The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-27
I'crrItt Receives Justice.

Foil rerri't. who couldn't conserve a
six run lead in the opening game and
who was saved the iEnom!ny OF defeat
through tine dependable efforts OF Christy
Mathewson ny that strange law Of ret
r!hutipn. was forced 20 shoulder the de-
feat Of the Giants in the second game.
1he stiug of this reverse was all the
more poignant because OF the fact that
Rube Marquard. a southpaw discard Of
the Giants. cheated Eube Benton out OF
one of the very finest games ne ever
pitched. Il was Marquard's first start
OF the season. From what he showed
Uncle Robbie has not nursed him in
vain.
1t looked very much as II Robbie out
jockeyed his tutor. McC;raw, in the twelfth
inning Of that second game. Brooklyn
had 10 thank Renton's only unin'entional
pass for the only run 4, got in nine in
nines. Benton was poison To the hopes Of
the Dodgers. With the count still knottei
IN the twelfth, darkness closing fast and
one run appearing more and more vital.
Robbie's minions were able to arrange a
setting for a pinch hitter in place OF
Benton hat McGraw could not find Il
In his heart to decline.
Fletcher was on third and Merkle m
hrst with two out because Of Johnston
wonderful running catch Of Rariden's
Texas Lacquer In behind second, Rari-
den was passed purposely. filling the
bases. McGraw put II up to Pinch Hit.
ter Kelly. who failed. as usual. That
removed the grim Benton. brought In the
easier Perritt and gave Robinson n
chance to steal the game.
In the first anne McGraw shook II
Ms batting order a bit. He boosted
Benny Kauff from the cleanup slot &c
second place. Whether or not thl'
change was responsible for Benny's be,
havior. the fact remains that Kaun
looked like an entirely new mar I'm nj,
new dignity. In five trips to the plate
he registered a double and two triples
HIS double drove in one run his fir =
triple two more, and his second 'ripl,
three additional counts. As he himse!
scored twice. Benny was directly asso
ciated with eight Of New York's clever
marks.
There might have been a differen
story had Kauff remained to menac,
Marquard through the goodnight affair
But Benny. like the good Samaritan, fel
among thieves before the second gam.
was two minutes old, was stripped .
his batting record on "A called strike tina
Miller picked out Of the dirt. and Gale,
so Justify for help that Byron rumble,
him right out of the park.
A rather peculiar coincidence OF tn.
first game was the fact that eighteen o
the nineteen runs We're secured after tw,
were out. The run Of Burns In the frs
inning came viii none down, lie wake,
and scored m kauff's double.
New York got lfcff"r's range In Nh
fourth inning M"rllc singled througl
Mowrey, only 20 bc forced by McKechnie
BIZ Ftol" second as ltariden famed
Perr.it walked after being In the hole
Burns sli cled to centre scoring Nc
keohn'". kauf tripl"d to centre. sror
Ing i"rriit ana Burns. Robertson single,
- loft. scoring Benny. Doyl les singh
30 right sent Robertson TO third
Fletcher raped to centre. tallying Rob
cr'snn aud putting Larry on Mowrey'
bag, Mcr!ile, NJ for the second tim
of the inning, grounded 10 Cutshaw.
In BrooklNn's iif'h Permit tossed on
Cu'shaw and Olson foulcd TO Rarider
Then tnineS began to happen. McCart,
h"a' = slow TAP 10 Fletcher. Mails, tn
colt sou'hIHw Nho had replaced Pfefer
singled to left. Johnson singled g. IN
same garden, SCur!nc McCariy paii
berts double redeemed Mails and Johns
ton. STENCILS douhlc 'alliod Dauber,
The partisan brooklyn crowd wa
Tenzi'd by this time.