New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Break Even with the Reds,
While Phillies Capture
a DOuble-Header.
WHEAT MUFFS FLY,
BUT SLUGS BALL
Coombs Wild in First Game, but
Wheeler Dell Proves Master
on Mound.

The lights that fare on the marshes,
the end of the rainbow and the whims
of the winds are tangible assets, solid
and immovable bodies, in comparison
with first place in the National League
pennant race, so far as the Brooklyn
Superbas are concerned. AS a child
chases its shadow Robbie's men have
pursued the lead during the last fort
night, but now, even as it was, they
are one stride in the rear.
Buck Wheat muffed a fly at Ebbets
Field yesterday, and that was only one
incident in a chain of circumstances
which caused a division of honors in
double-header with the Cincinnati Reds
while $4,000 fans cheered and groaned.
Not the least considerable of these cir
cumstances was a superior brand Of
baseball played by the visitors from
sunrise to sunset guns. Over in Phila-
delphia Pat Moran's speed merchants
downed the Cubs twice, and now hold
an advantage of one full game.
When Wheat, the master mechanic,
failed it is not to be marvelled at that
the weaker reeds bent and snapped un-
der pressure, and errors played no
minor part in the defeat in the first
game by score of to |. Then, prov
ing that the leopard can change its
spots, the Superbas came back in the
second struggle, and with Wheeler Dell
twirlng mastery ball won by a score
of to O.
There were no slips worthy of the
name in the second game, nor could
there have been any and victory
achieved Pete Schneider, recovered
from his recent illness, twirled with all
his skill and cunning for the Reds. He
was effectiveness personified in all but
! the third frame. and in that inning the
Superbas clinched the verdict.
Lew McCa:ty. who had hit hard. but
, to no purpose, all afternoon. finally
I got one into eft field that could not be
caught, and went TO second on DelPs
/ perfect sacrifice bunt. A scratch nit
! by n Myers advanced him to third
| base, and he scored when Ivan Olson
/ dumped a squeeze bunt Just neither
/ here nor there between first base and
the box. Olson got to the bag easily.
] But neither Daubert nor Wheat could
/ deliver a blow which might perchance
have scored another run.
The Reds, booming along at TOP
speed, went out after Jack Coombs
( with hostile intent. The Colby star
was a bit wild in his delivery and
| pitched himself into holes time and
again. But for all his wildness. and
! despite the frequency with which his
curves were hit. Jack might have drawn
| the finish finer had he been backed IN
truly major league style.
! He was master of a legerdemain
which pleased the fans but baffied the
Reds, and IN the seven innings he
| pitched no fewer than fourteen Gin
cinnati RUM srs were left on the paths.
! Three times he had the bases filled, but
three times he pitched himself out,
with nary run being scored.
! In the sixth inning Buck Wheat
made a great running catch OF Grit
/ fth's slicing drive for the third out.
! The crowd rose to a man and cheered
| both Wheat and Coombs. Hats were
! thrown in tine air, many never TO come
/ back unbrOker. and one fan hurled his
! hat out of the upper tier. 1t was an
! old hat, anyway.
The exclusive and aristOcratic eX-
Reds club has young and powerful
rival in the field. IL is the ex-Giants
club, and Charley Herzog and Heine
/ Groh are the representatives. on the
Reds. Both played wonder baseball
tor Cincinnati all afternoon. and the
crowd cheereC them q the echo.
No drive was too hot, no chance was
too difficult TO prevent Heine and
Charley going after it. Groh made a
marvellous stop of Daubert's sizzling
smash in the third inning of the first
game and threw Coombs out at the
plate, and that was only one of his
/ feats. Herzog set the pace with stel-
lar collection of grabs at short field.
/ Perhaps the most wonderful of these
was his stop on Schultz in the seventh
inning when Pittsburgh Joe hit for
/ Coombs. Joe bid boldly for a double
but Herze grabbed it all right, and
/ only one base was realized.
Brooklyn showed to rather poor ad-
vantage on the base lines on two occa-
/ sions. Runs were thrown away in the
second game, once on bad coaching,
once on stupid base running by the
usually alert and clever George Cut
shaw.
! In the second inning Cutshaw was on
| first base when Stengel hit into centre
| field. Cutshaw rounded second but al
though Schultz. coaching at first base,
waved him on. George stopped doubled
back TO second. and then made a be-
/ lated try for third. He was out by a
city block.
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