New-York tribune., 1917-06-08
Giants Swamp Reds
And Tie for Lead
McCarty Badly Hurt in
Game Where McGraw
Gets Revenge

Cincinnati, June THE Giants took
an awful revenge on Matty's Reds to-
day and went into tie for the lead,
but at cost which makes the 10 TO
slaughter appear trivial in comparison.
In the fourth inning Of battle that
had developed into a shambles, Lew
McCarty, catcher, most important cog
of the McGraw machine, was seriously
injured.
McCarty was so badly hurt that he
had 10 be carried from the field. lt Is
believed his left fibula is fractured
just above the ankle. An N-ray eN-
animation is TO be made at once. IL
the injury is as serious as a cursory
examination promised, McCarty is like
ly 70 be out of uniform for many
weeks, if indeed not months.
Slide Proves Fatal
McCarty injured himself in sliding
back to first base. With Robertson on
second and one out in the fourth Lew
singled to left field. McCarty, expect
ing play at the plate, rounded first
base a bit too far. Groh cut Cueto's
throw, and when he saw Robertson had
the play beaten at the plate little
Heine shot the ball over 10 Chase. Nc
Carty, trapped Off, tried TO hook slide
back around Chase's stab and caught
his snikps in tho cushion
Aside from this distressing incident
and McCarty's permanent loss would
be most depressing blow to their pen
nant chances the Giants treated the
Redlegs much as was TO be expected.
With two games already slowed away,
Mathewson decided TO gamble against
Sheriff Slim Sallee. He sent cub
pitcher, Regan, against the veteran
southpaw. Regan was hit rather freely
from the start, but Matty left him in
for the fire test because 1t was evident
from the first that 4 minimum OF runs
would tide Sallee safely over.
AS q matter of fact Sallee deserved n
shutout victory. The lone run of the
home forces, that fell to Jim Thorpe
In the fourth inning, was the result of
fuke triple by the Indian. A Texas
League fly that fell safely between
Herzog and Robertson hit a hard spot
and bounded away behind Davey. Be-
fore the latter could shag the aggra-
waiting skip Thorpe had sprinted all the
way to third Jim scored on Cueto's
/ fly TO Benny Kauff
| On a number of occasions Salles was
threatened. He pitched himself out of
trouble many times; at others he was
assisted by sensational support. Roush
singled and Chase walked, with two out.
/ in the first. Thorpe forced Chase.
: Wingo doubled, with two out, in the
second. Wingo opened the seventh with
single and. after Regan famed, took
third on Groh's double. Zimmerman
made a wonderful bare-handeed stop Of
kopf's wicked grounder and trapped
| Wingo on the lines.
Giants Break Ice
The Giants broke the ice after two
were out In the first inning. Kauff
walked. and raced .all the way 10 third
on Zimmerman's infeld hit. Ben scored
on a double steal and Zimmerman
reached third on Wingo's wild throw.
Fletcher, hit by a pitched ball, stole
second, but Robertson flied 20 Cueto
1 for the third out.
/ Another double steal in the second
gave New York another count. Holke
and McCarty singled. The former was
caught at third when the hit and run
failed. Sallee flied TO Thorpe. Burns
singled, sending McCsrty TO third. That
I set the trap for the double pilfer.
Robertson opened the fourth with
single, and moved up while Shean was
throwing out Holke. Then came Nc
Carty's single and his subsequent in
jury, Davey counting meanwhile.
From the seventh on the Giants got
runs in clusters. In the seventh Holke
walked and Rariden doubled. Groh held
Holke on third while he threw out
Sallee. Burns walked, filling the bases;
then Herzog singled, scoring Holke and
leaving the bases filled. Rariden scored
on Kauff's fly to Thorpe. This rally
cinched the game beyond question.
Heavy hitting earned two more runs
for the Giants in the eighth. A double
by Sallee in this inning drove home the
two counters. The bombardment was
maintained through the ninth, when the
last three runs fell.