New-York tribune., 1919-08-14

to be the record baseball attendanc,
mated that there were something Ill
Experts on high baseball explosives
detected en- ominous sound during the
TWO games--a sound as of the Giants
cracking under the strain. The gloomy
prophets who predicted that the vet
eran infield OF the Giants would cave
IN were muttering their " told you sos"
Perhaps this was what caused some
lively encounters at fst-cuffs in various
sections of the grandstand while the
gruelling struggles were or.
1t began to look like a worlds series
crowd long before the first game start
ed. The only things needed to make
that illusion complete were a few gal
ions OF bourbon and the presence of
the National Commission. These two
ingredients properly mixed give the
complete worlds series atmosphere.
Before the second game was we'll
under way the green curtain in the
centrefeld bleachers had to be raised
Five or six hundred crushed their way
through one of the exit gates when
they were told there was no more room
IN the park. They found space to
huddle somewhere.
Castoffs Are Factors
Castoffs from the Giants had their
revenge yesterday. 1t was Heinie
Groh, a discarded Giant, who scored
the winning run for the Reds in the
fifth inning of the first game with
home run to the rightfield corner of
the lot. 1t was Slim Sallee, the slen-
der Sheriff of Higginsport, who held
the Giants to three we'll scattered hits
IN the second and overcame Shufln'
Phil Douglas in as pretty pitchers
duel as has been seen on the lot.
The worlds series frenzy was over
the multitude When it seemed that
the Giants had chance to tie the
score in the eighth inning of the first
game the crowd began to tear up score
cards and scatter the pieces into the
field. Some of the more emotional
gents tore up their straw hats and the
ground was Uttered. But it seemed to
require more than shoutings and scraps
of paper to shake the supreme con
fidence which Moran has instilled into
the Reds.
most "critical" series the way they
have started, the race, as far as the Ma
tlonal League is concerned, is decided
even now. Psychologist ically the Giants
seem to be beaten to somewhat OF
fraZzle at present. The confidence with
which the team started the early rush
is gone. The Reds have that now.
The multitude started chorting with
glee when the Giants started with some
Of their old punch in the second in.
ming. Chase singled. and after Kauff
had popped out to second Heinie Zim-
norman, the Bronx bridegroom, singled
TO right. "Greasy' Neale made a wild
heavc TO third to head off Chase, who
was safe at the bag. Frank Snyder shot
snappy single to left and Chase and
Zimmerman scored.
Nehf Goes to Pieces
This placed the record attendance
in jovial mood for the time being, but
CONSERVATION shook the teeming tears
IN the third when Art Nehf, recently
acquired from the Boston Braves, be-
gan to have an exceedingly uncomfort-
able time. With one out Nehf passed
Rath. Then Daubert lobbed one down
to the former Goldfish consumer. Art
picked up the pellet, paused to mediate
and then made a bad peg to Chase. let
iing Daubert reach the bag.
This did not add to Nehf's peace Of
mind and he went wild. passing Groh,
which crowded the corners. Roush
lifted a long one to Young, and Rath
came home. After Neale had been hit
by a pitched ball, filling the bases,
Kopf shot a hit through second, and
Daubert and Groh scored.
The ground and lofty tumbling Of
Benjamin Kautf the demon coal miner,
saved the Giants from further disaster
sn this inning. Sherwood Magee shot
8 high one over the shortstop's head,
and it looked like a sure single at least.
Benjamin came in, dove for the ball,
speared it, rolled over four or five
times, then came to the surface with
the pellet in his mitt.
IT was in the fifth inning that Heinie
Groh, who had been warming a large
section of the Giant bench until Nc
Graw in a cruel mood, sent him to
Cincinnati, made himself very obnox-
lous to the Giant rooters by cinching
the game for the Reds. Groh shot one
to the right field corner and got all
the way around the bags before the
ball could be relayed to the plate. Some
OF the fans seemed to forget that
Heinie is now on the payroll of Garry
Hermann, and they took this homer as
an act Of treason against the sovereign
city of New York.
Giants Revive Hopes
McCarty went in to pinch hit for
Nehf IN the seventh, and Jean Dubuc,
VINO has been acting as undertaken for
games about to be inferred by the
Giants, finished out the two innings
1t looked as though the Giants were
about to revive in the eighth. Fletcher
got base on balls. After Doyle was
ont ON high one to right Hal Chase
cracked three-bagger to right and
scored Fletcher. But Kauf chopped
one down to Rath, who trapped Chase
between third and the plate. Rigor
morts set IN once more for the Giants
when the Great Zim greatly famed
out.
Benny Kauf again stopped a rush
OF Red scores in the NINTH With two
out Reuther and Daubert singled in
turn. This put one man on third ard
Daubert stole second. The stage vas
set Tor more brutality, and Heinie
Groh, the avenger, was swinging his
club. Heinie hoisted q fast one to
centre, but just as the ball was about
TO kiss the grass Kauff dove from nc
where and ploughed through the turf
on his nose. When he emerged from
the greensward he held the ball in
his hand, and the unnecessary slaugh-
ter was averted.
The story of the second game is the
story OF the come-b back of Slim Sallce.
the slender sheriff of Higgnsport, dis
carded by the Giants as too elderly to
get them over. Only twenty eight
Giants faced the sheriff. so deftly did