New-York tribune., 1920-04-15

4 Barnes went wild in the second an,
& Giants then and there when the St
y The Giants made couple Of melo
dramatic rallies, but the game wa.
gone. Ior Eddie Eayrs, the young port.
bider for the Braves, lasted until ths
nintn. when he started to wabble. The
RALLIES Of the Giants got the local bugs
hll Wrought up.
I'LL The field was all cluttered up with
I cameras and child actresses before the
game and all of the players were
snapped in groups and separately
1 when John J. McGraw, the Giant man
sAger, came into the field he was given
the most vociferous greeting that was
handed out during the afternoon
though he had to compete with a May
lIor. Governor and Presidential candi-
idate and the commandant of West
Point.
III Cheers From Parched Throats
sa Mayor Hylan, waving his fedora,
with his staff marched into the field
4nrst, accompanied by Brigadier Gen
seral Arthur Macarthur Tho Mayor
was just about to hurl the ball that
would start the game to Hank O'Day
when another official entered the
Sgrounds through the back gate. Il was
! Governor Edwards of New Jersey, the
moist candidate. He got some vocifer-
Gus cheers from a lot Of parched
throats and the band played "How Dry
~ Am" One of the Governors staff
fwore a brown derby, which added a
touch to the colorful afternoon.
Just before the game McGraw pro-
duced a young wildcat, which animal
was brought out as the possible Giant
mascot, and answers to the name Of
Willie Pennant. The wildcat was sup
posed to be emblematic of the spirit
OF the Giants to claw things up. But
IT is only wildcat kitten and as the
days grow warmer and Willie Pennant
/ also becomes heated up both the mascot
! and the team both may start clawine
up the league.
The gathering Of $4,000 was in no
way padded. 1t was reunion of Giant
Bugs. 1t was not blase summer crowd.
One OF the inmates of the grandstands
mad driven all the way in from New
Jersey in an oldfashioned buggy and
departed for that distant country in
the same vehicle
The gloom over the explosion of Jess
Barnes was excessive. The thrill that
came when the Giants made their
eighth inning rally, only to fade away
IN the ninth, was like one of those
thrills that comes in the midst of a
decisive game toward the end of the
season.
The wildness of young Mr.. Barnes
started early in the second. Holke got
. base on balls. Then Barnes shot
over q very wild heave to Boeckel.
Miguel Gonzales, the sad, but agile
Cuban, reached for it as though it had
been ripa banana, but the hall
glanced from his mitt and Holke, who
10 q deliberate sort of person. had
time to wend his way as far as third
before the little pellet was recovered.
noeekel then proceeded to paste
swo-oagger to center, scoring Holke.
throw In. ONeill sent Boeckel home
with single
Jinx Detector Means
1t began to look gloomy in the region
OF Coogan's Bluff, though elsewhere
there was warmth, sunlight and feecy
white clouds. The detector of jinxes
began to moan, ct was that floral
horseshoe that they handed McGraw.
Why did they do it?"
Eddie Eayrs, the lop-sided young
hero OF the Braves, lobbed one down to
Kelly and Mann beat the throw to the
plate. Rabbit Maranville was thrown
out by Barnes. Pick hit to right field
POOQ
peg. which might have rolled to the
plate, but George Kelly impeded it's
progress on theories of his own. and
O'Netu and Eayrs came in, while Mr..
Barnes went out.
That put the Braves in the lead, and
Eddie Eayrs kept them there with
that port fin-a most effective port An,
about as powerful a one as has loomed
mp 50 far. 1t should be proud day
Tor Brown University. for young Eddie
Eayrs was learning his higher Three
Rs in that knowledge foundry when he
showed talents that would earn him
better emoluments than any left-hand-
ed college professor ever found in the
pay envelope:
It is true that they hoisted young
Edward in the ninth when the Giants
the earmarks Of starting to write the
familiar melodrama, Tied in the
Ninth" McQuillan finished the game
Tor the Braves, but Eayrs had already
finished the Giants-at least for that
otherwise pleasant afternoon.
Eayr: was the hero of the game.
There had to be goat, and it was
George Kelly. Following his interfer-
ence with the throw Of Young, long
George let fast drive by Powell shoot
through his legs-the longest legs in
baseball. 1t might have got between
any pair OF legs, but the enraged null
titude wanted victim and they picked
on the nephew of Bill Lange for the
rest Of the afternoon
Big Day for Jigger
JigHers Statz did all Of the starring
Tor the Giants in the field and at the
bat His achievements for the after
noon were triple, single. wonder
!uI catch and the driving In of two Of
the three runs Of the Giants.
statz occupied centerfeld, where Ben
5amin kauH used to cavort. He was
tne only ono Of the Giants who was
nos "a the least puzzled nor annoycd bv
sns leit fin OF Eddie Eayrs. Among
osner things Mr.. Statz il the greatest
golfer In baseball. His performance
Vas regarded with great interest by
Irantland Rice, who was explaining
tass golf was the greater game and
nat anybody who could 90 around The
! inks the way that young Arnold Stat
1sns could easily travel around rapidly
In any nero baseball league.
Inc Giants started to show few
tssth and claws in the eighth with one
/, cnr Burns drove q hit through tn.
snHeld and Young grounded out to PICK
on very close decision. The veteran
DattIers Of the Giants swung into line
Fletcher singled to center, bringing in
1urns Tor the first Giant run. Law