New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
Robby's Men Use SuperRous
Effort and Thirteen Inn
ings to Beat Reds.
By FRANK O'NEILL

The principle of efficiency is the
securing of maximum results from a
minimum in effort. and while the
Brooklyn Robins won from the Gin
cinnati Reds at Ebbetts Field in the
final contest Of the SIX game series yes
terday afternoon. they were far from
efficient. Thirteen innings were neces-
sary TO clinch a victory which might
have been won in the regulation eight
and one half. The score was TO 4
when there was no perfectly good rea-
son why Brooklyn should not have
scored at least double their total OF
runs. Nor was there any real reason
why Cincinnati should have scored had
the Brooklyn defence stood up behind
Ed PfefTer
Experts have figured il all out scien-
tiiically that a baseball team may poke
out six hits in one inning and
not score a run. The Robins did not
descend to any such dismal depths, but
they were not far from it. There was
the seventh inning, for instance. when
four clean, ringing drives crashed
through the inner works and bounced
into the hands of the outfielders, yet
never Brooklyn runner denied the
plate.
Jimmy Johnston singled and died
stealing. Daubert singled, but was re-
tired at third when Wheat hit safely
TO centre. Wheat took second on the
throw. and died at the plate on Cut
shaw's whack to right In the first in
ring three hits, wild pitch and a
stolen base were cashed at the plate for
one run. and this tale might include
/ the twelfth frame. in which the Robins
lad three men on and one out, yet
failed 20 score. In the fifth, sixth and
seventh frames the Robins made nine
hits. but got only one run.
Big Flock of Hits.
In all Brooklyn made twenty one
hits, vet these. with the gifts OF Pete
Schneider. a wild pitch. and the cir
cumstances Of baseball, were pro-
ductivc of only five runs. 1t is not
every dav that the fans are treated
to the unusual spectacle of league
leading team averaging four hits to
one run. There was just one instance
in the entire thirteen frames where the
Robins rose to the heights Of efficiency.
That was in the fourth frame, when
casey Stengel nit the ball over the
fence in right centre directly over a
sign which advertises cigarette.
No one. however captious, could deny
the evident power in the Brooklyn
attack. No matter how wiliul the
waste. and that waste almost made Tor
woful want in the closing stages, the
hits kept crashing off the bats. and
the victory just had TO come despite
the errors which the tielders made WIN
discouraging regularity. Indeed, all
the runs OF the Reds traced their
origin to bungles by the Brooklyn de-
fence.
jeff Breaks II Up.
However, the end Of the trail was
reached i'm the thirteenth. JEFF Pfeffer
started operations in his own behalf
and shot a single to centreheld. Jimmy
Johnston hit 10 left field advancing the
pitcher 10 second base, and Captain
Jake Daubert came up with old John
W. Opportunity calling 10 him. Daubert
answered the summons boldly. His
far flung drive rolled far beyond the
reach of Eddie Roush in centre field
and PfefTer raced home with the de-
Gliding run. In the records Dauberts
hit will count as a double, but he could
have reached third easily enough had
necessity demanded.
Brooklyn got Its hrst run IN tne hrst
inning. Johnston singled. but was
forced by Daubert, who took second
on a wild pitch, and then scored on a
single by Cutshaw In the second
frame McCarty singled took third on
a long single by Pfetfer, and scored
while Johnston forced Pfefer al
second. In the fourth Stengel made
his rousing wallop over the fence, and
in the sixth Cutshaw's single. outs by
Mowrey and Stengel, and single by
Olson produced another tally.
Ivy Olson, who a couple of days age