The sun., 1919-05-27
COOPER PRESENTS
VICTORY TO GIANTS
Three Successive Passes i'm the
Third Provide Margin Of
Success, 4-8.
M'CARTY SLAMS HOMER
With Fletcher on Base, He
Deposits Ball in Right
Field Stand.
MCARTY SLAMS HOMER
~ rREpERICIS q. LinB.

By FREDERICIk q. LIEB.
Generosity il noble virtue, but In
the opinion Of Hugo Bezdek, the chubby
leader OF the Pittsburs team, It should
not be cultivated by pitchers, particu-
the Pirate 10 to give nothing and take
everything.
AT any rate. II Pirate pitchers must
be generous and hand out passes, let
them scatter them" lectured Hugo TO
his pitching flock at the end of yester-
days TIL on the Polo Grounds. which the
Giants won from Pittsburg by q score OF
to Q.
Wilbur Cooper, Pirate southpaw, with
more or less of q reputation as a Giant
tanner. bestowed three bases on, balls on
the Harlem athletes yesterday, This IL
no unusual liberality, but where Wilbur
aroused the ire OF brother Bezdek was
TO present them TO the Giants all IN one
bundle In the third inning.
Now. any time an alien pitcher hands
me Giants three passes in a bunch be-
fore man Is out something is going to
happen And something ala happen
Two Of the recipients OF the passes
scored the runs that kept the Giants In
the ascendancy at the finish.
southpaws I'm LimeIieht.
II was rather left handed entertain
ment. Rube Benton, the North Carolina
portsider. who almost became a Pirate
three years ago, was in the box for the
Giants. and It was quite struggle.
The New York Rube had the good
sense to distribute his passes in the in
nings In which Pittsburg did not score,
but he skated on very thin ice In the
eighth. when the Buccos smeared him
for three live wire hits and Benton came
near tossing the game away with q sad
throw to Chase on the easiest kind of q
play.
AL Baird, still wearing Doyle's shoes,
got the Rube into lot OF difficulty in
the third inning with errors on the first,
two men up. But In a general way
Rube had no complaint to file with his
support Twice Pittsburg runners were
shot down at the plate and twice after
the first Bucco got on he was promptly
doubled up on a fast two ply killing.
Fletcher. who usually rises to his great
est heights against Pittsburg, handled
eleven chances without slip.
A familiar face was behind the bat
for Pittsbure. none other than Ed swee-
ney, who for many years caught for the
Yankees. Big Ed saw some real SER
vice on the other side, and now is strong
for the simple life. He worked smart
play on Ross Young.
An Elementary stunt Works.
After doubling with two out In the
fourth Young took third on Chase's in
field hit. Sweeney. who fielded the ball,
made a bluff throw to first, and Young
swallowed even the slhker. HeVrounded
third intending to score. on tho throw to
first, but Sweeney never had let 70 of
the ball, and Young ran right into 1t.
hA p<l
hold OF Lew McCarty in the second in
ming. He slapped homer into the right
field stands. scoring Fletcher who had
singled. Another Giant run would have
scored In this frame. but for the nifty
sharpshooting Of Bigbee. Zim had sin
sled. but expired when he tried to reach
third on Fletcher's single. only to find
Bisbee's throw awaiting him.
Baird tried to help the Pirates get in
the game In the third. He fumbled on
Blebee, and when Terry rolled one down
TO him, Al hit Carlson trying to force
him at second. Casey Stengei whacked
single to left. scoring Bigbee The
good natured lad from Kansas City
rather exploded the old theory that he
couldn't hit left handlers. He cufred
Benton for three singles.
Stengers hit came before any one was
out and Southworth sacrificed Terry and
Casey along base. Fletcher pounced
on Cutshaw's roller and threw out Terry
at the plate. Baird tossed out Moll-
WITT.
Third Sees Cooper Fall.
The third inning was Coopers wild
round. when the Giants scored two more
runs, enough to win. He started in by
passing Burns and Young. He next got
Chase's bounder tangled between his
lnees. and when he got hold OF the ball
he turned to throw to third to force
Burns. He saw he was too late and
then turned to throw to first, and per-
ceived he also had spoiled his chance
for a play at that bag. That filed all
the bases with none out.
Wilbur remained wild and walked
Raird. forcing in Burns. Kauff popped
to Cutshaw. but Young cantered home
on Zim's sacrifice fly.
The Pirates fred a real broadside IN
the eighth. when. they scored twice and
Rad the tieing run shot down at the
plate. With one out. Barbara, pinch
hitting for Terry, singled sharply to
centre and took third on Stengel's third
hit, a long single which Young played
nicely of the right field wall South
worth kept IL up by whistling another
single past Benton's ears. Barbara scor-
ing.
Cutshaw forced Southworth. Stengel
gcihg to third. Cutshaw stole second,
and 1t was again up to Mollwitx. With
the count two and three he hit at q
nigh ball. which would have been a
fourth ball, and broke his bat as he
tapped soft bounder to Benton. Rube
could have rolled tho ball to Chase. but
threw several yards wide of the bag.
Hal did knock the ball down, which
was fortunate. as he threw out Cutshaw
at the plate. George had tried to fol-
low in the wake OF StengeL The score :
PITTsBURG CN) NEW YORK CN)
Aorh oae abrh o a
Birbee, cf... Al 0Burns, H.. sill / OF
Terry .ss.... SEQ o 50Young. RI. ali O0
.Bsrbare... III 00lchAse.fb.... 40iM 30