The New York herald., 1921-06-08
GIANTS BAFFLED
BY CUNNING 'RUBE'
Marquard's Mastery Pitching
Enables the Reds to Tri-
umph by 6 to 0.
BY WILLIAM ID. HANNA.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HrnAr D.
CINCINNATI. June 7.-There's still q
lot OF cunning in Rube Marquard's arm.
SO far as the Giants are concerned at
| any rate. There was so much to-day on
the first appearance of that distin-
guished band of diamond operatives in
Redland this season that they were shut
out Not run, and the Reds won with
conspicuous ease and decisiveness. The
score was 8 to 0.
The only comfort for the Giants was
| In looking at the scoreboard. And for
| all the runs they made and all the dash
| they displayed they might as well have
devoted the whole matinee doing that.
The scoreboard told a story of 10 to
defeat for Pittsburgh, which through
the way the Giants were being tossed
for fall was glad tidings for them.
The Giants were close to runs sew
eral times. at third base and other flag
stations, waiting for the timely hits
that never came. They were sgnally,
| even lamentably, weak when a hit was
needed and among the individuals who
stood out most clearly defined in the
deficiency was George Kelly. In the
fourth inning the home run specialist
hit into an out with men on second and
third, with one out. In the sixth he
struck out with men on second and third
and none out In the eighth he did
| what he did in the fourth-that is
nothing much.
Giants Hung Up mt Third.
Rarely do the Giants get as many men
to third and have them all hung up there
to dry. Their hitting was choppy, irreg-
ular and infrequent. Neither Benton nor
Nehf had much success stopping the
Reds McGraw had his third southpaw,
Sallee. In before the end, and as Mar
guard went the whole game with una
bated mastery Of the visiting hitters, the
day was devoted entirely to left handlers.
The fire and keen edged play with
which the Giants pegan the trip have
been missing the last two days Some
pep has been lost along with hustle and
vigilance. Illustrative Of this were two
cases to-day of fielding indecision. On
one of them Nehf threw to first. when
he could have had double play by
throwing to second. On another, Ban
croft held the ball and lost chance to
catch a runner off first. These over
sights are merely symtoms of loss Of
tone, ephemeral, probably, but still a
loss.
Benton's slow ball was a fast ball as
soon as the Reds had hit 1t. Marquard
began the third with liner to King.
piping hot Bohne had better success
with a lift to right Young came in on
1t and booted 1t over into centre as he
reached for 1t on the bound Bohne made
third on the bizarre error, but when Dau-
bert hit hard along the ground Bancroft
made a magnificent stop and threw
Bohne out at the plate.
It looked as II the Giants would sur
vive the inning unscathed, but the Reds
had just begun to hit. Bressler, Roush
and Duncan all made hefty pokes and
| Bressler and Roush made a double steal
| assisted by Snyder's poor throw to
Frisch. The net damage was three runs
Some Weak Hitting.
| Bresslers muff on Frisch. Young's
scratch hit and a wild pitch put men or
second and third with none out in the
fourth. Kelly prodded to Bohne and
Frisch was run down. and King prodde6
TO Bohne and Young was run down
Rapp ended 1t with a fly.
Young slid to first to make his hit in
this inning and beat Daubert to the goal
| But in doing so he hurt his weak knee
and for time lay on the ground help
less. He played another inning before he
| left the conf1ict llmplng. The injury
doesn't appear to be bad, though he may
be lost to the team for day or two.
If the Giants had gone through with
what they started in the sixth theyt
| have been In the game. Kopf fumbed
on Bancroft and Frisch singled. Nehi
blazed away and flied TO Roush and al
the good his dy did was TO advance Ban
croft to third. For the Giants. the
stretch between third and home was vir.
gin gound. Kelly struck out, King flied
| out
The Reds fayed Nehf for four hits and
three runs in the eighth and subduet
another New York rally. Bancroft and
Frisch singled with one out and Frisch's
hit put Bancroft on third Castor struck
out and Bancroft ran for the plate wher
Kelly hammered to Bohne. The latter
tagged F'risch before Bancroft could
reach the plate. The score:
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