New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-20
McGraW'S Men Set Record
of the Season for
Victories.
ROBERTSON MAKES
HOME RUN IN TIME
Young Outfielder's Mighty
Wallop Yields Three Much
Needed Runs.

St Louis. May ~ Upward and on
ward the New York Giants drive. They
won their ninth straight victory this
afternoon. defeating the Cardinals IN
The third game OF the series. The
score was 90 {. McGraw's men are
now within nine points OF the 81. Louis
men in their drive for fifth place and
fewer than seventy points separate
them from the first division. The
Giants have yet 20 lose a game in the
Western country, and from their game
to-day defeat is still hull down on the
horizon. dim speck IN the purple
misted distance.
Nine straight victories is a major
league record for this season. and u
was won in a manner 90 please Nc
Graw. of 20 q flying start. the Giants
piled Up a lead Of four runs only to
have il reduced 10 evenS The winning
spirit has taken full possession Of the
boys, however. and with Poll Perritt in
the box. replacing JEFF Tesreau. they
came ahead 10 put the winning run
over in the eighth inning. Fletcher's
single scored Robertson with the tally
that decided the issue.
Davey Robertson was quite the lead
ing factor in the game for the Giants.
His mighty home run TO right centre
A drive that defied all human speed to
pull il down came in the fourth inn
ing. with two men on base. 4 batting
rally had previously scored another
run in this same inning, so four runs
resulted. Slim Sallee, who has been
known 10 pick on the Giants, was the
victim of all this activity. Robertson
made couple OF nice plays on balls hit
into his territory.
I'D brr~- Er=t at
tao on Slim Sallee in the third, with
Bill McKechnie leading. Bill laced
single into centre field, and he romped
around 10 the far turn when Bill Rari-
den walloped a double. Ralph Stroud.
who had started the game in the
pitchers box, struck out. George
Burns struck a single TO right, sending
McKechnie home and putting Rariden
on third At this important Juncture
Dsvey Robertson came Up 10 the plate.
and he walloped the ball on a dead line
into right centre field, clearing the
bases.
That gave the Giants a commanding
lead. The Cardinals had gotten after
Stroud in the opening frame, and
nipped him for a run when Smith
scorched a single through Larry Doyle
and reached third on outs by Bethel
and Bescher. Hornsby bounced a single
toward left, which Fletcher knocked
down but could not hold. and Smith got
all the way around. In the third inning
Smith and Bethel singled one after the
other. and McGraw gave Stroud the
Office that he was just about through
for the afternoon, and Tesresu, he OF
the damp delivery, went in.
DAYS there are when lead or a
couple of runs is all that Iesreau
would ask. but to-day they were not
enough. He lost his cunning IN the
fifth frame. and in trice the Cardinals
got on him for three runs, which tied
the score. II was not that JEFF could
not make the ball break. II hoped and
fiuttered and jiggled around in its own
peculiar way; but when II came TO the
plate it was straight as string. AS 10
floated up the groove the bats fairly
leaped TO meet It.
Senior Gonzales. the lanky Cuban,
spanked one splitter Tor slngle, ah am:
Sallee walked. Smith then sliced his
drive 10 right field for three bases:
Smith deserved no such luck. He pulled
his head up, dropped his right shoulder
and shifted his feet, but he certainly
did WALTON the ball. Gonzales and Sal
lee trotted home. and BetzePs smoking
single sent Smith over with the telng
run, II killed two birds with the one
stone. for it sent Tesreau to the shower
bath and brought Perritt into action.
Poll used to spend his August days
In this city, and he has never gotten
over il. He carries the grudge to this
day, SO when he got out on the mound
ne Just took a fendish delight in sup
pressing every effort of the Cards 10
do things worth while. He was hit
fairly hard at times, but he had the
stuff TO make the ball 20 wherever he
directed it, and all was quiet along the
Missouri