The New York herald., 1921-05-14
RYAN GOES STRONG
AGAINST CARDINALS
Holds Them to Two Hits and
Giants Win by Score
Of ) to 1.
RAIN SH0RTENS GAME
McGraw's Hitters Waste Little
Ammunition and Do Clev
erly at Bat.
ny WILLIAM II. HANNA.

Before it rsined at the Polo Grounds
yesterday the Giants had played enough
innings and made enough runs to store
up another victory. They beat the Car
dinals, to /, and were on their way to
more scoring when rain stopped the
game in the sixth inning. They lost to
the Cardinals in the first game. but in
the three others were clearly the class
of the engaged opponents. They excelled
In pitching and in team spirit more than
in anything else.
Bill Ryan, who pitched the inundated
and curtailed fourth game. did it with
every indication of big leagaue class
He held the Cardinals TO two hits and
paraded possession OF all that goes with
first class pitching. He Is big. strong,
self-reliant and businesslike. He burns
up no tissue uselessly and knows the
finesse OF making full use of the plate.
IT was his day.
Not once in their six innings did the
first St Louis batter reach first base.
He invariably and deftly was extin-
guished and two were out when II. Dixie
walker--al Walkers are Dixie or Tilly
or Honey-dashed double to left and
Dashed in the Cardmen's only run. In
the next inning the Cardgents made
their other hit. so that the stick stuff
Of the Cardfolks was not only consider
ably sparse. but distinctly scattered.
walker Begins Well.
Giants Just as securely as Ryan did the
Cardclub. They hit him profitably in
the next three, two hits TO an inning,
and not one OF the six hits wasted-op-
perfume. clever and diversified hitting.
The batters were keeled over in the
first inning quickly and looked help
less They didn't do much in the sec
ond but with two out New York Walker
shot single to Lavan. whose next to
nothing chances of throwing out n. Y.
Walker vanished when he slipped. Car
diral Walker tried often and earnestly
10 catch Giant Walker mapping, and the
Giants claimed a balk
Rigler wouldn't allow that claim. but
when Walker, the Card, finally did
catch Walker, the Giant. off the bag
Rigler waved the latter on to second.
He detected balk that time, a pitching
motion just before throwing to first, and
he stood his ground in spite OF argu-
ments in rebuttal advanced by the Car
dinals.
smith Gets n Hunch.
Hits by Frsch and Kelly and out
gave the Giants "a run in the fourth
inning a base on balls. an out ana
two bagger past Rapp's upstate ear by
Rickey's Walker gave the Cards one in
the fifth. Rapp placed neat little
bunt on the grass in the fifth. and the
solemn Mr.. Smith played II the other
way and whacked a home run into the
lower grand stand. Never be 1t said
that the Arkansas Smiths will permit
the California kellys to hog the home
run industry.
f9risch pranced to first on four balls
il the sixth and pranced to secoNd on A
steal He rounded out his prancing. and
he's some prancer when he gets into
high on Youug's two base liner TO left
Kelly sacrificed, showing that he can
hit 'em a mile and hit. 'em a millimetre
as his mood suggests and his boss COM
mands. Young scored on a three bagser
BY McGraw's Walker. After him the
rain. The score: