The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-14
Bancr0ffs Homer Feature
as Giants Beat Cubs 8 to 3
Bannie Drives In Three Runs
in Winning Rally in the
Seventh.
BY DANIEL.

There is one thing which may be
said about our Giants with absolute
certainty--for worthy cause theii
generosity knows no bounds. Last
evening, after they had trounced the
Cubs by to in the inaugural of tho
last stand against the rough boys from
the West. the New Yorks held meet
ing in their club house at the Pole
Grounds. They would have been par
doned had they abandoned themselves
to gloating over two great rallies and
the fine triumph they had achieved
over Virgil Cheeves, the Cherokee
Chief, after the Chicagos had taken a
three run lead. But their charitable
impulses came to the fore.
Gentlemen" yodeled Arthur Nehf as
he called the convocation to order. gen
tlemen. we have just seen a sad sight.
We have envisaged (Hear. hear! from
Earl mith)--yes. we have envisaged an
umpire suffering from a poverty which
Is almost indescribable. I need not say
that the man to whom I refer IS that
poor flsh Barry Mccormick. An UNI
pire's chief wealth is his sight-and
Mccormick is broke-dead broke!
II appeal to you men to subscribe as
much as you can to alleviate this con-
dition Several suggestions are In order.
I would say that we buy him a hand
some tin can. a camp chair. an eye
shade, a cane and a good stand at a
busy corner. My colleague, Mr.. Smith.
who suffered as acutely as I did from
McCormicks condition. suggests that we
purchase for the impoverished umpire
a ton of boracic acid, gross of eye
cups and six pairs of high powered spec
tacles. Give until ii hurts, men
Something must be done"
New Record Established.
This impassioned plea brought results.
Cosey Dolan, TIE sergeant at arms and
chief collector. gathered In the ,,princely
total of twenty EIGHT cents. AS f1rst an
nounced the sum was thirty-e EIGHT. but
a dime had to be disqualified on account
of being plugged as we'll as of base
ancestry. This collection sets worlds
record, as the best previous mark Tor
players donations for an allegedly alive
umpire was eleven cents, established by
the Yankees last season for the joint
benefit of Messrs. Connolly and Hide
brand.
Nehf made his appeal for Mccormick
in spite of the fact that the umpire had
chased him out of the game merely
because he had tossed his glove into the
Harlem ambient. This narrowing Incl
dent--which marked the first Danish
ment ever suffered by the fine tempered,
we'll behaved left hander-came in the
eighth inning and shared the limelight
with a crashing home run with two men
on base by Davy Bancroft in the previ-
Gus inning Later. Casey Stengel also
hit a homer into the right field stands.
Nehf had been having trouble with
the impoverished Mccormick all the
way. The umpire appeared to have SET
up a new standard for judging balls and
strikes An expert oculist In the press
box declared that Mccormick was carry
ing around case Of opthalmomalacia
but we couldn't see a case of anything
around Barry.
With two down Nehf and Mccormick
disagreed about what was being thrown
to Terry-and then Zebulon doubled.
There was further disagreement as TO
what was being fed to Friberg, VINO
walked. The exchange of glances De-
tween the pitcher and the Umpire came
to a climax when Mccormick persisted
in parrot like repetition Of Ball. Bail.
Ball" while Maisol vas resting at the
plate. After Mccormick had said bali
thrice. Nehf threw his glove into the air
and Mccormick threw up his fist and
waved the southpaw out of the game.
Then came a great feature. BIZ
RYAN was called in from the bull pen
and passed Maisel. to I'LL the bases and
bring up the terrible Hack Miller. pom
derous son of the famed strong man Sc
bastian. Ryan threw things which NC
Cormick called strikes. Bill threw Two
of these. Then Miller made a great
swing at fast curve to fan the air TOT
the third strickland dreary parade OF
Cubs into the field.
Mccormick had a short debate with
Earl Smith the well known Boy Orator
of Hot Springs. in the third inning.
After Earl had watched three bad ones
20 over he thought he saw two more bad
ones, but Barry called them strikes.
Earl stopped over and brushed the
dust from the plate into cloud which
irritated McCormicks eyes and resulted
in Snyder's immediate appearance vice
Smith. :,
II was n rafting good ball game all
the way-full of good and timely hitting
and snappy work in the field. inc
Giants behaved like true champions ana
once more proved their gameness by
making UP a big deficit. Nehf was
saved from trouble In the second py a
Great throw by Bancroft. which got
Krug at the plate. In the third singles
bv Cheeves, STATE and Hollocher filled
the bases. A double by Terry drove in
two and a sacrifice fly by Maisel ac-
counted for n third run.