The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-30
Pirates Take Close
 Game From Giants AZ
Perritt Wavers in Eighth and. Pittsburg Sends Two Runs Across Pan Decid- ing Game - Cooper on Mound for Pirates and Holds Giants in Check.

Where Pol Perrittt usually has nae bad inning in a ball game. he had two yesterday, and this state of affairs just about suited the Pitts burgh Pirates, for PoIs second quaky inning, the eighth, enabled the Buc- cancers to smash up 2 to tie and win the game. 4 to 2. Wilbur Cooper, whose left-handed pitching has always been a puzzle to the Giants, didn't show his usual sorcery over McGraw's men, for they hit him often enough to get more runs, but didn't make the hits count.
 In the first inning, McGraw's lads had Cooper on the run, but they could not strike while the iron was hot Fletcher and Doyle were on third and second, impatiently anxi- ous to score, but Henry Zimmerman of the Bronx wasn't in sympathy with their ambitions on such a. hot after noon, so he ignobly famed for the third out. That rosy opportunity did not present itself again, for, outside of the fourth inning, Cooper held the Giants in command.
 The torrid pastime was embellisG- ed with two fielding gems which made the warm crowd warmer with enthusiasm. Bill Southworth, who roams right field for the Pirates, made a couple of noteworthy. grabs, but one in the eighth was down right robbery. Larry Doyle belte a 1 seething liner between centre and right which was on its way to. knock | the pickets out of the fence when 1 Southworth cut across the meadow, | leaped into the air, and nipped the | ball with one hand. Ross Young made a star catch in the sixth, which was just the opposite of the Pitts burgher's. Max Carey poked a liner l to short right, Young galloping in to pluck 1t from the top of the grass | just before he rolled over in a som | ersault. | Among those who are here with the Pirates is Wee Tommy Leach, who first got into the game just after the civil war. His work here has been only of an advisory sort, but he stands ready to jump in at shortstop when any of the young fellows are stricken with rheumatism. Wee Tommy has taken up the game again, much to l the dismay of his grandchildren.5
 Pol Perritt's first bad inning was the opening one. Ellam walked, and went down on Bigbee's sacrifice. Carey ballooned to Burns, and | Southworth hammered a single to centre, scoring Ellam. Burns let the ball get away from him, and South worth went to second. Cutshev smashed a double to left and coaxed Southworth home.
 This brace If runs didn't look so big when the Giants got busy in the fourth. Doyle singled to centre, and went to second on Zimmerman's sin gle through shortstop. Jim Thorpe rolled a grounder on the infield lawn, | which Cooper grabbed and tossed to McKechnie for a force-out play but hands being safe and the bases jam med. Sicking cracked a liner to FL lam, who doubled Zimmerman off second base. NcCarty crashed a tri- pie to centre which sent Doyle and Thorpe home. Ferritt fouled to Moll witz for the third out
 The Pirates pried the deadlock apart in the eighth, when 1t began to look as if the game was going to string along into extra innings Per 1 rftt had settled down after the first inning, and Pittsburgh could do lit tie with him. Cooper paved the way | ~ AA9 o"H NlCloiy WlIn a S1ngle% to left, and Ellam sacrificed. Doyle threw Bigbee out at first, Cooper go- ing to third. Carey banged a single to right which sent Cooper home, and then Max promptly stole second. Southworth again came to the res- cue with single to centre. Carey romping home with another run.
 With one gone in the ninth. Thorpe gave the Giants little hope when he doubled off the Ieft-fieId fence. Sicking did nothing to add to the Indians gayety, for EIIam tossed. him out at first. Lew McCarthy's ef- forts to duplicate his triple resulted in strike-out, and the fun was at an end.