New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-28
The SuperbaS Score Seven
But Cardinals Get Eleven
Pennant Hopes Desert Flat
bush Fans as the St. Louis
Cardinals Again Defeat
Robbie's Men.

Pity the poor umpire. Behold! he is
without a friend. even down to the last
small boy who climbs tree and
watches game from a precarious
perch in default of the quarter neces-
sary to purchase a bleacher seat. There
is no exception to this rule. 1t even in
cludes Bill Byron, he of the new mo-
ton and old decision.
Two small boys engaged in animated
discussion on umpires in general after
the affair at Ebbets Field yesterday
afternoon. One was older, the other
younger.
as Byron a Brooklyn empire" asked
the younger.
What dye mean a Brooklyn en-
pire ?" demanded the older one, shoot
ing "a glance of whitening contempt at
his companion. THAT guy Byron amt
from nowhere; he skins everybody"
And the discussion was ended.
But Byron didn't Skin" the Superbas
yesterday, nor did he skin" the Cardi-
nails. For the afternoon he was merely
the neutral behind the plate. One
would nave to look behind him for the
reason Of Brooklyn's defeat at the
hands of the st. Louis team by the
Out Of the mad banging of base hits,
the discordant jangles of errors, both
of omission and commission, there
fingers the impression that lusty use
of the bat by the Cardinals was
rather important factor in the defeat
Of the Superbas. In the eighth inning,
especially, the Mound City tribe cut
loose Miller Higgins started with a
home run to centre field. Butler singled,
and after passes to Long and Dolan
filled the bases Jocks Miller slashed
one along the left field foul line to the
fence, cleaning up. These tallies
clinched the game.
Brooklyn rallied heroically in the last
three innings and put together five
runs. For moment the sun peeped
through a rift in the clouds, but Lee
Meadows, spectacles and all, frightened
up and put an end 10 the scoring. The
closing innings were fraught with in
terest for the fans. The various and
sundry errors, bungles and hobbies
committed by men whose misdeeds
show in the box score, and others whose
misdeeds do not, took all the JOY out of
the cloudy, cold afternoon.
Rich In promise. the Superbas were
long in the fultilment thereof. They
Outnlt the dIolHdlS, DuL TO no puf-
pose Wheeler Dell and his shadow. Ed
Appleton, were in the box for a while,
and Sherrod Smith followed. None of
these was effective, and their support
we'll, the pitchers might have sued on
the grounds of non-support and won
their cases.
But it was different with the Cardi-
mails. 1t would seem that these West
ern teams conserve their greatest
strength for the last appearance on the
Flatbush meadow. To be sure, Hub Pur-
due was derricked for strategical rea-
sons, and since Ham Hyatt batted over
a run for Hub the strategy must be
held good; but there was Miller Hug
gins. He took delight in stopping
hits billed for the fences, and he was
only one IN a legion.
The Phillies won again, and with
pennant hopes considered. the Flatbush
fans may say, Now is the winter of
cur discomfort" but right there thew
stop, for there doesn't seem 10 be any
sun of June. he sun may rise again.
Of course. and all 20 we'll once more.