The sun., 1919-06-02
GIANTS ADVANCE AT
EXPENSE OF BRAVES
Bostonians Attempt to Bur-
lesque Game and Three
Players Are Banished.
ZIMMERMAN HITS HOMER
His Circuit Drive and Burns's
Base Running Feature
Score Is 2 to 1.

The Giants pushed Boston further
down Pennant Hill yesterday afternoon
a, the Polo Grounds winning a sharply
played game by to / in the presence
OF 10000 enthusiasts, who enjoyed the
pleasant weather. the fresh air and the
fresh Braves. But for the roaring farce
introduced In the second act by the
Braves, which resulted in the banish-
ment of Nehf, Herzog and Maranville,
the game would have been rather tame,
for the only sensational features in ad-
dtion TO the burlesque by the visitors,
were Zim's resounding smash into the
right field stand in the fourth for a
circuit trot and Hank Gowdy, the tall,
red-thatched soldier, appeared at the
Polo Grounds for the first time since
his return from France, and he was
spplauded most enthusiastically.
The game started off in the usual
manner. the Giants falling to get a man
10 FIRST In their opening session and the
Braves faring little better, although
Buck Herzog reached first on a scratch
and then attempted to steal second.
He was foiled by NJ. Gonzales Of Cuba
and l.. Doyle of ireland. Mr.. Herzog.
In quiet way. attempted to impeach
the correctness of the decision of Mr..
Quisley In declaring an out, but Doyle
scoffed at the very idea. This may have
been the casus belli, which later started
general war between the Braves and
the umpires.
Nehf Is Maltreated,
In any event, after the Braves had
been snuffed out in the FIRST half Of the
second. the Giants proceeded to take lib
critics with the pitching OF Arthur Neht
that obviously were obnoxious to the
hurler and all his teammates. Doyle,
FIRST up. cracked a sizzling double to
right. The best Kauff could do was a pop
ny to Holke. but Zimmerman padded
an ugly eraser between short and third
that eluded all hands Fletcher dumped
the ball few feet northwest of the plat
ter and beat the throw to first With
three Giants on the sacks and but one
out, II readily can be understood that
the Braves had reason to feel a sense
of irritation.
Gonzales was the next batter, and the
second ball pitched looked to all the
Braves, even those on the bench and in
right field warming up. as a strike. To
MI Henry O'Day the ball was not a
strike and he said 80 in the curt, au-
thoritative way which characterizes the
umpires.
Mr.. Nehf could not believe his ears
and asked for additional details from the
umpire.
Dali, repeated " lay.
This was the signal for q glove and
nat throwing competition for altitude by
the entire Brave outfit. Nehf tossed his
glove SO feet 7 inches, Herzog hoisted
his cap 80 feet inches and Maranville
lofted his lid 80 feet 9 inches, which,
considering his size, Is a creditable per-
Torrance. All the other Braves tossed
gloves and caps in the air. and they
came down in showers.
o'Day Banishes Three Players.
Having measured the distances with
his eagle eye ODay coldly remarked !:
Quite interesting. / assure you. 1 will
now pick the winners and present the
prizes. Nehf. Herzog and Maranville are
excused for the remainder of the day,
each to receive an invigorating shower
bath before leaving the grounds.
There was. of course, much pouting
and procrastination on the part OF the
prize winners. but they finally withdraw
and George Stallings proceeded to fill
the gaps in his ranks made by the ODay
shrapnel. Rawlings went to second.
Cruise shifted to left and Smith came in
to third, his former position. Blackburne
changed to short, Riggert went to CEN
tire and our old Yankee friend Ray Keat-
Ing went 10 the mound.
The only glove Ihrower of prominence
who was not penalized was Gowdy, and
attention was called to the fact that his
FIRST name Is Hank. same as O'Day
Gowdy also has fine record as SOL
der.
zimmerman Hits for Circuit.
1t Is not improbable that the change
was a good thing for the Braves, and
that. had Nehf remained In the game,
the score would have been onesided
The Giants were getting to him in a
lively manner when the burlesque was
staged. After the teams began the real
business of the afternoon, the monotony
was broken in the fourth when Zim,
with two out. pelted the spheroid into
the right field stand for a homer.
The Braves tied the score in the fifth
when they got run on singles by Holke,
Blackburne and Riggert Burns tied
the score in the fifth by some of the
speediest base running ever seen on
diamond. With two out George got
pass. stole second and scored on Young's
short single to right.
As showing the sort OF ball that Ben
ton pitched. Blackburne had a chance In
the sixth to win the game. There were
three on bases and two out. He rolled
a baby grounder to Chase.
Gowdy had a chance to win the game
IN the ninth. but with two out and two
on. Hank popped to Fletcher. The
score:
BOSTON CND NEW YORK (ND