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Show Baseball Chickens Come Home to Roost; Groh and Sallee Proof of Old Saw BY DAMON RUN YON. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, Au. lo. Have you ever heard 40.000 people in full cry? They make a power of noise. They hut then let's r.ot get ahead of our slory, which is tho story of the defeat of the New YorU Giants by the Cincinnati Reds at the Polo grounds this afternoon in both games of a douoie-header. The scores were 4 to Z and C to 1. and the making of scores is the plot of our story that ought rtgli ti'ulh lo beg: a t.iis way: Pasebal! chickens come home to roosh Heine Groh was a G.ant in the cays of his baseball adolescence, and migmy proud of that fact. too. So proud that when he got a litt.o money together and opened a lit 1 place of business in his home town of Rochester. N. Y., lie called it "Tr.e Lit tie Giant." "I'm doing pretty good."' Heine used to teil his team mates, "out I think I'll mo e down nearer to tne depot w here 1 can catch some of the transom trade." A Mahiproprism, pr.iaps. but you can excuse that in a lad who has a pair of baseball hands and a h.'tf.ng c;-u euch as to cause old Dick Kinsfba. tl'e sinister looking teout of the Giants, to dr;g him out of t.ie baseball bushes at some cost. Heinie Proves Up. Not even John J. McGraw douoted tie potentialities e:" Heine G: u i, nut there came a time a few y.rs back wre.i John J. MeGraw was in uesfernt'. m-t-d of a pltc; er to help him wm a National league pennant. The baseball immature nr.1 tomethr valuable as trading m 1 1 'T i . :u-d pr1;--ently tr.e proprl'-tor M "Tb Lit tie Gt.u.t" found himse.f in Cinri'initi. 'lno. on a tali-end ch: o, and a try d:t .-o: isolate joung man. Rut. as we said before. !." ;l I I'livLcr'" come home to roost, and t il a'r '-r.iM' i Ifei'ie Groh r-amo ua' k to t'.e p'ruut;'!s wi : 'i 1 1"1 i 'Ini'inn.ni !"!. to do a er v lar-e sn:ire i:. th-"1 hc..r-".- k:iO'"kw out N"'.v Vork's j.ermant i- .0' a h'irr.e run th.-U jiro'. d a jc :tr tal'; Of the f.rst g..."0 ar:d all a t": v:v '": n--W'ciS a tOU rrc n ;' t- . a ;--"a t :'; to 1 . ' 1 1,1 people w no dcany dc-.Mrd G..i:its to w i:. With Heme 1 'J ro h was a r, ; r c r r r t ; i eomlng home to noj' t l'i" . it-atiicr;. leisuie'y old rooster, so to s.'"'.ik: an c;ert bird o' ev'l omr-n t .e N-w r-k Giarits. in t'..c re.-- .n of .-'1 Sal e--. i" L.ed to b-"at m by t c iou- o' old 'eft arm w lien v a? d'iv. n in Sr. Ismis. and who :r ha !: '.e.tTn 5 v-fn in the uniform of tli" lh"'s af'.T ;-er. a f.oihd pefiou ur.d'-r M '".'! a a . Slim Sallee Also. In the n''onrj game Sail" le-.; r ("JiarttS to V.r& uii;,e '.-herr;-" M.t- gee, rjuain'eit i-hararter t':af e. -r roamed t:.e bit: !a gu'-, kno.'k home The, two run? that v.-.,t the tare'. "I'm ituvlr, a f.ard time out tcere In left fielj ;C',V:ing n-jf the frill fi-orn fimonc the pO'a' bntt vh-u T go alter a f'.v." complained "Shfrr;'" M:. f jufulou-l v. V, )i"h t.-. IH'I r;i;v.. of liOJ (ifMT e of thoae V).1:--) di-j-ir'-d to f " ti.e Giants win. On the bench '-f h.e Red". r r.u tli.-;-coa.'hing Uney. ie.-c: e. during t'-.e afternoon after-noon not iino'lcr , f.er. nr--. Ii.it a ?or; of ba."d i ' -an i.-n 11. r'-'ired Jo '.in J. M.-Graw to i.:.'-: '' n lnn.-n? .le-structioti. .le-structioti. w u s the rnrj niij.:.'.h,'i Pa' Mori'i. leader of the Chi -inna :1 ci'ih. urging his in-u OH. "G-mud" bv tlie parsim'tn;o:n ore-n Of tne Phiiadlp' la - 1 M n. M..i;i:i rau'if on with M'-' r. w rn a .i-'i for r i" Giants, but w,.en mfwitt "rla I va-'aiif.' de-ve!opd de-ve!opd at. i.'lir'iinuti. M.-Graw t it .Mor.in there. T.ie. w;i; s of h.i-ebal! fa!': ar- In-sit In-sit utable. Two gam-: or ba.-,-baii do r.ot mare a ae;4.son. it i true, but thin 11 A-ig-:."t. and A'ig'; drifting on into tli- i n d -owa of ear'v f;II and th- world' s-rb-x. And the r'ln lima' i (': I six and a in If yf.v' a aead of t o: N"'.v Yr.i ', Cii.iv'r.. Jf MGraw tt er.orro-" t b 1 b-d in tlie nrv. miracle man of the gain'-, i i 1 . Mrt pfoph- r-'Zard t h 1m h--i- ;, f,r-d.'i'iding f,r-d.'i'iding M-rb'H of the national lengti-ramnaign. lengti-ramnaign. T,iat. If the rc;rj,m that pi,' n were at tl.e (jpehtug t.iln a f ' erno-.'ii. Mc(raw on the Lines. Unfil I!''- la't man wa'i out I n the ninth lriinng of the e,-roi. y;u,w.t M,-i,,-:,:v w.,? on tli" rr,;,. -hlng lin: d: p. m hi; players. H 1m anxiety t o win w a m v 1 d n t In t h way he talked to them between the innings in-nings and from the lines, and there were moments when he could not conceal his vexation when some play went wrong. In the Giants' end of the eighth inning of the first game, when Hal Chase tripled after a pass to Arthur Fietcher. sending the shortstop of tlie big town club over ' the plate with a run, an old-time scene I was enacted by the crowd. 1 It was one of those sudden boilings of enthusiasm which only a naeball gather-j gather-j ing can produce. The roar of voiced went . rolling out across the field In a mighty ; volume, followed by a barmge of fresh 1 straw hats and a groat cloud of white I paper. tiomcoro in an instant of frenzy tore 1 up a procram and tossed the bits into the : wird. In-.medir.tr y everybody in the stand i began ripping programs ntirt tlie new s-pa-j ptrs to tatters and flinging the fragments j to t lie breeze. The papery storm was so heavy that the ! game was halted for a minute. Heine 1 Grub, tin' Tdb' tb md basomr. n, busied j himself picking un bits of paper around ibis sta lion. Umpire Rill Klem gathered UP a hrxtidful ard threw It asine. The (wind was blowing Pi a g-rtie twirl, and ;it collected t:m pa.pT and he'd It revoi -j lug rich! tn ifie ce-iter of the dlamord j unt l tlie ecd. The result was s-mnewhai di.-'conctr' ii:g to t p'-a; crs ,:t time, and 1 might v u -oncertn.g to Henry Raman, J tiio groutcikoci vr. Enormous Crowd Out. I Te shle Teie shroud-d all day and j t h re was a s t rc r g li I n t of ra ! n in the air. C'rdir. r;'y the out loo U for bad '.e-ath'T w.'.:'d brr e he'd t'.e rwn down, b ;t nt f oVlo,-k in the i-orr;rg a. bunch of "hue'" W.Te a-' nibbol ;tt ti inue. Tb gne d:d not up- u until !?.:. t roori the avenue wan Imp-Asiable for bio.'kr. It wa" a r'-7"'t!t'oi of the w."rld' r'.-e n-er.t-t (.f po p v Ik u Manhattan I -hind i v . b.tseba" mad I !n a word '-:i'J. Iiwc.", t'e crowd , i!i:JM be -1. -ai.-. I in t :i c bafl.li nrd . j Matal.ng 1 fl p--ru ; i ' t -d. TH.iy t ry i were fr.icd1r.g fif;r d-ej, b.-.-k of tb.e j 'ats In t 1 n- Io-a -r t.t nd. Tf- ' w e e I . 'a ndin.g 10 the uppr ht. Tby w ere 'even Mi.ud.ng b'hird tic Sf.i's ;i the i T: e i' ,;,..- -.i-f. locked nl oi.l It I f 1' not :.-) r-l-'--i:iry to do that at the I Polo i;'Ot:"'l In ye.tr-!. ) V b:g 0- .'-ra'ioii of r tl pop 1 (fame r.u f..;- the "-rb--. arid t'-e'r number I '' as a u ut '. h lb" rx-oh'n;irs who lb'.- I: N-w rk. Rete.e,.., tl.ern. ni'i wit. 1 tVf as-r-Tar.-e of -v of foika who r-re roolvv' fr tt". f.n r,t, g.-f.oral pr.n-J pr.n-J elple. trie, iu.t'1.- m: at'ijud.,:!. of r.ul.et. Keuther Pop Hot tic Target. Im.l'.e th" e,-f ejn.-tit nt tb clofe of the rit'h'.h I'ming of tne f r- t sure, ti-u R'-'lther w-. . -.' -iii,o:g ba.'k t.i the pe.;.1 ben.-l!. ;i pop bottle earre fl- Mg nut of f he stand and c ra d 01 1 t c"--.-re t r rr.of of p':t..r-," (-..p. 'I no thrower round v ht.-.ed by t:.e pe,,;, around Art .V.-hf, M:e Jeft -h., r.der. M ho ! m!d to h.v.e 'I" Gi.intM J(.(-..--o n( f,, ir I pia;. ' b- - ) wa, j-t art.oj In the f !rt ra me P-Gra w . An -rror b v N'.'hf hd .'''li" Gil: if to tin v.lth ov.r- t)ir game. Some thought Hi- mlxtake should1 havo ),. - n i-!..irL-i"l to Hal 'h.i-e. It w.(sj a throw by .Vrr.f v.lih-h (he f 1 r t ba'-r afi '"Mi I not. b.-.-l Old taj'. l;.md The' off!.-!..! ! .-orer to.-.p the p. .v i xt the ; tiiro'.c uai tr.or. ft tho ermr ko'us to the pif' ti'T. (.'"t-nrtib of the rr;or and a ' bit of pi, or p t.-hlnc l.v S'..)f t-i ibul In- ' ntpg. It- blow that fealk ion the i-.iinc for ( Ih.-m-aiti w a it l.ormr bv llf-mr j Groh In fhe foiii-ij Inninir . The Ghtnfn 1 uTi- a 'juen 1 ;, t-or another tal fin, with-nut with-nut tiioh's punrh. lh n.-nre would have he.-n ;i tl.-. The third bav-nmn. with the. T'eer biUIng xl.ii'n. tilt the ball t, ,fcp right . etiler ner fb- lo ad" of bot, Your g and K a uf f. a fid ra.--i i, round the ba r . well ;.h.id of tin- relay. Dutch Pitches Well. t:uHter pit. -bed wn. (nefl pronrun'-ed "Jum' a thrower" bv .:iet.il vharpw. tbtn lef -ba mtt-r liar 1 n tnad Into a verv 11 wf ii I pit.b.r bv Pat Moran. He fantie.l Ibdue hinniertn-m In the eighth when a I,.' bar- tie,) the Mriirn, "HhDrfdmr" I'tdt T'oUktlaM. the Mr Ten-lie-Pe.;iii obtained from tho 'uhn In the tvado for I'ay I : ob-r t -mi 1, pit. died the game for t b GlanlM agalnnf Slim Sallee the old left -iutmi. r on.-o owned bv Mr -Gi-aw. ml Sid f-hut out the Glnni 1 11 one game of the ( 'ini-lmia tl erle-t, and lie a us In grard forn toda;, aPbough It vam rot ex.vtly hi we.it tier. I'd il n llke tt h.ot In the third Innlt'C. 'th on. out. the u'cra'i mad" a hhuht nHhtat.e. ?-f ike Go V J. a I !, the G In p. t t'uhkii ca t -tlt' r. doubled (ted tfdi third on R I,',t1 bah. Not figuring n rut-hT would t tempt U' h a feat a (-1Iiib' home. Sal w urn taking li'.' full d"Mre- w ln-n tiun- z. le nuddenl 0 anhd In. The decision ut ttio p.at w.if nr.irce'y close. |