The sun., 1919-07-18
CUBS PROVE EASY
PICKING FOR GIANTS
Barnes's Great Pitching En-
ables New York to Score
N Victory by 2 to 1.
~ FREDERICK @. LIEB.

A fan from Boston attended the Cub
Giant game on the Polo Grounds yes
terday, and Jesse Barnes's pitching for
the Giants almost made him weep.
Just think of II. stallings letting Il
man like that get away from him." he
moaned.
Perhaps that's exactly what Moose
Mitchell, Cub manager, and Stallings's
former lieutenant in Boston, was think
ing. Assuredly Mitch" would have
given much to have seen Barnes back
In Brave regalia yesterday.
The Giants tried hard to kick q game
from under the lean Kansan on the
Harlem greensward yesterday, but Jess
simply wouldn't stand for II. In a
tight pitchers battle. Jesue nosed out
Claude Hendrix and Phil Douglas in
the hrst tiff of the series by a score OF
to 1. But II was a close shave |!
Doyie's tumble put Merkle on first in
the ninth, Ind Gonzales's error put him
around to third with one out. But Jesse
has nerves OF steel He famed Chuck
Deal and Les Mann fouled to Chase.
The Matrimonial League should pin
! q medal Of some kind on Jesse. He Is
q great little booster for the order.
Usually managers frown on midseason
marriages, but after what happened to
Barnes q lot OF National League man
agere will be trying to marry OF the
bachelor pitchers.
barnes in Great Form.
Jesse had been in q little slump before
he took that hop out to Circleville to
take his schoolgirl sweetheart .'for bet
ter or worse" Since then he has been
q pitching wizard. His opponents can't
get hits OF him, let alone runs. In his
last four victories, he had q one hit
game. q two hit game and a four hit
game. The Cubs got the four yester-
| day, all singles.
The Giants still are feeding regularly
| on the Cubs. Much Of the fat in the
Giants percentage pile 10 Chicago bar
| meat The Giants md these alleged
champions easier to lick than any team
| in the league. They have won eight
out ofNhine games played with Chicago
| this year, while the Cubs have stIll to
, record a decision on the Polo Grounds
Claude Hendrix. the burly Chicago
| spitballer, gave Barnes quite a tussle
| until the eighth, and then Jesse decided
II IN his own behalf with a hot single
past Merfle, driving In the winning run.
| Such kind OF pitchers are worth having.
Hendrix was stung for eight hits in
the eight innings he was in and on the
whole he was good In the pinches. He
did some clever work in the seventh in
ming. getting by with only one run scored
against him, though the Giants got three
hits, a pass and two steals in that chap
ter. while the Cubs helped them along
with tumble and wild pitch.
Some Clever outnelding.
| While the catchers and inielders
transgressed srievously and often there
was some pretty outfielding by both
sides. Lee Magee. who wears different
| to~eerv alpoat eyery time he calls on
the Polo Grounds. made several good
catches In centre field. In the fourth he
ran far into centre and took Kauff's
nerce smash over his head But Leo still
n IS feeble as ever In the pinch. He
came UP IN the eighth with two out and
runners on second and third, and popped
q little foul to Zimmerman.
Young rather evened up Magee's catch
on Kauf when he made a fne running
catch on Pick IN the same neighborhoot
in the sixth inning.
A tumble by Fletcher put the Cubs
in q position to score their first run In
ire nrst inning Hollocher got on base
when Artie fumbled his roller, and Ma
gee's out put him on second. Merkle
batting with his right hand tied up
smacked q single to centre, scoring Hol-
locher.
The Giants tied the score in the eighth
on some pretty baseball. Doyle led OF
with a single TO right, and after Mage'
made his fne catch on Kauf, Doyle rar
down to second. On the hit and run play
Deal ran over to cover his bag and Zim
norman deftly raped a single through
the spot vacated by Chuck, II let II
Larry with the tying run. 1t was Doyle:
FIRST appearance in the Giant lineup In q
week.