New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-15
MCGraw Men Able to Get
Only One Hit and Are
Shut Out.
KAUFF SPOILS DAY
FOR JIM LAVENDER
Benny Makes Puny Hit to lnheld
in Mulligan Keeps
on Smuggling.
Bv GRANTLAND RICE.

James T. Lavender. ono Of the IA
nous Georgia peaches from the Monte
yuma hills, should receive legal per
mission 10 give Fate a swift kick on
the ankle the next time they meet.
In the Cub final Lavender shut out
Matty and the Giants TO 0. where
only one pale, puny. pop-eyed. pesSy'
pimply. punk and pallid poke. scratchy
enough to strike a safety match on
INTERVIEWED between the Montezuma
Marvel and a no-hit game.
II frequently happens IN the bret
little frohc that we call life that only
the thinnest sort Of gap separates
fame from the other thing. But II lsn I
often this gap is as thin as blade OF
grass For six innings Lavender had
turned the depressed Giants back with
cut the scmblance OF blow.
A Weak Tap.
Starting the seventh. Benny Kauf,
who had famed I'M the first inning,
hinged heavily At one Of Jimmys fast
curves and the result was weak, twist
ing tan that rolled less than ten yards
from the plate. Lavender rushed over
with a bale Of time TO get his man, and
thereby round out a nO-hlt game, but
inst a. he reached for the ball II took
last dying hop. detected by the heavy
ciass. over his itching palm, and be
,o,e he could recover and peg on 10
SAFER. Kauff had arrived by span.
There was nothing left for any one
20 do eNcrot score base hit The fact
ina. IL was scratch hit. a punk and
puny hit. a joke Of hit, lucky hit,
had nothing TO do with the case.
through no fault OF Lavender's, the
bail Jumped over his bare paw and
baned up the play. So while you
might we'll enough say that Lavender
morally pitched a no-hit game one
marx must 90 against him IN the REG
ords. and the records are the only
things that count.
This same Cub pitcher has played a
leading role in the past history OF the
Giants. Back in 1912 the Montezuma
Peach was the rifemau who cracked
Pube NarCuard's winning streak after
the Rubc had blown himself 10 nine
teen straight. Last summer, at the
Polo Grounds. il was Lavender again
who subdued the Giants without mt.
And Yesterday he deserved another by
ali the laws Of Fate. In the first two
innings his fast curve was shooting at
a tangent. and he hit three Giants. But
after he had plunked Merkle in the
SECOND. also i'm the ribs, only three men
faced him 10 ar inning. Two OF these
got on base. but one vas doubled and
he other npped stealing, Kauf being
both one and the other.
To show just how effectively the Cub
star was using his right arm, the
Giants soaked but two balls beyond the
infeld. DOYLE led to centre in the
sixth and Merkle skied TO left IN the
seventh. The others passed away on
strikeouts or infeld chances, with
Heinie Zimmerman blocking most OF
the way.
Heinie Busy.
Tho Renowned Heinie waS the life or
the party. lie scooped up ground balls
with his toes. fingers and teeth, and on
one occasion raced on TO second on an IN
field error where the ball barely shpped
beyond the diamond.
Lavender left but little work for ms
mates TO look after. With fine speed
and a curve ball that ducked and broke
as il reached the plate, he gave the
Giants a pain that started IN the SPINE
Nathewson's fate was hardly less
wretchod than Lavender's. Or you
insight even say that IT was good DIT
worse. Matty pitched an oldtime game
enc OF his best, and failed 10 permit an