The New York herald., 1922-07-28
TERRIFIC PUNCH OF
I GIANTS TELLS TALE
Thrice Overcome Four Run
Leads and Hammer Car
dinals by IL to z.
WALLOP FOUR PITCHERS
Hickey Forced to Call on Per-
tica and Sherdel Again
Barnes Is Winner.
by DANIEL.

AShhCAAL lltOS0 tItStldjAciL
surely are the Joe Grims of the Ma
tional League. Staggering. with one
eye closed and the other half shut,
hammered to pulp in the pitching
box, with their averages CORY and
Branch Hickey ready to throw in a
horse blanket in token of surrender,
the silly st. Louis outfit somehow
managed to last the route in a riot
GUS exhibition against the mauling
Giants at the Polo Grounds yesterday
afternoon. While the New,Yorks won
easily enough, by ~ to T. they kissed
the grass on a couple Of occasions
themselves.
AS a matter of fact the Cardinals
when Casey Stengel and Johnny Raw
lings sent crashing triples to the jaw
in four run rally and put the Grims
down for a count of nine. That ter
rife attack knocked Lou North loose
from his teeth and his Number Tens
and landed the Giants in lead Of
II to 7. After that the Clouting Cir
Gus, with. Lefty Sherdel shooting them
over, was more of an ectoplasmic nine
going through esoteric motions at the
behest of Medium Barnes than they
We're real scrappers for the league
pennant.
1t wasn't the fault of socker Stock
that the Cardinals did not put the finish
ing touches on the native slammers.
Stock crashed forceful right to the
wind in the opening round when he
drove the ball past Stengel for home
run, which accounted for three tallies.
made the st. Louis total four and ap-
parently gave the decision ito the Rick
eys then and there.
Hits n Second Home Run.
In the third round, after the Giants
had rallied and had piled up nearly
enough points to earn a draw. Socker
Stock smashed another home run into
the left field bleachers-accounted for
three more tallies and gave the Car
dnals another four run lead On only
four safe blows at that stage the Car
to the operations -of Stock.
Stock always was that way, crashing
his noodle off against the Giants-vin-
dictivelike and always remembering
that 1t was John McGraw who blighted
his career by sending him to PhiIa-
delphia. whence he went to st. Louis
from the skillet into the oven. Stock
really cannot be blamed. Anybody who
has to play seventy-seven ball-games in
st. Louis and sleep there for at least
seventy-seven summer nights should be
pardpned for nursing an enlarged crouch
against the man responsible for his ter
rible sentence.
Well. when Soclxer Stock sent the New
Yorks reeling and down for nine in the
third round there was a strong dsposi-
tion to look aAxance at Jesse Barnes.
There was considerable belief that some
one had erred, some one had bfundered,
In picking Jesse for the assignment.
But Barnes fooled them all--perhaps
himself, too. He gave only three scat
tered hits to the ectoplasmic gang the
rest of the way, these coming in the
last three sessions.
Bancroft quite the Hero.
A notable detail of the scrap was the
fact that Bancroft scored run in each
of the first four innings walking twice
and then hitting twice. Bannie's catch
of Flack's liner in the ninth was the
fielding classic. Close behind came
Frisch's miracle stop OF Clemon's drive
which went for a single in the eighth.
The fight was delayed for fifteen min
utes by a shower. >The Cardinals were
first in the ring and 1t was announced
that they had weighed in at 1920 pounds
after lunch, while the Giants tipped the
beam at 1859 pounds. Referee Klein
cautioned the boys about hitting in the
clinches and then came the gong to
start the silly performance.
In the first round Barnes feinted and
feinted. and the fans almost tainted.
He passed Flack and Hornsby and the
visitors drew blood when Schultz drove
F1ack home With two on Stock
crashed his right for a home run and
the champions went down. Great ex-
citcment. But the champions recovered
In their half the Giants made merry
at the expense of John Davis Stuart. re-
Gently from Ohio state University and
labeled a pitcher. Joan Davis Stuart
walked Bannie. hit Rawlings and threw
two balls to Frisch. Hickey then
acknowledged his error and yanked John
in favor of Pertica. A hit by Meusel
Grove in one run and a forceout by
Young got another.
Giants Go Down Again.
The second round saw Frisch's single
crive in Bancroft and put the Giants
within one of tie. Eut the third saw
the champions kiss the turf for a second
time when Hornsby ringled. went tc
third on a wild throw ~ Kelly. which
was part of a bit of somr ambulism of the
right side of the inhcld. Fournier
walked and then. with two gone, Stocs
smashed his second blow to the wind
and down went the title holders Take
the full nine" Jennings shouted. Th1
Giants needed II.
But they were game. They came back
fresher than lot of daisies In their
section of the third and knocked over
four runs and a tie. They slammed
Pertica for row OF suburban cottages.
getting three blows to the jaw and three
70 the midriff Kelly singled, Stengel
singled. Smith doubled, Bancroft sim
gled Rawlings and Frisch ditto-and
Pertica was carried out on shutter.
The result--four runs and a tie for the
Giants-and in came North.
After the third round II was chllds .
play for the Giants to biff the Grimms
whenever they wanted to. Finally they
got tired of the uneven scrap TT was
dark, IL was getting late. and the folks
in the stand simply could not contlnua
to live on peanuts.
GIANTS VS.. ST. LOUIS TODAY Games
Polo Grounds. ] 80 p. M.--Adv.
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