New Britain herald., 1919-07-24
|NORAN'S RED LEGS
 JOLTED BY GIANTS
League Leaders, With Benton
 Pitching, Win in Easy Fashion

 1t not for Cncinnati's respectable percentage in John Heydler's stand 1 1ng, one would have to confess that Fat Moran's present. day bunch great Iy resembled the Reds of earlier & vintage.
 The flood left off long enough for : the Giants and Reds to get in one game of their scheduled four-game set It was the second section Of yesterdays double-header, and the Giants won without much of a fight, the score being 6 to 1.
 The first tiff of the advertised double-header was called off on ac- count of wet grounds. That greatly yexed the populace, and McGraw had to take the full force of their wrath. About 5000 fans were in the stands at 1:30 o'clock, when the first game Il was supposed to start, but the crowd swelled to 10000 before the afternoon was over.
 Encounter Is Tame One.
 The advertised feud between the ! Giants and the Reds never developed. aPerhaps it was washed out by the rain. On the whole, it proved a tame encounter. No one so much as drowned at the arbiters.
 The rival managers tried to put additional zest into the game by sending a former Giant finger against an ex-Red. John Calhoun Benton, who is Rube to his friends and the Redland Renegade in Cincinnati was on the mound for McGraW, while Pat Moran called on Harry Sallee, the Higginsport sheriff, who declined last winter to do any further pitching for the Giants.
 For a few innings it looked as though it would be a tight left handed pitching duel, but Benton broke up the game in the third when he soaked one of 'SaPs" shoots into the left-field bleachers with two on. SalIee never got over this punch, and Moran lifted him in the fifth, after he had been stung for a second batch of three runs.
 Jimmy Ring, the Brooklyn boy, then put out the Giants without fur ther scoring. He pitched several good innings. Adolfe Luque pitched the eighth. Chase alone lit on him for a single.
 Benton in Fine Form.
 Benton was in fine form and, with the exception of the second, he had the Reds eating out of his left hand. The clubbing Cincinnati outfit got to the Rube for only six hits, of which four came in the three first innings. Twice when the first man in an inning got on base he was wiped off the base lines on double play. The Giants backed the Rube with perfect support. The Harlem lads are proving good mud horses. In their last two games on the Polo mud Hast Saturday and yesterday-they have played perfect baseball Larry Doyle put in a busy day arS6nd sec three putouts.
 Cincinnati also fielded nicely, wild throw by Billy Kopf being the only Red error.
 Reds Are First to Score.
 The Reds were the first to score. Greasy Neale opened the second by skipping a single to center; Kopf, the following batsman, rolled to Fletcher and Neale was doubled up; Rube Bressler, the pitcher, who is filling in in the outfeld for Cincinnati, then tripled to right. Young had difficulty in going after the ball on the wet field and it bounded off the wall. Benton let fly a wild pitch several feet over Snyders head and it scored Bressler. Rariden walked, but Ben ton pulled himself together and Sallee forced Whoa Bill at second.
 Sallee retired the Giants in order for two innings, but he took quite .L mauling in the third. Chase opened with 8 double to center though Roush made a great stop and came of al second. Snyder making his first ap- pearance at bat in Giant toggery, hit to Kopf, who threw low, trying to get Chase at third. It is a question whether even a good throw would have got him. Chase was lying on the ground and made no attempt to get up, though he could have walked home. Matty was coaching at the time Even the lum bering Snyder got to second.
 Benton Hits for Circuit.
 Benton then gave Sallee an eye- opener when he smashed a sturdy homer high into the left-feld bleach CTS. Chase and Snyder romping ahead of him.
 Bentons single to center was the entering wedge for a second cluster of three runs in the fifth. Rube's hit opened the round and Burns fol lowed with fly to Bressler Young next whipped a hot single through Daubert, Benton going to second.
 Both the Rube and. Ross scored when Fletcher knocked a double
 down the right-feld foul line. Doyle
 also drove scorching bounder pas1 Daubert scoring Fletcher. Tha.
 ended Sallee.
 Jirnpny Ring came in and Nea1e