New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-03

pIllIldnI plJCninS Ol VII oi ii'0'
defeat the Giants came TO the thir
victory TO show
The situation is the queerest ever
known in baseball. Here is club that
is only one game from the top, club
able to break all road records, with
nineteen out of twenty-one games along
the hostile trail, and yet upon the 90
Of June holds but one triumph upon
the home battlefield. There may be
experts, soothsayers and such who can
explain this hairy phenomenon, but we
pass it up as entirely too deep propo-
sition for our shallow philosophy
The Reds blocked the Giants rush to
the top in two wayS-by assaulting
Matty for nine hits and four runs in
three frames and by the spectacular
pitching Of Clarence Mitchell, slab
man who works with his left arm, but
the right head and the right heart.
Mitchell slipped a trfe in the fourth,
when a series Of scratch lnheld hits
produced three runs, but as the game
moved along he began 10 develop un-
canny cunning. To show his final et-
fectiveness II is only necessary TO state
that the last twenty-one Giants who
faced him were turned back from the
sion Of hitless stars.
on Day for Matty.
Matty was nowhere near his best
He said Just before the game that his
arm felt none too good, but that he
would take a shot at the Reds, anyway
IN addition to this, he faced two tough
handicaps-the curse of the Polo
Grounds and donation of twenty-three
oliver cups by Eddie Leonard, present
ed one by one 20 each Giant just before
the game.
Having deposited their silverware,
the Giants went into battle with the
Reds, and almost before they knew u
Heine Groh and Ivy Wingo had scraped
Matty for triples, and two runs were
over. An outburst of singles and a
triple by Hal Chase drove two more or
over in the third, and after this Big
Six sought the secluson Of the club
house boudoir.
In three reels the Reds had massaged
him for nine hits and fifteen bases.
When Matty passed on Poll Perritt took
UP the waning cause and gave Mltchell
one of the merriest scraps of the year
The Giants got back three runs IN the
fourth on RObertson's single, Louden's
muf al second with an easy double IN
sight and series of singles by kaut,
II a
count in the seventh on Burnss single
and steal and Dave Robertson's double
to left.
In the meanwhile Perritt, the Louisi-
ana Canestalk, was working like mas
ter For FIVE innings he turned the
Reds back without a hit. At the end Of
nine innings be had yielded only two
singles where his dizzy speed had the
Reds in a trance.
ThaL 70 u
seventh Mitchell was even more spec
tacular in his pitching than Louisiana
Poll. Not a man Of the last p Giants
who faced him ever reached iTst'
which is our idea of considerable
pitching when the great power OF the
Giant attack is taken into intimate
and earnest consideration.
Break in Thirteenth.
The break came at last IN the 18th
inning Mitchell. who had retired the
side with three accepted chances IN
the 18th, opened the 18th with a
base hit Groh sacrificed and Neale
singled. Chase walked and the bases
were full, with one out.
IL was "a tough situation for Perritt,
hut even then he might have escaped.
Wngo raped sharply to Merkle, who
begged direct 20 Rariden for d force
ball back to Merkle for a double play,
but Wingo was running on the line
and the ball veered from his shoulder
as Merkle Knocked it down.
Nealc scored from second on the
plav and then while the Giant first
baseman held the ball, Chase, who
had raced from first TO third, stole
home with the second run. Rariden
had a tough throw 10 make as he
was stymicd by Wingo's broad and
manly form. but the result cost the
ball game.
The contest was full OF pomp, pep
and puncency. Considerable of the
pep came of I'm the sixth inning.
kauf opened with scratch hit that
bounded badly 20 Groh and Bonnie
then stole second. Fletcher flied TO
right and Merkle deposited a bunt
10 third. II looked as if Fred had
beaten the peg but Eason, who had
given two close decisions before
against the Giants, called him out.
McGraw and Nerkle both rushed
10 the centre Of the field and poured
impassioned oratory into Eason's ears
while the crowd roared its anger
NcGraw's protest became so vehe-
mcnt that Eason finally ordered the
manager from the field.
Great Catch by Burns.
The two-star fielding features Of the
Gay fell TO George Burns and Art
Fletcher. In the seventh Griffith soaked
one on far line to left. Burns raced
after the ball and finally got close
enough 20 block the flight, the ball
bounding up several feet from his glove
before il finally settled in the crack left
hclder's hands. This play was Of rare
type. and Burns came in for the usual
hp-hip. as he had killed a triple by mis-
work
I'm the tenth Fletcher went into short
left for Mitchel's looping fy and made
an almost impossible catch, diving for
tho ball just as IL came down.
The crowd, interested mainly in the
Giants, also kept keen eye for Hal
Chase The ex-Yank Of other days
PLAYED centre well. poked out a single
and a triple and then showed his old
alertness in the thirteenth by scoring
from first on a play whore the ball
never left the diamond. Hal travelled
two bases while Merkle and Raridcn
were pegging TO each other and then
stole home.
The Giants failed 10 win because they
met magnificent pitching from Mitchell
and because Matty faltered at the start,
hut they fought out such an uphill bat
lie that defeat left no sharp sting. The
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