The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-21
GIANTS STAYE OFF
DEFEAT UNTIL The
TWELFTH INNING
philIirS. League Champions.
Beat New Workers by Score
Of Z tO H..
$4,000 CROWD ~ Ar
OLD LEAGUE OPENING

Twelve innings OF baseball. uuickercd
on occasions by heavy and punched hit
ting. q place yesterday afternoon AT
the Polo Grounds Nhen the Giants
opened their home season. The Giants
lost eventually. The Phillics beat them.
I TO 6. playing az IL bent on winning
not iuko champions.
The Giants gave evidence of more
severity IN striking power than they had
last year. and bctwcen them and the
Phillics n game was unfolded notable
for its rccurrent and yenomous ou,bursts
Of consecutive hitting. Hut there were
other respects in which the Giants
showed the faults which reduced them
70 far Town in the ranks last year.
They were just good cnough TO lose {;
they were jus, good enough TO fall short
OF success in their rallies they were
Just good enough TO have numerous men
on bases without getting them around,
and from what brief insight the crowd
could get into the pitching situation. the
star has its weaknesses as a year ago.
There was ineffective pitching and
effective on the New York side. the for
mer kind by Stroud, who was halted out
Of the box in eject II not in reality, and
frst class pitching by Palmero. the
Cuban. The Phillies had a pitcher
knocked out of the box. too. Chalmers.
% It was an even break in that regard
With Chalmers's passing. the Giants
harvest season ceased. McQuillan
stopped their scoring. and. with Senior
Emilio Palmero doing capital enough
work TO make il a stim tusslc with Me-
Quillan. the game went through the
seventh. eighth. ninth. tenth and
eleventh innings runless.
just Lacked the Punch.
The Giants had better chances to win
from the seventh inning on than the
Phillies. Blu; every time they were
minus the final punch, the completing
coup. They shaped up a %stroneer ball
Club than last year. but for the moment
were without the fnal.ty to win the
game and without the inality which Is
necessary to make their renewed efforts
and strength productive to a first d.
vision degree.
There was a healthy and extensive in
terest In the Giants first appearance.
The attendance was about % 0oo per-
0ons. many of whom met with considera-
VIC uciiy III StAAIIS ~ iuf IhF~ saw
did a vast business. The greatest pres
sure was there. Invitations. apparently.
had been sent out broadcast. The jasn
at the pass gtte grew until Il was en-
pedient to use another gate for the tn-
vited ones The fans. paid and free,
greeted the home team with more gsuu-
Inc enthusiasm thai for several sea
sons and the game. full Of strife,
charges. counter charges and generally
tane ha " "a -
pitch.
Three former Federais. Eauf. Roush
and Rariden. plucked seven Of the
Giants twelve hits. Eaur and Rousl
with three each. Benny quietly
bludgeoned his way into the esteem of
the fans and the less heralded Rousl
trod n rampant measure himself viii
the claymore. other good hatters in the
oruptions OF sloughing were Georg,
Burns, Stock. Paskert. cravath. NiehoT
Merkle and Luderus. l.udy smote the
spherical target but once, but that was a
home run with a man on.
Mayor Mitchell and Milton Stock. who
travel In widely different orbits ordi'
narily, made the only errors. Stoct
made three pool throws, but all in al
did his team much more good thar
damage. Mayor Mitchell, after his an
nval trudge across the field properl,
OVOyRudTuCu ! W A"t Fl" ~
throwing out the new ball He threw
% high that in going up for the hectic
ding Bill KLEIN projected his bald knoll
nearly up TO the gray and cherries sky
Kau6 Has Pretty Good Day.
Benny Kauff twice failed In emer
kencies. but more often made goot
1nd had the fans with him to the las
man from the start. His hitting counted
- ran ba SEES well and he fielded we'll
He made two hard catches. He had u
10 ct Q smoking clip to keep pace witt
Inc Phillies' Paskert. That %obtrusiv'
Quaker obtruded with three harmfn
hfts and some OF the finest centre fell
playtnR released for public vision in tn
kistory Of centre fielding, lie snatche'
6tos every where and with the finish o
master. Moreover, Cravath. the lun
S>rinR Gabby. felded prettily ant
spasfed distant flies under the shadov
the wall. Whitfield threw out a ma
a the plate. SO that the Philly outiiel'
~ q constantly predatory hllianc
against the welfare OF the Giants, ,
Stroud, always unsteady, wavered !
ths arst inning after two Phillies ha
6een retired. a hit. a pass and a winge
hatsman filled the bases. but kauff cam
10 the front with a snappy seizure G
Whitted's hy. Stroud's respite was shor
NYehonf and Burns singled in the secon
aiming, Chalmers sacrificed and Stoc
rolled a two Dagger along the left Tot
line.
The Phillies. due to this felonious an
combined assault N Strouds pitching
had two runs. but the Giants replied wit
three. Kauff drove wickedly throug
Bancroft. Mcrklc cracked to Ger
tire and Roush cracked ono to the san
acre. McKechnic sacrificed and Raride
went nto action with "A hit to midfiel'
The birching ensemble netted three rui
and the crowd exulted-fOr "A while.
stroud was all right and shipshaI
in the third and fourth, but all wrong
the nth. He was iiayed cruelty. Stoc
hunted, Paskert singled, cravath dente
the right field wall with "A two bagg'
and L.uderus poked Il home run INTO Il
convenient right field stand.
Ginmts Make Three Runs.
The Giants stood up and took tn
punishment without hinching, then Q,
In with some of their own. With heav
hitting in the sixth they made thr'
runs. and with more judicious coachir