The New York herald., 1922-05-27
CUNNINGHAM GOES
BERSERK With BAT
Gets Homer, Double and Two
Singles in the Second
Game.
NEHF AND BARNES STAR
Left Handler Breezes Through
in Closing Contest-Five
Passes for Groh.
NEHF AND BARNES STAR
BY DANIEL.


gal killing the fatted calf for HIM
self up at the Polo Grounds yester-
day. Not that there was so much
adipose tissue on the lean and hungry
Braves, whose ribs could be counted
under their mighty meager percent
age. But the calf was the fattest that
could be obtained for the occasion.
The Giants made the killing a double
one. taking the first game for Jess
Barnes by to and the second one
margin of 10 to 2.
About twenty thousand coat shedding.
pop guzzling. ice cream gargling fans
sat in the torrid calm of a rare May day
and found that the proceedings fitted In
exactly with the program which they
had pictured for the double header
Above all. the New Yorks were winners
all the way in botr games. They fur
nished potent pitching. powerful work
with the bat. sizzling fielding, splendid
coordination of effort-and they made
no tense situation to drive the warm
fans still warme- and send pulses beat
ing az too rapid a gait. II was jolly
party at every angle for everybody but
the negligible Braves.
Oddly enough, the four hours OF base
ball developed only one hone run. and,
happily enough. It went to Giants. No.
It was NOT keIlv. nor was 1t Meusel. The
four bagger, which went into the lower
tier OF the right field stand in the third
inning OF the second game and meant
three runs. was contributed by the sor-
rel .hatched Billy Cunningham OF San
Francisco, Cal, lately installed as
regular In centerfield and an untir-
ing, dashing zealot in celebration OF his
delayed arrival.
Bill Goes wild I'm Second.
Cunningham seemed to go crazy with
the heat in the second game. In the
first contest he hit a double, was
robbed of a hit by an unusual happen
ing, whereby Kelly was forced at sec
ond after Bill had driven liner INTO
left. and was robbed iof another safety
by a great catch by Powell. But In the
second section of the big day for Harry
Stevens. Bill saw to 1t that his wallops
went where no larceny could he COM
mitted by either fate or the harassed
Braves.
In addition to his home run. Bill
from Golden Gate Park hit double
and two singles in five times up-and
had the smiling fans acclaiming him
as the one big excuse for the whole
afternoons exercises. Ross Young, with
two doubles and two singles, was an
another lethal supporter of Nehf In the
second exhibition.
Heinie Groh had peculiar experience
in his batting efforts. In the first game
he got three singles in four times up
and In the second shindig he collected
no fewer than five passes In six trips
to the plate. He might have made It
an even half dozen but for his yielding
temrtation to take a sock at high one.
That retired him via foul to Holke.
II was an afternoon of striking con-
trasts In pitching which were far from
fiattering to Ire Boston Fingers. There
were many of these. Our old friend
Rube Ma-oua-d started the first game
but had to leave under fire before even
a single Cant had teen retired. Singles
by Bancroft. Frisch and Groh and
Youngss safe arrival at first in an ef-
fort 20 saodfioe made 1: plain that the
Rube was rot in anything approaching
form.
Then came Bullet Frank Mfller-and
after him a younRster rom the Sally
by the name OF Lansing. front name
Eugene. In the second game II was
McQuillan the magnanimous, whose
freedom WIN passes was an uhseasoh-
able demonstration of the Christrnas-
tide spirit. He left In a storm in the
fourth and turned the messy thing over
to John Watson, who taggered through
as best he could. And thar wasn't very
good.
Barnes and Nehf pitched magnificent
ball. Tess gave nine fSts, but not until
the eighth. in which three blows de-
livered their two runs. did tho Bostons
really get to the fast ball expert.
Previous TO the eighth he yielded only
six scattered hits and alu..ys had the
visitors just where he wanted them.