Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-03
GIANTS BIG LEAD
DW|NDL|NG FAST
Have One. Game Lead Over
Pirates This Morning-Lose
to Boston Again
AS AND PILLS IN SHAPE


A RE the Giants slipping? New York
"A fans, after months Of certainty that
their charges we're going to run away
with the National League race, are rub
bing their eyes and wondering II the
percentage table means anything.
When McGraw and his clan departed
from the region of the white lights for
the Occident they were so safely moored
to first place that every one talked OF
what a runaway race they were making
Of the so-called National League bat.
tie.
The West was not ns kind to the
Giants as their favorites expected and
sent them flying back East fortunate to
be in first place. At that the Giants
had a fairly comfortable lead for this
early in the season, and the fans ex-
pected them TO get together In the East
and get back in championship form.
However, they did not. The Phillies,
on the worst losing streak Of the year
II had reached eleven straight-were ex-
pected to prove easy for the Giants and
enable them to keep their heads far
above water. With a hurling staff shot
to pieces and the team not going any too
we'll at NIL. the Pills up and slapped the
face Of Father Knickerbocker's pets for
three victories out of four starts.
From so many of his former hirelings
this was big affront. Earl Smith took
q vacation one night while here and
drew down the ire Of Jawn McGraw,
who gave him vacation without pay.
Then Came the Braves
After all the terrible times here the
Giants went on to Boston confident
that another team that was inhabtting
the regions Of last place would enable
them to get going. The story in Bean
town, or rather from Beantown, is a
little different than 1t was here.
| On Thursday Filllngim made the
Giants look like puny batters by holding
them to five scattered hits and handing
them O whitewash. That was bad
enough to lose to veteran hurler, but
yesterday was different.
Jack Miller, a youngster who never
faced big team before, spoiled the
afternoon for the Giants by holding
them to nine hits scattered over eight
7 to 3. All three of the Giant runs
came in the fourth inning and made the
Braves so peeved that they went out
in their half Of the same frame and
chased four runs across the platter.
Shea, who once found his checks
waiting for him in the tower at
Twenty first street and Lehigh avenue,
was sent to the bench and Cecil AL
gernon Causey, the red head who did
work here for while, took the pitching
peak. In the eighth he was found for
trio of tallies that definitely settled
the game.
The Braves made but eight hits to
the aforementioned nine for the Giants,
but the Mitchmen made them when hits
meant runs.
Five in Last Six
Five defeats in the last six games
with the Western teams coming East
makes McGraw's place at the top of the
ladder look untenable. This morning
finds the Pirates but one game behind
by any means, with the Pirates. Cards,
Cubs and Reds all playing better ball
than they did on McGraw's last visit
to the Occident.
| Unless McGraw's pitchers find them.
selves the Giants will not be enjoying
themselves any too much peg or two
below, for the Cards are not far behind
the Buccaneers.
The Boston victory put the Phillies
further In the last place ditch. which
they hope to crawl out of before the
Lee Meadows may do the hurting over
in Brooklyn this afternoon in the
scheduled double header, and If they do
the odds are about even for a pair of
Philly victories.
The rain yesterday played havoc with
the leagues, half of the teams being
forced to spend the day in idleness. The
Mackmen were unable to play Wash
ington, and that means that later in
the season the fans will have another
double-header to see their favorites
engage in.
The AS and PhiIs
If the weatherman is little con
siderate this afternoon. Bryan
("Slim") Harris and Rollie Naylor
will try to set the Senator's back a neg
and gain possession of third place before
the Western movement. Bob Hasty,
who hasn't hurled game for some
time, may get the assignment in one
Of the games.
Tomorrow the Mackmen meet the
Yanks on the Polo Grounds, and with
either ROmmel, who is entirely recov-
cred from his attack Of tonsilitis, and
Lefty Heimach, who set the American
League titleholders down on Memorial
Day, ready to take the hill. our chances
are good. Both Rommel and Heimach
are now known as the Yank killers.
which means that they have the Indian
sign on the expensive cast before the
game starts.
The Mackmen open their Western
stay In Detroit on Tuesday. They do
not return to Shibe Park until June 27,
when the Red Sox make one Of their
seasonal visits to Shibe Park.
Stueland. who in his last start hum
bled the Cards, proved an easy mark
for Pat Moran's Reds Yesterday, and
he was chased from the mound. The
Moranmen hammered the ball hard and
knocked out an easy victory over the