New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
Vaughn and Perritt En-
gage in Pitchers Battle
al Polo Grounds.
CHICAGO TWIRLER
GIVES THREE HITS
Zeider Stars at Bat for Cubs,
While Mann Shines in
Outfield.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

mobile FOR himself by hitting Mr.. Sill
vcr's sign (adv) upon the left field
fence.
Yesterday Fred won a nice pink ball
game for John McGraw by hitting one
Of Jim Vaughn's fast shoots twenty
feet over the same sign deep into the
left field stands.
BY the margin Of this four-base
swine Poll Perritt beat Jim Vaughn l
10 in what might be termed pitch
ers' battle" TO introduce an original
and distinct phrase into the comment
OF the day.
Merkle's blow was a walloon of q
u-allop; a prodigious poke; corpulent
clout; careening crash. In short, II
was considerable tattoo.
Regular vardon Stroke.
The big punch arrived in the eighth
round. with the count 0 and 0, and
Vaughn in one Of his heroic moods.
Using the same stroke that Harry Var
con and Chick Evans employ, Fred
drove the ball from waist-high tee
high in the air, but with such terrlhc
velocity that it cleared the fence by
twenty feet
This blow was quite ample, with Poll
Psrritt in a buoyant mood. Poll was
nothing like as spectacular as Vaughn,
Int he was supreme in the pinches,
which is the place 10 be supreme at, or
in. Vaughn allowed but three hits,
whereas Poll permitted seven. and six
of these came at the start OF an inning
All in all, il was a quaint section OF
the national endesvor. The Giants had
hut one man on base before two were
out. On the other paw, the Cubs got
the first man on in seven innings, ana
in another instance the second man up
reached first. The Cubs therefore mad
eight healthy chances to score, while
the Giants had but one. But In their
eight chances the Cubs, TO get run
while about all Merkle had to do was
IN steer serenely from bag TO bag.
Perritt allowed seven hits, and yet
no two Of these were clustered IN
single reel. They were all scattered
along the way, with number OF inhelo
taps and lofty pop-ups intervening.
But. after all, the main factor in the
Cub defeat was the Toledo Blade.
Ncrkle not only got two of the four
bits Of Vaughn. but, in addition to
these safe smashes, he struck on an
other i'm the fifth that should have been
GOOD for a triple. Playing In deep left,
Mann ran far into left centre Tor
spectacular catch, killing of a drive
even longer than the wallop which
cleared the fence.
Heinie Too Reckless.
Il was Merkle again who saved the
dav in the sixth. Heinie Zim opened
the inning with hard. high bound to
Hcrzog. Buck jumped for the stop,
and. being off balance, pegged low by
first. the ball rolling on TO the stands.
Hcinie took second and dashed for
third at top speed, but Merkle's peg
from the right field wall came to Her
zoe at the proper spot and Heinie was
pinned 10 the cart as he slid or
Jumped for the bag But for this flne
throw Zim would have been at third
with no one out, ready TO dash for the
plate at a moments notice.
The best Cub opportunity came IN
the fourth. Zim opened with single,
and a moment later Art Fletcher kicked
a hard chance on Kelly's grounder.
With two on and none out, Safer
dropped n bunt near the box, which
Perritt used TO force Zim at third by
fast work. Workman then forced VIC
SAFER and Wilson famed.
Rollie Zeider, the ex-Yank. had an
ANNOYING day. Rolle opened three
separate and distinct innings with
clean base hits. Yet his mates left
him stranded from first around to
third on each occasion. At the fourth
time up Rollie got even with tho cast
by popping up with Workman on sec
ord. He wanted some one else TO know
about how 1t felt
You can't very we'll blame Rollie at
that. No wonder Zeider felt like bat
tirs. II he hadn't jumped TO the Feds
he would probably still be member OK
the Yanks. and to-day would probably
hav, been in the hospital with tract
ured knee or a dislocated neck.
The signs are now ripe that Nc
Grsw's pitching staff has at last swung
back into line. Day by day the Giants
are getting first class pitching, and the
big improvement in the rest Of the
club Is also marked.
The club has won eight OF its last ten
games, and while Brooklyn refuses 10
subside, there is always a chance as
long as the old machine can ramble
along at an 500 clip.
Vaughn at His Best.
The test yesterday was a real one.
Vaughn, now one Of the star left-hand-
ers Of the game, was at his best. He
had everything, which, Hughey Jen-
nings SAYS. is all any pitcher needs.
His support was keen and steady, al
ways on the job. Yet in spite Of this
the Giant defence was powerful enough
10 protect the suburbs Of the plate and
10 hold the enemy at bay until Fred
Mcrkle adjusted his focus toward the
left field fence.
Vaughn held Dave Robertson 10 one
hit. a double TO left centre, but the
rapid-fre V.rgnian raped two long
drives that were hauled down well out
bv the borderland Of safety. Dave is
hitting the ball beyond anything the
National League has known since Hans
Wagner drifted over the crest, and not
even Hans had finer wallop TO de-
liver.
The best individual play on the Giant
side was running catch by Fletcher
in the fifth, with Flack on second base,
pointing for home. Mann at this point
dropped a short, looping fly between
Fletcher and Kauf. II was too far in
for Benny TO seize, so Fletcher went
for the ball and nabbed IL twenty feet
beyond the grass line with his broad
hack 10 the cheering stands.