The New York herald., 1922-06-24
Zack Wheat Scores the Only
Brooklyn Tally With Home
Run Into Stands.
CRASH IN EIGHTH INNING
'0il' Smith and Casey Stengel
Knock Homers in Attack
on Brooklyn.
BY w. o. McGEEHAN.

With his back to the wall of the
dugout Field Marshal John Joseph
McGraw of the Giants intrenched be-
hind shufflin' Phil Douglas. the mas
sive Rock OF Coogan's Bluff and re-
PEELED the second drive of the Flatbush
Fusiliers by a score OF Q to 1. With
the aid OF intrenchment tools Shufflin'
Phil dug the two biggest feet in
Organized Baseball into the solid clay
on the pitchers mound and defied the
Dodgers to knock him loose from his
fixed post.
The lone run of the Dodgers was
scored by Zack Wheat. who slapped the
bail against the top of the right field
stands. He caught Phil before he had
recovered from the exertions incurred
in running out three base hit and
was unable to get any stuff on the
ball. due to his weakened condition.
Phil has great deal of area to get
tired with and hs was tired all over.
But there is no quarter given or asked
in this Battle of the Boroughs.
ION" Smith and Casey Stengel, the
two Giants, each got a nome run dur
ing the heavy shelling of the positions
of Uncle Wilbert Robinson. Dazzy
Vance. who was sent in to deceive the
Giants, II possible. had many curves
both on the ball and on his own
anatomy. Dazzy has a thousand poses
and every pose is a picture, but the
Giants whitfield him down so that the
air was punctuated with the petulant
pop of the base hit until Dazzy looked
dizzy
A Troop Movement.
Shufflin' Phil accomplished one of the
.-t.As
performed at the Polo Grounds in the
seventh inning. Phil hit three bagger
TO the center field fence, and to the
a enlistment of the multitude he
reached third base on 1t. 1t was the
biggest troop movement made since the
armistice WIS signed. Bancroft tried
TO bring him home with long fly. but
Phil skidded and lost momentum near
the plate and was caught out. He
should have used rollers.
The Giants started scoring in the
\ second inning. Meusel singled to CEN
ter. Young, apparently recovering the
lost batting eye for which he had been
advertising, slapped double along the
left field foul line. scoring Meusel.
With Kelly out. the Orphan, Casey
Stengel. singled to center and scored
Young.
In the fifth inning, with one out
"On'' Smith got base on balls against
the protest of Mr.. Vance. Douglas
bowled one down to first. sending OH
to second. Bancroft drove double to
left and scored "Oil."
Despite the grace of Dazzy. Uncle
Wilbert Robinson had a hunch that he
would get nowhere that AFTERNOON and
switched him for a pinch hitter in the
seventh. The remainder of the Giant
runs were scored against young Stephen
Decatur. Two of them were accumu-
lated in the seventh. With one out
Casey Stengel. adopted as a Giant after
being abandoned by more baseball
teams than combined to abandon any
other player, singled to center. oil
Smith. who returned to the Giants as
prodigal only a few weeks ago
busted a homer into the right field
stands.
A Most Vehement Crash.
1t was in this same eventful inning
that Shufflin' Phil Douglas inadver.
tently hit the three bagger to center
field fence and completely exhausted
himself by the arduous trip to thirc
base. 1t will be recalled that jeff Tes-
reau. who has the same architecture
lines as Shufflin' Phil once hit three
bagger and was unable TO get his
breath for twenty-one days.
The most vehement crash came ir
the eighth. Rawlings hit two baggei
TO left. Frisch laid down a sacrifice
Meusel singled to right center. SCORING
Rawlings. Young doubled to left cen.
ter. After Kelly struck out, the CRATE
full orphan. Casey Stengel, gave fur
ther proof OF gratitude for the good
home that McGraw had provided fol-
him. He socked homer against the
top facade of the right field stands an6
scored three more runs.
Customers were plentiful from botf
sides of the bridge. The rooters were
caustic toward one another Their at
titude caused Taiishl Hara, the Japanese
correspondent. to cable the following tc
Toxic:
"An invading country could make
America very 1efenseless IL possible tc
arrange in all big cities baseball games
between boroughs. When such games
exist American people turn out and will
do no other work but to throw rasp'
berries at each other. This is an Amer
lean expression, which means that they
become impolIte at one another. and even
would fight about the national pastime
When ball game is present at Polish
Grounds, New York, people would bc
very glad IL foreign battle ship would
blow up Brooklyn baseball field and cap.
ture Hon. Mr.. Ebbets. When the hon
Giants are beat by Brooklyn, the hon
Ebbets would surrender the hon. Mr.
McGraw. Baseball In America is civil
war. and Is being committed daily"
The score:
BROOKLYN (N) NEW YORK (N.)