New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
CUBS BOW TWICE
TO FAST PLAY
OF SUPERBAS
With Snap and Dash Rob
inson'S Men Land Ahead
of Carr; ais.
HAVE WON ELEVEN
OF THIRTEEN GAMES
Only Three Behind Cubs, and
Expect to Go Through for the
Pennant Honors.

The Brooklyn Superbas may not be
champions, but one would have an
awful time convincing those $4,000
SPECTATORS who saw them repulse the
attacks of the Chicago Cubs at Ebbets
Field yesterday afternoon that such Is
not the case. Playing with the snap
and dash, the precision and speed OF
contenders for the worlds series, they
won both games of a double header,
and there was no doubt as to which was
the better team-for the day, at any
rate. The scores were 8 to 8 and TO U,
respectively.
Just a couple of weeks ago the Su-
perbas returned in last place from the
trip through the West, aid since the
team was in the throes of slump
there seemed little hope Of lettering
the position. To-day they rest IN
third place, one point in front oil the
st. Louis Cardinals.
A drive which has brought to light
a power that few thought existed mas
carried the boys through all OPPOSE
ton. Of the last thirteen games
PLAYED the Superbas have won eleven,
lost one and one game went through
sixteen innings to a scoreless tie with
the Boston Braves. The Superbas are
now only three games behind the Cubs,
and perhaps Robbie will lash them
through to the pennant as Stalllngs
dashed Boston last year.
There was not a single moment IN
the afternoon from the moment, VIII,
bur Good fell a victim to the wlles OF
phil Douglas until Jimmy Archer
closed the second game by striking out
that the league leaders stood anything
more than the proverbial fighting
chance The Cubs started on even
terms. but the furious pace that the
home team cut out soon lett them
sweating and swearing far in the ruck:
The pitching of Phil Douglas ana
Wheeler Dell, the strong, sequential
hitting and dazzling fielding, In when
GINS Getz carried off the laurels, were
compelling parts of a machine whlch
battered its way through to victory
Douglas, who just few days ago
mitchell sixteen innings to scoreIess
tie with the Braves, held forth on the
rubber for the Superbas in the hrst
game. For five innings he held the
Cubs runless, making twenty-one CON
secutive innings in which the erstwhile
Red has prevented scoring q,
Douglas kept the hitting down and
had II not been for pardonable error
NV O'Mara and a wild pitch the Cubs
MIGHT have gathered in a double con-
sipnment of goose eggs. They were as a,
babes in the hands of Wheezer Dell
Who held them to a quartet OF hts
only two of these going to the out
field.
only of success, and that marked every
move of Brooklyn. Getz, with his mar,
yellous stops and perfect throws, mad
the fans by the ears. There was, 100
peculiar affinity between Jimmy Arcner'
on the bases or at the bat, and an un-
heard of play by the Brooklyn third
In the third inning of the second
game Archer was on base, when BOP
Fisher smashed one down the tnlrd
base line that fairly smoked. Getz
stopped it, but he was staggered anu
the ball dropped. Gus picked It up and
got Archer at second by an men, IN 'ne
fifth he made a leaping eaten OF
I;wn,ie's hid for a triple and drew the
tbunderous applause of the crowd: JAKE
Daubert. Zack Wheat, OMara and Cut
shaw all did their share.
Cutshaw and OMara attempted a
couple of plays around second which,
had they gone through, would have al,
forded talk for weeks to come. NO bali
was too hard for them to go after, and
in the fourth inning Good was almost
snagged at fet on his grOunder to Gut
shaw, who whipped the ball to o'Mara'
who threw to Daubert. IL was great
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