Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-04
GIANTS WRETCHED
WORK Is BLOTCH
ON GREAT RACE
Sid Mercer Says McGraw's
Men Winding Up Season in
Discreditable Manner
FANS AWARE OF FARCE
BY SID MERCER

In New York GLOBE.
NEW YORK. oct. 4.--The one splotch
on the close OF a great season In the Ma
tionai League was the wretched behavior
OF the Giants over at Ehbets Field yester'
day. The Giants are winding up the season
in a manner most discreditable TO them
selves and the game that gives them live
lihood. The pity Of u is that they have
Hoped of the PEDESTAL the fans stood them
on when they made their remarkable stand
at the Polo grounds last month.
Another pity is that the Dodgers did not
need any hippodroming to beat the Giants.
The collapse OF the Phlllies was complete,
and Brooklyn did not particularly require
yesterdays game TO win the pennant. The
Dodgers cannot be blamed for what hap
pened. The responsibility has been placed
where II belongs
Nobody absolutely can prove that the
Giants wanted Brooklyn 60 win that game.
but $4,000 spectators noted that McGraw's
players were not trying hard 1t was
obvious that the Giants figured the Dodgers
sure winners, and gave up the fight TO finish
third when the scoreboard showed that
Boston had won the FIRST game from the
Phillles
They took the bit In their teeth raced
away from McGraw and played baseball
that amazed onlookers, who had followed
their great sprint at the Polo Grounds last
month SO brazen were some of their over
gust after expressing his opinion OF the
game In vitriollo language.
McGraw left the bench before the end Of
the game because his orders we're not being
followed, and afterward in the clubhouse
he handed out some calls" that he had
stored up for certain athletes
Immediately after the game McGraw was
bitter toward members OF his own team,
but fifteen minutes later. when he was In
tervlewed by the reporters, he had cooled
out to some extent and toned down his
charges
81 don't charge any man with funlling "
| he declared, but l don't stand for such
| baseball as the Giants played today II
was a bitter disappointment to me after
| the way / have worked and worried over
the team this season.
| 81 never laid down In a game to any
| man, no matter how good a friend, and my
players can verify the statement that
insisted on them fighting for every one o
these Brooklyn games. But today they
| played their own game. They missed my
| signs, displayed miserable judgment Il
| every department OF play, and almos
i turned the game into a farce For instance
| Perritt took his wind-up with a runner OF
first base. Those things are not done II
regular ball games.
I Il am sorry for wilbert Robinson's SAX
that we did not make n better showing
| There will be Philadelphia attempt [
make a scandal Of the fact that Brookly
scored seven runs on pitchers who hav
been shutting out other clubs, l don't In
tend to take any of the blame If tn
Giants are criticized, that is their lookou
| not mine"
Starting out with n lead of three rum
the Giants kicked off run after run. Rub
Benton, who shut out the Braves wit
one hit last Saturday blew up in the fourt
inning after he and Fletcher had indulge
in an argument that held up the game 70
several minutes. -tI ,.
| Up in the press stand Sam Crane, VIII
has rooted for the Giants score of years
| voiced his Indignation. and at one tim