The New York herald., 1921-03-16
GIANTS KNOCK 22
HITS AND WIN. 28-1
Even Douglas Makes Three
Singles in Three Times at Bat
Against Aviation Team.
BY DANIEL.


spectaE Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March lo.-As
baseball experts the men at Kelly Field
are a fine lot OF fliers. This was
demonstrated to the side splitting salts
faction Of a full house over at the avia-
ton grounds this afternoon when the
Giants engaged the cloud explorers IN
their annual crosscountry run. The
New Yorks outpointed the aviators oy
the tidy score OF 2s to /. but that isn't
telling even the half Of IT,
The flying outfielders ran themselves
ragged chasing the Giants hits and the
Giants dashed themselves weary circling
the hassocks. collecting total or ~
swats for 9S bases. But good time
was had by all and at the close the
Kelly Field aggregation confided to John
McGraw that they had not expected 70
win anyway. They found balm aplenty
In the fact that they had scored--and
on q home run, too. The hero OF thls
exploit was clouting sky piercer py
the name Of Clifford. who also achieved
a single and accounted for nearly half
Of the home teams hitting total OF five.
Before we even tear into the exeru-
ciatingly non-serious details or the
Giants batting practice we want to give
the tip-off on the nature OF the contest.
Phil Douglas got three singles IN three
trips to the plate. And Phil did not
stagger into any of them. He just
clouted them into the outer confines.
once an error forced Shufflin Phil to
make the circuit OF the bases. a happy
development which furnished one OF the
big treats Of the afternoon.
Service Men Josh Giants.
With Douglas getting three hits 1t may
be imagined what some or the others
did to the long suffering horsehide. the
wtnded Kelly outhelders and the alto
gether too nlble fingered infelders. And
vet the several thousand air service men
who crowded around the diamond took
II all good naturedly and never let up
In their attempts to josh the Giants.
There was one New York player whose
hitting success met with the entire sat
isfaction Of the service men, He was big
Ed Brown The outfelder played at
Kelly Field before he Joined the San An
tonic club last season and was a prime
ravorite with the nlers. Brown was the
lxngpin hitter, with couple OF three
paggers and a brace of singles In a
Attn time at bat he got to first on an err
ror. Kelly. another former representa-
tive Of Kelly Field. which, by the way.
was not named after him, got single,
double and a triple.
The Giants accounted for just one
home run and that went to Davy Ban
croft in the fifth inni~g. Dave also got
single With the nome players con-
| tributing thirteen errors Ii was not very
difficulty for the Giants to make their
way around.
DO not get the impression that the
| Giants kept trying to rub In It. AS a
matter of fact. they kept hitting at the
bad ones, but as luck would have It they
| Just could not miss anything. After
awhile the felders began to loaf, but
even that did the Kelly Fielders little
good In the third Burns gave an exhi-
biton OF catching flies one handed, with
his back turned to them. He missed the
first one by a hair, but got the second
| one Immediately aftcrward and SEM the
crowd into Mysteries. Yes, 1t was a
great day.
| In all, twenty-one Giants took part in
the shindig. Before the so-caled game
the New York party was entertained at
luncheon and while the baseball affair
was in progress one OF the stunt fers
gave an exhibition which was hair rails
ing enough to satisfy the most exacting
| seeker OF thrills.
THE ba4ffpor arIar