The New York herald., 1922-03-08
Signs Barnes at His Own
Figure After Ten Min
ute Talk.
TWIRLERS CURvING BALL
Ordered to Cut Loose in Prac-
tice Game-Dolans Beat
Burketts Z to 6.
ny DANIEL.


ing this afternoon and signed his 1922
contract with the Giants. When Ban
croft, Snyder. Smith and Rawlings en-
tered the fold yesterday they left joss
the only holdout In camp. He stood the
strain of holding the fort single handed
overnight, but this afternoon sought q
conference with John McGraw.
What do YOU want, JESSE" McGra "
asked.
Il want so and so nuch.' replied
Barnes, naming his figure. well, now.
why didn't you say so before?' was the
reJoinder and in ten minutes the talk
vas over and the papers were signed
sealed and delivered. Kelly and Doug
las remain the only unsigned members
OF the club. Kelly telegraphed to-day
that he would be here by next Monday.
"Cut loose, curves and all, and serve
everything you have" came the order
from John McGraw to every pitcher in
camp this afternoon. when he divided
the Giants into two teams for the first
formal game of the year. The fingers
were only too eager to oblige, they had
been waiting for that order for couple
of days Their supporting casts ac-
cepted the challenge with vim. and did
a bit of cutting loose on their own ac-
counts. AS result several hundred
ldilS WHO W6It eDOuSl To De
at league park were treated to a bang
ND battle in which the favorites had to
swallow a beating. The Dolans took
the measure OF the Burketts by Z to g.
in spite of home runs by Irish Meusel
and Kinsella of the Burketts.
A Stirring Affair.".
When the game got under way the
schedule called for six innings, with
three pitchers for each side. the custom
ary McGraw arrangement for early con-
tests of that character. But as the ~
fair galloped along with sensational
fielding, rousing hitting and no small
measure of hurling skill in hurried
order, and with the crowd cheering the
eager athletes repeatedly, Mac" sent
custom down for the full count and per-
mitted the scrap to go nine innings
Bancroft. who was out with sore
throat, was an interested nonpartisan
onlooker.
With Frisch. Rawlings, Meusel and
Cunningham in their batting order the
Surketts were counted on to beat the
Dolans, who had the help of Groh.
Young, SINNERS, Stengel and CASTOR.
But some fancy flinging by one Nc
Gfoughlin, the longest pitcher In camp.
who worked in the third. fourth and
fifth innings, did no little to discourage
SAiC dIldIh VI lti0 SuFhcllS. MCosOuSI-
lin, who next 10 Virgil Barnes and
Claude Jonnard looks like tho class of
the recruit pitchers. kept the losers
scoreless with only one hit, a scratch
through Kopf by Kinsella. McGloughlin
showed a great low ball.
With Albertson in the box for the
Dolans in the eighth and ninth the
BurlSets put on a grand old rally for
six hits and four runs. .McGraw kept
eslxr 80 49, 3 L.
but Albertson managed to stagger
across the wire a winner by a nose.
That home run of Meusers was n
prodigious affair which cleared the left
field fence by about twenty feet. looped
ever an alley and crashed into an adj
Joining house 1t was a whale. Incl
dentally IL accounted for all three runs
in that exciting eighth. Rawlings opened
with a single and Frisch doubled. AL
bertson had a peculiar one arm windup.
very much like that which Eddie Blank
flashed in years gone by. He brought
the ball back to his heels. like Frank
Moran bringing his famous Mary Ann
into action.
Then Albertson had snappy way OF
waving his arm over his head as IL he
were shooting a roman candle. He made
all these motions for Mcusel for a spell
and then came n slow ball. high on the
and the National Exhibition Company.
n corporation under the laws OF New
Jersey. was the poorer by one baseball.
Rawlings and Frisch scampered in ahead
az Meusel, and McGraw began his en-
treaties 10 the Burketts to continue hos
tilities Albertson and his roman candle
found themselves at this stage and re-
tired Cunningham and Kinsella in Jig
time.
A. IL IL. IN u
who is a catcher and is not TO be con-
fused with outhelder Brown, who has
been sent to indianapolis, and Shores
ana Rawlings brought the Burketts
within run OF draw, but they there
remained.
KinscIin Hits Homer.
They scored their first run in the
second, when Kinsella got his home run
with wallop 20 deep left on. Virgil
Barnes. Ike Boone's double in the wake
Of a two bagger by Rawlings and a one
timer by Frank Frisch gave the losers
another tally in the sixth off l.. ]. Ben
ton, who already has taken over John
Calhoun Benton's handle. "the Rube."
Jonnard. Malone, Rachac and Shores
pitched for the Burketts in order named,
the middle pair going three innings each.
Malone was hit hardest of all. the
Dolans getting to him Tor seven hits
and four runs in three rounds.
The feature for tho Dolans. both on
attack and defense. were provided by
old Casey Stengel, who was out TO show
some of the youngsters how IL was done.
and certainly succeeded. II was In the
third that Casey showed at his best.
lie made the most sensational catch
seen here thus far when he came in on
a dead run and scooped up Frisch's bid
for n double about foot off the grass
TO his right. Before waiting to regain
his balance Casey shot the ball 20 third
and doubled Hale before he could scoot
back.
on the attack In that session Stengel
delivered a triple 20 right center. with
Z men on second and third and gave the
Dolans the lead. Twice Casey reached
first on errors and once he walked. A
lriple and double by Young. both or
which were good for runs, also loomed
large in the doings Of the winning COM
Dination.
III Snyder caught Young taking a siesta
AT second In the third and gave his fell
low San Antonian the merry ha ha
snyder himself had been picked Off first
BY Virgil Barnes.
There were two stolen bases and both
went to SINNERS. The boy Is fast and
n very apt pupil Ho came here bit
ra~s but he is learning fast