New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Doak with His Splitter and
Curves Gains Day in
Ten Innings
BY W. O. MCCLELLAN


number Of Giants fans out of consid-
cradle money and merchandise. Yes
terday they increased the annoyance
by trouncing the Giants by a to
score in an extra inning game.
Times have changed considerably
since the big league teams were
nutting their way through the South
crn States on the spring training
camps. For after the Giants and the
Cardinals had passed San Antonio.
Dallas and other points in the torrid
Southwest, the experts IN the sticks
remarked. az the Giants lose one
rame TO the Cardinals there ought to
be an investigation by the national
commission"
Nothing to Investigate
The Giants lost their first game TO
the Cardinals yesterday. and there is
nothing TO investigate. 1t was strictly
on the up and up. The Giant Tank
could not get started against the
saliva delivery of bloke named Doak,
who is no joke when it comes to
smoke. Also a member of the perfect
infeld and one of the more or less
critical times.
The Giants tied IN the ninth only to
be lanked in the tenth through the
vulnerability Of Slim Sallee, Sheriff of
Shreveport, and through a boot by
Benjamin b. Kauff. the conscientious
centre field. = was a considerably
tough and strenuous session to lose.
However, one should not repine, for
real baseball weather has at last APP
peared upon the plains that lie in the
lee of Coogan's Bluff. The overcoats
were taken of in public and the coffee
station maintained by Harry Mortimer
Stevens scarcely got tumble during
the balmy afternoon. This is the real
tipof on the arrival of the warm
weather The swallow sign often is
the bunk.
Another sign that the real baseball
weather is here is that the kicking has
commenced Miller higgins, the De-
mosthenes Of the Cardinals, made sew
eral orations for the benefit of UNI
pires Rigler and Orth. Even George
Burns. who has not registered a kick
in his entire baseball career, almost
protested yesterday. When Rigler
called him out on strikes he got as far
as saying. Hey" Then he blushed
ana retired 10 the OuS-out'
Miller Starts Trouble
The Giants were going nicely, with
Fred Anderson manipulating a moist
but effective delivery, until the fourth.
Then, with two out, Miller slapped
twister 70 Fletcher. The Texan nailed
the ball all right, although 1t was
almost out of range. But when he
threw it to Holke the ball swept several
yards over the first baseman's head,
letting Miller get TO second.
Roger Hornsby, who is always a
dangerous person when he has bat in
his hand, was the next up. A cautious
pitcher would have passed him, but the
spirit of the Giants is to take a chance.
Anderson started 10 shoot them right
over. Hornsby got under the second
pitched ball and lifted hit TO centre
field, which scored Miller.
At this stage of the game one-run
lead by the Cardinals did not seem TO
mean much in the young life of
Giant. Neither did it greatly perturb
the multitude. Pretty soon the Giant
Tank would be cranked Up and it would
roll Mr.. Doak into a shapeless mass
against the nicely ironed grasses of the
Polo Grounds. But with the passing
OF the eighth inning and no Giant runs
that lone tally of the Cardinals began
TO look pretty big. The Tank could not
get any momentum against Doak.
With two out in the ninth, one OF
them being Lew McCarty, pinch hitter,
and the other Honus Lobert, also IN
a pinch hitter's uniform, it began to
look very tough indeed. George Burns,
reliable old "Cawge," got base on
halls and efole second
Charlie Herzog then limped up and
showed that he was really convalescent
in mind and body. First he tried bunt,
and il rolled foul. Then. with 'the IN
field more or less drawn in, he drove
clean single over second and scored
Burns, tying the score, IN the nlntn.
Higgins Agitated
The achievement considerably agitat-
ed Miller Higgins, who operates the
Cardinals for a stock company. lie sent
tn Long TO bat against Slim Sallee, the
Sheriff OF Shreveport. who relieved An
derson. Long laced out nice single TO
centre field. Miller sacrificed and
Hornsby was passed, apparently inten-
tionally. 1t is not bad idea to pass
Roger at times.
The Cruise smashed one 10 centre
field. Benny Kauf went after it a bit
TOO eagerly. The ball took bound and
cerromed off his knee. rolling ia: out
along the grass. Long and Hornsby
scored on the boot without even having
70 speed up. pL
In the Giants part OF the finale Rob
ertson went out on long fly TO right
field. Heinie Zimmerman. the Ostrlcn
of The Bronx. drove long hit to right
for two bases. Fletcher tried TO smash
him home. but flied out to Long. The
Giants began 20 look hopeless at about
This time and the multitude began to
beat il for the exits.
Kenny Kauf slashed one along the
first base line, and Miller made won
derful stop, throwing the ball 20 Doak
apparently before Kauf reached the
bag. Everybody naturally supposed that
n was the third out, and the crowds
began 10 pour into the field. Heinie Zim
started toward the clubhouse, but sud
denly turned and dashed for third. Ortiz
had called Kauff safe, on the ground
that Doak had crossed the bag before
he had the ball.
A. this the Cardinals began TO pro-
test in chorus. Miller Higgins was so
peeved against umpires in general that
he hid Rigler's whisk broom. But LOT
the Intervention of Harry Stevens,
friend Of umpires and other social OUT
casts. the relic would have been lost.
Rut Kauf was nailed trying TO steal
sccond bv a perfect peg from the ever
sccrrate Snyder TO Hornsby. The little
lease of life did the Giants no good
Tire Tank was spiked and otherwise
nut out OF commission.