New-York tribune., 1918-05-11
Hamilton Beats
Giants for His
Sixth Victory
His Pitching Halts New
Workers in First Game
of Western Series

PITTSBURGH, May 1o.-The NJ.
York Giants were brought up with :,
abrupt stop by the rejuvenated pin.
burgh Pirates in the opening ram. !.
their Western tour, here to-day. IN.
final score was to 2.
However, it took the sensations,
Earl Hamilton to stop the ram,.,,
Giants. Hamilton twrled clever hs,l
and except for an error by King wau,d
have subdued the Giants without a ~,
1t was the sixth victory in "a r,a..
starts for Hamilton this wear. s
Pittsburgh put the Giants immed;st..
~ on the defensive when they rushed
three runners over the home plats IL
the first inning. Rube Benton H.
Giant southpaw, was greeted w;.h s
series OF hits before he regained he
bearings. However. after this stanss
he pitched equally as effective ball as
Hamilton. but the Giant heavy hitter,
were unable to get any runs. FreS
| Anderson relieved Benton in ths
eighth.
Hamilton held the Giants to fonr
scattered hits. Two of these came in
the second inning after two were out
Ross Young opened the game with /,
second base. The Giants found tbs
curves of Hamilton exceedingly deesn
tive, and except for Kings mutt 81
Kauff's short fly, they never had 1
| chance to score.
Pirates Get Seven Hits
Pittsburgh made a total Of sev.n
hits, six of them gathered off Benton
| The latter, with the exception OF TIA
J first and seventh innings, was a com.
| plete enigma to the local men, not Al.
| lowing hit in the other FIVE innines
Manager McGraw supplanted Benton
with Anderson in the eighth, after
the Rube had shown a tendency to be.
( come erratic.
The Pirate assault on Benton in the
first inning sounded like machine gun
fire. Cation singled to right, but Ben.
ton threw Mollwitz's bounder to Holke.
| Cation going to second. Max Carey
| drove home the first tally on a sharp
drive to centre field. Burns prevented
sure double when he made a great
run and stop of StengePs hard drive,
on which Carey reached second.
Carey and Stengel executed double
steal. Cutshaw hit to Rodriguez, who
is substituting for Larry Doyle In his
haste to catch Carey at the plate Rod.
driguez threw over Rariden's head.
Stengel reached third. King was tossed
out, but Stengel managed to score the
third run. McKechnie rang up the
| fourth hit of the inning, but Schmidt
I ended the frame when Rariden caught
his fly.
With two down in the second, the
Giants got two men on bases when
Holke and Rariden singled in order.
Benton was unable to bat out time
ly hit, forcing Holke at third base
For the next three innings Hamilton
and Benton retired the battets, in sue
| cesslve order. with the Pirate wirler
featuring his work with great num-
Der of strike-outs.
Pirates Help Giants
King and Hamilton helped the Giants
to their two runs in the sixth inning.
Young flied to King. Kauff also flied to
King, but the latter allowed the ball to
bounce out of his hands. George Burns
came through with a smashing three
bagger to left field, on which Kauf
trotted over the plate. Zimmerman
drove high bounder at Hamilton, but
Burns managed to beat the throw to
the plate by close margin.
Zimmerman advanced too far from
first base on Rodriguez's fly to Stengel,
who whipped the ball back to Mollwitz,
completing a double play. King re-
deemed himself in the Pittsburgh half
of the inning when he tripled to right
McKechnie hit to the same place for .
single, scoring King. Benton came
down to earth, getting the next three
local man IL, ordnr