New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-30
$4,000 Fans Cheer and
GrOan at Spectacular
Baseball Game.
NEW YORK MEN
SLEEP ON BASES
Poor Fielding Also handicaps
Them. Merkle Beinl Most
Prominent Offender.
Bv GRA\TLA\D RICE.

, All things come-sO hey say 10
those who wait. Quite so. But more
than often they arrive in the neck. In
the presence Of $4,000 New York and
Brooklyn fans. who raved and roared
until their lungs turned upside down.
the gasping Giants once more got 1t
under the right and left ears. They
went twelve rounds before black fate
shrouded their wretched souls in the
sable Of sorrow. but for all their
mighty batting Brooklyn beat them .
to4
For over three hours the two ball
clubs swayed back and forth in a bat
tie that held its unbroken grip upon
the creates, crowd of the year. Time
after time the Giants had the combat in
their clammy hands. only TO blow IT at
the first chance by dumb base running
infeld fumbles. wild pegs or other at
fairs Of such annoying nature that Al
WAYS follow in the talender's bhghted
wake.
The McGraw men struck the pitching
Of Sherrod Smith. RUDE Marquard and
Larry Cheney sixtee~ times for TWEEN
ty-two bases. but even this blazing
fusillade was not enough to hoist them
out Of the depths. They did the right
thing at the wrong time and the wrong
thing at the right time for the enemy,
and between this CALLING crossfre there
was nothing to show at the nnish but
the bubbles where they sank for their
seventh successive defeat
Romance and Tragedy.
This game was conglomeration OF
romance and tragedy, comedy, melo-
drama and farce. extending over the
wide range Of dramatic forces that play
upon the human emotion when II is
taut. The big crowd was alternately
lifted 20 the heights and tossed to the
depths and at the finish there wasn't
a fresh lung in the stands.
Chief Meyers and RUDE Marquard
stalked out against their old mates,
the first TO shine and the second 10
fade. and in the midst of the scramble
Fred Merkle debutted at third base,
fired three long doubles and stuck
Colonel c. T. Silver for new auto
mobile by soaking the Peerless sign IN
left field with a wallop over Wheat
Yesterday stands as one OF the great
days in Fred's career. and UP and down
he has had his share Of days that
linger in the memory. He emerged
from the dust of the arrival with put
outs al third and first. three doubles.
wild peg. half-fumble, tally, me
throw. strike-out IN plnch ana
new. self-starting car. Having all he
could carry home he left the rest OF
the loot behind and called L an alter
noon.
The blow that earned him the car
scored Art Fletcher in the eighth. IL
sailed on a line over Zach Wheat and
struck the proper sign two feet from
the ground. II was tough game Tor
the Giants 20 lose. but Fred expects
20 bear up bravely as soon as the ma
chine arrives and the gasolene tank IS
filed.
The Giants lost through a medley Of
giraffe pitching giraffe fielding and
poor base running that turned Nc
Graw's aching soul pailid green. Inc
Robins were falling upon Ralph Stroud
when John J. sent in Fred Anderson
for relief work in the sixth. Fred
started well, but the visitors ripped
his hide off in the ninth and twelfth
for A total of six clean hits, punched
in these two fatal sessions. he had
lead at the ninth. but he couldn't
hold Il.
Dumb Base Running.
But all the fatal flaw in Giant play
was dumb base running. In the third p
inning Dave Robertson opened with
hit. Five seconds later Sherrod Smith
caught him dreaming of the hour so
far off base that he couldn't have got
back in a taxicab with a ten-minnte T
start. An infeld error followed. with a
long hit By Fletcher that went TO
va A. This stung a trife. but it was
nothing to what happened in the ninth. .
The rollicking Robins had just taken
the lead on Olson's single. Neyers's
long double and Daubert's safe blow.
In the van By one tally. Robby rushed
mt Pubic Narcrard 20 suppress his ey-