The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-28
.SUPERBAS MALLOP
ATHLETICS 6 TO a,
Then BREAK CAMP
WITH CHANCES STRONGER THAN
IN TEN YEARS, BROOKLYN Ma
HoNALs WILL RACE FOR PEN.
NANT-IN JAx TO-DAY.

AT last the BROOKLYN Sunerhas
on 'neir way to the real Ebbett's field
ihey VIII arrive in Jacksonville near
noon today for game TODAY and an.
otner tomorrow with the Philadelnb;o
Atnietics' whom they beat twice at
the Daytona Ebbetts' field. Tomor.
TO" night they pull up stakes and do
part for Washington, where thew NAV
Friday and Saturday
In the Capitol the superbas should
furnish good lesson in preparedness
AS Tar as can be detected with tho
naked eye they are quite fully nrenar.
eo lor the bitter strife that will pre-
ceue during five and one half months
the worlds series of 1916. They arc
Dit weak in their team work on Gov
erai formations, notably blocking the
uouDle steal of home and second. and
the outfelders need practice in
regular outfield, but the material is
tnere, and the prospects for BROOKLYN
iandlng flag are the brightest for
the past ten years.
All of the pitchers are in good
shape. Now and then one comrlains
OF slight soreness or has tender foot
VI an acnlng tooth, or something but
every one of the ten fingers who will
De taken north is ready to pitch at
moments notice if the necessity
arises. Nap Rucker mentions St;A
ness IN his shoulder, but it is nothing
IKE the trouble that bothered him |
last season, and Nap could probably |
pitch an effective game tomorrow
Jimmy Johnston begins to shape ND |
as major Lacquer more and more He
got two useful hits yesterday when
the Superbas beat the Athletics at |
the local grounds by to in their last |
appearance IN the training camp, and |
ne Is running like a deer. Johnston's
arm is not yet hardened to throwing I
but he has a wing good enough for
all purposes. He dropped a fiy from
Walsh, first up in the ninth inning
and Walsh reached second, whence I
ne scored on Picks single after
Thompson famed Johnston was asked |
Tor an allbi, Tut declined to give one.
AS matter fact, he is breaking in
new and stiff glove, which is ever
the terror of ball player, and he was
not sure of his footing in the sand.
The most satisfactory feature of the
second drubbing handed the Athletics |
was the ability and the intelligence
with which the Superbas connected
with curved pitching Nabors. who
worked five innings, and Elmer Ny
ers, who worked the last four, proved
to be two unusually tall curvers, and
they had much stuff Both are young
and enthusiastic, and their twisters
were as good as we have seen many
star throw in mid-season, but the
Superbas could solve those corscrew /
shoots in emergencies. 1t was exact
ly the kind of practice for which I'm
Gle Wilbert Robinson had been yearn-
ing, and helped the Superbas a lot. |
They have looked over an abundance |
of fast balls from Pfeffer, Dell and I
other huskies in their own squad, but,
with the possible exception Of Mails. |
none of the Superba staff uses such |
wide curves as Majors and Myers. To |
show that they appreciated the oppor- |
tunity. the Superbas made five hits |
and two runs off Majors in five in
nings and five hits and four runs
off Myers in three innings
George Cutshaw, the demon in a
pinch, was the most spectacular of
the Brooklyn batters. George thump-
ed tremendous triple to right cen
ter with three men on bases and two
out in the seventh inning, when |
Brooklyn was one run to the good, |
but by no means sure of winning. That
put the game on ice. Cutshaw, as |
events proved, could have made it |
a homer, as the relay to the plate
was about ten feet wide, but he was |
wise to stop at third and avoid risk
ing an injury in sliding While the |
slides are becoming more numerous. |
the athletes are not yet SO toughened |
that they can count upon hitting the |
dirt without knocking bit of skin |
off their hips
Jake Daubert came into his own |
when he twice fooled the enemy by |
making hits when no hit was expected, |
and by knocking the bail where no. |
body was, but should have been. 1t
was skullduggery of the lowest sort |
from the standpoint of the dear young |
undergraduates of the East, who are
| learning that roofing at ball game |
is positively rude, but the perfidy of |
Taooh m do tremendous bit xry;fh tI,o