The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-07-02
FACING MARQU!ARD,
THE GIANTS DROOP
BrookIyns Win, 8 to 1, Knock
Out Benton and Clean
Up Series.
ny WILLIAM b. HANNA.

The Giants won't make much head
way beating the Brooklyns until the
Brooklyns trot out pitcher the Giants
can hit Maybe that will happen the
rext time they clash, as the Dodgers
will now lay off the Giants for a while.
and the dropping Manhattan mon may
have had few shots OF ginger In the
meantime. They had none yesterday.
The Brooklyns won, TO /, and licked
tho series platter clean.
Rubc Marquard was the reason the
Giants appeared In n poor light yester-
dsy The Rube had fast bail and
nIummet curve over which he had splen-
ad control He didn't give a pass. and
he didn't permit many hits-four, to be
snecHc--and much OF the time the ball
was shooting upward from the New
york bats Being of forced deficiency
in the arts OF scoring. their game
against the lively Dodgers was languld
and listless and, in consequence, their
climb which seemed to be steadily on,
has been considerably accelerated.
The reawakened Dodgers rode RUDE
Renton from the game in the first in
ming A paean OF hits sang In his un-
willing ears, not only giving the Brook
Iyns what turned out to be winning
lead but conveying the painful intelli-
rorce 10 the Giant headquarters that the
Puhe had nothing. Always when the
othe- side hits hard the pitcher has
nothing." Some day n queer thing VIII
bsrncn In baseball There will be some
xood hitting against good pitching.
Artcr Benton, Winters Winterss
,orl was so erratic as to be striking
feature OF the game, which Is about all
tha striking except striking out, the
Giants did. Winters had Ats of wild
moss In one inning he gave four bases
an halls and forced n run in. In another
Ne gave two passes and forced In run.
We, he struck out a good hitter after his
srst orgy OF passes, and he did the same
thIng the second time the wild tit seized
him >,,ta
olson. Kilduff, Myers, Honey and Neis
,hsy all took a crack at Benton In the
Srst inning and combed him for three
rms Winters came in with two out and
stopped the carrousel He did al risht
until the third. which he opened win
PASS to Kilduff. Wheat scratched nit
10 Kelly. and Winters in trying to cover
Arst let the ball get away. kildur went
IN third on the error and to the plate on
Koncy'S lab to centre. NelS sdCrIhCeu'
and Miller batted Wheat In.
Winters punched four bases on balls
IN the Afth inning. The parade consisted
OF Wheat Nels, Miller and Marquard'
Between the gift to Wheat and that to
Neis Myers sacrificed and Honey was
thrown out by Winters The deadhead-
ing of Marquard lifted Wheat home. but
against Olson Winters found his control
and broke a dipping curve, which Olson
couldn't touch.
A sixth inning raid on Winters con-
sisted of a pass to Kilduff, a single by
Wheat, tumble by Bancroft, n hit by
Koney, n base on balls to Neis and two
runs. The Giants made their run in the
fourth on a two bagger by Bancroft to
the left field stockade and single by
Young
They we're not In any imminent danger
Of scoring in any other inning. The first
nine men up went out in order. Only six
men went to bat in the fifth and sixth
innings. Frisch singled in the seventh
with one out, but as an Argonaut hardly
got started, for Kelly flied TO Olson and
King struck out. In the eighth Doyle
opened with single. reached third on
steal and Miller's poor throw and was
left there. The blight of the Rube was
in full blast again in the ninth. Ban
croft Young and F'risch up One, two.
three out goes he The score: