New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-09
Giants and Tigers Break
Euen in the Spring Seris,
Detroit Captures the F;,,
Game by a scor.
Of 6 to |
BY W. Q. MCCLELLAN

Kansas City, no. April s.-TA.
monious series between the N~s
Giants and the Detroit Tigers esS.,
day in a drawn battle, when The n.
slaughtered the Polo Grounder, =
score OF 8 20 ]. Each team wes
games.
II was a raw. blustery day A.. =
game WIS played on a FIELD dot,i,
and there with snowdrifts. The e.
could not be warmed 10 the e.,
pitch. In fact. they hardly thas.s
during the game.
The game was perhaps tae al.
Of a series that bristled with %
mcnt ever since Tyrus Raymond 4.
spiked Herzog. The Giants s,ar..s
indianapolis Immediately after
game. on the way % the train sen.
Of them sent telegram 70 Ty Coz,
Message TO Cobb
T. read: "You may now rejoin
Tigers. You have our permissior.
is safe now
Rube Benton. who started for
Giants. ran into a flock OF dihesa
I'm the first inning. The total trc.
was four runs and four hits, whia
considered IL good start FOR any !
in these parts.
One Of these hits was a healthy
Dagger by Bobbie Jones. the yooia
Inherited the third base position
vacant b. Witt. The ball glanea
the right field fence, and Jim n,
had 20 tunnel into snow bank e
IL out. In the midst Of the eslsr
Low McCarty made a wild hear,
third. letting in one Of the runs
I'm the second inning Wild Bill "a
startled the multitude By driyi.
two Dagger 70 centre field. James,
self. is still suffering from the 81
but is expected to recover.
HerzOg Hits Snow Bank
The Giants began TO show some
Of thawing out IN the fourth inI
when HerZoC fell upon Boland.
relieved James. and poied one int
centre field snow bank for a two
ger. But the man who sports the n
of Tv Cobb's spikes WAS thrown
AT third. and the Polo Grounden
more lapsed into a state Of frlgidnl
The Tigers took another bite o.
Rubc Benton in the ifth. when
smashed a single 20 right field. !
10 second when Young was passed,
third and scored on Neach's out
this point the New York corresp
cnts, who had been counting on
lecting a great deal Of money and
chandis from the literary men Of
troit, be an 20 coucede that Il 10
like drawn series.
Mickey Kilduf. alias Peterkin.
is subbing very nicely Tor Ar
Fletcher, put the Giants modestly
the map in the sixth. Peterkin ca
single TO right. and his example
emulated by Benny kauf. lnfeld
by Mccarthy and Hoelkc brought
dun over.
Unique Double Play
Her cg made unique double
unassis;cd in the seventh.
singled and vas lingering off frst,'
Young tapped the ball into Her
hands on a first bound. Buck eh
Bush toward first. tagged him and
touched the bag a foot ahead off
Anderson relieved Benton in
eighth, but Immediately encounl
stormy weather. when Sam Crav
batting for Nicholson. maced bio
single. With the assistance Of
pire Bill Brennan. Crawford stole
ond. Brennan, who was endea5l
earnestly 20 get out Of the line 0.
Rariden's throw 20 second. was HI,
tender section of the anatomy, bio.
,he ball. Crawford reached second
scored Immediately afterward on
mans drive.
Veach robbed George Burns Ofl
nit in the eighth by doing some tai
lofty tumbling. Neach started
the ball. fell and rolled over Co
up, ne reached out and nailed the