New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-08
McGraw's Men Get Thir-
teen Hits in Four Games
Win Three.
LOBERT'S DOUBLE IN
PINCH DECISIVE
DOYLE and Robertson in Big
Slump-Schupp Credited
with Game.
By GRANTLAND RICE


become a useless adjunct Of Glorihed
Founders.
Bybeating the Cubs 8 to yesterday
the Giants made 1t three out OF four
for the series, and they used up but
thirteen hits in the four games to &C
comphsh this highly worthy purpose.
An average Of three and one-quarteI
base hits to the afternoon Is not what
anv ono might call heavy and hilarious
hitting, but it was heavy enough anu
hilarious enough TO got by. Which is
royy ALWAYS was and always will be the
answer. a.
The anal Cub combat closed out the
freak series Of the year. Here are the
astonishing details, II you DOUBT THIS
Tirst-The Giants won three games
Of the series on three hits day. Iney
lost one four-hit game.
Second-While the Giants were win
mig three out of four, Doyle and HOB
ertson. the two main sluggers OF the
squad, got one hit out OF thirty times
at bat. ~. 4.
the series after fifteen shots, while
Daredevil Dave hasn't picked on dow
In his last eleven times up.
Nor is this anything like the COM
plete list of freak episodes that have
Continued popping out since Joe Tinker
brought his blighted cast to the Big
One Big Blow Did II.
There is the case of James P. Laven-
der the Montezuma Machine Gun.
lanes P. held the Giants TO one scratch
hit in his first game here back in June,
and a few days ago beat the club again
with four hits. Yet on yesterday they
knocked James P. out of the box with
one safe blow. It isn't often that one
hit can mutilate Jinx and win pail
game at one and the same moment, out
such are the facts.
In TO the fourth inning, with Ferdy
Schupp facing the Montezuma delegate
the Cubs were leading TO U, with only
two wasted punches brought 1orwaro
against the Cub slabman. Starting tne
fifth. Kauff was safe when Wortmanns
throw yanked Vic SAFER on the bag
Merkle was hit and Fletcher sacrlnced'
With Schupp waving a bat in the fore
ground, Lavender walked karldeh 10
get a shot at Ferdy.
II was precisely at this point that
McGraw gave Lavender that exces-
sively tired feeling. John j. lifted
Schupp and sent Hans Lobert to bat
and Hans is the hero of this yarn de-
spite the fact that he doesn't enter
until the fifth act. For Lobert hooked
one down the third base line for
two-base wallop, clearing the bases
when Mann pegged Lavender's splitter
wild to the plate. The bum peg cost
nothing, however, as Rariden was al
ready far beyond third when the ball
was thrown.
McGraw had tough decision to
make when Rariden drew his pass IN
. the fifth Here, on the one paw, was
q fine opening for a base hit with the
bases full and only one gone. II was
tough shedding to have light hitting
pitcher up just at this moment.
On the other paw, 1t was equally
tough to lift a pitcher who had al
lowed but one run in five innings and
who was moving along nicely. 1t
would have been simple enough to
have lifted Schupp in the eighth or
ninth. But yanking him in the mid
die of a 10 scrimmage was another
matter
McGraw's Decision Justified.
McGraw made his decision on the
instant He decided to grab for that
base hit and take a chance on JEFF Tes-
reau holding the enemy at bay.
Was McGraw's decision correct?
The answer is this: Lobert drove
three runs over and the Giants needed
exactly three runs to win. II was a
punch as timely as that wallop of
Merkle's. The queer part of il is that
while the Giants won three games on
nine hits, they actually used but four
of these nine hits 20 carve out their
victorious way. They won two games
on one hit per afternoon, and they
added another by using two hits.
Just what the record along this
freak development might be is beyond
our dope. But it is close enough 10
freak mark TO stand until some en-
ragged fan with the proper figures can
prove that we are wrong. And IL such
is the case the enraged fan wilf not
lose many minutes in presenting his
case TO prove that some club in the
past has used up less than four hits
TO win three games from one series.
Lobert's fine double drove Lavender
TO the coop. Mike Prendergast and
Tom Seaton finished the contest with
out permitting another blow, but no
other blow was needed. For while
Tesreau skidded for a breath in the
eighth inning he caught himself in time
70 save the day.
In this inning he passed Elliott, who
later scored on q single by Mollwitz.
Mol stole second, but with the tieing
run in sight jeff struck out Mann.
Tesreau allowed but one single in
the four innings that fell to his lot,
but as Ferdy Schupp's pinch hitter had
placed the Giants out in front at TO
before jeff started, credit for the game
will be awarded TO the willoYy young
left handler who has become one of the
mainstays of the club.
Robertson in Slump.
Dave Robertson has slipped hum
hnr Of valuable nofches since his nut