The New York herald., 1921-04-20
GIANTS IN MERRY
MOOD WITH BAT.
Hammer Braves Pitchers in
Arctic Breeze for Easy
Victory by 8 to 1.
DOUGLAS IN RARE FORM
In Spite Of a Sore Arm He
Holds the BOstOns to
Six Hits.
By DANIEL.

Specidt Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
BOSTON, April 19.-Icicles hung from
the spitball which Phil Douglas oft and
on hurled ut the Bostons at Braves
Field this afternoon. Breezes cooled by
an intimacy with icebergs up in the
arctic regions waited themselves In from
the ocean and made baseball about as
seasonable as SNOWFALL fight down IN
Quito. The skies were leaden and from
time to time they shed chilling tears.
But with all that Douglas and the rest
of the Giants combined to make things
pretty hot for the Braves. The New
Yorks took the first Of the series by
> to /.
In spite of the wretched conditions
more than $1,000 fans poured into the
huge refrigerator on the banks Of the
Charles The programme called for
game this morning. too. but was post
poned on account OF wet grounds. 1t
took some mighty spry work on the
part OF big squad to drain the field
and make 1t fairly at for the afternoon
fracas.
Douglas went into the box with
sore arm, but he pitched great ball
every minutes and held the opposition to
six scattered singles. He was In mild
trouble only twice-in the second, when
the locals crowded the bases but could
not score, and In the fourth when they
got their run.
The Giants did not get so many hits
Just eight Of them-but the hitting
was timely, with q couple Of damaging
doubles thrown in: An error by NC
Quillan also helped In pitching UP the
total. And let US not forget seven bases
on balls. They hurt
Walker, who Is hitting extremely
hard. and Kelly, each got two bagger
and q single. F'risch made couple OF
one basers and would have got third
IL Ford had not robbed him In the fifth
with a remarkable stop where no hui
man second basenaan had any right
to BE-
Until the sixth inning II was a game.
In the fourth the Braves jumped into
the battle and cut New York's lead in
half. To begin with, Boeckel walked
Holke flied to Burns and Ford ham,
: mered one to Rapp. Goldie made
/. quick throw to second to get Boeckel.
but was not quick enough. The official
scorer said that Rapp had made a wild
throw. O'Neil popped to Rapp and Nc
Quillan singled past third. scoring
Boeckel.
The competitive feature Of the frappe
was blown off by the Giants in the
sixth inning. Walker singled to left
and Kelly followed with hit into the
same territory. Brown banged the
2 leather to Holke, who stood with the
ball about two strides from first. walt
ing for Walker to move toward home.
But Honey moved not and Brown was
presented with a hit. The bags were
full.
Rapp hit 4 bounder to McQuillan. who
in trying to get Walker at the plate
threw as wild q throw as he could have
thrown. with the result that Honey was
safe and Kelly scored, too. Brown took
third and Rapp second. While Smith
was being thrown out by Ford Brown
came home and Rapp reached third
Douglas sent up a sacrifice fly to South
worth. and Rapp registered. Burns
famed to end the unwelcome accumu-
lation Of runs. 1t was cold and scoring
took time.
That sixth inning jamboree was re-
sponsible for the Punishment OF ONeil,
the Boston catcher. McQuillan and
Mickey had been after Bill Brennan all
s through the game. The imbroglio came
Ito head when O'Neil contended In
strong language that Brown had struck
at ball. ONeil talked and talked. and
talked himself out of the cold into the
warm club house. which was what he
wanted Gowdy took his place.
y To start the seventh Bancroft walssd
and Frisch singled to left, Bannie stole
third and Frank stole second, and Me-
sQt an stole from the scene. with Scott
: pitching Walker popped to Barbara, but
Kelly ciouted pretty double 70 right
oentre and scored Bancroft. Frisch
could have come home too. but Cozey
Dolan was cautious. Brown sent a sac.
rifce fly to Nicholson and scored the
Fordham Flash. The score: