Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-05-22
HOW BROOKLYN
BRACED UP
HOW GOOD FAIRY CHARLEY EB-
BETTE WROUGHT MAGIC WITH
4 BROOKLYN TEAM WHEN HE
CONSTRUCTED NEW PARK.
BROOKLYN SAID TO BE WELL IN
THE RACE FOR REMNANT. HAS
BUILT UP Al RIGHT DEFENSE
ALREADY
BY Hal Sheridan.

New York, May 22.-Once upon a time
there was a decrepit baseball team
known as the Brooklyn Dodgers that
played i'm an old ball lot so full of holes
from the rifling battery of opposing
teams that the players had to hObble
over the field like ants running a Mar
athon over Swiss cheese. Then a good
fairy named Charley Ebbetts came along
and built a new park, all dolled up with
a grand stand that cost much moneys.
This good fairy had been hanging around
the team 10 these many years, but it
was the first new park he had builded.
When other teams came around as they
are wont to do at ball parks, these same
Brooklyn Dodgers, who always had
yelped and run when approached by a
stranger or even by their step-brothers,
the Giants, from across the Big Bridge,
proceeded to lick the very daylights out
of them.
At first these strange, unheard Of do
ings excited merely scOrnful laughter
and the wise ones said it was an acct
dent, a flashing in the pan, but with
each succeeding team these erstwhile
lowly Dodgers licked the impression be
gan to grow that they were going some,
and, miracle of miracles, eighth wonder
Of wonders they do say now, and they're
serious when they say it that Brooklyn
may be reckOned with the cOntenders
for the pennant
Moral: Why not?
The Dodgers have shown hat they
have built up an alright defense With
Jake Daubert at first, Cutshaw at sec
Ond, Fisher at short stop and Red Smith
at third, team play has been perfected.
Cutshaw covers a world of ground at
second and in that immediate vicinity. In
the outfeld the Dodgers have a real
Outfielder i'm Stengel, who is establishing
a record as fence buster this season.
Wheat has not been batting up to his
usual standard. With Wheat going nat
urally there will be another argument
why the Dodgers should keep going.
HummOl, completes a much better than
average OutIlclu dCCOTulnS u HIS WOTk
Of this season.
One of the failings of the Dodgers at
enc time was their failure to hit behind
Nap Rucker. But Rucker wOn three Of
his first six games this season. One of
the three losses was that thirteen inning
dual with Old Matty, Rucker has been
doing good after only a fair start and
Ragon has been pitching alright ball.
Allen is fast developing into a star left
handler and though he lost some of his
early starts he ought to spin along nicely
in hot weather. Stack and Curtis are in
pretty fair shape and Yingling, Hall
and Wagner look really better than
they ever have. Wagner came from New
Orleans with a reputation as good as
that carted in by Demaree now with the
Giants.
Behind the bat is Otto Miller. who
ranks with the best. Then there is Erwin
who has caught the new DOdger spir-
it and is coming along All in all the
bunch from across the Bridge look pref
ty good. Washington did it after getting
q new ball park-that is they jumped
from the humble ones to slashing, fight
ing pennant contenders almost over
night, so to repeat, "Why not Brook
lyn?'r },