The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
COOPER IS TOO
EFFECTIVEF0R
FADING GIANTS
Midget Lefthander Holds
McGraw's Band to Six
Scattered Bingles.
PIRATES LAND ON BARNES
Pittsburg Bunches Hits With
Local Errors and Wins by
Score Of 6 to 1.
PIRATES LAND ON BARNES
by FREDERICK G. LIEB.

Little Wilbur Cooper, mite of a Pirate
southpaw, waved his left arm ct the
Giants up on the Polo Grounds yester-
day and that is all there was to 1t.
Whenever Wilbur is feeling spry, which
usually Is the case when he makes
call TO Harlem. Giant runs usually are
as scarce as Giant supporters in Cincin-
natl.
Six weeks ago little Wilbur visited the
Polo Grounds and beat Fred Toney, TO
0. 1t was the first shutout that was
plastered on the Harlem lads this sea-
son. Only the nimble lower limbs of
Ross Young, the flying Texan, prevented
Cooper from doing another bit of white
washing around the Coogan's Bluff
fences yesterday Young beat a fast
Pirate relay to the plate in the sixth
for a home run. 1t was. however. only
BOBBY prize, as the Pirates won the
first game Of the set by a score of
to 1.
The pennant chances of the Giants
now are deader than DlcKens's door
nail, and that's the last word in things
deceased. What chance has an ordinary
team to catch a runaway train booming
along a down grade. The Reds simply
have run amuck. They have forgotten
the meaning of an old familiar line
which used to appear so frequently in
Cincinnati papers, REDS lose"
Reds Eight Games in Lead.
BY reason of their double victory in
Philadelphia and the Giant defeat on
the Polo Grounds the Red lead grew
to eight games. And the lead still is
sprouting. Yet the Giants are playing
good ball. Yesterdays defeat was their
first in seven games. Since the Red
series the Giants have won six out Of
eight, but are losing more ground every
day.
Cooper beat Jesse Barnes. and the
can Kansan was stung harder than
usual The Pirates made good use of
their hits. and never overlooked any
Giant infield errors The Gotham inner
works has been giving a splendid imita-
ton of a sieve in the last two days.
The defeat was only tine sixth sus-
tairied by Barnes this year. and he has
piled up score of victories Cooper is
on a little winning streak of his own.
He has reeled off six victories in a row.
Cooper held the Giants to six scat
tered hits. four of them coming with
two out. He had perfect control. He
did not pass a man to first. With the
exception OF Young, who hit a home
run. only one Giant reached second.
Kauff pulled up at second in the second
inning, when he beat out a bounder to
Terry and took second on Zeb's strong
arm peg over Whitted's head.
$4,000 Fans Present.
Despite the fact that everybody
realizes that the Giants are out of the
running, business continues to be pretty
good up at the Polo Grounds. About
5000 saw the Giants lose yesterday.
Some OF them amused themselves by
yelling Hugo: 7 go Who goes?" at
Hugo Bezdek, the rotund Pirate chief.
They enjoyed the quip so much that
they pulled 1t on Bezdek every time he
stepped into the coaching box.
The Pirates got busy early. putting
two runs over In the second. Whitfield
smacked a single past F'risch. on which
the Fordham lad tried q flying tackle.
Frisch then fumbled on Barbara. and
Cu,shaw showed up the runners notch
with sacrifice. With the infield on the
grass. Terry lined over Fletcher's thatch.
scoring Whitfield and Barbara.
Another Pittsburg run was Matched
with the aid OF a tumble by Fletcher in
the third. Bigbee singled to right and
stole second. Carey was called out on
strikes, and growled at Hank O'Day.
Southworth slipped a short single by
Frisch and Bigbee went to third. He
soft roller.
Kauff Is Llstless.
Pittsburg scored its fourth run in the
fourth. With two out Kauff made a
half hearted stab with his bare hand at
Terry's fly. and 1t fell safe for a double.
Benny should have been under IT.
Schmidt sent Terry home with a clean
cut single to left field.
Young scored for the Giants in the
sixth, when he slipped home run down
the alley in right centre between Carey
and Southworth. 1t was the only homer
hit so far by a Giant on the present
home stand. Just before leaving for
their second disastrous Western trip the
Giants used to knock them over the
fences almost. every day.
The Pirates put on a strong finish
getting two more runs in the eighth
Carey singled, advanced to second on
Southworth's out and scored on Whitted's
double 10 left. The Tarheel stole third
and Barbara walked. Georgia scored
when Cutshaw forced Barbara. The
score:
PITTsBURG (N) NEW YORK tN1
Bigbee,lf... 6lI o ooBurns 400 / OF
Carey CT; - ooYoung,rf,. ara o 90