The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-04
DODGERS NOTLUCKY,
SO SLIP DOWN A Peg.
Things Break Just Right for
Mayer and Phillies From
Start to Finish.
FLUKE BOUNDS KILL HITS

Brooklyn can down Philadelphia az
easily as a tipster losses of his night.
cap. But Brooklyn can't trim Erskine
Mayer. evidently. At least Mayer IL the
reason why those Dodgers are not now
on tho second rung Of the National
League ladde instead Of the selfsame
Phillies. Mayer took the last game OF
the Ebbets Field series by a score OF
z to l yesterday afternoon.
Mayer was a lucky young gentleman
throushout yesterdays bleak afternoon.
He found In Appleton. one Of Brook
lyn's rookie twirlers. Just about the
toughest opposition he is likely to meet
In a seasons Journey. Appleton should
nave hung up a shutout. Two runs
never should have beaten the Flatbush
Philanthropirts. But Erskine Mayer
luck did.
Brooklyn spoiled the game for Apple
ton In tho fourth inning. Two bad
errors wore chiefly responsible. though
as many battery faults egged the thing
along. O'Mara started It by fumbling
on Becker. Appleton complicated It with
a wild pitch that sent Beals to third.
Otto Miller. who was of color all day,
might have held the runner to one base
IL he had been on the alert indeed he
even might have blocked the wild pitch.
Cravath then walked. Niehor forced
old Wooden Shoes. but Becker tailed
on h out. Luderus's out sent Niehoff
TO second. He counted when Miller
mufed the third strike Of weiser and
then threw wildly past Dnubert.
BARRING this inning only one Quaker
got as far as third. m that one with
two out. Nothing that remotely re-
sembled q hit figured In Philadelphia's
aAA-t~- .- IL "a A..
Appleton allowed came In any one in.
the rest with only one gone. all OF which
moro fully featured A%ppleton's effective
ness in the pinches.
Mayer pitched a eame little less spec.
tacular than that Of his young rival.
yet his wildneg should have beaten
him. He rave four bases on balls In
the fourth inning. forcing home Brook
lyn's only run. But In the mlds of
this deluge OF passes pure luck rather
than skill pulled him through. After
Myers and Daubert had strolled Brook
Ign attempted a hit me run play.
S,engel hit tho ball v!ciously. but Il
hoped into Mayors glove on the first
bound for an easy force out at third.
Zach Wheat then belted a terrific liner
that tho wind held back long enough
for we!ser to clutch. Thus persisted
two embryo hits that meant the difrer-
ence between victory and defeat. The
disappointment was felt the more
keenly as Cutshaw IND Getz both
walked on the next eight pitched balls.
forcing Daubert in.
Twice afterward, when opportunity
knocked at Brooklyn's door. we'll at
tempted hit and run plays turned into
double plays instead. Wheat. who
opened the sixth with a scratchy single,
was tagged on the lines by Niehon for
the FIRST half OF a double killing simply
because that second baseman had been
drawn owe for tho throw. Stengel
walked with one out In the eighth,
Wheats low liner was hit 30 hard to
Bancroft that the young fellows feet
were knocked from under him after he
grabbed the ball at his shoe tops in n
blind stab. Stengel. who was almost
at seoon when the catch was made, had
no chance to get back safely. The score