The New York herald., 1922-06-18

dashed out of the stands and gave
they were souvenir hunters anxious
away as mementos of the occasion.
when there is an object in making {
This is not the first time that the
old gent was rewarded for aiding the
Dodgers win pennant by being for
mally kicked down stairs has helped
the Giants out of a tough hole. He
has done it before with a home run
smash when a smash was least eX
pected. In fact, the battered veteran
who has been evicted from many dug
outs has begun to look like the best
pinch hitter those Giants have hang
ing around at the present time-not
forgetting the fact that he is a good
hardworking center fielder. too.
At the start of the season McGraw
might have put Casey on the auction
block without drawing anything like
crowd. In fact, there hardly would
have been a customer for him in the
big leagues At the training camp
Casey was in the position of a person
who is just sort of nutting around
with the ball club. McGraw and Jen-
nings spent all of their time develop
ing SINNERS and Cunningham for the
position of center.
Stengel was just regarded as an extra
knife and fork at the table d'hote at
the Hotel Menger and something to fill
an upper berth while the Giants were
travelling. If piece OF Shinners's head
had not been Clipped out by a pitched
ball Casey might still be occupying a
permanent corner Of the well worn
Giant bench.
SINNERS Furnishes Chance.
When SINNERS passed from active
playing it was looked upon as a calamity
for while, but once Casey Stengel got
into action the feeling changed. While
the Giants are sorry that SINNERS
stopped the ball with his head. they can
rot forget that this WAS the incident that
brought Stengel from his obscure corner
of the Giant bench. They are thinking
of having that corner sawed off now.
because the chances are that Casey will
not occupy ii again.
Also Casey will have the privilege of
crowding somebody out of lower when
the Giants go West again. But the
chances are that the little old orphan
of the big leagues will not take advan-
tage of this privilege. He is one of those
unobtrusive gents. He probably will
curl himself up in his top Pullman
shelf without insisting on his rights as
a regular
After the second inning the game had
settled down TO a real pitching duel be-
tween Art Nehf and John Morrison.
They were both working so well that the
game promised to continue until the
shades of night were pulled on Coogans
Bluff.
There was one interruption. a gent
with an advertising aeroplane started to
do his stuff over the field He flew so
low that McGraw and Gibson were
nfraid that his propeller blades might
hit some of the ball players on the head,
and that he would file suit for new set
of blades They halted the pastime to
let him know that If anything of this
sort happened the aeroplane man could
not expect to recover n dime. Any
humping into a ball player would be
done at his own risk, they told him.
After the aviator lad been convinced
that he was wasting his time in that
vicinity he gave his boat the gas and
started over toward the Long Island
side. The Giant management is contem-
DlatinE ASKING the ANlHIlOn StCllOn VI
the Police Department to patrol the air
over the grounds for the rest of the
season. The aviator saw part of the
game for nothing.
First Run Early.
The Giants got their first run In the
opening inning. Bancroft got base on
balls and stole second. frankie Friscf
drove n single to right scoring Ban
croft 1t looked as though the Giants
would have their usual easy day with
the so-called Pirates, but the rush
stopped abruptly.
The Pittsburghers had II tied up In
tho second inning when three Of Glib
sons men nicked Art Nehf for singles.
IL looked for a moment as though there
might be reason for some apprehension
I'm regard to the Giants left handler.
Traynor, Mokan and Grimm executed
ANGLES the net result of the trio being
one run, which made the score exactly
even again.
In the sixth inning Heinie der Gro1
hnd to leave the game for the afternoon.
In the first inning he caught the spikes
Of his right shoe In the dirt near third
haze ana came up llmping He insisted
q. staying, however. until the sixth.
when his foot began to hurt him. Jawn
rawlings. who relieved Frisch while he
was out because of sickness. went to
second and Frisch held down Groh's
corner at third.
Young Jawn got quite hand when hs
came to the bat for the first time. Raw
lings has many admirers among the
customers at the Polo Grounds Hank
O'Day had the Giants and some Of the
customers on him for part of the after
noon for a close decision. But Hank
counts that day lost whose low descent
ing sun does not find somebody squa wk-
Ing TO him about something. II Hank
hasn't been squawked at In the course
Of the afternoon or evening he suffer :
from insomnia and feels that the world
has lost interest in him.
The battle went to the tenth. whcr
stengel staged the melodrama pre-
viously mentioned.
To-day the Giants meet the Cardinals
their chief rivals, IL the Giants can be
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