New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-06

fighting spirit. A ball game was only
a ball game. It seemed. and a licking
was Just a defeat. They played as #
they didn't care much. for the first pay
day is only ten days distant.
Poll Perritt was Che first Giant
twrler 70 face fire. and for six innings
he took a terrific Smelling. Hits Of un-
usual distance few into the out'ield
and the guardians Of the outer works
Of the Giants ran many. many rods.
holding things together as best they
might.
l. was pretty strenuous work, for
the LOokouts were simply on fire with
the lust Of battle. and they tore the
covers right off. They made eight hits
off Perritt. and three of these were
triples. One other was a two-bagger,
so the percentage Of eXtrs-bsse wal
lops was fairly high.
Rube Benton. who replaced Perritt.
was hit hard. too. His percentage of
extra base hits was even greater than
Polly's OF the three hits made of
the RUDE two were doubles.
Right there you have a pretty fair
idea Of how the game went. Inter
mingled with these drives were the
various circumstances of baseball. all
jumbled in like reisins in a plum pud-
ding. Here and there things bobbed
up that had 10 be met. with no one
on the reception committee.
Kid Elberfeld. who once won fame
with the Detroit Tigers. and later with
the Yankees. is manager of the Look
outs. He has his own ideas about hos
pitality. which. according to the popu
lar songs, is found al its best in
Chattanooga. He trotted out no fewer
than four pitchers against the Giants,
leaving each in Just long enough 10 be
battling TO the big leaguers. Herbert
fingered longest. and he only worked
three innings.
That. perhaps. is one Of the reasons
that the Giants gathered only five hits
Three OF these came in the second
inning. when the New York boys scored
their lone tally. Fletcher. Kelly and
Wendell singled one after the other. ell
TO centre field. and the first named
eventually crossed the plate. S,er in
the game New York had chance TO 20
something on one or two occasions, but
the hit needed to urge runners over
never materiallzed.
The crowd rode the Giants unmcrci-
fully all through the game. even the
police officers taking part in the bait
ing. McGraw was master of that situa-
ton however, and he selected no small
fry for his verbal voleys. He walked
right up 10 the captain of the force
and told him just exactly what he
thought Of him. until that worthy sub
sided and left the grounds.
Benny Kauf had another bad day
lie failed utterly in his efforts 10 get
the ball into safe territory.
The Giants took advantage Of the
morning Of from practice TO visit the
battle grounds around Lookout Noun
tain and Missionary Ridge. McGrsw.
Matty. Benny KaufF, George Burns.
Fred Merklc and one or two others
formed one party. They returned to
the hotel laden down with souvenirs
of the famous battle above the
clouds"
Sid Mercer conducted the tour OF the
newspaper men. and he pointed out tho
exact spot where Sam Crane Is reputed
to have led the charge OF the Mas
snchusetts Volunteers. There Ia no
record of the Massachusetts Volun-
teers, however. and after an animated
discussion IL was decided that Crane'r
charge was only 4 charge account at
thu hotel