The New York herald., 1921-09-14


CINCINNATI, Sept ia tenacious up
hill fight, waged with a fervor worthy
of team that aspires to a champion
ship. resulted in victory for the Giants
over the Reds to-day by score of to
| 3. in twelve innings. A three base hit by
Irish Meuse! with George Kelly on first
base resulted In Re run that won the
game for New York.
! For eight innings the Giants appar-
emily were beaten team. With Nehf
gone after pitching six innings and then
being removed for a pinch hitter, with
Sailee pitching in place Of Nehf and
with Luque hurling In mastery fashion
for the Reds. McGraw's men looked to
be struggling in lost cause. But in the
ninth inning. aided by an error by Kopf,
| they tied the score at 3 to 8 by scoring
| three runs. Pat Shea was called in to
finish the game for the Giants and held
the Reds off until his mates got to
| Donohue. who had succeeded Luque in
the twelfth inning. for the run that
ended the game.
| Nehf was unsteady at the start. get
ting himself into jam In the first fn-
ming. from which he extricated himself
! with the aid Of Bancroft after the Reds
had scored only one run when three OF
TOUR seemed possible.
| Bohnc walked and Kopf pasted the
ball to deep left centre. but was held
to two bases because OF the fast fielding
Of Meusel. Bohne scoring on the drive.
Groh smashed hit past Kelly and
Kopf raced to third. A wild pitch that
was blocked by Smith enabled Groh to
advance to second. though Kopf re-
mained at third. Bancroft then grabbed
Bressler's twisting grounder and cut
| Kopf down at the plate with a quick
throw to Smith. Daubert followed with
sharp grounder through the box, but
Bancroft snapped 1t up and started a
double play that retired Bressler and
| Daubert.
Giants Lose Opportunity.
Kelly wormed pass out OF Luaue
in the second inning after Young had
been expunged. but Meusel ended the
Giants half Of the inning by hitting into
a double play.
Smith got the Giants first hit, with
one out in the third inning. but Nehf
and Burns were easy for Luque, the
pitcher throwing out Nehf and Bohne
throwing out Burns
| In the fourth inning the Giants had
golden opportunity to score, but Luque
pulled himself together in time to turn
| them back scoreless. Bancroft opened
with a poke to right centre on which
he got two bases by dint of his own
speed and a bit of loafing on the part
Of Duncan. Frisch lifted a short fly to
f,onseca, but Young waited Lugue out
and drew a pass. Kelly was hit by
o'tched ball. so that the bases were filled
They remained SO, however. for Meusel
shattered only the atmosphere in three
| terrific swings at the ball. and Rawlings
couldn't punch the pellet past Groh. who
tagged Young out on the line close to
third base.
\ The Reds threatened to score in their
half OF this inning, but fell short OF the
/ aleer Bressier and Daubert had
expired on flies to Burns Fonseca
singled to left. Duncan raped the ball
TO centre for base and Fonseca raced
20 third. Rawlings then came up with
a fine stop of Hargrave's fast hopper and
tossed the ball to Bancroft in time to
force Duncan.
Nchf got LuQue out OF the way him
| self by tossing him out at first to start
the Reds half of the fifth but Rohne
| singled to centre. kopf raised a short
dy to Young, but Groh doubled to left
Bohne pulling up at third. A pass to
Bressler filed the bases and Daubert
shot single to right centre. scoring
boliHe ana Gr0n ana sending BreSsler
around to third. Daubert stole second
after which base on balls to Fonseca
again filled the bases Nehf here ended
the inning by grabbing Duncan's high
bounder with his bare hand. and mailing
| him at first.
After Bancroft had been retired in the
sixth inning on a snappy play by Kopf
and Daubert. Frisch got the Giants
third hit, hot shot that carromed Off
! Luque's glove. He was rorced by Young
Kelly raised long high fly which Fon-
SEGA pulled down close to the left field
| fence.
\ Bohne robbed Meusel OF hit with a.
splendid leaping one hand catch OF his
liner to start the seventh, thus furnish
Ing the fielding feature Of the game.
Rawlings was hit by a pitched ball, but
4 Smith raised n fly to Duncan and Cum
ninghan, who was sent up to hit for
Nehf, was called out on strikes
Score Tied I'm Ninth.
| The ninth inning began peacefully
enough. with Young raising q pop fly to
Bohne. Kelly, however singled 70 left,
after which the break in the Giants
favor came. Meusel hit to Kopf, who,
! IN his haste to start n double play, fum-
bled the ball. and Mousel was eafe at
first. Rawlings dropped Texas leaguer
In short left for base and the sacks
were loaded. Smith cracked a single to
ROD AND GUN.