New-York tribune., 1922-05-08

he appeared to have a no-hIt contest
Wrightstone in the ninth and made
Barnes came within the proverbial
gnat's evebroy of making Il com
panion piece TO Rookie Robertson's
perfect game for the White Sox
week or so ago. Only twenty
seven men faced Barnes in the nine
innings, but he rarred the mechani-
cal perfection Of his record by giving
base on balls 70 Cy Williams in the
eth inning. Lanky Cy was the only
invader to see FIRST base. and he was
speedily killed off in double play on
Fletcher's grounder to Johnnie Raw
lings.
A dazzling turn of speed coupled
with sharp-breaking outcurve and
IN almost uncanuy ability to cut the
corners OF the plate, gave the Giant
hurler his bewildering mastery over
The impotent hitters from Quakertown.
The Kaiser Wilhelm tribe was not
working to improve the record Of any
twirler on the Giant team. Not by
jugfuU Cy Williams took two lusty
raps st the ball and sent the sphere
hurtljng through the atmosphere at a
ClLTF pace, Dut SaCN TIME IL WIS Ui-
rectly at pair Of outstretched hands
belonging to some McGraw hireling.
Jess Gets Fine Support
In the second inning it was Ralph
SINNERS who clutched a long, low
slugger, and in the eighth session
Johnnie Rawlings froze to a scorching
erounder and threw the disappointed
batter out at first.
The ninth inning was the climax
Bitter words had been passing back
ard forward from bench TO bench, and
the opposing players were telling
family secrets right out in meeting
Kaiser Wilhelm yanked out his three
regulars who we're due to bat, and in
last despairing effort to ruin the
Lee King, Cliff Lee, and utility in
fielder Wriehtstone in order,
That was the way they went out-in
order, but tho burly eX-Giant, King,
had $4,000 hearts palpitating wildly
with his long clout to deep center un-
81 Ralph SINNERS dashed over and
speared the ball Just before it hit the
ground Gin Lee, formerly of Pitts
burgh hit an easy hopper to Rawlings
Wrightstone's grounder for the final
IN ire r,oanwhTle tho GIANTS went
out and won the game In fact, they
won it IN THO first inning, when Groh,
Young and Meusel singled in success
sion off the pitching Of Specs
Meadows and scored two runs, one
more than was ultimately necessary to
ro,,ron pI r Tbcy continnod tba ba bard
nent IN the second with two bose hits
nv KalIv and Crob hut nv the tive the
,riaco+ third baxemnn reristored his
4zyotbaoror he star of the Ph}llv ni+ch
mo 80 was ear,nlino the hot water
(, ,Irder tho showers in +he cluhhonse
He hit SINNERS on the elbow and then
ave two bases ON balls in succession.
forcino Kollv over tho nla+e "Too
much il enough" !" said the "Kaiser."
"a Coo,oo CoIun,hia Sr,;th boord tho
coli of d1t,
And hen the Fun began
Then tho fun began. Groh's extra
base Texas Lacquer scored Barnes and
Bancroft, and brought the run total
m to FIVE. The last counter for the
Home Defense Society came in the
18th, when Pep Young singled. stole
second, and rode home on kellvs two
p,,t IN 49, r,n oa4+;,o ,,. 1a,,.r -
:. third Dlace in the order o. events on
] the program for the holiday crowd
First in Importance was the pitchinp
q Barnes, then came the superheated
NOR ologues, dialogues and ch0ruses
between the contendine teams. and.
last Of all. the scoring OF few incon-
seouential and highly superfuous
tallies
When George Columbia Smith had
been laboring only an inning or two
he had the misfortune to bounce fast
one on top of Beauty Bancroft's head.
10 damage was done, as it was only
Elancing blow, but Bannie unbur-
dened himself to the Philly pitcher as
he trotted down to first and continued
mis- Grafton with gestures when he
halted. Smith took the language
course at Columbia. and his answers to
Bancroft were many and varied. Then
the whole Giant bench made the anvil
Tng. descanting at length on the
ancestors, relatives and probable de
seendants of George Columbia. jimmie
Smith came TO the rescue OF his wound
60 namesake, ana IN the shadow OF the
Philly dug-out ne organized snip,
ing contest with running hre OF
comment directed against the Mc0raw
stronghold.
Hart to the Rescue