New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
George Burns
Hero of Game
Our. Nine Wins
Rapid Thinking of Giants
Left Fielder Results i'm
Timely Double P'l a y
w. O. Mcclellan

The Giants aren't going anywhere
Yet they staged ten-inning melo-
drama at the Polo Grounds yesterday
the like of which will not be seen in
the coming worlds series. Fred Toney
won about as exciting a pitchers duel
as has been waged this current season
from Hal Carlson, the stalwart Scan
Ginavian harpooner, who hurls for the
Pirates, by l to 0.
But the dazzling spectacle of the
afternoon was staged by George Burns,
who did piece of rapid thinking
while scurrying at the ate Of 10 sec
onds to the hundred yards in pursuit
of fly ball. In the brief space of five
seconds fiat he did more thanking than
the average baseball player does in
lifetime. After what he did yesterday
afternoon he can stop thinking perma-
nentlyeto-morrow and still end up with
{. thought average of over 300.
Schmidt Starts Trouble
1t happened in the eighth inning,
when the Pirates threatened, to crash
through the superb defence of Fred
Toney. With one out Schmidt lifted
Texas Lacquer over Fletcher's head
Fletcher ran backward and got in the
way of Burns, with the result that the
ball dropped for a safe hit. Carlson
beat bunt to Zimmerman and the
stage was set for the emergency which
caused Burns to throw his thinking
machinery into the high gear
sBigbee hosted fly to short left and
Burns came in after it at top speed,
his body bent forward and his head
down. But George managed to keep
one eye on the situation in the in
field, and he was thinking all the
time. If he reached out hand and
caught the ball it would have made
one out and at the same time Burns
would have earned credit for an ex-
tremely difficult catch.
But the quick thinking outfelder
was figuring further ahead than that.
He let the ball hit the ground. Then
he seized it and tossed to Grisch, the
young second baseman from Fordham.
rrisch, coached with hoarse incoher-
cnce by Art Fletcher, reached out and
tagged Bigbee, who had his foot off
the base, somewhat bewildered by the
unexpected strategy of Burns. Then
Frisch tagged the base which forced
Carlson at second If Burns had
caught the ball on the fly there would
have been only one out. He had
V.
disposing of the Pirates and smashing
the attack for that inning.
Of course it is simple enough to
dope out play of this sort when
i is all mapped and charted. But
the glnk worth while is the gink who
can figure it all out when it comes
crashing out of d humid sky when
the multitude is yelling and when
me thinker IS scurrying madly across
the lawn with his head down and
somewhat short of breath The Nor
lIs chair thinkers make few double
plays.
The pitchers duel came to an abrupt
end II ths tenth through a smashing
double by lIeinic Zimmerman and a
Wild heave by Carlson. Hcinie slashed
the ball along tho left field foul line. a
couple oi> feet inside Then Frisch
rolled q bunt to Carlson, as the entire
PIRATE infleld dashed in for it, The
SFeet OF the young Fordham flash wor-
fied the ScandinaVian harpooner and
he made wild peg to first. thinner
nan came in with the winning run as
INC bail hurtled toward the stands.
Toney at His Best
Fred Toney was at his best that
afternoon. Not only did his pitching
havc the best of the Pirates lashing the
humidity but Toncy moro than once
made bare handed stops of hard hit
!lners that might have gone for for "a safe n;'
ms. The Giants were behind him, too.
playing with as much vim as though
,sey sti!l had a chance 10 get some of
'h4 worlds series money.
Benjamin Kauf, who has been going
moodily through the daily work Of late
came to lif3 yesterday and saved the
GIANTS M the tenth by q spectacular
eaten OF clout by Cutshaw. This wal
iop threatened to roll out to the right
centre corner of the lot for home run.
bchny who had been broodiny in CEN
ire, made a mad dash and speared the
bali with his mitt.
uls success and the intense humid
ny seemed to go to Beniamin's head
He hurled the ball at the r;ght feld
bleachers. Then he threw his hat into
the arr and gave three cheers for him
seit before resuming his position.
IN the fifth Young stopped a pos
s,ole two bagger when he spcared a
clout by Schmidt just as it was about
to kiss the wall Besides pitching With
consistency, grit and steadiness Toney
was clouting his opponent hard and
was twice robbed Of hits by spectacu-
lar fielding.
Harry NJ. Stevens, who came all the
way from Saratoga to watch the game
with Major General Barry SAID that it
was worth the trip. "Only," observed
Harry, 1.-The game is played too fast
Here is a nice hot day and all these
people would like to sit here and eat
ice cream cones and drink lemonade
But the game is played so fast that
they don't get time. wonder the
National commission wouldn't CON
sider having an hour out for tea, the
way they do at the cricket matches y
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