Show I GIANTS SET MODERN l BASEBALL RECORD RECORD BEFORE rf WILBUR COOPER SHUTS Eu EM OUT OUTI w- w I 1 I j Lj A i l j I Ie e p S I 4 z r M l 4 l t r q S Sv v I fri I I I WILBUR COOPER IDY fly DY I N N. E. E Few fans ans realized ed that tho the Giants Glunts wrote modern baseball history this season sea sea- son on on when they swatted their way through practically tho the first half hair of or ortho tho the season without being lI abut ut out ut a single game gamo They ricy had hat played sixty nix games Iames without being ln l lt t down when they tackled the pitiless Pirates July 12 Then they sUpped slipped There Thore isn't a record In present day baseball all that stacks up with the tho Coat of the Gotham crew 1 back ck in tho days of ot tho the lively ball before the theart theart theart art of ot pitching had been developed o as asIt asit asit it I Ls hi todaY toda some Momo tram team might have o slammed tho pill for Cor runs o every ory ry game gamo for or over three ocoro battles Our memory mem mcm- or ory doesn't go o back that thai far not far not quite Credit Wilbur 11 bur Cooper premier hurler hurl- hurl er cr of or the Smoky City outfit with turning the tho trick Tho The might have havo been scoring yet ct If it it Jl hadn't 1 been eon for or Wilbur The Giants hn had several se narrow squeaks however before Cooper halted them According to tho the box scores scoreR back bacle on April 30 Art rt Nehf of or ortho tho the Braves Dra hold hoW thorn scoreless for tor seven o innings Thon ho weakened and antI tho they scored Ho hel hold held them for or five Innings in innings In- In May 8 S S. S but hut thc they got two runs Inthe in inthe inthe the sixth-all sixth all the they got ot oft off that day Grover an Alo Alexander er held heM thorn them run- run less in eight of or tho the I nino innings played May Ia 13 12 but In tho tile other Inning the tho sixth the Giants scored three runs A gentleman named Oscar Tuero hold hoM th them m to two runs May 24 He Ha allowed them only four Cour hits but one ono of the runs was really earned On June 2 Babe Adams o of tho the Pi Pirates PI- PI He ilu al allowed al- al rates g gave ge e them heart failure towed lowed them only one run That camo camoIn camo caine camoIn In tho the second however howe Heuther o of th lh the nc s hold them thorn to toone toone toone one run June 11 The very ery next day Hod lied Eller kept them then from crossing the well known rubber until the tho seventh sos sev cat h. h Jim Yau Vaughn hn let thorn them down with a arun arun run In the game gamo amo of oC Juno June 11 II Tuoro tried his hand M again aln Juno 20 O and kept them thom away awny from homo home until until- tho the ninth Tho The next day Bill Dill Doak Doik I hold them scoreless until the seventh se Then they tackled thu tho Pirate south south- paw Wilbur not only halted the scoring machine 1 but ut ho kicked leed McGraws McGraw's outfit outfit out out- fit tit out of oC first place Then Thon Wilbur quit for tor the day |