Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1914 — SPORTING NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SPORTING NEWS.

By Fan Attic.

In the longest game ever played in the National League since it was founded thirty-eight years ago, the Giants emerged the victors over the Pirates after SVinnings of sensajdgELal baILJLJ® JL—Lmul Doyle’s homer in the 21st was a fitting climax to the great battle waged. Rube Marquard was on the mound for the New Yorkers and Babe Adams opposed him for the Smoketown athletes. Adams held the Gothamites to 12 safeties and did not issue a single pass, white Marquard allowed 15 blows and gave two free trips. Pitts burg got their lone marker in the first after .Monitor* was hi t "by a pitched* ball and was scored on Wagner’s three-base drive. Bunched singled / gave the Giants one ln the third and then WIT innings not another man reached the counting station. In the 21st Beecher singled with two down and counted on Larry’s fourply wallop to the center field. Doyle also handled 14 ehariees-at second-, and Kelly in center tor the Stogies pulled down 11 fifes. Lefty Allen, the Brooklyn side wheeler, let the ub sluggers down with one lone bingle but lost his game on errors by his mates. Vaughn, the big Cub southpaw, opposed him and pitched a masterly game and kept the dodger hits well scattered. “ Milter Huggins and his Cards con-tinue--their mad rush for the Na tibnal Leaguebunting and are right on the heels of tlieCubs in seeonc place. Followers of the Cards have gone wild over their showing ano are packing Prexy Britton’s bal orchard every day, something that they have not done since the sensational spurt of the Cards in 1908 Claude Milan, center fielder of the Senators, is out of the game with a fractured jaw as a result of a collision with Danny Moeller in going after a fly ball. Lefty James, of the Braves, shut out Herzog’s Reds with four puny taps, 1 to 0 yesterday. Perdue, of St. Louis, was the jonly^rtghtHander to win his game in the league, while both American league games -Were won by portsiders. Gunboat Smith, who lost his fight to George Carpentier on a foul, received SIO,OOO as his share of the gate, -for 18 minutes’ fighting. Carpentier, who was returned the winner, received $15,000. If is probable that these two will hook up again in the near future, as a great amount of dissatisfaction was caused over the decision.