The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-15
GIANTS SPLIT EVEN
In RIOT AND GAMES
AIT POLO GROUNDS

New York, Aug. ia fuil-grown
yesterday while the Giants and the
Dodgers were mingling in a double-
header, and before the pugilistic con-
fiagration was under control, the
players were behaving like q crowd
of duly qualified members of the I.
w. w. THE scrap was matched in the
sixth inning of the secpHd3 game,
when Casey Stengef f-roRped into
Fqetcher at second base with his spikes
Cleaning. Fletcher assumed that
Casey Intentionally tried to cut him
I down, so in a jiffy Stengel and
Fletcher were merrily mixing it up.
From both the New York and the
Brooklyn benches the players rushed
out to the. sector OF hdstilities. 1t
wasn't a private hghtsS everyb odyagot
in It. Herzog tried to get between
the two players, who were trying their
best to- embarrass each other with
kicks and blows. and naturally Heinie'
Zim wasn't the last man on the scene.
} Stengel was waving his arms around
like Dutch windmill. but his aim
was bad. AS each player came be-
! tween the warning athletes. each was
/ duly greeted with cuff on the ear,
came so large that the rebellion vas
pat down.
interest in the game halted. and
the Is, 900 excited fans cheered an
they watched the melee. Somewhere
IN the mob were Umpires Harrison
and O'Day spreading peace doctrine
as fast as possible. Both Fletcher
arhd StengeI were put, out of the game.
They we're informed. that ifs they
wanted to fight there were plenty OF
chances in Europe.
The brawl was only one incident
in an epidemic of home runs winch
ragged. during the double $header.
Brooklyn seemed bent on substantial
ing the rumor which Is prevalent that
they are the champions of the fea-
que, and again they broken even on
the days booty. New York won the
first game, 5 to Az while Brooklyn
won the Second game, 3 to f.s
Half a dozen home runs kept the
FEEDERS on the hop curing the twin
bill In the first game Krueger and
7, Stengel slammed homers, for the
@Dodgers and Zimmerman and Herzog
! got excursion drives for the Giants.
The hit by Kruger cleared the fence
! back of the left-field bleachers and
| landed, limp and exhausted on the
tracks of Mr. Shonts's elevated road.
! The only other clip of recent years
which has cleared that fence was ne
gotiated by Fred Merkle q few sea-
4 sons ago. He sent the ball through
! one of the car windows and it got a
! ride down as far as South Ferry.
In the second game homers were
i pummled by Jake Daubert and Heinie
4 zlm. That's two ipI one day for
i Heinie, and the occasion was duly
I celebrated last night~in the-Bronx !
! Rube Marquard was on his best
! pitching behavior in the second game
and Zim's homer was the only dam
I age imposed on. his twirling. Jeff
/ Tesreau did some pretty pitch
I ing himself, but the few bangs of
! the Dodgers were neatly punched.
In the first game the Giants play
: ed scrappy uphill fight and beat
/ colby Jack Coombs, the Kennebunk
| Express Coprnbs wandered back
4 and forth; to the bench with a for
4 lorn look as IL he had lost his last
friend. coombs used to beat the
Gianfa= = 4 Ut me he walked out to
az Il; ssSS rs Raw For for
+, the Giants, but he. was Slammed as
hard as Coombs. His flinging isn't
such a mystery as it used TO be-
All in all, and taking it this way
and that It was aStough afternoon on
tie nerves. The Giants and Dodgers
are just az fond of each other as a
I couple of rattiesnakes. If the teams
had many more games to play, it
would be necessary to muzzle the
players, that's all. The Donneybrook
fair was like Aunt Dinah's quilting
party compared with yesterdays af-
fair.