New Britain herald., 1916-10-03
COOMbS HERO WHEN
 GIANTS ARE zEROED
Colby Jack Fails to Falter Against
 MCGraW Cohorts

Brooklyn, Oct. 3.-Aided and abet- ted by the Fighting Fourteenth Regi- ment of Brooklyn, which occupied the front upper tier of the stadium, rim ming two sides of the playing square with broad belt of brown khaiki, the Flatbush Fusileers, under Com- mand of Field Marshal Fatty Rob- inson hurled back the invading forces of Col. John McGraw at Eb- bets Field yesterday.
 Moved down by the murderOuS fire of Battery Coombs the attacking force Giants was unable to get 8 single man over the scoring ramparts and when the smoke of battle had drifted off the field the record wreck ing men of McGraw found that the Colby Carbine had shot them with 2 to 0 whiteWash.
 The Giants mounted the ladders of the wall at the very start or the fray, filling the bases with two out and putting it up to Sir Benjamin Michael Kauff to batter a breach in the for tifications for the Clan McGraw in the charge through to victory. But there in the pinch the Colby Carbine after feeding clouting Kauff three straight balls, stiffened into a stone wall and breezed battering Benny with three straight strikes
 By George!" exclaimed Col. John H. Foote, the commander of the Fighting Fourteenth, to Major Pat Donovan, who sat beside him in q box, that's what I call remarkable steadiness under fire!"
 But Major Donovan heard him not. He was up on his feet with the rest of the Brooklyn fans, roaring mighty paean of triumph in honor of Colby Jack. And no one who heard Major Donovan's Celtic war cries at Ebbets Field yesterday will ever ex- pect any army surgeon to recommend the major be retired for any alleged weakness of the lungs.
 Still the "Iron Man,
 The nerve the Maine marvel showed when the skirmishing lines first were thrown out did not desert him throughout the fray and from then on till the end not a single Giant got past second base with the exception of Walter Holke, who landed at third through an error by Fly Myers, with two down in the seventh canto, but languished when Cutshaw spiked the Giant guns with a glittering grab of Rariden's rap over second.
 Ferdie Schupp, pitching hero in the Giants great recent rush to the twen- ty-f1ve straight record mounted the pitching peak yesterday. Ferdie flashed a brilliant brand of pitching but was not quite up to the standard set by his veteran twirling rival. Ferdie was bested in a duel with one of the greatest pitchers of all time, and the youngster made his illustri- ous rival twirl one of the most glori- ous games of his career to win. Coombs conquered Schupp, but there was no disgrace in Ferdie's defeat Each side harvested six hits, but Daubert and Wheat clustered a pair of clouts together off schupp for a run in the fourth frame and Mil Ter and Daubert punched a brace of b1ngles on Anderson in the eighth for another marker, while Coombs, after the first frame. kept all Giant swate from treading on the heels of each other.
 There was no question as to who was the Brooklyn hero. The laurels rest on the stalwart shoulders of Col by Jack CoOmbs. The old Athletic mainstay was there in all his ancient glory. With the pennant possibly hanging in the balance, with from 1000 to $4 000 worlds series money probably at issue, Colby Jack was all nerve and iron, and try as they might the gllttering Giants could not batter breach in his defence
 Coombs Well Supported
 And with the one exception of the booble committed by generally Old Reliable Fly Myers the Dodgers backed up the Colby Carbine with a stone wall support. No hint of the attack of the "willies'' the Superbas seemed suffering with in the first two games in the recent series with the Phillies was noticed yesterday,
 MOWrey made two corking stops, one a corral of Robertson's sizzling liner in the second and the other a knockdoWn and pick up of Fletcher'5 savage clout in the ninth The field ing piece de resistance of the fray, however, was furnished by Cutshaw, who spiked a Giant rally and choked off a Giant run by his great run back and catch of Rariden's peculiar float CT over second. Most of the Giants hits however, were easy pop-ups or clouts straight into the ffelders hands.
 The score:
 r. h. e. New York .O0O0OO0OO-O 6 o Brooklyn .0O010001x-2 6 1
 Batteries: Schupp,. Anderson and [