The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
DOINGS IN SPORTLAND@
VAUGHN HOLDS
 GIANTS IN CHECK
Cub Star Pitcher Allows
 New York Team But One Hit.

New York, Aug. 2-In the face of Hippo Jim Vaughn's blazing speed the Giants folded up like a morning glory at the Polo Grounds yesterday after noon. Hippo had the ball dipping over the plate with snaky carelessness and McGraw's batsmen were lucky to hit the ball out of the infield. The Giants ferocious stickwork amount ed to one solid hit which banged off the bat of Heinie Zimmerman in the second inning.
 This game was the opening clash of series which will just about decide the championship of the National League. The Giants finished bad second, by a 5 to 0 score.
 Just what third base looked like where Charley Deal was playing was a dark secret to the Giants. Zim got as far as second in the second inning on his hit and an out and the only i other player to take a look at second was Lew McCarty, who stole the bag in the ninth. McCarty's steal, while 1 in the nature of a gift, was about the 1 liveliest thing that any of the Giants accomplished. Lew got to first by virtue of a pass from Vaughn and when he started to steal no one tried 1 to stop him. His excursion to the middle cushion was a donation from Hippo, for he held the ball and smil- ed while McCarty trotted along.
 Fred Toney, the pitching behemoth, 1 recently bought from the Cincinnati Reds to carry fhe Giants through such a crisis as yesterday, was bunted to 1 defeat by the crafty Cubs. Toney moves over the ground with just about as much grace as an army tank, and
 when the Cubs started to deposit 1 bunts on the infield lawn, monstrous | Frederick found himself getting in I the way of his own feet. Heinie Zim- merman was again playing first, and Heinie was also mystifed by the pres ence of so many bunts.
 The Cubs started to worry Honey in the second inning. Paskert walked and went to third on Merkle's single. Deal filed to Doyle and then Paskert
 had the impotence to try to steal home. but Toney threw him out by
 a narrow squeeze. Paskert didn't care bit for Umpire Rigler's de
 cision on this play and Manager Fred
 Mitchell cared less. Rigler overlook
 ed what the two said about him.
 (setraoaupvolll
 Max Fleck opened the fourth with
 an infield tap which trickled down
 between second and first and he beat
 Doyle's throw by an eyelash. Toney
 numbered over toward the ball but
 didn't get on flirting terms with it. Hollocher sacrificed and Mann was out, Zim to Toney. Paskert punched
 a single to centre and scored Flack. There was much tantalizing bunt- ing in the fifth. herkle tapped one down to first which was culled by , Zimmerman but he missed Merkle as Fred slid into the sack. Fred went to second on McCarty's passed ball
 Deal bunted a sacrifice, Sicking tc Iim, and Merkle went to third. Zeid- , CT then rolled a bunt in front of Toney
 and the man-mountain struggled
 around in front of it as Merkle came
 tearing home. By the time that Tone5
 had picked up the ball and tossed i
 to Mccarthy, Merkle had scored ant
 Zeider was down to second base
 Toney was twisted into a kind of {
 knot by his efforts in this play, bu ' he unraveled himself and the neX , two batsmen went out promptly.
 It was a. crowded afternoon fol s Dode Paskert and Fred Merkle, Ou {, the two veterans with the Cubs wht have turned the cold shoulder on ap - preaching old age. Paskert got thre' . hits and a pass in four time up, mak
 ing a perfect day for himself. HI Q also drove in three of the Cubs fiv' , r1ns Merkle helped himself to thret hits off Toney.
 s The two runs which came as re r suit of the bunting attack on Toney' q feet would have been plenty to vii = the game, but the Cubs tried thei a hand at old-fashioned hitting in tn :; ninth and hammered Toney for fou |, hits and three more runs.
 With one out in the ninth, Holloch
 CT singled to right and went to thir' on Leslie Mann's double to the sam y spot Paskert nicked a srns-7 to tn |, same territory and sent Hollocher ant . Mann home. Dode going to second ol 4 the throw in, Paskert then stole thir " and scored on Merkles single to left - Jim Thorpe fumbled the ball jus = long enough to entice Merkle towar l. second and Fred was thrown out ~ Thorpe to Fletcher.
 '- There was tense excitement aH.-.i - the game which has been absent iron
 the contests lately and both club
 seem to feel the importance Of tn
 series. The Cubs, however, have tn
 jump and the shut-out yesterday en n larged their lead to four and a hal
 games. The crowd was the larges
 that has been seen at a week da $ game since thep layers received l. time extension to play, about TOO y grooming as the Giants went dow 1t heIplessly,