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Giants Divide Double-Header With Braves.Dodgers Win and Lose.Yankees Victors Home Run Phillies Make by George Kelly a - r ByBRiccs When Feller Needs a Friend Robins Travel ÏN ALL FAIRNESS Feature a Bill (Copyright, 1019. N«w Tor*. Tribuna Inc.) 1 « f By F W. O. M'GEEHAN of Holiday ForEvenBreak i DEVELOPMENTS in the current season promise some ________ sweeping Twenty-eight Thousand Fans, Swelter as McGrawj baseball reforms. Professional baseball will continue to wan- Men and» Bean Eaters Battle to Even Break at Crowd Sees Teams Bat¬ der aimlessly along Uneasy Street unless the promised reform* Big are Reform Number One is the tle to Draw in Final Ex¬ accomplished. Urgent removal Polo Grounds.Heat Too Much for Fred Toney of the self-styled Czar of Organized Baseball. Enough hr.s developed jn hibition in Flatbueh the Mays case to show that he is unfit and disqualified on various count« W. O. McGeehan from holding his office as president of the American League. By On his own admission Ban Johnson is a part owner in the The Giants and the Braves divided a humid double-header at'the Cleveland By Ray McCarthy Baseball Club. He had concealed that fact until it was drawn from Polo Grounds yesterday while something like 28,000 bugs of both sexes About the largest crowd that has him during an inquiry into the Mays case and the manner in which sweltered in the stands. The first game was won in the tenth by Long filed through the turnstiles of Ebbetu Johnson Field this saw the has been conducting the affairs of the American League. During George Kelly, nephew of Big Bill Lange, who drove a homer into the year Dodgers break the even in their first double- fight with the Federal League Johnson denounced the independent organ. left field stands with two out and beat the boisterous Bean-eaters a Sunday by header ever staged on the Flatbush lot. ization for just this sort of thing. He grilled the Federals on the score of 2 to 1. The second was a ball game, in which the Giants ground just The Flatbushers were beaten in the that the baseball. Now it that showed the first siens of ennui and lost by 4 to 2. league represented syndicate develops the first, after battling for eleven innings, Cleveland club is a syndicate club and that Ban Johnson is one of the If it had not been so humid the mul-¿ a 3-to-2 by score. They managed to syndicate owners. titude might really have become ex-1 get the decision in the second game, cited over the first came and over Long 2 It For years Ban Johnson has been making the game ridiculous because Two Sîzzlers to 1. was the last chance Brook- of his inordinate He crowded himself into the George Kelly. This altituditious youth, lynites had to see their prides in vanity. limelipht that be- who used to smash a lot of fences in to the He assumed that the baseball action for the 1919 season. They saw longed players. patrons were more the International League, just seemed Kl FIST UAMW them play two snappy contests with interested in the strutting and ravings of a stout old gentleman than to the at the Polo Grounds NEW YORK (N. L.) BOSTON (\ T, 1 the much abused Phillies. get range al> r h pó a >' ab r h pu a e they were in the game itself. The late Kaiser was a blushing violet com- It was his clean hit to cen- llurt.s, lf ..4 0 1 0 0 0 Bnrchel, 3b.3 0 « n 3 0 Wild cheering.boisterous, wo might yesterday. Young, rf .4 0 0 3 lOU'Ick. 2b ..2 0 0 1 2 0 and all the to the "All Highest" of Organized Baseball. tre that helped the Giants get their Fletcher, 8R.3Û2 4 4-: Itawllngu, 2b.2 0 0 J 10 say.handclappmg gala p.-red Zlm'raan. 3b.2 0 0 2 3 0 Powell, rf.....'. 0 0 2 0 0. stuff, despite the heat, was spread over It is good to read that Colonels Ruppert and Huston have first run in the eighth. Frisch, '2b ..4 0 ? 2 0 Nutter, cf ..402 3 0 0 the entire park, making the day seem refused Kauft, et ...4 OU 3 II Hoike, tb ..402 11 40 twice as warm to with the old order that has threatened the life and It seems too bad that Big Bill Lange Kelly, lb ...4 2 2 S 4 0 Mann, lf ...4 0 2 2 0 0 as it was. The Phillies compromise integ- was not on the lot Every Soy.Ut. c ...2 0 1 2 8 1 Murai.'le. bs 1 0 0 ._> '. themselves were dazed. They hadn't rity of baseball. The in the Mays case have yesterday. Toney, p ...ooo i 0 0 Gowdy, o ...soi 3 3 0 expected this kind of developments already shown time that William was here to watch Winters, p..o nu » 0 0 i\ son, c ..ooo 0 0 0| reception, espe¬ that there is no truce with the and the lienton, p ..2 0 1 0 1 0 '¦.llllniim, pi 0 0 o 1 cially in the last contest here of the pouter pigeonism backstairs nephew crack them out, nephew used IDemarco, p. » 0 o 10 n year. Thinking they were methods of Johnson and his ilk. The case is not the * Smith Mays primary cause to slice hunks out of the _loi o 00 the world series, went replaying.out ana I sjtmosphere, íThorpo o l o i, they of the battle to oust Johnson. It is merely an incident. which was very for Will¬ plajed a mile beyond their stride, tt embarrassing Totals . ..20 2 S 30 10 4¡ Totals .33 1 S 120 took the best efforts The political inside of baseball has been iam, who was on the of disown¬ very of the locals always petty larceny stuff point .Smith batted to hold them to an even break. the work of for Flllingham In ninth. more or less. The maudlin mutterings of certain magnates have bored ing relationship. George's tThorpo ran tu- Gowdy in ninth. First Game Lively yesterday puts him right back on twinning run mude with two out. the fans time and again. The magnates' place is in the background, but Huston 0 (i 0 il 0 0 it o 1 0.1 The first struggle was the terms with his uncle. New York.O 0 o o o o jazziest. the average magnate does not know his With the speaking 0 10 1 It was spicily played, it contained nu¬ place. removal of Hon,,- run Kelly, Sacrifice hits or Star Catch by Young Toney, Zimmerman, Snyder, Fillingam (2). merous hair-raising stunts, and it was Johnson the curtailment of his powers we soon will have more base- Double plays Voting and Kelly; Marnn anybody's game clear out to the eleventh ball and less maudlin which is a consummation Ross Young got himself a bath in the ville, Pick and Holko. Loft on magnates, devoutly to be Now bases inning. the first It was York, 3; Boston, 0. i-'irst base on wished. limelight during game. errors.Now York, 1 Boston, 3. First A wild throw by Hi Myers helped in the second inning, with Ilolke on. b:<so on balls iff Ton.-.-, 2. Hits- Ofl prolong the issue. Hi otherwise was a Toney, 2 In 3 off a drove a that went Innings; Winters, 3 in 1; tower of strength on the local defence May Be Third League Leslie Mann hit off Benton. 2 in 6; off Filllngam, 7 In k; for the right field wal!. So off Demarre, 1 In 2. Hi! by pitcher.By during the whole afternoon's entertain¬ organized baseball rids itself of the stout octopus there it whistling Winters (Boeckel). Struck out.-By Fl!- ment. FJNLESS certain was Ilolke that the hall would lingrun, I; by Benton, 2. Winning pitcher The most more than a possibility- that there will be a third Benton. Losing pitcher.Dentarte. stupendous stunt was a big league. The smash against the wall and rebound running back-hand catch near the left nvin behind the fight to oust Ban Johnson have the money and the cour¬ for a double that he rounded second SECOND GAME NEW YOItK field scoreboard by Callahan of Krue- and was on his to third. (N. I.) BOSTON (N. L.) age to enter upon this project. Also they have some first hand way Young all r li po a el ibi hi» it ger's drive, which snuffed out a prob- knowledge scooted back, and just as the bail was BuriM, If..4 0 2 1 OOiBeockol, 3b..r> 1 2 0 3 1 able homer and saved his team from of the Johnson methods in trying to crush opposition, which coupled with about to crash against the wall ho Voimc, rf..4 0 1 3 0 M'ick. 2b ..512 4 5 0 defeat, Doyle, 20..4 0 10 2 0 Powell, rf .10 3 0 0 0 in the first contest. This grab a knowledge of baseball and a of should made a leap of four feet and caught Zim'an, .«1.4 1 2 1 2 0|.i Smith, r-f.4 0 1 B 10 was made in the seventh Hi sincerity purpose augur success. l-n--h, S8 4 0 1 2 4 01 inning.