The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-20
GIANTS GET TASTE
OF OWN MEDICINE
Pirates Score Seven Runs in
the Fourth and Win
by 10 to 1.
BY DANIEL.


"a stern and rockbound. waterproofed.
asbestos umpire at the Polo Grounds
yesterday afternoon. They dashed their
highest when the Pirates opened the
fifth inning Of their naval pageant with
the Giants-which Pittsburgh eventually
won by 10 to land the sloppy affair
was not yet a legal ball game. Tho
downpour obliterated the figures OF the
New York outfielders. In fact. two of
them sneaked under the bleachers and
nobody was any the wiser The surging
waters took UP the bag at second and
carried 1t into centre field and 500 of
Harry Stevens's favorite frankfurters
were caught in the food and washed
into the Harlem.
All this while the Giants were making
leisurely motions which indicated strong
ly that they wanted the umpire to call
1t day and make the rain checks good
for another game. But old Noah Bren-
nan did not understand their language.
He just anchored his little ark at the
home plate and smiled as If he wero a
fish and water was his ordinary habitat.
Ernie Quigley, out near second, was go
ing down for the third time. but Bill
only smiled some more and kept calling
the many balls and whatever few acct
=
perpetrated.
Old Slim Sallee and then RUDE Ben
ton hurled that ball as If every motion
were painful. They hurled 1t without
any regard for the location of the plate
CT Noah himself. They waited it with
out regard for time. They didn't want
to sling 1t at all--and all the while the
weather was getting thicker and Dave
Bancroft was sending up bubbles for
help.
why Brennan Declined.
There were many reasons why Bren-
nan declined to call the game. and some
ten of them were included In the fact
that the Pirates were leading by 10 to 0.
They had got three runs In the first
and no fewer than seven as the result
of a typhoon which struck down the
New Yorks in the fourth. Two home
runs. by Carey and Grimm. triple by
Schmidt, a double by Robertson-all
box and remind Sallee and soon Benton,
too, who came after the youngster, that
it was a rough afternoon, indeed.
AS matters turned out, the rain stopped
when the Giants went to bat In their
half of the f1fth-and New York would
have been beaten even If Bill had called
a halt when the deluge was at its
height. Those ten reasons may and may
not have been sufficient to keep q ball
game going in storm like that. At
any rate, Brennan was In a tight fix.
II he had stopped the degenerate water
polo with the Giants ten runs to the
bad there would have been some fierce
mutterings from the direction Of Pitts
burgh.
The storm and the stall relieved the
monotony of q game which offered
mighty few other occasions for hilarity
for the crowd of more than 10000. Every
thing went wrong for the New Yorks.
Pirates Open Justify.
Pittsburgh got after Ryan with the
clang Of tho gong and slammed him
hither and thither. Singles by Bigbee,
Cutshaw and Barnhart, a. sacrifice by
Robertson and pass to Maranville
figured in the scoring of three runs right
Off the bat. The game was cooked then
and there.
Ten Pirates faced the New York
pitchers in the fourth. Ryan opened
with a pass to Barnhart, then Grimm
hit a home run into the right field
stand. Schmidt tripled to left centre.
Ryan had enough and Sallee slouched
onto the scene. Adams soaked Sal for
a single, which scored Schmidt Bigbee
flied to Walker, but Carey rammed the
ball into the left field bleachers for the
second homer of the frame, scoring
Adams ahead of him.
Meanwhile hit to left. went to second
on Cutshaw's infield out, and registered
on Robertson's double to left Barnhart
singled and Dave came home. Barnhart
was out trying to make second.