The New York herald., 1921-09-25
GIANTS FALTER ON
ROAD TO PENNANT
Lose Ground as Cardinals
Pound Out Victory-Score
Is 8 to 4.
PITCHERS INEFFECTIVE
Toney and Barnes Hit Steadily,
While DOak Proves
Puzzle.
INEFFECTIVE
BY WILLIAM b. HANNA.

BY WILLIAM b. HANNA.
Special Despatch to THE New YoRK HERALD.
Sr. LOUIS, Sept. 24.-The sun came
out to-day after the rain and per-
mitted the Giants to play. 1t brough.
no cheer to the Giants, however, as
they were beaten soundly by the Car
dinals. The score was s to 4. The
pennant isn't secure yet for the Giants
and their lead was pruned to two and
a half games, comfortable. but no sure
thing. as an advantage.
Neither of McGraw's pitchers went
well, and as usual with them after an
idle spell the metropolitan men were
more or less torpid. A steady drum
ming was kept up on the pitching OF
Toney and Barnes and the Giants
found Bill Doak big handful. Their
base running failed. too. not through
faults of its own. but because alert
fielding at critical moments caught
men trying for various points en- route
Two Giants were thrown out at the
plate. Between this port of call and
Chicago the Giants have had five men
extinguished at the plate this week.
Nearly half the New York hitting
this afternoon was done by Meusel. He
trimmed Doak for four safe shots.
which were four-fiftns of the New York
total. He didn't come up often enough
to do the Knickerbocker cause any SUBJ
stantial good.
George Burns struck out facing Doak
in the first. but Bancroft touched the
spitball star for singing single.
Frisch hit to Mueller, who fumbled the
ball so many times that Bancroft
finally concluded to amble to third. He
could have walked and made 1t. II
looked very nice for the Giants. but 1t
didn't look so nice when Young hit to
Lavan and Bancroft was thrown out at
the plate. And 1t was still less pleas
ing when Kelley struck out. Far diff
ferent was the st. Louis half.
Cardinal Bats Busy.
When the Cardinals started hitting
they did not let go until they had a
cluster of runs. Fournier, Stock
Hornsby and Mueller slashed into Toney
for singles straight and far. and three
runs clattered over the plate and stared
the Giants in the face as handicap
Meusel's triple in the second and his
flight to the plate while Lavan was
throwing Snyder out Topped one run of
the st. Louis leaad. Toney in the Sec
ond showed signs Of striking his gait.
for, although Clemons led off with a
hit, the ensuing three did nothing
There were leaks in New York's pinch
hitting department In the third, but this
was more than counter balanced by
luck. For instance, Hornsby fumbled a
grounder, Stock made sky high and
distant throw of arother grouuder and
Doak also threw the ball away. Merged
with these felicitous doings were Kelly 5
and MeuseIs scratch fnfield hits. Three
men tailed and the Giants were in the
lead. They were there briefly. Mueller
singled with two out and McHenry
tripled, and the end of the third found
the gruelling grapple very gruelling and
the teams tied.
Clemons and Doak yeamed up again in
the fourth. the former with a single.
the pitcher with a hit There the SINH
larity to the second inning ceased. for
Smith singled viciously through Ban
croft and Clemons came home. The
bench wriggled orders for Toney to de-
camp, and with Barnes pitching Four
rlier hit into a double play.
Frank Frisch in the fifth made one
of the most obstreperous kicks of his
young life when KLEIN called a third
strike on him. He never threw a bat
harder KLEIN reproved him mildly.
Frisch Registers a Kick.
The sixth inning was grievously dis
appointing to the Giants. 1t promised
co r,1tfrl, onJ vfaIdnd en 1iffIa MataaI
cracked 1t open with a hit. his third.
drilled one to centre and Meu-
eel went to third. but Rawlings, in n
misguided moment, tried for second on
the throw in. The Cards were laying
for him and he was cut down, Mueller to
Lavan to Hornsby. Then Earl Smith,
successor to Snyder. grounded tepidly to
Hornsby and Clemons smothered Meusel
at the plate.
Earl Smith did not last long. A foul
tip split his finger in the fifth inning
and he gave way to CASTOR. the third
mottled New York catcher OF the day.
CASTOR had a passed ball after Clemons,
a terror with the bludgeon. had doubled
In the sixth. II didn't matter In the
least. inasmuch as Barnes couldn't hold
the clamoring Cardinals. A base on
balls to J. Smith and singles by Fournier
and Stock staked up two runs on the
plate.
Bancrofts good try for hit In the
seventh was swallowed up In Hornsby's
voracious glove. Kelly made a florid
play of his own when he ran to the
stand In the seventh and caught a ny
In his no less voracious mitt. This was
after stick activities by Mueller and Nc
Henry had fetched In the eighth st.
Louis run. SO the Cardinals didn't be-
grudge Kelly his play.
NEW YORK (N) ST. LOUIS tN)