New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-17
RALLY OF TIP TOPS
in NINTH IS VAIN
Homer Turns Out To Be
Foul and Miners Win
the Game.
THEN BRADLEY SINGLES,
BUT HOPE IS GONE
Maxwell Weakens In the Seventh
Inning and Visitors Bunch
the Needed Hits.

Five thousand spectators learned the
value OF two feet OF ground in watching
the Brooklyn Tip Tops go down 10 defeat
Washington Park yesterday.
Those two feet represented the differ
ence between what might have been a
home run in the ninth inning with two
men on bases, which would have tied the
score. and common, or garden, foul.
which produced nothing but wall OF dis
appointment from the crowd and some
thing else more emphatic, perhaps. from
Bill Bradley. That Bradley singled mo-
ment later amounted TO little, for only one
run crossed the plate, and the game
closed with q victory for the visitors by
a score OF to 8.
With two on, and two on bases in the
ninth inning and three runs wanted TO tie
the score. Bradley. once a member OF the
famous "Murderers' Row OH the old
Cleveland Maps, went up to hit for Claude
Cooper. Keupper. who was pitching. is a
southpaw, and Cooper swings from the
port side. Hence the substitution.
Bill picked one out TO his fancy and sent
il far down into left field, on line. The
crowd rose to its feet cheering. The ball
hit away out near the fence. bounded off
the wall and into pile OF lumber. but 1t
was two feet outside the lines.
Bradley returned TO his place at the bat
grinly determined. He would hit that
old ball. and he did. 1t was a resounding
whack TO centre field, which scored Land
lid l,,. N
Myers forced his manager at the midway
for the final out
But the show of fight in that last Inn
ing robbed the defeat Of It's sting in great
measure. The fans were satisfied that
win or lose. the Tip Tops are game to the
core. Westerzil and Gagnier flied out
quietly. but Land struck spark by lac
ing one 10 left for base. Land stole
second unmolested and Bradley then
showed signs of life. He sent Larry
Couinard in to lit for JUL and Larry
beat out scratch hit down the first base
line. Land went to third. Then came
Bradley's well meant foul, and his subse-
quent single and untmely end at second.
But although Bradley was cheered for
his proves with the stick. there were a
few who declared that he made a mistake
when he left Bert Maxwell in the box In
the seventh inning. Maxwell had done
nicely up TO that time, and was working
on a 2 to lead when somebody touched
the button. The Miners did the rest.
Six hits were sent whistling TO the near,
middle and distant West, and no fewer
than four sets of hostile spikes denied the
plate. Hal Miller started with a triple,
and Otis Crandall leaned his corn fed
bulk against a curve for a double. scoring
Miller Immediately the inspiring strains
Of the anvil chorus pealed from the
stands.
Still Maxwell kept lobbing them up and
still the fans clamored for new pitcher.
A couple were seen warming up down In
left field. but they never got into the i'm
mediate vicinity and were not recognized.
firing OF calling for relief, the fans had
a little fun mimcking Brennan's manner
OF calling "Booo-o-O-l" and 'Fow-ww-l."
Keupper, who once strung along TO some
extent with the Giants, worked for the
Miners. and after a riokety start did well.
Cooper singled in the first for Brooklyn
but was forced by Myers. Doubles by
Holman and Evans resulted in two runs
but then Keupper settled down and held
his own until the hectic ninth when al
maner of things threatened.
Tho score follows.