The New York herald., 1921-06-03
GIANTS START BY
BLANKING PIRATES
Trounce League Leaders z to 0
in Opening Western
Invasion.
NEHF PUZZLES RIVALS
Winners Pound Zinn and Carl
son Hard in Eighth In
ming Rally.
NEHF PUZZLES RIVALS
ny WILLIAM b. HANNA.

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD
PITTSBURGH, June 2.-No fault can be
found with the start the Giants made
on their first Western trip this year.
They met the Pirates. rated as their
most formidable foe on the Western
half Of the circuit, to-day. and they
had the Pirates beaten at every turn.
So much so that they shut them out.
The score was z to 0, but In reality
the game was not nearly that one sided.
1t was a good game. sharp and in
teresting. for up to the eighth inning
the score was only 1 to 0, and to U
score under no circumstances can be
listed as a sure precursor of victory.
Nehf pitched splendidly and the Pitts
burghers never looked more than a slim
possibility in the light OF the way the
game turned out, but ordinarily a one
run lead is the veriest nothing Of
trifle the way the ball has been smacked
this year.
The Giants drove Znn, who had
pitched well up to that time, out of the
landscape in the eighth and followed by
buffeting Carlson harshly. Those first
seven innings were a treat and nov
city. The pitching was high class. the
fielding fast and skilful. The game
was not cluttered up by mass Of runs
and slams. with muscle predominating
over science. Nehfs deft work showed
that the 1921 ball. whether or not 1t
be any more frolicsome than hereto
fore, has to behave when skilfully
pitched and that batters aren't busting
fences after each meal when facing
adequate pitching.
Widely Scattered Hits.
Nehr. though his control was not the
best. was pretty much of a puzzle la
permitting base hits. The Pirates made
but four, and only once did they lead Off
with one. Nor did they make any two
to an inning. In the third inning they
made their only real bid for victory.
Nehf. with one out. passed three men in
succession, one of them the pitcher. The
latter was thrown out in an attempt to
steal, after which Maranville made an
infield hit and filled the bases. Cutshaw,
n mean and vengeful hitter in a pinch.
was tossed out by Frisch on tepid roll
The Giants made five sacrifices In their
scheme of attack. four Of the fly ball
sort Kelly sacrificed in the second after
Young had doubled to the haunts of the
Sun Gods in right. Walkers fly to Carey
brought Young home.
Two other sacrifice flies were hit to
Carey In the eighth. Burns began the
eighth with two Dagger which shaved
the right foul line. Bancroft bunted and
Tierney fumbled. CostlS error that.
Burns jobbed home on Frisch's long
lift to Carey, Young shaved the left
foul line with a two Dagger and scored
Bancroft. Out came Zinn.
Sets Trap for Double Play.
Carlson obcyed orders and passed
Kelly to fill the bases and set the trap
for double play. Instead OF hitting
into a double Walker flipped a line fly to
Carey and scored Bancroft. Rapp tripled
to right which turned up two more runs.
and on the heels OF a pass to Smith
Nehf lined to left and brought in Rapp.
Frisch crossed the plate in the ninth
after hitting for three bases and having
Young's fly to Whitted as convoy the
rest of the way.
With Frisch's triple every New Yorker
With the exception of King. who never
came to bat, carved out base hit or
more for himself. The score: