New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-02
McCraw's Men
Are TI1rOttled
BY Triple Play
Johnston and Olson Check
I Rally; Locals Gain, How
ever, as Pirates Drop Two
BY r. I. Kelly

this National League lead yesterday in
spite Of Themselves. Although they
were defeated by the Dodgers at Eb-
bets Field by q score of s to the
double victory Of the flying Cardinals
over the pace-setting Pirates put Nc
Graw's team only one game behind
first place. The triumph Of the Brook
lyn club over the Manhattan clan in
tcrrupted the latter's winning streak,
which had extended through eight con-
secutive games.
With the, exception Of one inning,
Burleigh Grimes, Uncle Robbie's star
boxman, pitched wonderful ball. Just
when he was lettering in the fifth in
ming, after the Giants had filed the
bases, with none out, on three sue
cessive singles, triple play, the Sec
ond that has been perpetrated against
the Giants in the last two games, saved
him from possible defeat.
With Meusel, Rawlings and Snyder
on the bases Earl Smith, who was sent
in to bat for Fred Toney, drove liner
into the hands of Jimmy Johnston. The
Brooklyn third baseman stepped on
third base and then threw the ball TO
Olson at second, retiring Rawlings for
the completion Of the triple killing.
Needless to state, it was stunning
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only real opportunity to take the lead.
Grimes allowed only four other hits
and no two Of these came in any one
| inning.
Avert Shut-Ont in Ninth
| A double by Frisch, combined with
errors by Olson and Kilduf, enabled
the Giants to save themselves from
q shut-out in the ninth inning. Incl
centally it was Grimes's twentieth VIC
torysof the season.
Toney, who started on the mound for
the Giants, was rather ineffective from
the outset. He mighe have Jared bet
| ter had it not been for glazing error
by the usually reliable Johnny Rawlings
| in the second inning. With one out and
Myers on first base Rawlings mutfcd
throw from Frisch which should hsve
been converted into double play. The
misplay left two men aboard the bases,
and both scored on singles that fol-
lowed.
ToneY was jolted for two more hits
| in the third inning and was finally
| taken out in favor Of pinch hitter in
the fifth. The Dodgers scored another
run off Sallee in the sixth and one
more off Ryan in the eighth.
Myers opened the second inning for
Brooklyn with a single to left, and
Mitchell, who is playing first base for
the Flatbush crew in the enforced abb
sence Of Ray Sckmandt, went out on a
| fly to Burns. Kilduff followed with a
grounder to Frisch and Rawlings made
his fatal error on the throw to second.
Miller drove single to center, scoring
Myers, and Grimes shot another single
to center, sending Kilduff across. Olson
lifted one to Burns and Johnston
grounded to Rawlings for the third out.
Dodgers Continue Scoring
While Grimes was holding the
Giants we'll in check, the Dodgers in
creased their lead in the third by scor-
ing another run. After Griffith had
famed, Wheat poked grounder
through Kelly for two bases. Myers
connected for single to left and
Wheat completed the circuit. Bancroft
intercepted Meusel's throw from the
outfeld and cut down Myers, who was
sprinting toward second. Mitchell
drew base on balls, but Kilduff popped
to Bancroft.
Meusel started the potential rally
for the Giants in the fifth with a
single to center and moved to second
on Rawlings's single to right, Snyder
poked another single to right, but
Meusel, for some reason known only
to himself, hesitated on the base line,
and as result he was forced to stop
at third. At this point Earl Smith
smashed his Inflated line drive to
Johnston.
Sallee took up the pitching burden
for the Giants and retired his oppo-
nents in order in the fifth, but in the
sixth he was bumped for a triple by
Kilduff and single by Miller, which
netted the Dodgers another run. The
Brooklynites gained their final tally in
the eighth, with Ryan in the box. This
came as the result of Wheat's single,
Myers sacrifice and another single by
Mitchell
| Frisch was the only one Of the
Giants to connect for more than one
nit. He beat out bunt in front Of
| the plate and drove ont a two-haucer