Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-10
Brooklyn Players Still Confident.

AS a result of Gamers hit the Bos- ton team left for Brooklyn tonight with two of the necessary four vic tories to their credit and will renew tomorrow at Ebbet's Field the strug- gle for further honors. Almost simuI- taneously, the Brooklyn players de- parted for their home grounds confi- dent that their fortune will change once they are back upon familiar
 fields and bearing with them the ad miration of every spectator who wit messed the desperate battle against what is conceded to be one of the greatest baseball machines of modern times.
 Honor for Vanquished Team.
 Brooklyn, in the role of vanquished, garnered almost as much praise and honor as the triumphant Rcd Sox. Their fighting spirit will go down as one of the remarkable in the annals of the game. In holding the Carrigan clan for fourteen innings before ad mitting defeat, they established a new record for worlds series play, eclips ing the to thirteen inning tie game played by the Chicago Nationals and the Detroit Americans in 1907 Fine Setting for BosebaIi Battle. No finer setting for a baseball battle of this record breaking type could have been conujred by the cleverest mind of a stage director Braves
 
 the country, was filled with a gather ing which fell less than a thousand below the record for a championship l throng. Bleachers and &randstands were filled almost to capacity and in contrast to the opening game the spectators. thrilled with the tenseness of the contest, rooted without cessa- | tion through the entire two hours and l 32 minutes of play. Once the charac- ter of the contest had gripped them, ! and improvised noise producers, raised 1 a dine that rattled the windows of staid Back Bay houses and made it
 impossible to hear the umpires de- l cisions.
 1 Robinson Protests BIare of Bands. l So great was the noise that Manager ! Robinson finally protested to the arbi-
 ters against the blare of the bands on l the ground that his players could not
 hear his coaching instructions. With
 it all, however, the thousands were ex- 1 ceedingly fair in their applause and every star play of the many made by l Brooklyn was accorded the same ap-
 prova! as those reeled off by the ! smooth Red SoX, machine.
 l Gainer Enters Hall of Fame. While Gamers hit coming as it did at the climax of a remarkable game, 1 has earned him a place in the hall of l fame reserved for baseball players. there were others whose play showed the heights to which a player can rise when occasions like that of this after ] noon demand. lily" Myers, already a l hero with his home run in the open l ing inning, robbed Hooper of an extra base hit in the sixth inning, with a running catch in which he picked the ball off the grass top and finshed with a complete somersault coming up with the ball still tightly clenched in his bare hand. Daubert took a high l twisting foul far back of first base from Walsh's bat in the eleventh in a manner made famous by Hal Chase. Wonderful Throw by Myers.
 In the ninth Myers again temporar- ] fly saved his team from defeat with a wonderful throw which nipped Ian 1 vrin trying to score from third on Hoblttzelfs deep fly to the Superbas' centerf1elder. Great praise fell also to Pitchers Ruth and Smith, who swung through fourteen innings for the closest kind of play with a steadiness ot service and pitching Judgment sell dom equalled. F'ifty-one batters faced