New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-12
SUPERBAS FIND
THE CUBS ON A
BATTING SPREE
Nap RuCker. with Little on
the Ball, Pounded for
Fourteen Hits.
SOME WASTED, But
FIVE RUNS RESULT
Brooklyn, in the Meantime,
Scores Only Once, as Pierce
Gives Only Four SafeticS.

Nap Ruchcr was unable 10 pour all
tine cunning Of his master brain into
bis left arm yesterday, and the super
5as lost the opening game 20 tho Chi
Caco Cubs al Ebbcts Field by score
OF , 70 !.
Just why Brcenahau's mon did not
wouut inc totals INTO double figures
can be explained IN only one way. They
must have grown tired running out
hi y q matter Of plain fact, Ruckcr
had little more than his knowledge of
the weak points Of the batters and his
reputation.
Nap tried 10 win a game with his
science Of twirling. hut IL was not long
before he found that tho way Of the
pitcher - hard and hcsct with peril.
here was nothing much on his curve
fall. His slow one was a base hit his
Z. ., one wounded nicldcr
The Cubs started their first Eastern
H. sion on a sort of batting spree.
They gathered fourteen hits, good for
total Of twenty-thrcc bases. These
in 'uded a home yum by Vic SAFER. a
tr.ple by Hciuic Zimmerman and dou
blos by Good Williams and Pierce.
Yet for all the fence busting the Cubs
did not make the most Cf their
chances
In the second inning. for instance.
they gathered home run By Safer.
double by Williams. a single by Pierce,
an error by Myers and a force play for
just one run. Archer Rugged third
when he should have scored on the
Will hcave by myers.
on ;he other hand. Heinic thinner
man bunglcd into a run. when, by all
laws Of baseball. he should have been
thrown out a mile. Taking crazy
chance. he stretched a long single 30
centre into double. luck breaking
when Myers's throw was bit 10 the
lcf Of the bag. Then be pranced mad
IS 20 third on a pop - short right field.
an inaccurate throw favorng him. and
he counted on Archor's fly TO Left. This
sort Of playing is too hazardous 10
long endure.
In the eighth inning Robbie decided
20 remove Rucker and allow John
Hummel TO hit for him. John made
good. as ne usually does. and singled.
Il was Leon Galore who faced the
Bruins in the ninth. He looked good.
but il WIS really Rucker who made
him. Nap had been in there. serving
the old slow one up. and when Cadore
entered, cutting loose with a fast ball
lNdl larry SMOKED as u SnOt over me
plate, the batters could not adjust
their eyes to the lightning change.
Good and Fisher, the first men TO face
him. famed and Schultz grounded out.
George Pierce, the left-haader, who
filings them damp, was out on the rub
Der for the Cubs. and when he was
not fretting over something that might
possibly happen, but probably wouldn't.
he worked well. He allowed only four
hits, and only in the eighth frame
could the Superbas score. Singles by
Schulz and Hummel. with force
play on Daubert's hopper, sent the
first named home In six Of the nine
innings the Superbas wen: up and
down in order.
Saier's home run gave the Cubs a
run in the first frame, while in the
sixth a double by Zimmerman and
Archer's drive were moulded into
count. Two doubles, one by Pierce
and the other by Good accounted for
another run in the seventh. Then came
the eighth. with triple b. thinner
man and singles by Williams and
Archer.
Zimmerman was busy batter. He
got a single. double and n triDle in
four times up.
The score follows: