New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-03
Robins Easy Victims
of Man1aux's Thrilling
Pirates Take Opener at Eb-
bets Field-HOme Team
Gets but Three Hits.
BY FRANK O'NEILL

There are two tides IN the affairs OF
men and baseball teams. One, If
taken at the food, leads on to for
tune. The other, taken any time YOU
wish. leads into forsaken wastes and
marshes.
1t is bad to be caught in this tide.
but at the very moment you regret
your plight you perhaps discover that
some rival has been caught in the
same fix, and that after all your rel
alive position has not been changed
for the adventure.
Take for example the case OF the
Brooklyn Superbas. They lost to the
Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field
yesterday, and the score was TO 2.
Yet they did not lose ground. for the
Reds defeated the Giants on the Polo
Grounds. A game separates the trans
pontine neighbors.
Al Mamaux, the right handed speed
marvel of the Pirates, was the shipping
master who set the Robins adrift on
the ebbing tide. And after the man
ner of his famed prototype. Captain
Kidd, he set them adrift with only
ships biscuit and water, with broken
oars.
A broken oar is better than no oar
at ALL however, and the Robins, making
the best use of what was granted
them. padded their way 20 a brace of
tallies which were well earned by
three rousing hits, their quota for the
day, and base on balls.
Quite Easy for Myers.
Hiram II. Myers. the leading citizen
of East Liverpool, Ohio, was the leading
factor in the game so far as Brooklyn
was concerned. He was the only man
on the team who could solve the mys-
teries of Mamaux's fast ball delivery.
He drove home the two runs with two
ringing hits, and without him in the
line up Brooklyn might have been shut
out.
No other regular connected at all.
but Casey Stengel, pinch hitting for
Marquard in the eighth. slammed out
two Dagger which placed Myers in
position to score.
The aforementioned Hiram II.
Myers, of East Liverpool. Ohio, came
up to the bat in the sixth inning and
pried off the first hit from Mamaux.
1t was a pippin when it came, and well
worth waiting for. He hit down deep
in left centrefield fence, far beyond
the mad pursuit of Ed Barney and
Max Carey, and scored in solitary
glory, while the small crowd beloved
itself hoarse
In the eighth inning Chief Meyers
drew a pass from the clutch of the
Pirate hurler-a gift grudgingly
granted. Casey Stengel, hitting for
Marquard slashed double into left
field, and Meyers. by furious sprinting
got to third. Myers came up then
and drove a single into left, scoring
the Mission warrior. There were two
GU. when Myers made this second hit,
and Daubert grounde> 10 Wagner, who
threw him out at first. There were
two out in the sixth, when Iii got his
homer, too.
One. Two, Three Order
SO the story Of the offensive move
ment of the Dodgers has been told. 1t
is short story, to be sure. but its
brevity IS eloquent testimony of the
effectiveness of the man who held down
the centre of the diamond for the
Pirates.
In six Of the nine innings the Robins
marched up to the plate one after an
other, took their stance. met their
fate and silently. one after another,
they trooped back to the bench, or
when the inning was over took their
positions in the field Buck Wheat
was the first man 20 break this one.
two, three sequence. In the fifth he
got base on balls. In the sixth and
eighth runs were scored, as told be-
fore.
Apparently the Flatbush fans did not
rate the Pirates as much of an at
traction. for only 5000 were on hand
when the game started. They were
sadly askew in their reckoning. for
on this particular occasion the Pitts
burghcrs were the whole show. The
difference was in the pitchers. Ed
Appleton, the representative Of Airing
ton. Tex. who started the game for
the Robins, lasted for a short while
only. He was knocked into a cooked
hat early in the game, and retired in
favor Of Rube Vanguard
Appleton's Stay Short.
As a matter Of fact, Appleton lasted
only until one man was out IN the sec
ond inning. and al that time the Pr
rates had scored two runs and had the
bases filed. Bill Hinchman was out at
first without trouble. Joe Schultz, who
was with the Robins last year, singled