The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-12
DODGERS GET EVEN
WITH YANKEE CLAN
Only a Worlds Series i'm the
Fall Can Settle Question
Of Superiority.
BROOKLYN WINS, Z TO 2

Uncle wiibert Robinson got even yes
terday with Capt. T. l.. Huston for the
%indignities heaped upon his Dodgers BY
the Yankees last Thursday. In the sec
ond and concluding game OF the spring
series at Ebbets Field the Robins smote
the clan Of Wild Bill Donovan. hip and
thigh. for a Ia victory. This left the
teams tied In the abbreviated tourna-
ment with one victory apiece. Messrs.
Huston and Robinson hope to settle 1t In
the worlds championship series next fall.
The scouts who brought In Gilhooley
advised Donovan to keep this epitome OF
Willie keeier out OF the sun. Wild hi
wouldn't have been quite 20 wild this
morning had he taken the tip. Right
field In Brooklyn Is the sun baked Sec
ton of the picket lines, but as 1t was
only a practice game Donovan left little
Frank in his accustomed sphere. Gil
not only spilled the beans, but narrowly
escaped with his life. He a \ hard
time lodging the flies.
II criticism is to be directed against
the Yankees II should be as n prod
against a certain air Of carelessness that
the team displayed In general. Taken by
and large II was not a discreditable game
New York put VI. The score In no man.
ner reflects the respective merits of team
strength. even as evidenced yesterday.
4. rank muff by Gilhooiey when he had
plenty of time and every occasion to
make sure of the clutch broke up a great
deal of interest in the contest before II
got fairly under way. The bobble led to
two runs. Roger P~eckinpaugh went after
Casey Stengel's slow hopper In careless
fashion. starting the third. He fum-
bled. All three runs of this inning might
easily ave been cut on had the short
stop got the first batter.
But for these specific errors IL would
have been a ball game worth anybody's
money. AS 1t was the Yankees outhit
the Dodgers . TO $. They drubbed the
veteran Jack Coombs pretty soundly. Tor
he. like the Yauks. sc. med "A Bit careless
all the way. He was good in the pinches
though. \. dozen stranded Yankees tes-
titled to that fact.
Neither manager took the game as
seriously as a regularly scheduled cham
pionship competition. Donovan improved
the occasion by making It a trial for Bill
Piercy, the promising youth from the
coast. Wisely he left the young man IN
to prove his mettle even after the Dodg-
ers had accomplished u veritable rum
away. Pictcy may be comforted by the
fact that faulty support rather than any
weakness OF his own ruined his chance
Tor brackets against a rival MAJOR league
club.
Capt. Jake Daubert OF the Dodgers
opened the attack with one out In the
first min and put his team on he
road TO victory. He doubled to left field.
Piercy walked Stengel in trying to work
the corners. Zach Wheat singled to rem
tire scoring Daubert and ending Stengel
to third. Alexander held Casey at third
while he threw out Myers. IL was here
that Gllhooley pulled his horrible tumble.
followed by a worse throw to first base.
on the double error Stengel and Wheat
Tailed easily.
Peckinpaugh fumbled on Stengel start
ing the third Wheat's single TO right
put Casey on third. Peck held Zach
while he retired Myers with a fine throw.
Cutshaw pumped a one sacker into
centre for another run, a wild pitch
scored Wheat and put Cutshaw on sec
ond. Getz singled to left, scoring Cut
shaw.
The wildness of Ctombs spotted the
Yankees one in the fourth inning. Jack
passed both Pipp and Peckinpaugh with
none out. \ wild pitch advanced the
two. Alexander famed, piercy h.t to
the box and ripp was trapped Off third.
Maiscl singled to centre, scoring Peck.
Gilhooley broke the rally by whiting. In
the hfth the Yankees scratched another
count. Magee hit to right and raced to
third on Bakers long blow to the same
spot. Gedeon fouled to Meyers, but
Pipp's long fly to right brought in the
run. l.. Miller made IA pretty catch on
Peckinpaueh's line drive.
Brooklyn got its last run In the second
half of this inning. With one Down
Johnston walked. advanced on an out
and scored on Getz's double.
BEGINNING the sixth Mogridge and
hell did the pitching. Roth acquitted
themselves well, allowing no scoring.
Dell was "a bit wild, A fast double play
saved Mogridge IN the eighth. The score (: