New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-21
Wheat's Triple Saves
Day for the Superbas
Mighty Smash That Spells
Defeat for Cubs Comes
in Tenth Inning.
BROOKLYN FANS GO
WILD WITH JOY
Jack Murray Makes Wonderful
Catches-Five Pitchers Take
Part in Battle.

Teutonic strategy, Irish cunning ara
the battling .eccentricities OF the sn,,.
ball were overcome By Buck Wheat a,
American Indian, at Ebbets Field yes.
terday afternoon.
Buck hit the centre field fence. with
two men on bases. in the tenth innip1
of the game with the Chicago Cub,
and Brooklyn won by a score Of 6toS
In the records the hit will be recorded
as a triple, for Jake Daubert dents5
the rubber with the winning run iu.t
as Buck rounded the far turn, bu. tks
cold type and all that may be written
here will never fully describe the villa
JOY of the Brooklyn fans and the
Brooklyn team when that crashing
drive rang out on the twilight air. To
the Cubs it sounded as the crack o.
doom. To Brooklyn it meant the
emancipation from the thraldom o. de.
feat and disappointment
1t will rank with those famous clout,
of baseball fiction. Two runs were
needed TO win the game. There was
one man out, and on the big black
scoreboard in the left field the news Of
Phiiadelphia's victory over the Pirates
had just been bulletined. Something
had TO be done. and Wheat did IT, He
hit the ball flush on the trade mark and
sent it screaming 20 he left centre
field fence on a dead line. Il was be.
yond human power TO intercept the hit.
IL was even beyond the power Of Jack
Murray. who had specialized in super
human catches all afternoon. and the
runners swept on. while Brooklyn fan
dom lost its reason. Two points still
separate the Superbas from the lead.
Heinie Zimmerman is the man ind.
rectly responsible for the defeat Of his
team. He planned the stroke Of Gun.
ming which was thwarted When Whes.
came up to the plate in mis- last frame
Hy Myers was on third base and Dau-
bert on first. Bresnahan stepped vide
of the plate. intending 10 pass Wheat
and take a chance on Cutshaw. Two
balls were pitched when Zimmerman
called in: Don't pass him. Roger. II
you do you'll put the winning run on
second base. and there's only one out
you're right" said Bresnahan, and
he stepped back Of the plate Lavender
curled the next ball in. and Wheat
missed it. But the next one came over
the plate, right where Buck wanted it.
He swung and the winning drive few
onward.
Hy Myers started the frame by stop
ping the ball where 10 couldn't hurt
/ him much. and he took second on Oh.
sons sacrifice bunt Daubert's infeld
single put him on third, and then cane
/ Wheat.
Jack Murray, for some reason or
, other, was allowed 70 pass on by the
Giants. Twas said that Red John was
/ finished as a big Lacquer. But yester.
day his red thatch was the war flag OF
the Cubs. Had il not been for Jacks
marvellous fielding Wheat would have
had two home runs earlier IN the
struggle and no extra innings would
have been necessary. In the third inn
/ ing Buck hit one out 20 left centre,
shooting at the fence. but Murray ran
/ as never he ran before in his life, and
at the last desperate second he pulled
the ball down.
SO great was Murray's speed at the
moment of the catch and so great the
4 impact that he plunged along headlong
until he stopped just few feet from
; the fence. The crowd which rose 10
/ cheer the drive remained standing 70
: hail one of the greatest catches ever
/ seen.
Just two innings later Wheat again
smashed the ball toward the centre
/ field fence. and again the knight Of the
/ crimson crest ran at least nall mile
I TO get it, Murray is finished, me
/ Giants may say. and Brooklyn eehoes'
Get finished, Jack. get finished"
! The Cubs now bid adieu TO Brooklyn
/ for the season, but they viii be re-
membered by the six or seven thoussna
/ fans who saw this gripping battle Oh
| the diamond yesterday afternoon.
/ Brooklyn dashed out into the LEAD q,
/ the start of the game, hitting the pau
on the nose and making angry demon,
strations, but while two pltchers--fhA
Douglas and Wheeler Dell-fell IRON
/ grace, the Cubs drove ahead and tieu
/ the score in the seventh inning. -
/ Run after run, one az time, ,ney
/ scored. There was a logged pers ls'eney
/ in the attack that foreboded disaster
D and in the tenth. with Sherrod Smlli
in the box, they added another tally ana
took the lead That run looked insuI,
mountable. and only the faitniul he''
out hope for victory. III
4 George Washington label, VINO WI,
be graduated from the University ..
Kansas in the spring. pitched me mr.
six innings for the Cubs. lie retltsl
then in favor of Cy Williams, "no
batted for him. Cy is the lad WHO Ns'
hit by one Of Fuckers curves on Inu,s-
day. Williams is unable 20 eat lo'
J the inside of his cheek is badly toIni
hut his eye is still clear lie oahgr'
the ball for double 20 right neld; ~ "a.
lying Phelan with the run that ted ".
score. Cy is fast in the fed ana n,s
+ them weiL but he needs schooling '.
I the bases. He overran second ana va
out, Steng5l 20 Cutshaw. Lavender Ig.
( ished the game, and is charged "'''
/ the defeat
The Superbas had rare chance y
win the game in the eighth nnihs,
when Lavender issued TWO bases =.
balls. but although only one man wa
out neither Cutshaw nor Stengei wa
/ able TO get the ball into safe terrltoI!'
Heinie Zimmerman may plan sua,
| tegical moves with great cunning 81.
skill, but he is no MachiayellL IN w
first frame he singled and stole, 81 81.
then, for some reason or other, ne maSs
a mad dash for third. O'Mara haa W
ball and Zim died at the far turn eSS"''
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