The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
Sailors Witness Giants
 Downfall Before Cubs
Nearly Three Thousand Pel'
 ham Men at Game-Lt. Wright Tells Interesting Story Score of Game Ill in Westerners Favor

New York, Aug. s.---The most in- teresting incident at the Polo Grounds yesterday at the Sailors Day celebra- tion was the story told by Lieutenant J. F: Wright. Lieutenant Wright said he had just received a letter from the front in which a baseball game was described which was played close be- hind the first line. The Yankee sol- diers were playing, with the German trenches only 30 yards away. Two of the baseballs were feuled over into the German territory and, much to the surprise of the Tanks, the Frit- zies threw the balls back so the game could continue.
 Up at the oPlo Grounds, when ball ls fouled out of the game that's the last the players ever see of it. The crowd of sailors and civilians showed moro enthusiasm over this yarn than they did over the ball game, which was won by the Chicago Cubs by a score of il to 1. There were more than 5000 sailors from Pelham Bay Station present, accompanied by a. brass band which could easily lead any league. All these sailors were permitted to go to the game because earlier in the day they won a singing contest at their station. Before the game they paradef about the field and presented a stirFlng. picture. They
 also burst into few harmonious bar
 ber-shop chords and sang ditty
 called All We Do Is Sign the Pay
 roll.'
 Lieutenant Wright, also presented
 both the Cubs and the Giants with i floral horsehs0es. It was appropriate
 enough for the Cubs, but the Giants
 offering would perhaps have been
 more timely if made into a broken
 column or gates atar.
 This was the second tilt of the all- important series during which the Giants expected to climb up on even terms with the Cubs in the pennant race. The defeat was an overwhelm- ing rout, and the Giants are retreat ling due south fast. They are now five and half games behind the lCubs.
 New York was almost as helpless
 against Lefty Ty1er's pitching as Iagainst that of Jim Vaughn on Thurs
 day. He allowed only five hits, two
 of which were grouped in the ninth l for run. Outside of that one run, the Giants didn't have any more chance than a BlSmarCk rerr1ng AC a patriotic banquet.
 Poll Perritt lasted three innings,
 when he retired, and this is the first game that Pol has been batted out of
 in many a, long day. ,Ferdie Schupp, who succeeded Perritt, was hayed in
 all corners of the lot, the Cubs in all
 getting 19 hits, which included triples by Paskert and Mann. Charley Hol- locher and Mann each got three hits, and everybody got at least two ex- : cept Killifer and Tyler. who had to be satised with one each. : The Cubs sent runs across the plate } in a gushing stream. The only req i son they didn't get more runs was be- 5 cause they got tired of scoring along ? about the eighth inning and didn'
 try to score when they could have : boosted the count up higher. l The sailors offered a box of cigars s for the first hit and Rollocher won f the smokes in the first inning with a single to right. Besides being slapped
 for 15 hits, Schupp also unbottled
 three wild pitches, which added to the :, gayety of the Chicago field day. It was warm day. and the Giant out fielders were about ready to drop ] from chasing the ball as it splalshed <, all over the outfield.
 ] The Giants have lost all their ginger
 in this Chicago invasion, while the : Cubs go right along playing like a : house affre.