New Britain herald., 1916-10-04
BROOKLYN REALIZES
 ITS PENNANT HOPE
Has Been Trailing Flag for Six
 teen Long Years

New York, Oct. 4-On this bright October morning you are invited to meet the winners of the National league pennant. Fans, shake hands l with Brooklyn; Brooklyn, shake hands with the fans.
 Uncle Wilbert Robinson and his happy Dodgers won the flag yester- l day when they left themselves open l to prosecution by committing a seri- | ous case of assault on the Giants. 1 The Brooklyns won to 6. As the Phils dropped two to Boston all traf- 1 fc must keep close to the sidewalks and let the Brooklyn champions pass It was the Giants poor playing that gave Brooklyn the pennant. A crowd of about 11,O00 persons saw the Robins do the trick, and, al- though many of them were from this side of the East River, no one be- grudged the fact that the Brooklyns grabbed the streamer. Goodness knows, they deserve it. They have struggled for sixteen years for the l honor and now that they have it, why not make it unanimous.
 In toying with the Giants yesterday Brooklyn simply held a rehearsal for the worlds series. The Giants were loose and careless. The machine 1 like accuracy of their playing was | missing. They looked like an auto l mobile which had been taken all apart | and could not be put together again. 1 At certain stages the Giants seemed | on the verge of collapse and it looked l as if they were in need of pulmotor 1 or few tanks of oxygen.
 ] McGraw's men, who have been cut 1 ting deep into all known existing rec- | ords for the number of games won, l were higher up in the air than l debutante at her first reception, Most 1 of them handled the ball just as if l it were hot potato. Brooklyn didn't | hesitate about pounding McGraw's l best known pitchers all over the outer l terraces The Giants outfelders
 were leg weary chasing the ball. Giants Start Vigorously. ] McGraw's lads started out as if they were going to snow the Brooklyns under a fury of hits and runs, and l then before the game was over they l closed up like a morning glory in the l sun.
 ! Aside from the folks who paid their | good money to see the Dodgers take l the flag several saw the game for 1 nothing. The surrounding housetops, ] trees and hillocks were damned with ! Brooklyn's citizens who are putting 1 their good money in the bank instead l of giving it over to Squire Ebbets 1 When the worlds series is played in 1 Flatbush next week the Squire will l have to invent some new kind of l screens to block the view of all these | loyal Brooklyn fans who are swelling l the assets of the Brooklyn banks 1 You'd think-wouldn't you?-that
 the Brooklyn folks would be more or less grateful to the indifferent Giants 1 when they finished second best to the Dodgers; but not so. They hooted l and booed as if the Giants were trim
 ming Robinson's boys instead of giv-
 ing them an effective shove toward i honor and glory.
 McGraw's Pitchers Not in Form.
 sherrod Smith pitched for the
 Dodgers for a while, but he wasn't quite right, so big Jeff Pfeffer went
 in and held the Giants at a safe dis
 tance from victory. Among the
 Giant pitchers who took part were
 Rube Benton, Pol Perritt and George 1 Smith, the Columbia youth. Field
 Captain Charley Herzog gave the inn l pression that he was sore1y dsap- 1 pointed at the Giant pitchers and he | held several conferences with both l Benton and Perritt At one stage | Herzog seemed so mad that it looked as if he was going in and pitch him. self
 The score:
 r. h. Q.
 Brooklyn .O14o1111x-9 14 4 1 New York ...3O101OO01-6 II 2 Batteries: S. Smith, Pfeffer and
 Miller; Benton, Perritt, G. Smith and l Rariden
 1 MEEHAN BEATS BARLEALETTE.
 Tho lac st oca m a of the first series in