New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-20
OuakerS Win First End of
Observation-Disclosures
Postponed.
TWO GAMES TO-DAY
AT EBBETS FIELD
Luderus Settles Muddy Struggle
with Home Run in the
Seventh Inning.
BY FRANK O'NEUL.

lcrd Byron kept the ROBINS ano
Phi.lies playing through nine slippery
sloDpery innings yesterday, and the
Quaker City band won by score OF 3
20 There was double-header SEIZED
uled. but the second game was post
poned. The teams Will clash twice 10
day.
Ii is hard 20 recall any game which
was played under such impossible con-
ditions. Wilbert Robinson declared
after the game that in all his expert
ence. that dates back almost twenty
FIVE years. IN major league baseball, ne
has never seen a game played on such
field.
Charles II. Ebbets refused 10 be in
terviewed. but said that mud baths
we're very good for certain ailments,
and that the players and Byron would
undoubtedly be greatly benefited by
their wallowing around the morass that
once was a perfectly good ball field:
Byron ran true TO form. lie Kept
iCht down at the bottom OF the mud
and water, and his authority kept the
PLAYERS down with him. Once game
g started the umpire Is in complete
charge. and 10 is within his discretion
20 call a game If inclement weather
conditions prevail. In the opinion OF
the ten thousand or more fans, m
clement weather conditions did prevail J.,
but a member Of the Sirenide would
nave judged the condition of the field
perfect. with all the comforts OF home.
Bill Byron is not tall and slender,
come 10 think Of it. He is short and
rather chunky.
Rain Came in Torrents.
While the rain poured in torrents,
reducing the diamond TO a sticky, pasty
mess: while the players squashed
around I'm the mud with the water
spouting through the lacing eyelets Of
their shoes and while the fans howlet
their protests. the arbiter forced the
pastime 10 continue 10 the end.
More than bowling their protests. the
denizens oc the Wheatville bleachers
broke over The field and demanded that
The game be halted. This was at the
four and C1e-half inning mark. They
we're finally shoed into the stands, and
the great little comedy, Get the Pub
lies Money" was continued through
30 its dripping end.
Serious injury might have been sui
fcrcd hv any of the players. The bat
ters could scarcely run the base lines
when they hit the ball. but then 1t was
ffty-fftv, for the felders could not
run after ire ball. When Buck Wheat's
triple rolled 10 the centreheld fence
i'm the sixth he could hardly run. To
begin with. he almost stuck in the
mud. and ~ every step he skidded so
that the fans how.ed for him 20 use
chains. on clear day he would have
had home run
Taking all things into consideration,
the performance of JEFF Pfefer, who
held forth on the mound for Brooklyn,
end Grover Alexander, who pitched for
the Philhes. was little short Of won
derful With that slippery ball, Pfef-
fer walked only two men and Int no
one. Alex walked two and winged Chief
Meyers with one of his fast ones. Each
pitcher allowed nine hits. Alexander
had the Robins hitting the ball up in
the air. an as a result the Phllhes had
only four assists. Alexander had two
of these. Killifer one and Bancroft
one All things considered. II was re-
markablc that errCrsswere not Of more
frequent occurrence.
Ludtrus Settles the Issue.
Fritz Ludcrus settled the issue in the
seventh inning George Whitfield came
up and hit a single into right field; that
was al right for a beginning, but u
necdeO q lew INNS anu ~ m
of setting. so Lu6erus lifted the ball
clean out Of the lot over the
right field fence, scoring Whitted be-
lore him. That broke a tie at one run
all. and provided the margin 20 stall
off one of the customary Brooklyn
rallies i'm trc last half of the seventh.
Bancroft's double i'm the first frame,
Niehof's secrifice hit and a single by
stocK gave the Phils their first run.
The Dodgers scored their first run
i'm the sixth when Wheat tripled and
Mowrey doubled. A two-bagger by
Chief Meyers. a single by Pfefer and
sacrifice fy by Iii Myers produced
another run in the seventh.
The score follows:
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