New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-17
Dodgers Too Busy Lead
ing to Bother About
Claiming Pennant.
JAKE DAUBERT HAS
IDEAS OF HIS OWN
By Methodical Flooding Phillies
Have Settled Into Stride Which
Gives Great Promise.
By FRANK O'NEILL.

about winning Of pennants.
His formula for victory is quite sim
pie, and can be copied by any manager
in the National League. Robbie will
ask neither credit nor cash. Just 90
out and play the best ball you know
how 20 play, and il it's good enough
showers beat merry tattoo against
the clubhouse windows at Ebbets Field
yesterday.
I've are too busy leading the league
to bother our heads claiming the PEN
nant," said Uncle Wilbert. 81 have
read the accounts of how other man
ayers said they would win, but some
how or other the old Robins are right
out there, winging their way along.
Maybe some team will come out and
stop US, but guess that time will be
when our pitching staff crumbles TO
pieces and when Daubert, Wheat and
the rest of our fence busters forget
the knsck Of meeting the ball Our
team is not leading the league in club
batting, but 1t is getting in the timely
wallop, and that is what counts in
baseball.
Plenty, Of men can hit when their
nerves are free from the strain of
knowing victory depends upon meeting
the ball. Others wilt under responsi-
bility, but our men manage TO connect
at the right time"
Jake Daubert, the field captain and
leading batsman, has his own ideas on
the Robins. He attributes the success
of the team to the spirit of the men.
who have awakened 10 the fact that
they can play winning baseball.
It's a different team" said Jake.
"The fellows are lighting hard all the
time, and every chance Is seized. There
used TO be time when a victory was
welcome, as victory always is, but II
defeat was met it made little real diff
ference II makes big difference now.
The boys just hate to lose and they
/ hate themselves for losing. | think
that Rube Vanguard settled a lot of
doubts the other day when he went in
and pitched so well for FIVE innings.
RUDE has a lot of good baseball in
him yet, and all he needs is hot
weather"
To break away from the professional
game for few moments. The other
! day Vergil Link shut out Yale, allow
/ ing one hit. At the time we did not
/ know his surname and. in our quest for
/ knowledge on the matter called on the
/ Princeton Club. Some mad, mad wag
/ at the other end of the wire informed
us that his name was Robert A, and
we believed HIM All of which goes "a
prove that Princeton produces not only
Presidents. Governors and pitchers, but
also merry little jokers. However. Link
is a great pitcher, and an error in nam
ing him cannot detract from the credit
due to him.
While the Yankees were bidding high
for the services of Joe Gedeon, Moran
also was after him. but failed to get
/ him. of course Now. however, the
/ Quaker City fans would not trade John
A. BERT Niehof for any second-sack
err in the National League, unless per
haps it were Larry Doyle. Niehof Il
/ hitting close to the 800 mark, and i:
getting his wallops when they are
needed. Gedeon is down around the
200 mark. and while he has shown {
tendency 70 do better of late, he is fai
from effective, and has been dropped
to seventh position in the batting order
Hal Chase was well on his way tow
ard equalling the major league RECORD
established by Ty Cobb, who hit safely
in forty consecutive games in 1911, un
/ til he met Pat Ragon, in Boston, OF
June Ia. Chase had hit safely in nine
teen games. Ray Collins, the Red SOP
pitcher. stopped Cobb. Jack Ness hi
safely in something like forty-fv'
straight games in the Pacific Coas
League last year.
When the Reds and the Braves tore
at each others throats for sixteen inn
ings without allowing a run the FAM
believed that a record had been estab
lished in major league baseball. This
is not the case, however. The Detrol
Tigers and the Senator'S played through
eighteen innings TO a scoreless tie OF
July 10, 1909. at Detroit.
In that record struggle Kickapot
Summers pitched against Dolly Gray
and Bobby Groom. He allowed sever
hits. while the Washington twirler
we're found for one less. Ty Cobb anC
Sam Crawford faced fire seven timel
each without getting a nit.
With the Boston Red Sox down In thu
race, crippled beyond doubt for wan
of a clean hitter Of the Speaker type
the fans are beginning to wonder JUS
why Babe Ruth is not tried as an out
fielder Ruth is a great pitcher, and
natural hitter as we'll. With the res
Of the Boston beavers in condition Car
rigan may give Babe Ruth chance e
show his skill in the field. Some of th'
Red Sox pitchers are not right as yet
so the big southpaw's debut in the QUITE
gardens may be delayed somewhat. Il
case Ruth should develop any real skill
in fielding, what a whale Of man h
would bel He can drive ball as IA
as any man in the big show. and viii
him in the game every day Boston Ger
tainly would be strengthened.
II would not be surprising II Ruti
made good as an outfelder Mike Don
lin started as pitcher and developed
into a champion batsman. Cy Seymour
was another, and he led the Natlona
League in 1905. Jack Coombs. nov
with the Robins, played the outhel'
after he strained his arm In that IA
nous twenty-four-inning duel between
/ RACING