New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-13
Brooklyns Divide Two
Contest Honors, but Slip
Back Half Game.
MAMAUX TOO MUCH
FOR FLAG CHASERS
Breaks Against Dodgers in
Last Pastime-Pirates
Shut Out in Opener.
Bv FRANK O'NEILL.

Buck Wheat continues TO flash
across the baseball armament. The
Polo Meteor made his hits in both
games Of the double-header which the
Brooklyn Robins divided with the
Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field
Yesterday afternoon, making twenty
five consecutive games in which he
has won his individual battles with
the various pitchers. 49,
As usual. the Polo boys waiiopS
were clean and sharp and hgured IN
the scoring of his teams runs: ne
first was a triple that rang on the
rjght-feld wall in the opening strug-
Gle The second was a wallop TO star
board in the ninth frame OF the hnsI
game and resulted in a run.
But the Robins were not so success
mi as a team as Wheat was as an
Individual, and they drew nothing
better than an even break in the az
ternoon Of sport. Starting with a
flourish Of trumpets, they won the
first game by score of 6 TO 0, but
lost in the second game by count OF
9 10 /. They lost some ground with
the second game, and now are only a
single game ahead Of Pat Morans
Phillies.
First Contest Easy.
BROOKLYN won the first game right
from the 30. Wheat, the first man to
face Bill Evans. the STRIPPING from
North Carolina Agricultural and Me
cbanic Arts College, smashed the ball
10 right centre. hitting the fence on
the fly, and dashing 20 third base
Buck scored. and the run harvest was
inaugurated The second game was
lost only after bitter fight, in which
the luck of the game played its part:
Unable 10 break through the guard of
AL Mamaux for eight innings. the
Robins got together in the ninth, and,
punching two singles, the first by
Wheat and the other by Fred Merkle,
escaped the ignominy of a shut-out.
Luck played its part in beating
Brooklyn in the second game. With
Merkle on second in the ninth inning
and one out, Ivy Olson slashed one
down the third-base line. ticketed for
a hit il ever a ball were. Two feet
inside the bag, the ball hit pebble,
or some inequality in the ground, and
ricocheted sharply on TO foul ground.
This saved Mamaux a run, for War
ner was five feet away from the ball,
which was moving like a lightning
bolt. After this fortuitous circum-
stance Mamaux righted himself and
retired Olson and Chief Meyers on
strikes.
JEFF Pfefer returned to the box and
pitched the first game. The Grand
Rapids giant worked in the same easy
style that carried him through the
early months of the season, and ne
lad the Pirates with him all the time.
They got to jeff for five hits, and Bill
Fischer. a former Robins. got two
doubles. Hans Wagner, Bill Hinch-
man and Warner the newly acquired
third baseman, got the others One TO
each. and all singles. was the allot-
ment. None Of the Pirates advanced
to third base.
Coombs Pitches in Second.
Jack Coombs worked the losing game
for Brooklyn. and no complaint could
be lodged against his pitching. lie
allowed only five hits, and as the game
vas played out. he might have carried
hostilities along for months and
months. The longer Jack worked the
stronger he became, but an unfor-
tunate wild throw by Olson allowed
Bigbee TO score on a double steal.
If Olson erred in that instance, he
more than atoned with his work for
the day. He was prominent in the
offensive movements in the first game.
His double in the first game resulted
in a run, and his timely single later
on in that same contest drove over
another. His fielding was Of high
order, and his quick thinking made It
possible for a double play to be made.
BY making a realistic bluff at taking
throw, he bamboozled Bigbee into
holding second until Getz had caught
foul by Carey and shot throw TO
Daubert. completing the double play.
Mamaux, as told previously, was
more than a match for the Robins IN
the second game, but Bill Evans, and
Elmer Jacobs, who worked for while
in the first, were pleasingly entertain
ing. They were knocked about for all
the runs Brooklyn scored, but Bullet
Miller, who pitched the eighth inning,
prevented scoring quite nicely. Just
about every one managed TO get hits
from the Pirate moundsmen in that
first game. Bill Fischer caught both
games, doing better work In the first
than IN the second He picked Chief
Meyers OF third base after the Mission
lad rolled a wallop up the steps Of the
Troop c Armory, and won a mad dash
% third by a nod.
Bigbee Plays at Second.
The Pirates had youth named Big
bee on second base, and he made a
hit with the fans. lie hurled himself
IN front Of several hard hit smashes
and converted them into outs. His
work was aided by Doc Johnston, who
was called on 20 make some good
catches OF hurried throws. One Of
these plays stteSted the honesty OF
baseball, for Doc Johnston stretched
about five feet 20 catch throw TO re-
tire his brother, Jimmie.
George Cutshaw made a great play
on Carey IN the fourth frame Of the