The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-04-02
GIANTS. LAMBAST
C0VELESKIE HARD
AND BEAT TIGERS

Dallas. Tex, April 2-Memories
Of days of old and legends Of the
story books were given a terrible jolt
ing by the Giants here yesterday af-
ternoon in the third Of their series of
games with the Detroit Tigers. The
tale of the ancient Giant sKiller was
revamped and rehashed in such a
manner as to make it hardly recog-
nizable to the folks who remember
the old, old story. 1t concerns Harry
Coveleskie, who has been written
down in the records as the chief fac
tor in trimming the Giants out of a
pennant back in the good year 1908.
The Giants won the game by a
score of to 6, but the simple effect
of this pair of digits In the order OF
things numerical goes but feebly to-
ward telling all that took place in
that combat. The turmoil and turbu-
lence of a ninth inning finish in
which the Giants counted five runs
are things that simple counting hard
ly encompasses.
To begin with, there were some ten
thousand and possibly more persons
on hand to watch the conflict. This
it is claimed, is a record crowd for a
baseball game in Dallas and possibly
for the State Of Texas.
Lured on no doubt by the charm of
the lively fistcuffs of Saturday, in
which Charlie Herzog and Ty Cobb
were the principals, Dallas fandom
flocked to the ball park in hordes In
trolley, automobiles, self-owned jitney
buses and afoot, they tracked to the
park in sufficient numbers to over
flow the seating capacity of the stands
long before the game
An extra special thrill was provided
in the ninth inning finish, which
brought the Giants from back of a
three run handicap and sent them
away to a two run lead.
Giants and their friends was the
fact that the big scoring spree was
INDUCED in at the expense Of Harry
Coveleskie, the Giant killer Of old. 1t
was extra specially delightful because
of the fact that the big Pole was trot-
ted out at a time when his mates
enjoyed a lead of one run. No doubt
Hughie Jennings figured on spiking
down this advantage by playing his
pitching ace.
Covey drifted in to start the sixth
with one run to the good He was
not maced for the tying count in this
inning, but stalled off further damage
until the ninth, when the deluge swept
over him. Herewith a recital of the
details.
One down at the time. Peter Kill
duff drew a pass. Robertson thump-
ed a low fly to right centre and Kill
duff scooted to second. Heinie Zim-
norman laced hard drive past short.
Heilman in centre fooled the drive
and Kilduff scored and the other two
runners reached third and second.
Fletcher singled to right field and
brought home Davy and Zim, the lat
ter scoring the tying run. Benny
Kauff drove a sizzling liner to left
that was cut to two bases, because of
ground rules, and Fletcher raced to
third. Holk hit to short Bush peg
ged to the plate but Fletcher slid
home under Spencer with the winning
run. Rariden forced Holke, but when
Young relayed low to first Ball was
safe and Kauff had counted another
for good measure.
The Tigers made a bold bid for a
rally in their, half, chiefly through
Tesreau's wildness, but fell short.
With Spencer out on an easy roller,
Harper hitting for Coveleskie, walked.
and Bush also drew a pass. Young
was tossed out by Kilduff, bringing
Samuel Crawford up with two down
and two runs needed to win