The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-01
&PT 1so E Ezr Sporting Section rz$ 5 EEsS
Americans Effort To Take Leadership Is Frustrated By Meyers Timely Hitting

l the Americans, for he landed on one | of "Shanty'' Houses deliveries for a | cork1ng hit, which went for the cir l cult. And more, too, the Chief knock 1 ed in another tally with a sacrifice | fly.
 1 shanty House was selected by Man | ager Grimes to do the honors for the | day, but his performance was by far not the most brilliant one he has been known to give. On the con | trary, he was 1ambasted many times | and effectively. House had a fairly | easy time with the opposition in the l first two sessions, but beginning with | the third when the Murlins broke l into the run column, life became mis- | erabie for him. He vas held up for l4 hits. of which one was a homer, 1 three triples and one a two bag | ger.
 | Courtney opened for the New Ha- ven aggregation, but he was yanked 1 In the seventh inning when the | Bridgeporters threatened to pile up 1 an uA Abeatable score. This hurler did l comparatively we'll up to the seventh l when the Americans pasted his of | ferings for all they were worth. When l the smoke of the Bridgeport bonn l bardment thickened, Manager Mur-- phy altered his plans and substitut-
 
 l tWo-thtrds innings, long enough to l hold the Park City delegation He | frightened to such extent that the i Brfdgeporters got but two hits in that l period and neither one of them ma | terialized into a tally.
 The Americans grabbed off eight hits in all Bill Lai, Skif and Baker | coming through with extra base bin gles Each of these gentlemen was credited with triple. But though defeated in the ninth inning, it can't be said that the Bridgeporters did not play good | defensive game. On the contrary, | their defence was good and had House not been so generous they would have made off with the game. New Ha- ven had Is men left on bases, while Bridgeport had eight. Coed work l by the secondary defence mea was 1 responsible to a great extent fdr the | holding of so many New Haven\men | on the bags. Bill Tai at short whs a | bit wobbly and the result got Mm- self into couple of bad messes Pax ucularly brilliant was the work ors- Gene Martin in centerfeld This gardener grabbed six putouts Braun also should be mentioned, as should | his Hon. Raymond Grimes at first.
 
 affect Ray Heating, who started for the Braves, for the Giants hammered his spitters all over the lot in the nrst two innings, getting a four run lead that stood them in good stead Larry Cheney, the Brooklyn castoff, took up the pitchers burden for | Sta1lings in the third and yielded a run in the fourth. An error by Holke paved the way for a two-run assault fC iy, bn Six- outhit New York, 16 to II, but poor
 base running handicapped the Braves, and the Giants emerged tri-4 umphant to f.
 Red Causey started for the Giants but McGraw took his flame haired finger out at the end of a Boston 5ombardment which netted two runs in the sixth and sent in Rube Benton and his southside sIants to stop~the1 Boston onslaughts. Benton was bumped hard but was helped by the breaks and weird Boston base run | ming.
 Artie Fletcher took kindly to Keat- | lng's offerings. The New York cap- tain reached the former Yankee twirler for triple with Young on ahead in the first and rapped Ray for a double that scored Pep again in the second.
 T Pittsburgh defeated St. Louis by3 a score of to 1. It was the tenth anniversary of the opening of Forbes l Field, and two players took part in today's game who appeared in the lineup ten years ago, Adams Of Pittsburgh and Miller of St. Louis. | Both were members of the Pitts burg team at that time. The Pitts burgh club announced that they had
  the Detroit team by the waiver route. The Reds took two games from . the Chicago Cubs, to 1 and to l. The visitors punched hits off Douglas for the first victory and errors by the Cubs gave them the second game.
 Chicago's White sox defeated Cleveland, to ?, in a stormy game. | Manager Gleason was elected from $ the field in the first inning for pro | testing decision. Later the Cleve- land team delayed the game ten minutes, insisting Cicotte had made | a. balk- Cleveland outde1ders had four assists to the plate. Smith got a double, triple and home run and ] Murphy a double and three singles in four times up.
 i Detroit buried Davenport under an avalanche of base hits in the second inning and the Tigers scored four runs from the Browns, to I. Bo- land held St. Louis to five scattered safeties. The victory was the eighth straight for the Tigers
 I Singles by Walker and Strunk. following a pass to Thors -s in the ninth, gave Philadelntia the flecirion over Washington, to 3. Ricess triple, with the bases filled, tied the score in the fifth after long hits by McAvoy, Witt and Walker. gave the Athletics an early lead
 The Yankee clan Is now two and one-ha1f games in front of the White Sox and four games ahead of Cleve- 1 land. The Indians dropped back Ii and oue.haN with thair Aixflzz