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& Grsnflandwee BASEBALL---BOXING YACHTING---TENNIS ATHLETICS--ROWING Kcu) tîodk Sttljunc RACING---SWIMMING PART II SUNDAY, JULY 13. 1919 * * Giants Suffer Their PART TT First Shutout Defeat of Hie Season and Drop to Second Place Pirate Turns Back Reds Smother Cooper The Real : : : McGrawites to Days of Sport : : : : : : : : By briggs Cardinals Win j Without Tally Phillieé, 7 0, From Dodgers Pitcher Toney Gets Two of the Three Hits And Take Lead Allotted New York Team By 10.5 Score by Southpaw; Holds to Lone Run Is Sufficient to Ring Quakers Only Win for Visitors Five Hits, While Team¬ Mitchell's Winning Streak mates of Four Ganies Wilbur Cooper, the slender southpaw hurler of the Pittsburgh club, Knock Out Rixey Broken; earned the distinction yesterday of handing the slugging Giants their Doak Also Fares Poorly first shut-out of the season. The Pirate star southpawed so efficiently PHILADELPHIA, July 12..Cincin¬ that New York found it to a runner nati stepped Into impossible get beyond second base, undisputed possession The Brooklyn Dodgers were of lost the a 1 to 0 score. of first guilty and game by place to-day by beating Phila¬ their worst exhibition of the year in Incidentally, Wilbur's nifty pitching knocked the Giants out of the delphia 7 to 0, while New York was losing to the St. Louis Cardinals in shut out lead in the pennant chase, as Cincinnati smothered the Phillies and gained by Pittsburgh. the first game of their series at Eb- Against Jimmy Ring's fine pitching bets undisputed possession of first place. only one local player reached second Field yesterday by a. score of The 20,000 or more fans at the Polo«*. base. Eppa Rixey held the visitors un¬ 1C to 5. The Cardinals ran rampant on Grounds didn't see much of a ball til three consecutive singles in the the bases, pilfering sacks at will, fifth caused and aided in this five but did witness a his retirement. George being respect by game, they pitchers' Smith, the former Giant, who succeeded miserable errors. A redeeming featura duel of the firBt order. Fred Toney Giants MayGet Hendrix made two of the contest was the hard by him, wild throws, one oí both sides. hitting and Cooper played the leading parts in In them allowing two runs to score. St. Louis carried off the little side show. Big Baseball Deal The Cincinnati hurler waB batting honors with sixteen hit?, while this Toney pitched given Brooklyn gathered ten. a a brand of gilt-edged support, not the semblance splendid game, ball cal¬ BASEBALL gossip buzzing of an error With solid hitting being the rule, culated to win most of a being made behind him. It there any kind was in the fifth necessarily was need for pitch¬ contest, but his opponent was a around the Polo Grounds inning that the Reds reinforcements just put the on ice. In ing early. t'larence kittle better. » game this inning Mitchell, the all-round star, on his last during the Giants-Pirates they piled up five runs. They got their Dodger Cooper, outing here, other two markers experienced an off day and was pounded seemed to go about his work in an game yesterday had it that a in the seventh. off the mound in less than three inn¬ indifferent manner. He was one of the Helnie Groh and Jake Daubert were the stars of the ings. best last year and it may big baseball deal is in the air. batting game, each Grimes still showed a pitchers three safe one Burleigh lack have been the New York bee was in If the trade said to be in getting blows, of thb of effectiveness from his recent illness his bonnet, as Manager McGraw had prog¬ former's counting for a home run. and the Cardinals continued to pound made a futile bid for him early in the ress goes through Claude The score: out hits after he went into the box. season. CINCINNATI (N. L.) PHILA. (N. L> Bill Doak baffled the one of ab r b po * * abrhpoae completely Finds Giants Easy Hendrix, the Chicago Rath, 2b ..6 1 1 2 .1 0;Oallahan, cf.8 0lH[ 0 0 Dodger batsmen for five innings, in Daubert. lb.S 2 3 11 1 0; come Black'ns, 3b. 4 0 0 111 which only Zach Wheat mansged to Cooper apparently has to the Cubs' star pitchers, will soon, Groh, 3b ..5 2 3 3 2 OIBanoroft. 8»..i 0 2 SSI beat out an conclusion that as Roush, cf..5 1 2 0 OOIMeusel, rf...4 0 9 8 0 0 fnfield hi». However, Doak inasmuch he cannot 0 vas come to the Giants he can beat them be wearing a Giant uniform. Serle. rf..l0 0 0 OjLuderu», lb..4 0 1 10 10 unmercifully hammered in the sixth Kopf, as ..4 0 0 3 2 0 Whitted. 1Í..3 0 0 1 0 0 and again in the seventh inning. Then regularly, as he has been doing since The Bressler. If..8 0 1 8 0 0 Sicking. 2b...3 0 0 2 40 Oscar the he entered the league. he reported deal involves Raridan. c.3 0 0 4 10 Clarke, c ...2*0 6 3 0 Tuero, Cuban, was sent to Yesterday Ring, p ...3 1 1 1 10 Rixey, p ...10 0 0 0 0 his relief. Tuero and his windup easily had all the stuff any pitcher would the transfer of Buck Smith, p ...2 0 1 0 12 turned the in the want. When he is there is none Herzog, Dodgers last two inn¬ right Totals ..37 7 1187 12 0 Totals ...SO 0 5 IS ings. better, that 1 to 0 victory showed of the Braves, and Outfielder 27 4 The him at and,his' best. Cincinnati .0 0 0 0 5 0 2 0 0.7 Cardinals started their scoring Philadelphia .0 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 with a three-run in the had he threw an Davey Robertson, of the tally first and Cooper speed; up Two-base hits.Bressler, Luderus. Home closed it with an equal number of runs exasperatingly baffling hook and had Giants, to Chicago in ex¬ run.Groh. Sacrifice hits.Neale, Ring. in the ninth, when the Brooklyn play¬ perfect control. He zipped the ball Double play.Daubert (unassisted). Left ers tossed the ball over the corners with a that for Outfielders Pas- on bases.Cincinnati, 7; Philadelphia, 6. recklessly around nicety change Base on balls.Oft Ring. 2; off Rixey, 7i the field. Pete Kilduff experienced a was pleasing to behold. And he is off Smith, 1. Hit».Off 7 In 4 1-8 bad at third base and such a kert and Mann, who will Rixey. day even the smooth, fast-working, graceful go innings; off Smith, 4 in 4 2-3 Innings. usually reliable Tom Griffith was pitcher that the fans got a run Struck out.By Rixey, 8; by Ring, 3; by of an guilty good to the Braves, and Pitcher Smith, 1. Losing pitcher.Rixey. error. In the sixth and seventh for their money, even though the locals Trials of 6arly Brooklyn rallied and scored all of their lost. Hendrix, who will come five runs, but in each instance more her,e. AT I a 5 Jimmy Toney did than his share to AVl OK) C"Tiaj eve^Tmj Johnston was unable to the causa stave off defeat. He not Ruth Ties Record s) help help only along. He hit into a double a play in the pitched masterly game, but made sixth and was an easy victim on an two of the three hits obtained off Braves Beat With 11th infield out in the seventh. Cooper's delivery. Al Baird the Cubs, Homer; other. got Cardinals Get the Jump The big pitcher clouted to the far 4 to 1, With Aid White Sox Reaten St. Louis gained the jump in the first corner of right field in the third and inning when J. Smith singled and Mil¬ lumbered to ler moved him up a base on his out. around second. This was Of Dick t'ive Batters Stocl: hit as far as any of the New Yorkers Rudolph CHICAGO, July 12..Babe of Leading safely to centre for a base, travelled and he was left stranded Ruth, scoring Smith, while Hornsby dropped when Boston, to-day tied last season's Amer¬ a one-bagger into right field. Burns flied to Stengel. ican League record for home runs when In Major Leagues Mitchell Big Day for BOSTON, July 12..Boston defeated he made his eleventh circuit Bos¬ ttmporarially steadied himself to strike Stengel 4 to drive, out Heathcote, but McHenry singled to the had a Chicago, 1, to-day, Dick Rudolph ton winning the game from Chicago, AMERICAN Stengel, by way, big day 12 LEAGUE centre, driving home both Stock and in patroling the right garden. He was proving more effective in the pinches to 4. Player and club. G. A.B. R. H. P.C. Homsby. Lavan ended the inning when busy chasing in after flies one than Claude It was the first home run Kuth had Peckinpaugh, N. Y. 62 222 62 80 .360 he hit to kept Hendrix. The fielding of made in since the weakly Mitchell. minute and travelling back after long Maranville and featured. Chicago coming into Jackson, Chicago... 71 264 40 94 .366 St. Louis scored another run in the lofts. In all he captured nine hoists Herzog league.
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