New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
MORDECAI BROWN
IN "CONIE BACK"
DEFEATS GIANTS
10000 Chicago Fans In
Frenzy as Miner Mows
Down McGraWiteS.

Brown, the three-hnRered wlzaru VI
former days, who has made several ef-
forts to come back" this season, mace
good day by defeating the Giants De-
fore 10000 raving baseball fans 81
Weeghman's Park.
At that Brown was mighty lucky to
get away with It. His victory was
largely due to the grand support no re-
ceiv.d from his teammates, who pulled
down wild throws and felded hits that
ordinarily would have gone for one OF
two bases. To the great crowd, mad
with the heat and crazy with en-
thusiasm, there was nothing to IT but
good old Brownie. and they kept the
atmosphere violently agitated with
roars Of applause every time he made
Q move.
TIL. Anal SCORE was to 3, which,
aside from giving tho Cubs much-de,,
sired victory over their time honoreu
rivals, landed them In the hrst oi-
vision.
A Riotous Inning.
As soon as Brown was announced rs
the Cub twirler McGraw brought OUT
Rube Benton, as the southpaw has al
wavs been effective in games wlth
Brown. but something went wrong with
his calculations to-day. Brown had sent
the Giants down without score IN tne
opening half and then his mates fell
upon benton savagely, putting across
four runs before the riotous proceed
Wortman grounded to Doyle, but Lee
Mann drove through Benton for SIN
gle. Williams followed with a single
into right, sending Mann to third;
Heinie Zim sent short pop penlnu
Doyle. which fell safe for a single,
scoring Mann and putting Williams on
second.
Joe Kelly poked grounder TO Doyle,
killing Zim at second, but Williams
reached third. Kelly then stole second
and Vic Safer counted Joe and Williams
with a single through Doyle. Rollie
Zeider was hit. Bill Fischer slapped
TO Herzog. who threw to Doyle in an
effort to flag Zeider at second. Zelder
beat the throw, however, and Safer
sneaked home in the excitement with
Brown ended the uprising by tanning.
Having retired the Giants in order
in the second, the Cubs added two
more runs. Workman singled, but was
thrown out by Burns when he at
tempted to make third on Mann's one
base knock, Les going TO second on the
play and continuing to third while
Herzog was throwing out Williams.
Heinie Zim tailed Mann with a double
inside the first base line and Joe Kelly
drove one into the left field crowd for
two bases. counting Zim.
The Giants registered their first run
in the third. Lobert. first up, hit
safely and Rariden got a single
through Zim. McGraw sent up George
Kelley TO hit for Benton. He came
through with blow TO left, on which
Lobert counted. Burns. however,
slapped into double play, and Rarl-
den. who had made third, was left
stranded when Doyle grounded TO
Safer.
Anderson Bombarded.
Fred Anderson packed his splitter to
the mound in the third, and survived
that and the succeeding inning without
being scored upon. But the Cubs
chased one across in the nfth, Wnen,
with two down, Zeider doubled and
tailed on singles by Fischer and
Brown. ,,
In the sixth, after Mann and Will
iams were disposed of, Zim singled
through Herzog. the ball hitting Buck
on the knee and bouncing into centre
field, permitting Heinie TO reach sec
ond. With Kelly up, Zim tried to
steal third, and got there when Lo,,
bert dropped the throw. Kelly scored
Heinie with single to right. stole
second. got TO third on passed ball,
but Safer couldn't connect.
Wheeling into the ultimate round with
a seven-run lead. Brownie eased up,
with the result that the Giants scored
twice. Herzog singled and Robertson
hit the right field wall for a double.
counting the ex-Red pilot. Benny Kauf
brought Robertson home with a single
10 right. Kocher. who had relieved
Rariden of the catching duties IN the
sixth, ended the game with kauf on
third with a grounder 10 zimmerman.
The score follows: