The New York herald., 1922-09-16
Giants Beat Cubs Again;
Lead NOW Is Six Games
For Fourth Time in Week
ScoresIs Z to 6-Losers Get
Five in Ninth.
BY DANIEL.

They seem to be in-those Giants of
ours They are six games ahead now.
with seventeen more to go-and that
appears to be about as safe a lead as
the Democratic majority down in Mis-
sissipp. Yesterday the New Yorks,
headed for another world series. and
hoping fervently that the Yankees will
join them again. defeated the Cubs
for the third straight time at the Polo
Grounds by that same old score of
TO 8. while the Pirates We're being
nanhanded in Boston.
Don't let any photographer risk his
neck and the mental poise or his fam
lily by going to the Harlem pasture
this afternoon and asking the Giants
TO sit for a group picture of the Ma
tional League pennant winners of
1922. Publicly John j. McGraw's agile
athletes decline to assume the laurels
as yet-but private.y they are making
arrangements to remain in their lodg-
ines until October Is. No official prepa-
rations have bcen started by the club
officials looking toward another world
series, but last night We heard that
at another secret session held by
Messrs. McGraw, Stoneham and Nc
Quade 1t had been decided to print
those tickets in green after all-with
the harps rampant.
II you dote on arithmetic and statisr
n tt,< 80
at this time of the year We have a
choice line direct from ours official
figure hound. AS the records stand
this morning the Giants have won
eighty-four games and lost fifty-three
for an average of 6l9. The Pirates
have won seventy-nine and lost sixty
and their perez ntage is .56S Bill Nc
kechnie's perspiring and aspiring ath-
letes have only fifteen more to play.
1t the Pirates set the world on fire
and won fifteen straight the Giants
would have to do no better than ten
out Of seventeen to tie them for the
flag. That's a tough situation to face
for the second placers
Another Tough One for Barney.
Now for another of those Ifs"
Should the New Yorks win only seven
tests the Pirates would have to win
twelve out of fifteen to equal their
percentage. That's another tough situ-
alton for the Pirates. However. tough
situations are nothing new to Barney
Dreyfuss's hired men.
To return to those doings at the
Polo Grounds yesterday. our Giants
have developed a perfect mania for
that jinxy. thirteen total Of Z to g.
Fer the fourth time in five games
played during the week the New Yorks
came through on the slightly longer
end of that tally. Twice they won over
the Braves on Monday by that score
and 1t was to when they beat the
Cubs on Thursday. That count seems
to have a peculiar attraction for MIC
Graw's men for they certainly stretched
couple of points to bring the Cubs
1 up to 1t yesterday. f
For eight innings there was Wild
rumor around the park that McGraw
would use only one pitcher in the entire
game This would have made quite
soul stirring occasion and the report
created a furore in -" stands For
eight innings Carmsn II Il. the silent and
serene pafson. had tlr Ch.cagos just
whore he wanted them and TIE run'o'
seemed about to become reality. But
the yarn was blastcd in the ninth
/ blasted by a five Iun attack whic /
| brought the Cubs within one of a tie
scott stops Them short.
/ 1t was bit of rally-that outburs'
at the close. But Jack Scott, the North
| Carolina soupboner, who had been called
in after four runs had been driven in
stemmed the tide. With the tieing rur
en- first Scott retired Grimes on strikes
Then wild throw on Callaghan b,
frankie Frisch. who had been sent tc
| third after Heinic Groh had thrown oui
/ his trick knee in the seventh. put tbs
| tying tally on third and perhaps the win
ming run on second. with two out.
! Up tame Barber. who had started tho
rucus with triple. Scott worked or