The New York herald., 1922-06-03
SHEA And CAUSEY
] BOTH BATTED HARD
Five Hits in a Row Drive
Former to Cover in
Fourth.
MILLER CHECKS GIANTS
Holds McGPaw's Men Safe in
All But One Shaky
Inning.
MILLER CHECKS GIANTS

BOSTON, June 2-Pat Shea was not
equal to the task Of holding the
Braves in check to-day, and neither
was Cecil Causey, who took his place
when he was batted out of the box in
the fourth inning. The result was a
victory for the Braves by a score Of
z to 3 over the Giants. who have lost
five of their last six games.
Frank Miller, hurting for Boston,
yielded nine blows, but five OF these
were made in the fourth inning, when
the Giants scored all their runs. In
the remaining innings he managed to
keep them at a safe distance, valuable
aid in the handling of this job being
contributed by Walton Cruise. who
starred with two sterling catches in
right field.
Shea and Miller got by nicely for
three innings. but in the fourth the
Giants tabled Miller for three runs
and the Braves came back so strongly
in their half of the inning as to drive
Shea from the box and take the lead.
Frisch pried the lid off the fourth
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box. Groh shot double down the left
field foul line. sending Frisch to third
and Meusel followed with long sacri-
flee fly to Nixon on which Frisch
scored and Groh dashed to third base
Young singled to center, scoring Groh
and Kelly singled to right. Young stop
ping at the middle station. Cunning
ham expired on fly to Christensen.
but Snyder doubled to left center. scor-
ing Young and sending Kelly to third.
The runners were left when Shea passed
out on hopper to Miller.
Five Hits I'm Row.
Five straight hits gave the Braves
the lead and put the quietus on Shea
in the home half of the inning. Bar
bare singled to left and Christenbury
doubled to right. Young's late throw
to head him off at ,second went over
Bancrofts head into left field, Bar
bare scoring and Christenbury con-
tinuing on to third Cruise doubled to
right. scoring Christenbury. and took
third when Boeckel beat out hit to
Bancroft. Holke doubled to left GEN.
ter scoring both men, and Shea passed
out of the picture. Causey, coming in.
fielded Ford's bunt and threw to Groh.
nipping Holke at third. and Gowdy hit
to Causey, who started double play
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Frisch got another hit in the fifth.
a single to right center with one out
but he did not advance past first base
for Groh popped to Barbara and Frisch
was cut down when he headed for Sec
ond after Miller had caught him off
first. With two out in Boston's half
Cunningham misjudged a long slam by
Barbara, the ball going over his head
for three base hit. but Kelly Knocked
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the ball to Causey. who covered first
base In time to retire the batter.
Fire plays by Cruise and Ford kept
Miller out of trouble In the sixth
Cruise made a one hand catch OF a
short fly by Meusel while on dead
run near the right field foul line. and.
after Barbara had thrown out Young,
Ford went back OF seconT base for
Kelly's grounder and threw him out.
one Rally Is Wasted.
A base on balls to Ford first batter
to face Causey in the seventh inning.
was wasted. Gowdy hammered the ball
deep into right field where 1t was
caught by Young. and Miller pushed
Ford along with sacrifice. That was
all. for Causey tossed out Nixon after
a fine play on his torr'id smash.
Cruise bobbed up with another daz-
cling catch In the eighth inning. Frisch
led Off with his third hit. single to
right, but was forced by Meusel after
Groh had flied to Nixon. Young slashed
the ball savagely to right field. but
Cruise pulled 1t down while moving at
top speed.
A pass to Cruise. a single to left by
Boeckel and a pass TO Holke filled the
bases for the Braves In the eighth and
Ford clinched the game for Mtchell's
tribe by banging the ball down the left
field line for two sacks, scoring all
three men. The score: