The New York herald., 1922-05-28

ern accusation.
1t is not unlikely that many Of these
seekers for the truth laid the basis for
influenza while watching the Giants
lambast the Braves by to 1. It was a
cold day. especially for the Boston play
ers for a cutting wind swept over the
field, chilling to the marrow all who
wore summer raiment and straw lids.
At the conclusion of the one sided
contest the onlookers were convinced
that the reported inefficiency Of the
Giants with the stick was only partially
true. They saw Heinrich Groh smash
the ball safely on three of the four oo-
casions on which he brandished his blud-
geon at the opposing and oppressed
pitchers. Groh hit single in the first
and a double in the second. He drove
a fly to left in the fourth and closed his
days work with a double in the sixth.
In the eighth Rawlings succeeded Groh
and singled.
The jury Of spectators returned YER
dict to the effect that Groh was not
guilty of the charge of weak walloping.
Kelly Also in Form.
The onlookers also saw long Mr. Kelly
pole out two singles and every man on
the team got at least one hit except
Possibly the censorious Westerners
may insist that any team can hit the
Boston hurlers in their present FORM
1t Is true that Dana Fillingim did not
shine brilliantly although the charge by
a bleacherite that he is SHINE" as a
pitcher might possibly be sustained. 1t
was off the delivery of Fillingim that
the Giants collected a majority of their
hits and five of the runs that grace the
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thing that "A successful pitcher should
possess. He had poor control. no speed
ana il there was any curve or slant to
his shoots they were not observable to y
man sitting on direct line back OF the
home plate. There was general regret
on the part of the Giants, when Fillingim
was yanked off the rubber in the midst
of a cannonading in the second inning.
The Giants gathered two runs in the
first on Bancrofts walk. Boeckefs
tumble of Frisch's grounder. single
by Groh and a sacrifice fly by Meusel
The Giants snuffed out the Braves
quickly in their half of the second and
pounced on Fillingim for another clus-
ter of hits and bunch of runs. Smith
opened by getting pass and Ryan
sacrificed in mastery manner. Ban
croft beat out a bunt toward first. and
Frisch singled scoring Smith. Then
came Groh with a double. bringing IL.
Bancroft and Frisch.
At this point Fillingim received =
radiogram that he was wanted in his
dressing room. and Marquard. the
leaning tower of baseball, ambled across
the greenward and took up the Bos-
ton pitchers burden. His shots from
southern exposure we're too breezy for
the Giants and the batting rally ended
abruptly.
The former Brooklyn hurler held the
Giants runless IN the third and fourth.
but in the fifth kelly's walk and
Snyder's hit to right that went for a
triple, owing to an accident to South.
worth as he was about to field the
ball, gave the home guard run.
Accident TO southworth.
southworth twisted his leg in running
for the ball and fell to tho ground
He was carried off the field. But for
the accident the hit would have been
only single.
The final run by the Giants was dus
to Frisch's single in the sixth. followed
by Groh's double and a sacrifice fly
by Kelly
The feature OF the game. aside from
the batting of Groh and some of his as
sociates and the sharp fielding OF the
Ryan Boston fans need not be alarmed
as 10 batting slump on the part OF the
Braves 1t was superior pitching that
prevented them from scoring more than
one run, and that at the fag end of tho
game. Ryan held the Braves helpless
for the greater part of tho time. and
when any OF the representatives of Cod
fishville managed to land on the spher-
Old Cunningham or some OF his fellow
conspirators fieded with superhuman
brilliancy and prevented runs. Cunning
ham robbed Powell OF a three-bsgger in
the sixth and made other catches that
were very annoying to the visiting team
The impenetrable infield Of the Giants
executed a brace of double PLAYS and
Jennings cackled with more than ordi-
nary stridulous effect.
There was much rejoicing when the
Bostons scored their lone run In the
eighth inning. That is to say. there
was rejoicing by the Braves. O'Neill.
who had replaced Gowdy as catcher in
the seventh. lashed a triple TO right and
scored on Powell's single