New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

accounted for five Of the Giant runs
Phil Douglas. for his part, saw to it
that the visitors to Harlem were kept
of the bases and that is what pitcher
Y is supposed to do Not run did the
Phils score off Phil until the ninth
inning, and yet rain fell throughout
practically the entire game, making
control of the ball most difficult.
The Philadelphia pitcher was Jimmy
Ring, of Flatbush, and he proved the
easiest sort of mark for most every
body in the Giant lineup, particularly
the fiery Frisch. A total of thirteen
hits was plucked from Rings offerings.
it wasn't much of a ball game to
watch, but the 10000 fans present had
a lot of fun at that and, strange to say,
at one stage of the contest the Coo
gsn's Buffers razzed our pennant
chasers numerically. The hard
working Phil Douglas was the fellow
at whom the bulk of the raging was
directed.
Giants Hustle Game
OF course, everybody knows that
when the home team is in the lead and
some three innings or so have been
completed and rain begins to fall and
j. seems more than likely that the ball
game is going to be drowned entirely,
mate for the home players to hustle
the game along so that four and half
innings may be completed. Well that's
just what happened yesterday. The
only trouble is that the Giants made
their play for short and sweet vic
tory SO perfectly obvious that Mr..
Fickle F. Fan got "sore.''
But, in all seriousness, playing ball
in the rain is not the safest sport in
II bo xacrld opJ foo ot !
yesterday in the eighth inning when
George Burns was felled by one of
Jimmy Rings wild shoots. The ball
struck George in the face. Burns lay
on the ground completely stunned for
a couple of minutes and visions of the
fate of Ray Chapman naturally came
to mind
But to the joy of the anxious thou
sands George was finally helped to his
feet and walked to the Giant bench.
After the game it was said that Burns
was, not badly hurt and would un-
doubtedly be back on his center field
job this afternoon.
Inc trst inning really was enough
to satisfy all hands that the Giants
were determined to make short work
CT the Slowtown plodders. Burns sim
gled to right and went to second on
Bancroft's hct smash through short.
Frank FordEam Frisch applied the fin
ishing touch with his drive into the
stands.
Bancroft Connects for Triple
In the third triple by Bancroft led
the way for two more New York tai
hes. The effervescing Frisch followed
his captain with a single and Ban
croft scored. Frisch stole second and
continued on to third when catcher
Peters threw the ball to center field.
keliy's double off the glove Of the
The Giants filled the bases in the
seventh as the result of two bases on
balls, two singles and a sacrifice hit
but only one run was registered. In
the eighth, Rings wildness, two sin
giles and a couple Of errors gave the
Giants their final two counters.
The dying gasp of the Phillies in the
ninth was gasped after one man had
been retired. Lebourveau doubled to
right center and went to third on a
passed ball Honey Walker popped to
Rawlings, but Konetchy, not content
with two singles and double already
left field bleachers for a homer, saw
ing the "Kaiser's" men a shut-out
Jimmy Ring got real peevish while
at bat in the eighth inning. The ball
was slippery. and one pitch of Doug
lass took a bee line for Rings head
Jimmy thereupon lost his temper and
hurled his bat at the Giant pitcher
Luckily the aim was poor and the club
fell harmlessly far to Phil's right. But
Ring followed up his chuck in person.
marching right down where the amazed
Douglas stood. "Kaiser" Wilhelm and
some of the other Phillies hustled be-
tween the two boxmen and Jimmy
finally quieted down.
Meusel Continues Streak
Irish" Meusel continued his hitting
streak, knocking out triple and a
single. He also drew base on balls.
Five former Giants appeared in the
Philly lineup. They were Rapp, Mon
roe. Walker, King and Jimmy Smith.
In addition to hitting two singles, a
double and home run, big Ed Ko-
Inetchy made an unassisted double play
in the second inning. With Snyder on
first, following a single, Douglas lined
| the ball at Honey, who made the catch
and then beat Synder to the bag.
Tho score: