New-York tribune., 1922-03-20

CnaLHp4OnS lO-OaN Niitie AltHul 4NCl
aren't champions of anything, bl
rapidly to Nchf fine assortment O
trolled curve, but with Nehf New y
The White Son haycd Jesse Barnes
and right-handed Rubo Benton, came
from behind with a roar and rusA
and beat the Kings Of Christcndom out
Of the ball game Tno score was ~ 70
6-fuly as bad as that and the lowly
but bumptious S0N have our Giants
down, turee games TO one.
That is no position for a world $
champion team 10 be n. but or the mo-
ment tire pitching department of the
New Workers is unstable and not az
tuned 10 keeping opposing hitting IN
CHECK The pitching staff IS the weak
spot a. present. Nehf went spiendiOly
to-day. but Barnes didn't follow on
with the good work he showed last
week in Seguin. lie was taken from
the b7N after three innings of suffer
ing. in which his control was poor and
his service torn for elgnt hits and ten
uns.
Benton an Improvement
Young Benton did better than Barnes
much better hut his bases on balls.
like those of Barnes. turned INTO runs.
Yet the White SrV didn't do all the hit
ting not hy good deal. Red Faber
was no TIA ru in the Giants flesh.
They looked like winners while he was
pitching. HITS were punched on him
twice and a comfortable lead acquired.
Robertson made a poor start and the
Giants scored scmo more, but Robert
son was not discouraged He improved.
and there wasn't much 70 the Giants
attack in the last three innings. The
White Sox out6uished them.
The Sox have done rugged lot Of
hitting all through this series and have
shown quite p aiNly that no enemy is
going to beat them on reputation Still
the work of the Giants to-day had Q
great deal of quality. There We're
clean punched hitting shifty tactics
and capital fielding. The weak spot
Barnes work on the slope-was what
brought defeat.
One Of the best ball games Texans
or the citizens Of any other common
wealth ever saw happened for six in
nings. Both sides battled with zcst,
and some extraordinary sharp fielding
and spirited base running took place.
Eddie Collins ba2ed like meteor with
his wonderful stops and Dave Bancroft
kept pace with him. Great plays these
two made, each 4 king in his own de-
main.
The White Sox had the double-nlay
habit. Their facility for touching off
conjoint killings throttled the Giants
often and went far to win for them,
for they prevented fully a half-dozen
more New York runs Meusel hit smack
into Double p ay in the first inning,
with two on bases and only one out.
lie was too eager and jabbed away at
the first ball. but other double plays
were on viciously hit balls and were
pure hard luck.
Bancroft Groh and Meusel punched
hits for two runs in the third inning
and the Giants scored III the fifth and
sixth on hits by Young and Rawlings,
an error by Ostergard and clever base
running by Young, Bancroft and Shin
ners.
Hooper's Hit Timely
Two isolated hits we're all the Ameri
car Leaguers made off Nehf in his four
innings In the fifth the Sox began
20 thrive Hooper got in timely
double with men on bases, and in the
sixth, after a pass to Collins and a
single by Strunk Mostl sailed a three
bagger over Young's head. He could
have walked home if Gleason hadn t
held him at third. Nobody was out, so
the Kid played it safe.
There should have been more scoring
in this inning if Bancroft, playing in on
the grass, hadn't slapped "a soreamer to
the ground wi h his glove, snatched it
up with his right and thrown out Mos
til at the plate. Sheely drove three
Dagger to the same far away spot way
up in the Texas Panhandle, in the next
inning with two on bases He was one
Of several ardent hitters i'm this hag-
gard round. in which Barnes, besides
being raped four times. gave two bases
on balls and tred to take throw at
rrst base with one hand when two were
perfectly available. Baraess round on
points.
Playing the outfeld was ticklsh
Job, and but for high cross wind and
the san numerous more aerial pokes
would have been caught. All the wind
blown luck wasn't with the White Sox,
but 1T so happened two of their long
\ hits went in such direction as to be
g carried further by the gale and out
y OF the reach Of as agile patrolment as
Young.