Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-14
CHICKENS COME HOME TO
ROOST AND GIANTS LOSE
"Cnnncd" by rhiiIics' Owner, Moran
Directs Cincinnati 10 Double Vic
tory Over New York.
ny DNNON nI-NYON

NEW YORK, August l3.--Havc you
They make power q noise.
They--but then let's not get ahead
Of cur siorE wnish is the story of the
Cincinnati Reds ~ the Polo Grounds
this afternoon in both games Of 4
The scores were 4 to > and . TO /.
aud the making or scores is the plot
Of our story that ought rightly TO be-
home 10 rooSt.
.Heine ,Groh was a Clan, in the days
OF MS baseball adolescence. and mighty
when he got Il little money together
and opened little place Of business
he called i; The Little Giant.
m doing pretty good" Hcinc used
10, 'S!L ms teammates But think
som trade"
\ malaproprism. perhaps. bu, you
pair OF baseball hands and batting
exc eye SuSn as to cause old Dick Kinselia.
GIANTS TO drag him out of the base
pau bushes AT some cost.
Gr"h Opened Little Giant
Not even John j. McGraw doubted
ne poteniiali;:es OF Heine Groh. but
there came time few years back
when John j. McGraw was in despera,e
need Of a pitcher 10 help him win
Na Trm , LeaEqs Remnant, remnant
nc pdStbd!I immature arc some
times valuable as trading material, and
presently the proprietor of The Lit
lie Giant" found himself in Cincinnati.
ohio. on a tail end club, and a very
diSconSolate young man.
But. as we said before. baseball
chickens come home to roost, and this
afternoon Henc Groh came back to
the Polo Grounds with the Cincinnati
Reds TO do very large share in the
business OF knocking out New YorkS
pcnnant hopes. lie hit a home run that
proved tn, deciding tally of the first
game. and all afternoon he was a
source of evaporation to 10000 people
who dearly desired tho Giants to win.
With Hcine Groh was another
Ieathery. leisurely old rooster. so to
speak; an ancient bird OF evil omen
to the New York Giants in the person
of sal SalIee, who used to beat 'ein
he was down in ST Louis and who
is back a; EN- in the uniform of the
Reds. after serving a Morid period
Hard Time Among Bottles.
In the second game, Sall"e held the
Giants to three hits. while sherry"
roamed the big leagues. knocked home
the two runs that won the game.
I'm having a hard time OUT, there
in left field picking out the ball from
among the pop bottles when | go after
4 fly" complained sherry" Masee,
ENORMOUSLY. which is indicative Of how
dearly some Of those 10000 desired to
on the bench of the Reds. or on their
coaching lines, perched during the
afternoon-not another chicken per
stein reared by John J. McGraw TO
his own pennant destruction. as the
rsd.muzzled Pat Moran Leader naon of the
Canned" by the parsimonious owners
OF the philadelphia club, Moran caught
Giants. but when managerial vacancy
developed at CINCINNATI. McGraw sent
fate are instrutablc.
Reds Fnr Ahead of Giants.
Two games of baseball do not make
and sf"E NuEus is F1s rns 'AtS IS into the
shadows of early fall. and the worlds
series And the CINCINNATI club is six
York Giants! If McCiraw overcomes
that lead he is the new Miracle Man
Of the game. indeed.
ming of the first game, when Hal Chase
tr!pied after a pass to Arthur Fletcher.
sending send The shortston OF the big town
time scene was enacted by the crowd.
1t was one of those sudden upboil-
inEs Of enthusiasm which only base
ball gathering can produce. The roar
Of voices went rilling out across the
field in a mighty volume, followed by
cloud OF white paper.
Storm of Paper Ragged.
some one IN an instant of frenzy
into the wind. Immediately everybody
III the stand began ripping programs
ana newspapers 10 tatterS and ninriue
on the fragments to the breezcs
The papery storm was so heavy thu
the game was halted for a minute
feinic Groh. the Reds third basenan
busted himself picking up bits Of paper
around his station. Umpire Bill KLEIN
gathered up a handful and threw il
aside. The wind was blowing in a
gentle swirl. and it collected the paper
and held il revolving right in the cen
ter OF the diamond right until the
end. The result somewhat dis
concerning 10 the players at times and
mighty disconccrtnS TO Henry Fabian,
the ground keeper.
deciding series of the National League
campaign. That Is the reason why
10000 people were at the opener this
"A !trruOOn.