New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
Braves WreSt Victory
from Superbas in Ninth
By So Doing They Crash
Into Tie with Cubs
and Pirates for
Third Place.

He who laughs last laughs loudest,
and Johnny Evers enjoyed his preroga.
tive to the uttermost at Ebbets Field
Yesterday afternoon. He just laughed
and laughed and laughed, and Brooklyn
fandom insists that his sense OF humor
is sadly distorted. AS the Braves
romped of the field to dash for their
train for Cincinnati Evers sent one
more laugh rasping over the field and
then disappeared. With him he carried
one victory, and by a score of TO 3.
Evers, in the aggregate, is neither
happy nor cheerful. He is so used to
snarlng and fighting fans, players and
umpires alike that the sun has faded
from his disposition and his laugh Is
merely muscular spasm, but he en-
Joys il, just the same. And yesterday
his mirth was twofold The Brooklyn
rooters had merry time with Johnny,
for it was his error in the fifth which
shaped the ways for Brooklyn's three
runs. These, il seemed, would be SUI
d'etat until the ninth inning, when
Brooklyn's hopes were highest. Then
he started the rally that won the game.
He was assisted by Sherwood Magee.
After Herbie Moran had departed on
his way in the ninth inning Evers came
up to the bat. His appearance was a
signal for a general outburst, and the
rooters took occasion TO remind him of
his bobble in the fifth frame. Evers
then whaled out single. he then re-
tired from the game and Fitzpatrick
took his place. Joe Connolly also sim
gled and Fitzpatrick raced to third.
Evers bobbed up with some more re-
marks. Sherwood Magee then proceed
ed to bounce two-base hit off the
right field wall, scoring Fitzpatrick and
Connolly with the runs that won the
game. Evers took cognizance of the
fact and informed the fans. At this
point Sherrod Smith replaced Phil
Douglas. Schmidt flied to Stengel, and
when Magee overran third on Red
Smiths hit to OMara he was run down.
In the main, the i'll men do lives
after them, but the error that Evers
made in the fifth was entirely forgot
ten by the crowd. In general, the
crowd wished he had smashed a bat or
something before the ninth rolled
around. But it was quite an error, at
that. Otto Miller dropped single in
centre and Phil Douglas rolled one
down to Evers, which trickled through.
Since two were out at the time, the
crowd cut loose. Hy Myers then belted
one into left centre for two bases, scor-
ing Miller and Douglas. O'Mara sim
gled. scoring Myers, and Flatbush
hopes ran riot. But then-well, all
| Brooklyn knows that story now.
The shadow of the Braves is casting
itself across the path of the leaders.
/ This was their fourteenth victory in
the last fifteen games played, and
Stallings is freely predicting another
drive to the heights. The team is tied
for third place with Cubs and Pirates,
but there is little doubt in the minds OF
the fans that Boston is now playing
| the most consistent game. They looked
the part OF the champions yesterday,
and with George Tyler in the midst Of
one of his good days they were we'll
nigh inv.ncible. The fielding was
snappy and accurate, and not the least
sensational play of sne afternoon was
Everss catch OF a vicious line drive
off the bat of Getz.
Phil Douglas, who held the Braves
scoreless for sixteen innings the last
time he faced them, was not in his
most effective stride yesterday. He
was nicked for numerous hits OF vary
ing distances and was finally taken out
of the box in the ninth inning. II was
a case of locking the door when the
horses had gone. The Braves scored in
the third frame on hits by Tyler and
Evers, and got another in the fifth on
Cutshaw's error on Maranville's lick,
an infeld cut and Tyler's drive through
the box.
Buck Wheat supplied the fielding
pyrotechnics for Brooklyn by making a
rafting catch of drive by Smith and
doubling Magee at the plate in the
fourth inning