New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-18
Giants Use Their Bats
After a Long Holiday
Kauf, Kilduf and Holke
Make Life Miserable for
Card Pitchers
By W. ]. MACBETH

The Giants got right back 70 first
principles in the farewell game with
the Cardinals at the Polo Grounds yes
terday afternoon. and by applying the
ash with the vim and vigor that should
be an everyday occurrence for such
dashng, slashing band of sluggers
breezed home on the long end Of 10
TO . score.
The Giants case may have been one
born OF confidence. fercie Schupp,
the invincible southpaw, was on the
hill for the home team. From the mo-
ment he pitched the first ball IL was
simply a case of his support furnish
ing "A run. Schupp knocked off after
he had pitched eight innings. BY that
time the game had degenerated into
something of joke. New York was
leading BY score OF ten 70 nothing.
No Fault of Jim's
The Cards got their two runs off Jim
! Middleton, the Louisville Colonel. NO
fault of Jim's. Fletcher fumbled on
Stewart, who had replaced Bobby
] Bescher Then Davey Robertson let a
| single OF Gonzales's filter through him.
/ On this second error Stewart sprinted
/ home and the Cuban TO third. Con
zaes got home on an iniield out.
/ From the start the Giants showed
utter peevishness toward the team that
had bested them in extra innings out
OF the two previous games. Mule
, Watson, who received the assignment
/ against Schupp, came to town heralded
! IA one of Miller Huggins's most cum
{ ming rifemen. Watson left the game
with sick headache before a Giant
had been retired in the second inning.
Three outs cost him just four runs.
! g. Filbert Pierce, former Cub and
/ one-time Giant for few meals, did
little better than the "Mule" Friend
/ George was drubbed off the hill by the
end of the fifth inning, showing that
right handlers and left handlers all look
alike to the Giants when McGraw's men
arc in lighting mood. North, right
l handler, pitched the last three innings.
I lie was taken for three runs.
/ The Giants bombarded the three st.
4 Louis pitchers for no less than sixteen
/ hits. They might have averaged run
/ hit but for couple of base running
| "bones" on the part of Hoke and Zim-
/ norman, which the fans overlooked in
/ light of the overwhelming score.
/ Benny Kauff, Peterkin Kildutf and
Walter Holke were so many roaring,
raging lions, out to devour all kinds
of st. Louis pitchers. These three
/ young men were quite the central fig
ures of McGraw's modest attack.
/ Benny Comes First
Take Benny first; he comes first in
I the batting order. Outside of hitting
safely on each of his four appearances
.(two of his thrusts were doubles) and
T scoring three runs, Mr.. Kautf did little
Z for the cause.
Peterkin Kilduff reached first as
often as Benjamin, and scored the
same number OF runs. Likewise his
/ batting average was perfect. lie
! walked on his first appearance; after
/ that he delivered three pretty singles.
Holke walloped Watson for home run,
scoring Kildaff ahead of him. This
was the clout that sent the Mule 10
the fountain. Walter found both Pierce
/ and North for singles and failed but
! once to hit safely on four trips to the
batters' box
Burns opened New York's attack with
a single, and sprinted 10 third when
Kauff hit to centre, Benny taking an
extra base on the throw. An iniield
out and Zim's long iy got the runners
home. Holkc's slap into the right field
stand followed pass 10 Kilduf in the
second. Hits by Fletcher, kilduh and
Holke. with McCarty's long fly and
Millei's error on Schupp, gave two
more IN the fourth.
Zim's second sacrifice fly, following
hits by Kauf and Robertson, scored
Benny in the NTH. kilduf's single
and McCarty's fuke double took tally
/ off North in the sixth. Kauf's second
/ double, sacrifice and consecutive
( singles by Zimmerman, Fletcher and
Kilduft got the final New York brace
/ of scores in the seventh.
In this inning Zim was caught when
he overran second on Fletcher's hit
and Kilduf was pinched trying for sec
/ ond on a throw home.
Only one st. Louis player got past
second against Schupp and only three
/ that far. Hornsby tripled TO right
with two out in the sixth, aided by a
/ misiudgment On the part Of Robert
son. Schupp struck out nine in seven
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