New-York tribune., 1919-06-25
Toney Annexes
First; Barnes
Loses Second
Brooklyn Uses Three Pitch.
ers in Opener; Mitchell
Shows Class in Nightcap

One of the biggest weekday crowd.
that has attended game at Ehbat.
Field this season-estimated at 17ooa
turned out yesterday to welcome tn.
Giants and Dodgers in their first rama
since their return from the West
After battling for more than five hour,
the teams had to content themselves
with an even break, the Manhattan;ts.
taking the first game by to 2 score
and the Flatbush tribe winning the
honors in the second by a lop-sidea
score of 9 to 3.
The first struggle was easily the bet
ter. In this game fast, keen baseball
was played. 1t was only by perform
ing in championship style all the wav
that the McGraw tribe was able to OBJ
tain victory. They received expert
pitching by Fred Toney, who let the
Flatbushers down with five hits. The
New Workers also felded brilliantly.
But it was their excellent base running
that was largely responsible for their
win. In this branch George Burns
played the leading role.
Toney showed in his boxwork yester-
day that he has arrived. He cut the
corners consistently and mixed fast
ball with a hook and lob that was
most effective. Only in the sixth did
the home team get to him to any ex-
tent. and then for only two hits, Of
which one was a home-run slam bv
Pinch Hitter Clarence Mitchell. Leon
Cadore, on the other hand, was hit
hard, and was replaced in the seventh
by Larry Cheney, who in turn was re-
lieved by Sherrod Smith in the ninth
Giants First to Score
The Giants got a run in the second.
scoring when Chase hit into the far
corner of left field and galloped to
third. McCarty slammed into left field.
scoring Chase. Toney advanced his
battery mate with sacrifice, but Burns
and Young were easy outs.
Zimmerman doubled in the fourth
and was sent to third by Chase's bunt.
McCarty flied to Olson, and as Toney
posed at the plate, looking none too
threatening, Heine decided to steal
home. Miller received the ball in time
to touch him as he slid over the plate,
but the force of Zim's slide knocked
the sphere from his hands, and another
tally was checked up.
The fifth showed Burns as a second
Cobb speeding the paths. He singled,
o"' ouHS Hit iHIo Lar IiSnt, Grl1ntn
catching the ball against the fence.
Fletcher singled to Cadore, and while
the infield was busy getting the ball,
Burns, by hard running and beautiful
slide, made third. Another long slide
to the plate was fruitless, however, on
poyle's tap to Konetchy, but Kauff
singled and Fletcher scored Chase's
drive into left, on which he reached
second when Wheat fumbled, McCarty's
out and Toney's fly to centre produced
another run in the next frame
Mitchell was sent to bat for Cadore
in the sixth and that stalwart young
man hit one far over the right field
fence for the circuit. Johnston got on
in the next when he forced Olson, who
had singled, and came all the way home
when Baird fell and dropped Grifith's
high fly.
Larry Doyle Banished
All Baird replaced Larry Doyle in the
seventh, after Larry had been banished
for flinging his bat into the air, show
ing displeasure at being called out on
strikes.
Mitchell, who has been doing most
of his cunning in France the last year,
knocking off Huns, made his first ap-
pearance of the season on the slab yes
terday. His aim was good, and he
threw so many by the Giant batters
that they were able to nick him for
but five blows.
sJess Barnes was thumped hard and
often, meanwhile, and Brooklyn's total
jumped to nine in the eighth when
Tommy Griffith, who had a field day
with five hits out of five swings,
cleaned the bases with a drive over
Benny Kauff's head. By the time
Benny had returned the ball Griffith
was back at the water bucket.
The nightcap affair was not as inter-
esting as the opener, although some
by Fletcher and Griffith.
The scores: