The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1918, Page 17

~ ‘ ” . . 1. WISDOM USUALLY COMES TOO LATE OR THE MOST OF US TO DECLARE A | SUBSTANTIAL DIVIDEND. SPECTATORS DISGUSTED WITH GIANTS: SHOWING “New York Club Not Only Drops From Lead of National League , Race, but in Game Which Costs Them First Place They Put ’. Up a Most Wretched Exhibition. By Hugh S. Fullerton. Goortight, 1914, by The Prom Publishing Ce, (New York Evening World.) UR Giants did a Brodie out of first place yesterday and lost the most O wretchodly played game of the sea- son to St. Louls. Not only did they lose, but they lost in such a manner as to disgust a q majority of the Y spectators who fo he to celebrate @ holiday for the 4 Women's Council ‘ x of Defense and re- £L, . mained to wonder whether it was not P ie a double cross. j The Giants lost 12 to 6, but they ‘were not beaten; they beat themselves after one of the most malodorous, Putrescent and skunkified games ever Played. It was a game during which the spectators at times wondered whether the Giants were not trying to lose, and indeed had they been try- ing to lose they could not have done better. They kicked the ball, booted St, threw {t wild, upset plays, loafed, tried to steal at the wrong times and ‘@id everything backward. St. Lous, during the early periods, was almost @s dad, but there was a difference. ‘That difference was that the Cards were trying to win, fighting and hust- Ung, running out everything and working, while the Giants were not. The public will forgive errors, will excuse bone plays, and no matter how ‘badiy the home team plays it will back up the team: but when a team loafs, appears indifferent and makes @ joke of a game the fans will not stand it. If you listened while leav- ing the grounds after the two and a halt hours of wretched pastiming you | Would know that. There were curses, rss doud and deep, and vows never to “Come again. Tho Giants lost many “friends. Heine Zimmerman was Offender. Heine has verge of one of his temperamental the chief been on the banged a home run into the right field stands and tied the count. The Giants got the lead back in their fifth on Fletoher’s double and Holke's single, then went to pieces in the seventh, got worse in the eighth and Still worse in the ninth, which was pitched by Schupp, who seemed merely trying out his damaged arm. There was some odd base running by the Giants, also, which may have contributed to the defeat. Twice run- ners tried to steal third when there was no evident reason for so doing. Altogether it was an uncanny and unexplainable game, but there was one consolation: Art Fletoher rapped a liner against a sign in left field, and won $60, and fifty dollars in these days is a whole lot. We are keeping tab on Art and expect to make him pay income tax on his income for hitting that sign. It is possible that the cause of all the wretched baseball was that tho Cards were present. The games in Brooklyn were just like that until the Cards crossed the creek to the Polo Grounds, Then the same brand of ball was on display at Coogan's Hollow and the Superbas eettled and played clean, fast bail, and led by tue clever pitching of Marquard, beat Pittsburgh 1 to 0, Marquard allowing only four hits. Possibly the playing of the Cards is contagiou: But the fact that they are in second place seems less important to the Giants than ts the fact that the Chi- cago Cubs, who wrested the Jead from them, yesterday got Shuffling Phil Dougiass back into action and that he shut the Phils out with three hits. Tho time has come to commence to take those Cubs seriously. They are not a dangerous club, excepting in pitchers, and with Alexander gone the Giants were inclined to count the | Cubs out of the running. that Douglas: for appendicitis, restores the Cub pitching stam to near normal, The fact who was operated on There is no real cause for alarm; only the Giants must realize that 1t| is necessary to work as a team and tu hustle all the time to win, The fac: that the broken Cards, weak in many | departments, kept hustling all the time and trying yesterday, while the| Giants appeared indifferent, and in- clined to make a joke of their blun- ders, did not reassure their followers. The fact that the Giants dropped out of first place was a blow to a lot of bettors in New York. There were thousands of dollars wagered dur- ing the time that the Giants were far ahead that they never would lose tho lead this season, There was one very interested spectator yesterday, who faded away just after Fletcher spells for some time, On Wednesday he was battling with the spectators who jeered him and during the early fed “Li / stages of the game yesterday the Pulled his replica of the Heine Zim Glants were trying to keep him trom | thousand dollars cf’ is coin dlaune Matching tho crowd. When things pear with that play. Yet they will broke wrong he made them worse.|bet on baseball. Once he loafed while golng down to first base and was thrown out on a ball he should have beaten by two steps. Twice he made half hearted efforts to stop balls and pretended in- difference when they went past him. It is true that ever since that famous play in which he chased Col- Uns across the plate in Inst fall's World's Series Zim had been the vic- tim of cruel punishment by the fans. 1 know Zim well and I have hoped and believed that he was gamo enough to stand all they could hand him and turn the laugh upon them by playing better ball. But yesterday it looked ag if the crowd had secured a strangle hold on Heine's goat. The Great Zim was not alone, and at the end of the game he had cause for comfort, consolation and a kind word, for Art Fletcher pulled a play that outzimmed Zim. He made a Play that was almost a duplicate of Zim's famous World's Series bone when he chased Eddie Collins across the plate and he pulled tt worse, in- @smuch as he chased two runs across, and paved the way for another, The play came in the eighth tnning, when the two teams, groggy from thelr own errors and efforts, were tled with six runs each and runners on first and third. Smith bumped a Uttle pounder down the infield, a seratch hit and Ki the line intending to try for the plate f€ Tesreau threw to first. Tesreau @rossed him by shooting the ball § back to third and trapping him. In the run down Fletcher got the ball and sprang forward to tag the run ner, who dodged and started for th plate. Fletcher evidently underesti- mated the speed of his opponent, for he ran him a sight chase until within @ fow feet of the plate, then tossed the ball toward the two players who were waiting for him to throw, and it went over them and to the etands, while two runs scored. An instant Jeter Smith, who had reached third ' om the weird play, rubbed it in upon the Giants by a clean steal home, Details of the combat are unneces- ‘@ary. There seemed right from the S first to be something wrong. The | players appeared to be playing balls | Wrong, allowing the ball to play them, ‘and not fewer than seven ground balls escaped from fielders by queer » bounds and two of those seven bounded off the shine of inflelders. * Either the ball was bounding un- ‘naturally or tho players were mis- * Judging the bound horribly. The } Glante hammered tho Card pitchers f for four runs in the second inning, and rolled along at ease until the fitth, § when, with Smith on first, Baird gingled to right and Young let the « ball get through him so far that Baird raced home, after which Cruise r- \ vanagh chased up) The Yanks came strong at the fin- ish and beat the Browns again, re- |newing hope. The fact that Slim Love pitched again and pitched well, and that the team atill keeps fight- ing no matter what handicap it {s under, renews hope and promises well for the remainder of the West- ern trip. Evidently Huggins has his team well under control and working for him—which counts for more than mero mechanical strength, Jack Hendricks and his Cards do not look health: The team has punch, has pep, and {s trying to play the game, but it is weak in two poai- tions and needs bench material badly, as well as a second baseman. Kavanaugh and Smyth are doing their best (or bests) but neither is a finished second baseman. Besides that, the team needs money. It 1s reported that it is for sale and that the company which took it over from Mrs. Britton needs coin to make payments. Under those circumstances there 1 little chance for Hendricks to get money to buy players. The best he can do is to Keep the club hustling and doing its best, which he appears to be doing. Next week promises to be a lively one on the Polo Grounds, with the Cubs and Reds coming, and with two big holidaye scheduled. The first holiday is on Tuesday, which will be Clark Griffith's Bat and Bail Fund Day. On that occasion all jschool children will be admitted to thelr section for ten cents, nine of which will go to the fund to buy bats and balls for the boys in France. The fourteenth (Friday) is Flag Day and the Giants will observe that day by raising their National League championship flag along with the Stars and Stripes, came back strong | QOKS The management of the Queens Vor- ough public inks has decided to let the links He idle this season. The course ts 5,635 yards long, and 4s laid out over 100 acres of ground, It was opened it year as emi-public course. Sca city of labor is the reason for the clo! ing of the course. The Women's Metropolitan Golf As- sociation will hold a one-day tournt ment to-day over the links of the Hack- ensack Golf Club, Mrs, H. D. Montgomery, head of the ladies’ golf committees of the Apawamis Club, predicts great success for the Women's metropolitan Red Cross tour- nament, which {s to be started at Apawamis on Monday morning, ‘The Programme is as follows: Monday, June 10, 10 A. M.—Medal Play, 18 holes. To qualify in divisions of eight. ‘There will be as many divi- sions as there are players to fill them. 3 P, M.—Approaching and putting contest. Tuesday, June 11, 10 A. M.—First round 18 holes match play. 2 P. M.—Medal play, 18 holes, hand!- cap. Wednesday, June 12, 19 A, M.—Sec- ond round 18 hole match play. P, M.—Two ball foursome, 18 holes, handicap. Thursday, June 13, 10 A. M.dFinals In all divisions. 2 P, M.—Mixed foursome, 18 holes, handicap, A golf tournament, in which the con- testants will be men prominent in the hotel business in New York, Boston and other large cities, will take place at Arcola, N. J., one week from to«dlay. The Sleepy Hollow Country Club an- nounces that on June 13 it will start a golf tournament for the beneft of the Red Cross, Entries close on June 10, The programme follows: Thursday, June 15-~-Qualifying round, 18 holes. As many sixteens will be arranged as arranted by the entries. jay, June t4- frst round each sixteen match play. P. M., second round each sixteen match play. Firat round, be: Saturday, + semi-final round all sixteens ani beaten eights, P. M, final round all sixteens and beaten eights, A, M. and P.M. 18 holes medal score, low ni Puy handicap, low gross score. MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE, CLUBS W. L. Po. (CLUBS W. L. Po. Chicage.28 12 .700| Phila 480 420 Cincin 23 21 B2B/ st, L...17 24 415 Pitts ..18 21 462] Bklyn .16 27 GAMES YESTERDAY, St. Louls, 12) New York, 6, Brooklyn, 1) Pitteburgh, 0, Chicago, 8; Philadelphia, 0, Boston-Cincinnatt (rain). GAMES TO-DAY, B57 | St. Louls at New York, Pittebargh et Brooklyn, Chicage at Philadelphia, Cincinnati at Boston. HOW THE OTHER 2 me ATIONAL LEAGUE, ae one nitirtTs 2 Ft wat Peleg Boston game postponed; AMERICAN LEAGUE, CLUBS W. L. Pe. | CLUBS W. le Pe. Boston .28 17 .622 | Cleve . N, ¥..,26 18 .681|) Wash Chieago.21 17 553) Phila . St, L...20 20 .600| Detrolt.18 24 851 GAMES YESTERDAY, New York, 5; 6t, Louls, 2 (10 innings), Boston, 14 Cleveland, 0, Washington, 3; Detroit, 2, Philadelphia-Chicago (rain), GAMES TO-DAY, New York at St. Louls, Boston at Cleveland, Philadelphia at Chicago, Washington at Detrots, CLUBS MADE OUT AMERICAN LEAGUE, wai Cleveland— “S882 b SEG 8 ft N Ne Alok ‘and Alnamith, called at ond of elghib innigs, ‘ Remarkable Golf Shots by Experts 6.—BY ALEX SMITH (Former National Open Champion) Alex Smith Won the 1910 National Championship Chiefly Because of a Wonderful Shot From a Sand Trap. OST players when caught in deep sand traps are well satisfied to Just get out. During the national championship in 1910 0 links of the Philadelphia Cricket Club I holed out from a nas r the y wand trap that was at least fifty yards from the green. The shot was par- ticularly unusual because it was made in the final round of the im- portant tournament, when every stroke made a big difference in the winning scores. The leaders were pretty well round, When playing the seventh Dunched at the start of the last hole my approach was half topped and the ball fell short into a mean sand pit a little to the right of the green, This mishap looked like the loss of at least one stroke and at @ time when an extra stroke would have put me almost out of the running. I made up my mind to take a desperate chance and try for the green rather than just recover out for a pitch up to the pin. Taking the heaviest niblick I had 1 got the ball up quickly and it went high in the direction of the flag. The ball dropped on the green perhaps thirty feet in front of the hole and had Just enough strength to roll in, Tho shot wasn't so spectacular as lofting over trees, but to me it was one of the most remarkable and useful shots I have ever seen. It ‘was that sand shot more than anything else that was responsible for my winning the national title that season, Yankees Have | Even Break on | The Road Now The Yankees 8T. LOUIS, June 7 like St. Louls weather. It agrees with them wonderfully. They took another game from Fielder Jones's Browns, and now have an even break since leaving home. It took ten nings of desperate ball, but it was finalyly done by the same score as Wednesday's encounter 2. 4 to 2. To George Mogridge goes the credit for the victory, and he deserves it, for he held the Browns to threo hits in seven innings until his team mates were able to break the tle. Love, as @ result of his good showing in the part of the game he pitched Wednes day, started the fray, but was hit for six bingles and two runs in three stanzas and had to retire, The Yankees’ first runs came in the fourth, Frank Gilhooley doubled to left and Peck sacrificed him to third. Baker filed, Pratt singled and Pipp tripled, two runs scoring. Bodie fied to Tobin, The Browns tied it in the fourth o singles by Sisler and Suilth and @ pase to Hendrix. Mogridge took Love's place with two on bases and no one out, but he fanned Gedeon, and Nunamaker bit into a double play. From that time on tt was a pitchers’ battle till the tenth. Opening this, Gil hooley walked, Peck Doubled and Baker Was purposely passed, filll) Pratt's sacrifice fly ‘score and then Wally Pipp Is second triple, send Baker and sewing up the game, Priced Bombo MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS. International League, AT JERSEY CITY, ' count r, At Byracuse-—Syracuse-Buffalo, wet At Rochester; Rochester-Torovto, raln American Association. =, City, 2. Southern Association. Memphis, 2) New Orieans, 1 fine hs kg etter Only three games Eastern League, eatin. 4 Hartford. 10: Springfield, 8. , lon, 8: Waterbury, 2. LZ lence. 4. wai. Sareea Satine ass. '$12,500 Each For Dempsey And Fulton Joe Mulvihill, the Danbury hat dropped into town last night, madder jthan the justly celebrated artisan of that trade, Joe says that ALL of Danbury 4s that mad at John the Bar- ber because of his threat to tle up the Dempsey and Fulton bout on July Fourth that that fair city of exclu- sive kellys gtands ready to move heaven and earth to thwart Jawn and his escadrille of bold barristora. Joo was unusually full of language, and he @id not store any of it for the coming winter either. “Anthany Sunderland, Mayor of Dan- bury and Incidentally the Chief of the Police Department, is in favor of the bout being held in Danbury.” “He te @ regular Ma a soldier, a story-teller and @ lover of boxing. He assures me that he will give a permit for the bout. I've secured the Danbury Rall Park for my site, and we'll hold the show according to schedule, John the Barber won't stop ANYTHING. Let him bring on the LAW. own particular brand of LAW in Fatr- field County, of which Danbury is the pweetest elty, We are guaranteeing Dempsey and Fulton $12,500 each, A lot of money, mind you, and we'll spend more, We figure to apend $38,000 in guarantees and building arrangements, 80 you see naturally we will be pre 1 to Aight] any InJunetions that J the Barber will show up with. Relsler will have to settle his troubles with Dempsey SIDE of Danbury.” top of this, Keisier sends out a statement fn which he say’ e only way the Ful and Demp- sey bout can «o al w © is for Demps: man and live up to his ¢ qT fant can go through, but whether {t's Danbury or t of the United States.” Fletcher hit the “bu » In left and won $50 with a two t r in the seventh, Then he tried to steal third vid WAS oUt, Perhaps the sudden ace son of Wealth madi » ambitious, Lee Meadows gets s t for winning the Kame, though h there" one ‘inning. May, Ho man and Packard wet nothing but gory, though y worked hard core Hornsby didn't do much hit- | began Joe. | Woe have our | KISSES ARE LIKE SERMONS TO MINISTER; HAVI G DELIVERED ONE, IT INSPIRES. ANOTHER. RUBE MARQUARD BLANKS PIRATES WITH THREE HITS The Tall Southpaw Twirls in His Old-Time Form at Ebbets Field. It mado @ runaway wi nearest riva i Individual ‘Thero was a refreshing change | \ y lehorn ot worked in the activities at Ebbets Field yesterday, and the rather scant on third id the ‘bai eball gathering of fans was rewarded for Carr, of Demarest, N. Ite persistence by & real ball game] "2 the,mle Pun, and Rarinond Kava which the Robins won from the Pitts- | hurdles. burgh Pirates. There were nono of the elements of the dear old bush league, that marked the series just closed with the Cardinals, and the Robins won by @ score of 1 to 0. CHICAGO, June 7.—Star athiet wixteen Middle West universities and colleges began arriving here last night to compete in the preliminaries of the Weatern Conference outdoor track and field championships, to be held on Stage to-morrow, Thi tal The Univ which indoor |. winner In the Mis- ce, are expected to! Oght out first honors, All scholastic sports at Xavier ‘oes! School came to a close when an athletic | meet was held at the Brooklyn Athletic | Field, The fourth yoar class, section 1, won the team honors with « total of The Federal. Rendezvous awimmin team overwhelmed the Armed Guard of the City Barracks, Brooklyn, in a dual meet at_the Brooklyn Central Y. M. A. Eight events were decided, the Federal represcntativen winning. seven rat places: hirran. the forme Rube Marquard, the angular lett-| Now Pore A. Qoawimmen whole men hander, was the Marquard of other days,|the Federal team, captured three firat He was one of the chief reasons for | Pl the victory ot his team. ‘The Pirates couldn't hit his real pitch- Ing with any 4 of suce ‘Three hits proved the limit of thelr activity with the hickory, and after the fifth |frame not a Pittsburgh man penetrated the lines as far as first base. Prir to that time, however, ft re- quired sharp flelding to turn the Smoky City host from the piate, George Cut- shaw hit the dirt In a alide for the rubs ber, but Otto Miller d him oft to one #i ‘ni ag nas rine to the score board w: jcount. Caton doubled in the thirae Sie tried to score from third on a long fly, but doubled up by @ fine throw by" Hi Mye: If Marquard was at his left-handed best he had for aratively little on $2; ders, aleo a left-hander, who pitched. for the Pirates. Sanders allow x4 hits, but two of these oi the | ond frame on hits by ‘Myer ‘and O°} a fielder’s choice ang a feable steals which Myer slid to the plate in safety, pheat etarted dhe second Inning by. looking t rp- breaking curven, which were all called attik |8o ¢t Cherokee Byer |whanged one down to shortstop which nearly amputated a limb. from Katle Caton and went for a bit. O'Mara On the one hand—stiff, straws, Splits and Sennits;| some folks prefer them, and nowadays they’re really comfortable, thanks to a| flexible, self-conforming fea-| ture which also provides an bumped the ball into left Ald for a gle, Myer. tak’ cond, . Schmandt | foreed “O'Mara, ike going to third, | Robbie then ordered a double ateal, and | Myor slid home safely when Caton made an indifferent throw to Archer. Schmandt took third on the play, but Miller ended the inning by loftiig to e¥e George Cutshaw and Casey Stengel made their bow to Brooklyn fans aa Pittsburgh players and dia their best to id 1 Bt 1 es “ ” Tre tea hal tne adcond inning, white the | Automatic “hang-on’ when 1 grounded ow Vig . Bten, Ity well received, tripled to died at the plate, how- assailed in a gale. 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