The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-02
kAUFF MAKES RECORD DRIVE
 FOR 4 BASES

Boston, Sept. 2-After pitching re- | markedly effective ball against the Braves for seven innings yesterday, Fred Anderson cracked in the eighth and the Giants lost, to 1. The vis- | itors were guilty of several bonehead plays that assisted largely in their defeat. The victory advanced the Braves to within one game of the leading Dodgers.
 Don Carlos Ragan was hit freely, but poor base running and the want of the punch in the pinchas kept the Giants from scoring until the ninth inning, when Benny Kauff started it with the longest drive ever made on Braves field. The ball was hit so far it rolled to the flagpole, in deepest | centre, Kauff crossing the plate be- fore Snodgrass reached the ball. The Braves played a ragged game in the field, thereby affording the Giants many promising openings, but none was taken advantage of. The third inning serves as an, illustration. Zimmerman singled Co left as a starter. Kauff drove a wicked low liner to Magee. who dropped the ball. Konetchy then fumbled Kelly's hot grounder. This second error would have filled the bases. But Kauft thinking perhaps that the ball had passed Konetchy, kept on to third. This forced Zimmerman to leave third for home and he was run down.
 With Burns on second in the fifth inning and two out, Snodgrass made a remarkable left-handed catch of Robertsons smash.
 The Braves first run was tainted. Snodgrass had singled and reached third on a steal. and Rariden's low 1 throw. There were two out Magee rolled to Fletcher, but Arthur had one of Anderson's spit balls to throw and he heaved it ten feet over tall Kelly's head, Snodgrass scoring. This was the only run until the Braves eighth. Hughes led off with dinky lift over Herzog's head. the ball bounding away from Robertson for a double. Maranville bunted and Anderson threw to third, although Hughes had not tried to reach that bag. Snodgrass followed with lucky single to Zimmerman, filling the bases.
 Chapelle bounded the ball high half way to the pitchers box, but Ander- 
 play. Mccarthy ran up and got it, but his plunge to touch Hughes failed and the corners were congregated again. A wild pitch enabled Maran- vile to score. A lightning double play, Zimmerman to Mccarthy to Kelly, prevented further damage.
 In the seventh inning Mccarthy was thrown out at the plate by Maranville on an attempted double steal with Robertson. The latter played splen- did1y in the field, one of his catches being diving grab with his hands touching the ground. Kauff also did good work in center.
 Manager Stallings took Ragan out of the box in the seventh inning after Mccarthy had singled and two balls had been called with Burns at bat. Hughes held the Giants hitless until Kauff tore off his homer.
 McCarty batted in place of Rariden in the seventh, and caught the bal ance of the game. Both teams fought hard, and there were many verbal clashes between the players. As the score of the Brooklyn and Philadel- phia games were put on the score board the Braves batted all the more correctly-and so did the Giants, in fact, but not as successfully.
 The big attendance at this game warrants the belief that the double : header today and the two games on Labor Day will draw as many spec tators as the series between the Braves did just two years ago.