The Washington herald., 1919-08-14
$4,000 Gothamite Fans
See Moran S Crew Trim
New York In Double Bill
AT Polo Grounds.
BY DAMON RUNYON.


New York, Aug. 13.-Have you ever
heard forty thousand people in full
cry?
They make a power o. noise. They
but then let's not get ahead of our
story, which Is the story OF the de
feat of the New York Giants by the
Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds
this afternoon in both games Of
dOuble-header.
The scores were to 5. and to l,
and the making of scores is the plot
OF our story, that ought rightfully
10 begin this way:
Baseball chickens came home TO
rOost.
Heinc Groh star.
Heine Groh was a Giant in the days
Of his baseball adolescence. and
mighty proud of that fact. too. So
proud that when he got a little money
together, and opened a little place OF
business in his home town of Roches-
ter, y. Y. he called it The Little
Ciiant."
I'm doing pretty good Heine used
TO tell him team mates. But l think
IN move down nearer to the depot
where l can catch some OF the tran
som trade"
\ malapropism. perhaps. but you
can excuse that in a lad who has a
pair of baseball hands and a batting
eye such as to cause old Dick kinseIla.
the sinister looking scout of the
Giants. to drag him out OF the base
ball bushes" at some cost.
Not even John J. McGraw doubted
the potentialities Of Heine GrOh. but
there came a time. a few years back.
when John J. McGraw was in desper-
ate need of a pitcher to help him win
q National League pennant-
Little Giant n Red.
TIL baseball immature are some
times valuable as trading material and
presently the proprietor of the Little
Giant found himself i'm Cincinnati on
d tail-end club and a very discOnso-
late young man
But. a. was said before. baseball
chickens come home to rOOst, and
THIS afternoon Heinie Groh came
back to the Polo Grounds with the
cincinnati Reds to d" very large
~hare in the business Of knocking
III New YOrk's pennant hopes. He
h5t home run that proved the de-
ridinE tally of the first game. and
q " dLltEHttNr Nf W dS Il SOuICt Ol
evaporation to 10000 people who
dearly desired the Giants to win.
With Heinie Groh was another
chicken coming home to roost-a
.,au. Ieathcry. IriSureIy old roster
800 To- speak. an ancient bird Of evil
mnacu to the. New York Giants. in the
r.arso0 Of Sal SaIIec. who used to beat
m by the magic of his old left
D. .
and who is back. beating en- in the
uniform Of the Reds. after serving
q Horid period under McGraw.
In the second game SaIIee held
the Giants to thre" hits, while
TOT that ever roame,I tn" big
leagues. knocked home the two
RUNS that won the gamn.
Nagce's Hit Counts.
I'm having hard time out
there in left field picking out the
ball from among the pop bottles
when I 80 after fly." complained
sherry" Mage queroUSIy. which is
indicative 81 how dearly some IF
those 10000 desired to sec the
Giants win.
On the bench Of the Reds. or on
their coaching lines, perched dur
inE the afternOOn-not another
chicken, perhaps, but a sort Of
baseball FTankenstcin reared by
John J. McCraw TO his own pennant
destruction as tho Ecd-muzzIed Pat
Moran. leader of tho Cincinnati
rIub urled his men on.
Canned by the parsimoniOUs owners
Of the Philadelphia club. Moran caught
on with McGraw as a coach for the
Giants but when managerial vacancy
developed at Cincinnati NcGraw sent
Moran there. The ways Of baseball
Eatc are inscrUtabIc
Two games Of baseball do not ma ke
q season. it is true. but this is August
nd August is drifting on into the
shadows of early fall and the world
series, and the Cincinnati club is six
and a half games ahead OF the New
York Giants, If McGraw overcones
that lead. he is the new Miracle Man
OF the game. indeed.
Most peOUl" regard this series as
rho Gccidiu- series Of the Natiuru
LeaEUc campaign. That is the reason
why 4O.OrO w"r" at tn" opener this
afternoon.