New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
Robbie's Men Beaten by
Cardinals in a Ninth
Inning Rally.
COY DOLAN HOLDS
CENTRE OF STAGE
Makes Error That Gives Brook
Ign Its Lone Tally, Then
Scores Winning Run.
lbs Telegraph to The Tnbua..I


Superbas, beginning their final dash on
the road which will bring them either
victory in the pennant race or disheart-
ening defeat, will endeavor to prove
now that a poor start does not always
mean a bad ending. The Superbas made
their poor beginning In the game with
the st. Louis Cardinals to-day, being
beaten by a score OF 2 to l in a game
of ninth inning rallies.
A ninth inning rally is ny no means
a rarity In baseball, but a ninth inning
rally BY each Of the participants Is
something that happens about as often
as a century plant blooms. And cen
tury plant must have bloomed some
where to-day, because it was ninth
inning rally which scored Brooklyn's
only run, and il was ninth inning
rally that enabled the Cardinals to
score two runs, just enough to push the
Superbas Just a little farther down IN
their hunt for the pennant
Strange as it may seem one man,
Coy Dclnn, of the Cardinals, was the
prime factor in each of the rallies.
bolan made an error in Brooklyn's half
of the frame, which let Sherrod Smith,
who pitched for the Superbas, scamper
home with Brooklyn's lone tally. Just
TO show that he could atone for max
ing a gift TO the enemy, Dolan laced
out a triple in the st. Louis end OF the
session and scored Long with the win
ming run. A moment later he reached
home himself with the winning tally
on a long fly by Gonzales.
Opportunities to win half a dozen
games at least were passed up b. the
Superbas az noncholantly as If Oppor-
tunity knocked at their door whenever
they saw fit to extend an invitation.
OF course, Doak, who was in the box
for the Cardinals, had lot to do with
the passing by Of many Of these oppor-
tunitics. but. on the other hand, the
Brooklyn team was slow on it's feet and
batted with little confidence. They
peeled ten hits off Doak, but never
enough in a row to do the slightest
damage.
Inning after inning the first man up
reached first in safety, and three times
he went as far as third, only to stay
there when the receding tide OF Brook
Ign aggressiveness left hon stranded,
although on one of these occasions the
runner was cut down at the plate. 1t
WAS not until Dolan's misplay in the
ninth that the Superbas were so fortu-
nate as TO get man across the plate.
Sherrod Smith was not at fault in
the defeat of Brooklyn. He held the
Cardinals to seven hits, and pitched
well enough 10 win any ordinary game
not we'll enough, however, to win such
a game as to-day's, when by all the
rules the ninth inning rally by the
Superbas should have meant victory.
Brooklyn made its first bid in the
third inning after two were out. Jake
Daubert walked, and Casey Stengel
poled out single to centre which put
Daubert on third. Cutshaw wasn't equal
to the occasion, and forced Stengel for
the third out.
The fourth was another chapter Of
lost Brooklyn chances. Myers hunted
safely and stole second. He moved
along to third when Getz grounded out
Then Smyth struck out and McCarty's
drive was easy for Butler.
Smith, who picked up three hits dur
ing the game, opened the fifth with a
single and went to second on O'Mara's
sacrifice Daubert, who hit safely every
other time he went to bat. had the mis-
fortune to drive the ball straight to
Higgins, and Stengel, TOO, was an easy
out.
Smith fought hard 10 win his own
game end doubled in the seventh, with
two out, getting to third on a short
passed ball. There he languished as
Bethel threw out O'Mara.
1t was the same old story again in
the eighth, the frame which marked
the entrance Of Dolan into the game.
Daubert singled and was safe when
Doak threw wild as Stengel attempted
a sacrifice. Cutshaw tried to follow
suit, but the best he could do was to
pop up little fly. He was out on an
infeld out, both runners moving along
peg. Myers walked and the bases
we're filed, with onlT one out. Getz
tried hard. but grounded out 10 Miller.
and Zach Wheat, who batted for Smyth.
flied to Bescher. ending what seemed
to be Brooklyn's most fruitful oppor-
tunity.