The New York herald., 1922-06-19
Pertica, Cardinal Pitcher,
Battles McGraw's Scholars
Enough to Take Game.
FLOODS COME IN SIXTH
Hornsby Busy With Stick and
His Base Running Annoys
Home Club Infield.
BY w. O. nrcGEEHAN.

The rain which descended upon the
Polo Grounds among other places yes
terday washed 10000 customers un-
der the stands and completely OBJ
liberated batting rally by the Giants
in the last half of the sixth. The call
ing of the game gave the Cardinals
a to victory-and Mr.. Joseph Nc
Graw a severe pain. The winning
streak of the Giants was carried away
by the flood, its disappearance being
somewhat expedited by the hard hit
ting of Rogers Hornsby.
There was one thrilling rescue.
When the flood came Charles A. Stone
ham was in a lower field box with
James Tierney, secretary of the Giants.
A cascade poured right into the box
and both men were being carried away
by the current. Mr.. Tierney foated
himself off on chair. leaving the
president of the New York Giants to
save himself as best he could. Just as
Mr.. Stoneham, impeded by the weight of
his feet, was sinking for the third and
last time the current caught him and
swept him into the peanut preserves of
Harry NJ. Stevens, where restoratives
were applied.
The Giants were foiled at the start
OF the game by Gugliemo Pertica, the
Cardinal twirler, who was pitching in
Portuguese. his mother tongue, and the
Giants. while they have been hitting
German. Polish. Gaelic. American In
dian and all varieties of Scandinavian
pitching. were not familiar with this
style. They had just begun to solve it's
tntricacies and had a man on first and
a man on third, with on Smith at
bat. when half of the Atlantic Ocean
was picked up and thrown into Umpire
Bill Klem's face.
Bill KLEIN Swims Ashore.
''Swim for your lives" shouted Bill
Klein to the players as he started for
the entrance Of the stands. using the
Australian crawl stroke as one who
had made it a life study
The Cards went into the game en-
tirely unimpressed by the fact that the
Giants at the present time were sup
posed to be invincible. and they even
cast irreverent remarks about the
worlds cham pionship banner which
fiuttering on the centerfield fence.
Fred Toney, the Tennessee man noun
tain who started for the Giants. was
depressed when he started and de-
spondent when they shipped him to the
showers at the end of the fifth. Fred
kept booking at the gathering clouds
He does not like to get wet because his
area Is so large that he holds more
moisture than any player in the league
and he does not hold it we'll.
Frederick was smacked in the first
inning for a couple of runs. F1ack
bounced a hit off the shin OF Mr.. Jawn
Rawlings, who is second basing for the
Giants during the convalescence OF
Heinie der Groh, who is on a strict
pickle and kraut diet by order of the
club physician. Smith started to lay
down a sacrifice toward first and beat
the pill to the bag. This brought up
Roger Hornsby. who drove single
over second. scoring F1ack.
Hornsby then got himself caught be-
tween first and second and 1t toook the
entire Giant inield with reinforcements
from the outfeld to run him down.
Toney watching the proceedings. COM
planned Of dizziness from seeing so
many men so dlstressingly active.
Smith scored during the chase.