The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Barnes and Alexander Are
Knocked Out Of Box-Kelly
Gets 23d Homer.
by WILLIAM b. HANNA.

BY WILLIAM b. HANNA.
peciai Despatch to THE NEW yoRK HERALD.
CHICAGO, Sept 20.-Reckless base
running. entirely too intrepid. and mis-
plays in the tenth inning dropped the
Giants a few points down the percentage
column to-day. The Cubs beat them.
z to 6. their second defeat In two days
and the pennant not yet safe.
One reason the Giants with all their
speed could not win with fifteen hits
was because that while they overplayed
the speed asset and were too daring.
they at the same time ran foul Of strong
arms In the Bruin outfield. Whenever
they took chance a good throw cut
them down. Another reason was that
the Cubs did lot OF virile hitting
s"tinseives barnes. as was Alexander.
was Knocked out OF the box. Both were
good and bad In turns, mostly bad.
Frisch started Chicagoan around In
the tenth with low throw to first
Grimes forced the Cub. but Nehfs wild
pitch moved up Grimes. O'Farreii
singled to centre and the windup run
came home.
In the eighth inning George Kelly hit
his twenty-third nome run OF the year
and tied the score with It
Bill killefer, just before the game. re-
ceived life membership In the Theo-
dore Roosevelt Post OF the American n
Legion. The assembled players formed
semicircle around him during the cere-
mony. Then the Giants set about 10
analyze the offerings OF Alexander and
began that task quite tamely. They
had no pep In the opening found. anu
as the Cubs We're equally unresponsive
tne game had humdrum start. The
Inneio was dead from recent rains and
the ball bounced soggly to the in
Aelders. When II came around n R.,,y
II DIDN'T bounce at all, for he struck ont
Giants TN Scoring Mood.
Meusei and Rawlings spanked AIex
.ne erstwhile great for inf1eId hits In
the second with two batters In In.
hccroiogy list. They started q RICH,
sprishtly batting foray. for Smith bate,
heusei nome and the other part of the
battery. alias Barnes. jabbed q single
over short and batted In Rawlings an,
Smith
Frisch grounded into a double nl,v
In the third following a single nv Ran
croft Mention Is made OF this becaus
Frisch Isn't doubled often. He aid 70,
the bag. but had hit the ball too hard.
In the home third Frisch was owe,
enterprising and lunged for a bali be-
longing to Bancroft Result, q base
MI Tor killefer. Then q hit for Alex.
ander. Flack grounded to Bancroft
VINO would have had a double play n
ne hadn't slipped after touching set..
ond. His mishap caused a run Tb,
man ne would have doubled scored =
moment later Barnes was gated 70.
three sharp hits In this inning. Tn
ground had dried out and tn. ba,
travelled faster Off the broad expans
OF Mother Earth. or such Of It's expans
as Cubs park intrudes upon.
Following the scoring sprees bot,
Barnes and Alexander came up nitI
stiff and tight pitching and the gam
proceeded at rapid pace. Bancroft.
spun around like demcnted top 70.
high and puzzling ny and made y
beautiful catch In left field. which III,
| not keep Grimes from pasting a hom.
run over the right 1eld wall In the fifth,
The score was tied by this cogenf drfy..
| Two singles followed In the wake OF
the home run and then single by
Terry which shot In another run. Tha;
wasn't the end. either. KeIlehcr
scratched hit and Barber hit a clear
| one.
SIX bits and four runs were the In.
ning's damage of Barnes when McGraw
took him out and put In Shea. None
viii deny that he was kept In Ions
enough The good work OF e. Mcusel
in left made the fat inning less fat than
| II would have been.
Shea Fans Grimes.
Grimes, the home run hitter. was
rnnred by Shea In the sixth. Shea re.
Tigned In the seventh for pinch hitter.
Cunningham swung the aeh for the
pitcher and singled Rawlings and
Smith were on bases at the time and
Rawlings tailed.
In another moment the Giants had
the bases filed with nobody out Burn,
grounded slowly TO yIoliocher and Gun
ningh" m beat the throw to second.
Then followed heartbreaking stufY
Bancroft and Frfsch both singled. bu,
there went to waste. Flack'g throwins
each time Flack threw man out nj TN
n'ate. He threw out Cunningham ant
Burns. II was either viliainous judg.
r1ent on the part OF the runners or or
the part OF Dolan. the third base Goa ach
ana rich chance to win the game righ,
was. of course. fne, but Il was fool.
hardy to send Burns In.
The Giants were full OF frhf and
heart. however They knocked AIexan
der out OF the arena In the eighth Ions
ana lean George Kelly sailed nvm,
run into the left field seats. a man.
sized hit. even man Of Kelly's size
Meusel sinrled and Alex fitted. Tn,
| Giants couldn't bring Meusel around. =,
the Cubs entered their eighth with tn.
score tied. Nehf was on the slope 70,
the Giants. He was the relief pitcher.
| The Giants found Cheeves, Alexan
der's relief. puzzling. Burns walked e