The New York herald., 1922-04-09

on the work Of redecorating. The new
of the new Irish Free State, perhaps.
But it looks as though TIE artists
had booted one as badly as MacMon-
nies did when he designed statue Of
Civic Virtue which did not in tn.
least resemble Mayor Hylan. Even
the American shields that hung. on
the upper tier grand stand have been
dyed green. The Mayors committee
on art will no doubt take this up.
The wooden eagles which used to
squat on the roof have disappeared.
Whether they took wing or were
parked somewhere Ground Keeper
Henry Fabian refused to. say. He
said that tie new. color scheme would
be restful to the eyes Of tie athletes,
which would seem to imply that the
wearied ball players will do lot Of
resting at the local park this year.
Art In Stockings Too.
While on the subject of art as ap-
piled to baseball one must comment
upon the color scheme OF the Giants
new stockings, which are decidedly fu-
turistic In fact, the calves of long
George Kelly decorated with circles OF
blue, white and red look like the
camoufiage marks on a battle cruiser.
1t is impossible to tell which way a
Giant Is going by watching his legs.
This should make the Giants hit and
run play more intricate.
Certainly the Giants looked like re-
peaters to the little band Of the faithful
that gathered yesterday. The highly
expensive infeld. even without F'risch
of Forddam, worked nicely, and the
whole machine seemed about geared
for the regular run Of 1922. IL the
pitching staff holds out all will be
lovely at the end of September, il not
sooner. They displayed two samples
esterday-Shufflin' Phil Douglas and
Virgil Barnes, own brother to Jess.
Phil seemed nicely boiled out. Virgil
was strong in the arm but a little weak
in the bean at certain stages of the
conflict. However, no pitcher ever was
hired ito think for a team.
The Sox did not look as terrible as
they have been painted. Chaperoned
by those two gray children of the 70
dlac. Evers the Crab and Gleason the
scorpion, they might make trouble in
the American League IL they had
couple of pitchers to relieve Urban
Faber when he has to take a day or
two off.
The game was four minutes late in
starting owing to the tardiness OF VIII
ISlem. the musical umpire, who re-
manned overtime under the stand getting
his voice tuned to the right pitch. This
caused the multitude to hand him the
wreath Of wild raspberries even before
he had a chance to utter decision.
He was accompanied by the deep barry
tone of Brick Owens.
Gets Careless with Collins.
II began to look right OF the reel as
though Shuffiin' Phil Douglas would have
TO shuttle right into the showers in the
first inning With two out the Shufiier
got reckless and put one over for Eddie
Collins. Eddie slapped 1t on the nose
for a two bagger 10 center. Harry
Hooper. who has lived down the fact
that he once played with the Red Sox.
plastered a triple against the right field
wall-a lovely carom shot. 1t sounded
like parade, but Strunk was tossed out
by Bancroft.
The Giants came right back in their
half of the FIRST and tied 1t up. Beauty
Bancroft slapped sharp single to left.
With Rawlings out, Heinie Groh, the
celebrated Cincinnati refugee, sent Ban
croft to third with a single. Young's
out scored the run.
In the Giants half of the second Long
George Kelly, who was so raucously
jeered when he made his Polo Grounds
debut some years ago, came to the bat
while the multitude rose to do him
homage. Long George got under the
first ball pitched to him and looped 1t
gracefully into the left field bleachers
for decided home run.
After Shufflin' Phil had grunted for
five full innings and trampled Henry
Fabian's pitching mound flat with his
mastodonc feet. young Virgil Barnes
was shunted In to give the Shuffler the
remainder of the afternoon off. With
one out Johnson hit Virgil Tor two
Dagger. Mcclellan raped the ball to
Virgil. who picked II up and started to
think First he looked at second base.
then he looked at first base. He
seemed to be murmuring to himself
ANT nature wonderfu7" or words to
that effect.
Virgil Thinks and Thinks.
While Virgil was still engrossed In
thought Johnson had gone to second
and Mcclellan was safe on first. The
great moral of this episode seems to be
that a ball player should not think.
He should throw the ball somewhere.
Eddie Collins raped one down 70 vir-
gill This time he threw thinking to The
winds and threw the ball. IL went be-
yond range OF Oil Smith. the Giant
catcher. and johnson scored. Hooper
plastered a hit to center and Mcclellan
scored. II looked az though Virgil had
put himself into hole, but he yanked
himself right out again. With the bases
filled Mostl was thrown out by Ban
croft
Heinie Groh, In the Giant half Of the
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