The sun., 1919-08-14

las, none. Umpires-Messrs. KLEIN and Emsiie.
lime OF camel hour and 80 minutee.
"unies' OF the Polo Grounds. The new
twirlers did nobly, but their support was
rocky. The only earned run scored by
the Reds all day was Groh's homer of
Nehf In the first game. Nehf. however,
dug his own grave in the third frame, as
he walked two men, hit another and
made a wild throw to first all in the
same inning. No wonder it was Cincin-
MATHS big scoring round.
Douglas and saIIee In DUEL.
Poor Phil Douglas deserved a better
fate in the second game, though he
caught old SlHn Sallee at his best. Mike
Gonzales scored the only earned run of
the fray when he stole home on Slim,
taking advantage of a long windup.
Chase n Fletcher spilled the little
beans for Shutting Phil. They corr
tributed the little fumbles in the fourth
inning which put Roush and Kopf on
base, and Sherry Magee had to insert
his only hit of the day a few moments
later. That did the trick.
Douglas held the Reds to five hits and
whitfield seven. The Cincinnati battery
had a big majority in Phil's strike out
column. Sallee famed three times and
Ivy Wingo twice. 1t was n base on
ball-less contest, neither Douglas nor
Long Sal countersigElng a pass.
e Pitching by salIee.
Sallee. who blanked the Giants in their
disastrous series in Cincinnati a few
weeks ago, pitched another remarkable
game against his old mates. Only
twenty-eight Giants faced Harry, one
wanna tAa- A. fn-1 49, -
hits were made Off SAL" and no Giants
were left. Gonzales scored and two men
were nipped stealing. Is 1t any wonder
that the monster crowd grew abnormally
quiet as round after round went by with
out the Giants even denting Salles's Of
ferings?
New York played some good ball, but
Cincinnatfs margin of one run in each
game doesn't tell the story. That Red
infeld pair-Larry Kopt and Morris
Rath-worked like Jack Barry and
Eddie Collins in their prime. They Just
drew a zone around second base and de-
fed the Giants to push anything through.
MI Giants often looked drowsy, al
most as though they didn't care. Base
ball followers compared them to the
Brooklyn team in the 1916 series, a
team which played to get the losers
portion
Kaun's Great Catches.
Benny Kauff was one Giant who re-
manned on his toes. But for two catches
by Benny the first game would have
been a Giant rout.
Benny cut OF at least four runs.
With two runner on the bases in the
third. Kaud made a dive and slid in
on his stomach for Magee's low liner.
He slid ten feet, but clutched the leather.
In the ninth he made almost the same
kind OF a catch on Heinie Groh with
two men on.
Frank Snyder was adept at sharing
fouls. He got four. taking one of the
press stand screen. Frank got into a
discussion with Heinie Groh for block
ing the plate when Heinie hit his homer.
but nothing worse happened than an ex-
change of looks.
The Giants were the first to score In
both games. II their is any satisfaction
In that. They shook two runs out OF
Ruether in the second inning of the first
game. That was the only frame In
which the Reds appeared to be ddgetty
and not sure OF themselves.
Chase Singles to Centre.
Chase led of with a smashing single
to centre, and Kauff popped to Rath.
Zimmerman drove to right for a base,
and Chase stopped ~momentarily al
second. When Greasy Neale threw over
Groh's head at third, Chase and Zim-
norman took another base. Maybe
, Greasy had too much grease on his
glove. Snyder spun the first pitch ia
centre for a base, scoring Hal and
Heinie.
On Nehfs attempted sacrifice Snyder
was forced at second. Burns walked
and the bases were full when Dauberi
failed to stop Young's roller. Fletcher
ended 1t with "a grounder to Groh.
That was the only inning in which
New York punched hits all day. Fol
the rest of the afternoon they were In
the same batting rance that nettet
them one run In twenty-seven inning,
in Chicago. Old Joe Slump Is around
no mistake about that!
Reds Take the Lead.
The Reds didn't stay behind long
They grabbed the lead with three run
In the third inning. That's the round II
which little Nehf vas unable to contro
his shoots. He started in by fannin,
Ruether, which was well enough.
Then he walked Rath. Daubert hit t
Artie. who couldn't decide what 70 d.
with the ball. At length he decided L
throw to first. But when he peege,
there he heaved low. N Chase va
unable TO handle IT. Nehf followed tina
with four straight balls to lIeinie 0roh
filling III bases with n out. Rousl
hit a sacrifice fly. scoring Rath. Dau
bert advancing to third. Then Neh
loaded the bases again by winging Nealt
Kopf sent Cincinnati to the front wit
a hot single between Fletcher n sec
ond base. scoring Daubert and Grof
Kauff followed that up with his grea
shoestring catch on Neale. retiring tn
side.
NGroh slapped the ball to the deepef
corner of the field in right centre 10
! Cincinnatfs fourth run. In the NTH.
The Giants gave the fans somethin
to yell about in the eighth. Fletche
walked on four straight bad ones, an
nox,Ia Uftad IN Ronah. NeaIe nlave