The sun., 1919-08-20
GIANTS BREAK EVEN
WITH CHICAGO CUBS
Alexander Takes First, Only
Victory of Champions in
Harlem This Year.
By FREDERICK G. LIEn.

Like a kiddy saving his sweetest tidbit
until the end Of the meal, the Cubs
waited until their last appearance of the
year on the Polo Grounds to win n game
on Harlem loan. The Giants and Cubs
concluded their series yesterday by
having a double header on a muddy
turf
The great Alexander won the FIRST
anne for the Bruins by a score OF 4 to
;, the one bright spot in Moose Mitcheli's
1919 campaign on the isle OF Manhat-
tan. In the second game the popular
Jesse Barnes chalked up his twentieth
victory of the year for the Giants The
wiry Kansan turned back the fading
National League champs by score of
s 10 1.
Barnes is the first finger in John
Beydler's circuit to record a score of
victories. Eddie Cicotte OF the White
Sox Is the only other boxman in the
majors who has reached the twenty
victory mark.
However, that first defeat took a. lot
OF starch out of the home lads The
scoreboard showed Cincinnati had taken
its hrst game from Brooklyn and was
batting out another victory in the sec
ond. The Reds lead spread out to seven
full games, and the Giants assumed
What the deuce is the use" attitude.
Kauff especially showed this Don't give
a rap" kind OF spirit
Up to yesterday Alexander had bro
ken even on his llfes warfare against
the Giants. He had won nineteen from
McGraw's team and lost the same num-
bert During that period the Giants
oatted .215 against him. Aleck came
here with two straight shutouts behind
him. He blanked the Giants just before
New York returned East and did a little
whitewashing in Brooklyn last week.
Alexander got in two-thirds of another
shutout yesterday before the Giants be-
gan to modest him. McGraw's grena-
diers shaved down a four run Chicago
lead to one run and gave the great
Aleck some ticklish moments before it
was over
The Cubs beat Phil Douglas in the
opener. 1t was the second time they
have tripped up the Shuf1er since he
came to the Giants in the Robertson
deal. Phil is recovering from an attack,
Of ptomaine poisoning. He wasn't at
his best and Chicago got to him for nine
hits in six innings. But the breaks were
against the big boy. Gonzales's failure
to play ball hit through his zone let in
The nrst Cub run and Wild throw ny
Fletcher enabled Alexander to score the
fourth.
hits scarce IN second Game.
Hits were scarce in the second game.
The Giants got only five of Hendrix
and the Cubs bagsed eight off Barnes.
New York actually stole this game from
Hendrix and Val O'Farrell, his catcher.
In the third inning, when the Giants
scored three runs and clinched the game,
they did everything but steal O'Farrelrs
breast protector. Three runs were
scored with two out on one hit. Four
steals did the trick. Hendrix walked
I'VE men and four of them scored
With Chicago four runs to the good,
the Giants started after Alexander in
the seventh. Young doubled and
reached third on Fletcher's single. He
scored when zimm forced Artie.
The Giants got two more in the
eighth and had men on third and sec
ond. when @. Cleveland stiffened and
got the next two men. Snyder singled
with one out, and Doyle. batting for
Winters, walked. Young STATE, the Holy
Cross collegian, ran for him. passed
ball advanced the runners and Burnss
pass filled the bases. Young crashed
second double to left. scoring Snyder and
STATE, Burns taking third. Aleck then
pulled himself together. Fletcher popped
TO Herzog and Zimmerman grounded to
Aleck. ff'- -..-
The Cubs were the first TO score in the
second game. Singles by Pashert and
Merkle and BARRIERS sacrifice fly enabled
Dode to score. Paskert got into the
first game when Flack injured his leg
sliding to second on an attempted steal
Davey Robertson. another Cub fly
chaser, is out of the Chicago lineup be-
cause OF a charley horse.
Giants' Pilferins Features.
The Giants showed some rare base
running In the third. Chase walked and
got around TO third on two infield outs.