New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

by Don Jose Rodriguez. According to
pronunciamento of John B. Foster late
tonight, Niehoff will! either join the
Giants here tomorrow morning or the
Giants will join Niehoff at ST. Louis
Monday morning. In any event there
will be some sort of get-together act
which will give the Giants another Sec
ond baseman.
The downfall of the Reds to-day is
in large measure due to the fact that
Matty picked George Smith to do the
boxwork for the home team. George
used to be a Giant himself, and before
he rose so high in the world as that
signifies he was the star pitcher of the
Columbia University nine. 1t was an
awful predicament for George. He OBJ
tanned all his schooling" in the big
town-from McGraw and Columbia.
1t would not have been the proper
thing for George to slap his old pals
and his education at one and the Same
time. So he allowed the Giants to do
all the slapping. They slapped this
hits and four runs in the first three
innings and then Matty gave George
another slap by removing him from
the mound.
Schneider in Grand Form
Pete Schneider took up the pitching
burden for the Reds in the fourth and
remained on duty until the eighth,
when he retired to allow Hal Chase to
bat for him. Pete was in grand form
and the New Workers were unable to
translate his German slants into hits.
That is, all but Ross Young Ross
made the only safe drive off Pete in
the fourth before the big pitcher was
warmed up to his task Schneider was
succeeded in the box by Regan. who
pitched the ninth inning and allowed
one hit. single by Benny Kauff.
Slim Sallee was the box artist chosen
by McGraw to stem the tide which has
been setting in againsts the Giants
since they left their fatherland. A
stem like Sallee ought to be able to
stem any tide and he stemmed this
one. The Reds made only six hits off
Sal, and, barring the sevenrn inning,
when the home boys scored their two
! runs, the safe bingles were widely
scattered
Three were hurt in the game, and
He1nle Zimmerman was the target for
much abuse and jeering from the fans
as result. In the Giants half of the
first inning, Young singled and stole
second, making the bag by fine slide,
winch, however, upset Blackburne, who
took the throw from Allen, the Red
catcher, and also upset Young.
Blackburne'Is Spiked
When the dust around second had
cleared away it was discovered that
Blackburne had been spiked and that
Young had had all the wind taken out
of his sails. Lord Byron, in his majestic
fashion, declared recess of ten min
utessin order to allow the injured ath-
letes to recuperate.
The more serious accident occurred
in the seventh frame. With two men
out, Heinie Zim walked and stole sec
ond. Aliens throw to check the ad-
vance was wild and Heinie sprinted on
to third; Fletcher was hit by pitched
ball and double steal was ordered by
McGraw. Heinie slid over the plate
and his spikes caught Alien in the left
leg. breaking bone. Allen was car
ried from the field by his team mates.
The fans then started their jeerinr
Of Heinie, which they kept up until the
close of the game. The verbal attack
on Zlm was unwarranted, but, Of
course, the occupants of the stands and
bleachers could not know that Allen
Immediately after the unfortunate in
cident had said that he alone was to
blame, as he purposely got in Heinie's
way in order to block the plate ef-
fectively.
Contest Settled In Third
The Giants scored one run in the
| first inning on Young's single and
steal. passed ball and Zimmermsn's
sacrifice fly to left, but it was the
happenings in the third that settled
the controversy. Benny Kauff singled
tc centre and sped to third on a we'll
placed hit to right from the bat Of
Burns.
Zimmerman hit to the pitcher and
Burns going to second. A single to
left by Fletcher brought Burns across
the platter. Holke hit to Blackburne.
forcing Fletcher, but Lew McCarty
sent a safe shot to centre field that
Tailed both Zimmerman and Holke.
The Reds did all their scoring in the
seventh. After Sherwood Magee had
famed, Griffith singled to left field.
Neale tripled to right along the foul
line and Griffith counted. Neale req
istered on Blackburne's sacrifice fy to
Young.
The fielding honors went to Eddie
Roush, who robbed Fletcher of at least
a triple and possibly home run in
the first inning when the hated rival
of Benny kauff raced far back to nab
vicious liner with one hand. Roush
"iSo HoHoieu Win rare sklil ground
balls knocked into his territory and
cut down to singles two blows that
gave promise of being good for two
bases.
Holke Stars in Ninth
The fielding feature for the Giants
came in the ninth inning. The Reds
were straining every nerve to start
something and the outlook was bright
until with two men on base and two
out Walter Holke dashed way out into
right field to catch a foul from the
Eat OF Blackburne. Holke caught the
bali over his shoulder while running
at full speed.
The hostilities between the two
teams will end tomorrow with a game
in which Fred Toney and his indict-
ments will doubtless be given another
hearing. 1t is probable that Jess
Barnes, the undefeated, will oppose