The sun., 1917-08-28
COOPER ONCE MORE
SHUTS OUT GIANTS
Little Pirate Southpaw Pitches
Third Victory Of Season at
Polo Grounds: Score, 10.
CAREY'S SPEED CONQUERS
Comes Home on a Brilliant
Play in FOurth-LOcal
Lead Cut to Q Games.
CAREY's SPEED CONQUERS
n, FREDERICK G. LIEB.


Perhaps Il IL just as we'll for the
Giants TINT little Wilbur Cooper. tho
Pirate left handler. has no brothers or
close relatives on the Pittsburg twirling
staff Wilbur himself is Just a little
more than they can handle. In fact. he
has developed into one Of the most per-
r,cious persons tho Giants arc called
upon to face In all their travels. and soon
ne NAV be known as Little Wilbur. the
Giant Killer" Whenever a pitcher de-
feats the Giants from five times UP II is
considered proper so to designate him.
Wilbur has made three calls to the
Polo Grounds this season. and each time
ne has ben able to send a joyous mes
sage to the folks back home. Tail end
E bsckirg doesn't bother him either. as he
won his second to o game of the season
from the Harlem pace settlers yesterday.
=. The Pirates have succeeded In wrest-
Ing flve games from the Giants this sea-
ron. and Cooper pitched three Of them
and saved a fourth All of his victories
have been scored here. Wilbur has more
distinction that that He is the only
pitcher who has scored two shutou:s
against New York this season. There
have been only FIVE altogether--Miller.
Toncy and Rudolph each have turned
the trick once.
Lead by Elght Games.
. The Giant lead took another drop yes
tsrday and row Is down to eight games.
An eight game lead still Is a pretty safe
margin In late August, but those Phils
have been cutting some lively capers OF
late.
Rube Benton had the misfortune to be
stacked up against the Cooper menace
yesterday. Rube met his first honest de-
feat In quite a stretch. He ran of nine
games before he was tripped UP in the
st. Louis series while relieving Tesreau.
when a pudgy pop ny dropped safe for
the winning hit. The Redland renegade
pitched fine ball yesterday. fully as good
a game as Cooper, but one frenzied base
running drive by Scoops Carey turned
the tide in Pittsburg's favor.
=, Early In the tiff it did not appear AS
though Cooper would last long. but he
held tightly in the pinches. especially
In the third AMI fourth innings. The
Giants crowded five OF their seven hits
into these two frames, but II didn't get
them anything. From the fourth on only
two Giants reached base. Burns walked
In the eighth. but was smothered in a
double play. and kauff was safe on
Pitler's wild throw In the same inning.
Holke hit a single with two out in the
ninth which did no more than put q hit
in his batting average.
Carey has played some brilliant base
ball on the Polo Grounds, but the divin-
ity student never showed to better effect
than he did yesterday. He hammered
out three hits, one a double, which was
!ust half Of the Pirate allotment
Carey Proves . Streak.
Carey did a little Cobb turn in the
fourth, and also proved he Is a wide
awake lad who knows how to use his
rnoodie.' With one out In this inning.
Scoops beat out a bunt to Zimmerman.
Heinie made. a grand play on 1t. There
are only three players in the big leagues
who would have beat it out.
Boecke' followed by dropping a Texas
Lacquer in right. sending Scoops to sec
end. Carey then set sail for a theft of
third base. The pitch came low to Rari-
den. who, seeing he had no chance to
head on Carey. threw down to second to
gct Boeckel, who had made late start
for that bag. Herxog got the throw on
, the ground and retired Boeckel But IN
the meantime Carey never paused a Sec
ond at third. but continued right on to
the plate. and beat Herzogs return with
out the play at the plate being close. 1t
WAS tough run for Benton to lose on.
hut nevertheless It was a brilliant bit of
baseball for the lowly Corsairs.
Sharp defence prevented the Giants
from ecoring in the early innings Zim
opened the second with a single and took
second on Robertson's sacrifice. but was
''eft when Cooper tossed out Holke. In
the third Rarhen started of with q sin
gle and BENTON hammered another into
centre. Burns forced Rariden at third
trying TO sacrifice. and HerzoE flied to
right. kauff singled to right. filling the
bases. but the great Zim famed.
In the fourth Fletcher and Hollse hit
singles with one out. but Rariden popped
70 Ward and Bull Wagner took care of
Benton's gentle lift