The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-12
DODGERS HAVE LAST
CHANCE TO HALT SOX
Baseball Sharps Look for
: Worlds Series to End This
: Afternoon.
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mat he would RETREAT the close Of this
season some time ago. and up to today
the big boss Of the sox has been unable
TO dissuade the peppery leader.
The Dodgers looked like a beaten ball
club when they left the field after yes
tsrday's defeat for the first time since
out Of their lighting spirit. They started
with a flourish and wound up with a
sound Of escaping steam. Though de-
feated IN the number Of runs scored In
the irst two games In Boston. they were
terday could be seen all over the lot.
The broad, general impression was
about all that remained to be done was
run the cooling engine into the shed
for the winter.
Day of Slugging.
Outplayed in two OF the former
Rames, the Dodgers yesterday found
that the Red sox also WELD, q bag full
OF heavy bludgeons. Rube' Maruuard
and Larry Cheney also found 1t out.
il took old Map Rucker, veteran star
of Brooklyn, to halt the booming OF
the Red sox maces.
Just who wilbert Robinson will elect
for firing pan duty today Is q problem.
6herrod Smith. who twirled that fine
fourteen teen innings against tse, Red sox
But Jeff Pfeffer. star OF the cham
pionship season. has done stellar work
as a relief workman. and he may draw
the assignment. Also. there IL Rucker,
Ruoker actually showed as much or
moro effectiveness in his brief attempt
yesterday than any OF the moro youth
ful ones.
game like ne meant II. He had every
thing-including lack Of control. The
sn.o0 southpaw was all curves and
smoke. but he didn't have q bit of luck
controlling his benders. and he had to
make way for pinch hitter.
Just Plain Baseball.
There was no brightest point In put
ting the third crimp in the Dodger nag.
IT was Just plain Baseball. with the Red
sox deliberately playing the one run
game. a hit and a sacrifice. and almost
invariably getting away with II.
The Dodgers have seen this thing hap
pen every day, and there hasn't been
a move against 1t. The only attempt to
in the Brooklyn conflict. when Mike
Mowrey. dashing in from third on an
attempted sacrifice by Janvrin. whipped
the ball to Olson and forced Harry
Hooper. This must have thrown an
awful surprise into the Red Sox camp.
for II was one of the first real smart
plays the Dodgers have attempted.
The example had Its effect, for later
with a little brilliance Of his own. It
WA made possible by Dutch Leonard.
who alone. seemed to still be semi-con-
ecious from the effect OF Mikes bril-
liant achievement.
gan. the boss Red Stocking. was on sec
ond. RUDE Vanguard uncorked one of
his twisters, which. after describing
the accustomed arc, plunged into the
Ebbets Field clay and bounded into the
Carrigan 10 getting along in years
and he could not see his way clear "a
trust to luck and the soft dirt in a wild
scramble for third. SO he stuck to Sec
That youth ducked his head. TANNED
his cap down harder. and beat IT for
second. Carrigan yelped wildly for him
TO have q care. but Leonard was bound
for second and glory;
into Q put-out at the hands of Merkle
ana Cutshaw.
Merkle. Has a Chance.
Nerltle. by the way. got In some Of his
notorious work in the only chance he
had to shine at It. A fateful foul ball
ward late in the game, and Fred. after
perching under II. evidently turned his
mind back to that game between the
Red Sox and Giants In 1912. and he lei
the ball thud harmiessly on the turf.
1t made him mad. and he showed Il
He snatched 1t from the greensward
and. picking out Mike Mowery from
among all that gang OF ball players
aimed a high inshoot at the red -thatch.
Cd dome Of the third sacker. Mike
luckily ducked. and the only damage
wAs dent IN Charles II. Ebbets' new
boz seats.
Larry Gardner, the Baker OF the AZ.
ries. contributed his home run with
Two on In yesterdays mix-up. slapping
the pill far into center field, with Hob.
litzel and Lewis perched on the sacks
It was his second four-ply wallop.