New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

persisted miserably in the ooze.
Fans from the other side of the
Bridge crossed in great numbers and
were full Of turbulence. In fact, there
was a Cleveland aspect to the game,
Cleveland being the place where the
suffer great mental anguish and does.
If you think that the bird from Man
haitian is a blood brother of the bird
on the other side of the long plank
60 TO the Polo Grounds during this
series and get it out of your mind.
Brotherly Feeling Absent
Time was when the Brooklyn fan
and The Giant fan could watch this
fratricidal strife and so somewhere
afterward to get something cool. Now
there, is nothing to be gotten that is fit
wouldn't lean on the same mahogany
If there was one. That shows how they
feel about it.
Evidently Big Fred Toney, despite
his waddle, is no member of the duck
family. The rain started insthe fourth
and the start of the rain was Fred
crick's finish. Griffith nickcd him for
single to center and lack Wheat
drove {, single to left Myers drew
base or balls and filled the bases.
The pill by this time was rain-soaked
aud difficult for Frederick to manipu-
late, as ne demonstrated by hurting a
wild one to Konetchy. Before our Mr.
"Oil' Smith could retrieve it Griffith
scored. He tossed the pill back to
frederick with a larger accumulation
of moistare and this time Frederick
hurled the ball into the Brooklyn dug
out. The heave was so wild and the
Pill so moist that both Wheat and
Myers scored.
All OF the fans in the open scurried
to cover. but Umpire Bill KLEIN babe
the slaughter continue. The ground be-
GENE bog and the pitchers and the
batters worked in the mire
In the eighth inning the Dodgers
dragged another run through the mud
Myers raped one down to the box and
beat it to the bag. while Toney strug-
gled like a begged hippo to get after
II. Then once more Frederick let the
moist and soggy pill slip through his
diglts for a wild pitch. Konetchy got
Kilduf, Giant discard, slapped his
old pals right in the face with single
TO left that scored Myers.
The Giants started belatcd rally
in their half of the eighth, real DID,
fashioned Giant rally that might have
gotten somewhere if the lads had been
wearing nonskid chains. With coil"
Smith out on an infeld fly Lee King,
batting for Toney, who was dredged
out for the inning, raped a single to
center. George Burns singled to left
BY this time Burleigh Grimes was
having his own difficulties with the
sloppery pill and signaled to the bench
tor towel He mopped the ball and
also his streaming brow Burns had
taken second on the throw and King
was on third.
Beauty Bancroft came up and@las-
tered the spopgy pellet against the
right-field wall for a two Dagger. scor-
ing King and Burns. 1t looked very
much as though the old-fashioned rally
might pull the Giants out of the
go. But Young raped one down to
to stick against the bag with the tcnac-
ity of a stenographe wad of gum
With great presence of mind the Pole
extracted it from the sack and
plastered it back again for the out.
Frisch raped one in the same di-
rection. Konetchy splashed after it
with the grace of a water buffalo and
the rally was drowned right then and
there.
Art Nehf relieved Toney in the
ninth and disposed of the Dodgers as
quickly as they swan up to the plate
Despite the prayers and the few i'm
precautions of the fans of Manhattan,
Kelly and Spencer failed to get the
Spalding sponge out of the intield
Lawrence Doyle, limping from twisted
ankle, got a hit past second but Oil
Smith made the last out when Burleigh
Grimes stopped his smash, skidded and
recovered in time to make the throw
to the plate.
There were no overt acts on the
part of the visiting Brooklyn fans
and neithersKlem nor Emslie need the
shrapnel helmets which were ordered
for them The clammy air was ful
OF belligerency, however, and the after
noon must have been more or less con-
genial to Johnny Evers, directing the
Giants. 1t was the sort of atmos-
phere in which the little Trojan used
to thrive.
The game puts the Giants three be-
low the leaders, with the battling
Dodgers only few points behind the
Reds