New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-13
Ruether's Pitching BATTLES
Ne,u York Batsmen in Pinchp.
McCrawmen Fill Bases
Twice in Early Innings,
but Fail to Score on Him

LEteSl,
The Giants were beaten, but the fan
liked everything about them excep
their stockings The stuff ia there
The Dodgers, for their part. all aprini
have shown they are team to b.
reckoned with. They outplayed tbs
Giants yesterday they outfeldcd them
In the first inning, with balls coming
hot off the New York bats, the earnes
Dodgers proved Their temper.
The Brooklyn infeiders snapped W
viciously driven balls. ferried then
| posthaste and on bee line to th'
devouring nav Of their first baseman
| and cut the Giants down with an en-
phatic and vindictive intent, proof
positive they were out TO win against
worlds champions or what not.
New York Errors Costly
Unstable fielding brought defeat tc
the Giants. More than little fielding
OF the cleverest kind was done by them
but their defense had its haggard mo.
ments, and these were deadly. Nehf
Bancroft and Rawlings made an error
each, and the upshot Of each was q
run. Msplays aren't often so haunt
ingly costly and in addition, two OF
the bases on balls given by Nehf
counted in the all too prodigal ran
making Of the communal invaders.
Manager McGraw and Manage,
Robinson chose wisely with their re
spective selections Of Arthur Nehf anc
Walter Ruether for the pitching. Each
southpaw pitched well. pitched ade
quately Tho flaws of Nehfs support
10 which he himself contributed
good Ru4ther's was better. The
Brooklyn left handler was better with
men on bases than Nehf, though ne
was fortunate in having the better
support in keeping men off the bases
Both kept the hits we'll scattered. for
New York's nine and Brooklyn's eight
were strewn over the last eight
innings fairly widely. Two were the
most in any one inning Ructher
seemed to pitch with less effort than
Nchf Both had wicked hook. The
Brooklynite stood up coolly to q
threatening New York rally in the
ninth. when the least kind Of hitch or
stumble would have meant victory
turned TO defeat.
Andy High. the Memphis lad, filled
in gap at shortstop for Brooklyn
with playing which delighted onlookers
of Brooklyn persuasion. solidlfying the
work of the front Gordon. There must
have been something in the soil OF
second base, worm cases Of bacteria. or
something that bred fumbles. Witness
a costly ona by John Rawlings, VINO
otherwise was giant in performance,
and the sequence of butter fingered
pick-ups by Ivan Olson, who, however,
recovered in time for play on all his
cactus scoops She handled the ball as
if he had thorns-but one.
Giants Infield Fast
McGraw turned out for inspection
and operation slashing infeid, even
if it was shorn of the valuable sclv-
ices of the peerless Frank Frisch. II
had speed and range, albeit II faitered
betimes Aces Of yardage were covered
by Rawlings, Kelly, Bancroft and Groh.
None put more heart INTO MS work
than the new member, Groh.
Pre-game frills were few. All there
was Of them was the band conveying
Mayor Hylan across the field to the
box where the Mayor sat with Governo or
Edwards Of New Jersey. Mayor Hylan
threw out the first ball. On the other
side of the field. az the base of the
Eddie Grant memorial. lay a wreath
placed there by the Giants. No senti-
ment in baseball? Lots of 1t, and in
this case prompting a tribute to the
memory of the former player and
fallen soldier.
All sorts of nervousness afflicted the
New York side in the frs three in
nings. Nehf hit batter and walked
man in the first inning. He walked
another in the second, and in the third
still another. The last one thus IA
vored was Ivan Olson, with one out.
High hit to Rawlings. who forced Olson
at second. but when Nehf threw low to
first to catch the inexperienced High
the way to third. Whereat Johnston
drove ground bail at Bancroft and il
let daylight through Dave. High scored
Oh the error
Bancroft was the games best hitter
He made three singles and deserved
four. but in the first inning High
robbed him. The recruit jumped for a
savage one from Dawes cudgel and
throttled it with both hands FIRE
works-and after Rawlings flied to Neis
Johnston got perniciously busy and
smothered one from Young, running
and with one hand. Olson, High and
Schmandt whipped in with a double play
in the second inning. after Olson had
opened with a fidgety boot on Young.
Brooklyn Scores in Fourth
Two solid doubles earned run for
Brooklyn in the fourth Neis and De
Berry made them. The bases swarmed
with Giants in both the second and
third innings. After the double play
IN the second Ruether passed Kelly
rather than groove one, SINNERS sin
gled and Snyder was passed to get at
Nehf. Nehf rolled to Olson. In the
third Bancroft cracked Johnston on the
shins with a lurid single, Rawlings
flied out, Groh walked, Olson threw out
Young. Meusel walked and Kelly hit
high to Wheat.
The Giants had sixteen men on bases,
but few TO reach home Ruether habit
ually bore down. Meusel. in the fifth.
got hold Of one ard opened the home
run season. He lifted the ball into the
right field grand stand near the foul
boundary. The bases were barren at
the time, so the Brooklyns weren't un-