The sun., 1919-07-13
GIANTS SUFFER
FIRST SHUTOUT;;
LOSE 1ST PLACE
Cooper, Pirate Left Handler,
Blanks New York With
Three Hits, 1 to O.
TONEY ALSO IS IN FORM
Cutshaw's Triple and Moll-
wetz's Single Send in the
Games Lone Run.
By FREDERICK G. LIEB.

By FREDERICK G. LIEB.
It never rains but 1t pours! It has
been a tough week for the loyal Man.
haitian fan. just one bump after another.
1t started last Wednesday when the
Cleveland Indians stopped Bob Shaw
keys great winning streak after he had.
run Off ten victories In succession. The
next day the same Indians sstopped
Roger Peckinpaugh's batting streak after
he had bingled safely in twenty-nine
consecutive games. Not satisfied with
that they kicked the Yankees out of
first place in the, American League.
Old adversely shifted over to the
Giants on the Polo Grounds yesterday.
Little Wilbur Cooper, the able Pirate
left handler, blanked the Giants by a
score of to o. 1t was the first time
! this season that the Giants have felt
the bistles of the whitewash brush.
| Along with the whitewashing the Giants
| were forclbly elected from the top perch
| In the National League.
AS the Cincinnati Reds browbeat the
| hap less Phillies, Z to 0, with Jimmy Ring
of Brooklyn lin the box, the Ohoans
| jumped out In front by full game.
While sympathlzing with the Giants in
their misfortune, more power to Patrick
| Moran!
Resumes Trick of 1917.
Back in 1917 It was quite a favorits
! hobby of Cooper to beat the Giants i
to 0. He turned the trick three times
| that year, but this season the Giants
| took his measure twice before he got
busy with his little brush yesterday.
Plttsburg scribblers with the Pirates
| say It was the best game that Wilbur
ever fipped. and they ought to know.
| No question about it being twirling
masterpiece. Only three hits were jolted
out of the pony portsider and oddly
| enough two OF these went to big Fred
| Toney. his burly opponent, who whacked
out double and single. The third nit
was made by AL Baird. a weak hitting
| utility man.
Even McGraw must have considered
| Toney's hits accidental. for when the big
Tennesseean came up to take his third
| shot at Cooper in the eighth the Little
Napoleon called him back and sent in
Larry Doyle in his stead Larry lifted
pury foul to Cation, the pint sized Pirate
| third baseman.
The two Giants to hit were the only
| ones to reach base. Cooper had perfect
control OF his fast ball. He did not issue
| bases on balls. The Pirates made no
errors, though Wilburs pitching was so
good that they had few hard chances.
Only Five Assists for Pirates.
A freak feature OF the game was that
Pittsburg had only five assists. and four
Of these came in the last three innings.
The Giants simply could not fiatten out
Cooper's hooks. Twenty of them entered
the putout column by way of the air
| route.
Especially did the Pirate outfelders
put in busy afternoon. They speared
thirteen flies among them, Casey Stem
gel getting eight dn right field From
this ono might Judge that the Giants
were giving the fences an awful bom-
hardment but this was not the case.
Most of these flies were soft pop1ips. and
usually the fielder had only to move
inches to get under the ball.
Toney. who smashed a double down
the first base foul line IN the third frame,
was the only Giant to reach second.
Further evidence OF Coopers uncanny
effectiveness came in the sixth. when
Toney opened the inning with a single
He never left first base, and stood aim
lessly around the first base bag watching
Burns Young and Fletcher go out on
easy flies.
Toney also pitched n creditable game
for the Giants perhaps the best he has
was good enough to win nine games
against ten but had the misfortune to
run against an opponent pitching the
greatest game of his career.
Toney faItered once and il was enough
to beat him. Seven hits were garnered
, by the Pirates of the big fellow In eight
. innings but several grounders were
/ scored as hits when they took bad bounds
to inAelders. Two got past Heinie Zim.
Quite a few have been getting through
the Bronx boy lately.
FIetcher's Work q Feature.
Fletcher starred behind the big
pitcher He pulled of several splendid
plays He saved his best play for the
fninth when Dubuc was pitching. He
ran into centre field and pulled down
Mollwitzs bid for Texas Lacquer
Arthur handled ten chances and started
off two fast double plays.
A 10000 crowd was out for the en-
tertainment, and quite few Pittsours
rooters were scattered about the stands
Most of the boxes in the immediate
neghborhood OF the Pittsburg dugout
we're populated by fans of both genders
= who declared their allegiance to Barney
; Dreyfuss, Wilbur Cooper and Pittsburs
: at every opportunity.
, Pittsburg put over the lone run OF the
AFFAIR in the second inning. With one
out GeorEie Cutshaw. former Dodger
, caught one OF Toney's shoots on the
nose. and sent It on a line through the
= alley in left centre between Burns and
Kauff The whack rolled 70 the bleacher
fence and good fielding held It to a
triple. The hit elated George Cutshaw
l Jr., Pirate mascot, who danced around
with, childish glee,
a With the inleld playing in on the
grass the lean. lank Mollwits spun a
Y single between Chase and Baird, scoring
Cutshaw. It was slow hit ball, but
Z when It got out 10 Young It found little
= hole somewhere. and passed through II.
!, BY the time Ross ran It down Molly
| also was on third base.
v MoIIwitz Misses Chance to Score.
little. Cation raised short' fly &c
n Young, and Mollwitz, playing safe, held
: third base lie would have had no
y ! trouble scoring had he attempted TO gel
home, as Young's throw in bounded out
! OF NcCartys hands. 1t was time
V where It didn't pay TO be discreet
Continued on Second PG9e.