
another single into right. Anderson wa
permitted to llnger around until h
passed 1Iornsby. which filled the base,