The sun., 1916-10-04
SUPER BIAS WIN
IN ROUGH AND
TUMBLE GAME
Batter Benton and Pummel
Perritt. Defeating Giants
by Q to 6.
SMITH INEFFECTIVE:
PFEFFER TO RESCUE
n, GEORGE n. UNDERWOOD.

Fans, shHac the honest paws OF an
old friend In n new role, the Brooklyn
Superbas. champions Of the National
League for 1916. and the aforenen-
toned National Leagues worthy rep
resentatives IN the big battle Tor the
baseball championship Of the universe.
In n rough and tumble. knock down
And drag out shindy over In the Fiat
bush ball yard yesterday the sassy STU
perbas, rendered savage by the scent OF
worlds series coin. tore into our "
Rube Benton and Pol Perritt like a
pack Of famished wolves. ripping. tear
ing. slashing their way through the
Clan McGraw and burying the record
wrecking Giants under the debris Of "a
, to 8 defeat.
With the championship OF the Ma
tional League hanging in the balance.
with $4,000 worth of d~oubloons. siino-
Icons, pesos. drachmas and plain Yam
Ree dollars staring them in the face the
Superhas worked themselves INTO u red
rage tha would brook nc denial.
Even the defence Of our wonderful
Giants, a team perhaps suffering from
the natural reaction OF u twenty-six
straight game charge. but nevertheless
playing the best baseball they were
capable Of. could not Withstand the
savage onslaught Of the smuggling Su-
perbas.
"Fortun~ Fn>ors the Brave"
Fourteen Draw and bonny bingles
bounced of the Brooklyn bludgeons. The
demon Dodgers battered Benton for six
AIt. In enc, mud IA third inninga n
vummelled Poll Perritt for eight more
punches in his three and two-third In
ming session on the pitching peak.
Fortune seemed determined to MAXI
n Brooklyn's day. for break after
'break" went to the Dodgers and at
tin es IL appeared as II all the Superoas
had TO do to get a hit was TO land on
the ball. Several apparent easy Dodger
raps suddenly took wicked bounds just
as they seemed 10 lie clipping straight
In the FEEDERS mits
But 10 get those breaks the Bro.x-
lyns had TO bang the old ball on the
beezer. No one can gainsay they didn't
do lust thai with "A vengeance.
II has been the work of the Grea'
Brooklyn pitching corps that has been
chiefly responsible for the Superoas
grabbing tn. old gonfalon. Whenevei
one Of the dodgers hurlers cared In /
generally meant kiss the OLD bali game
good-by" Yesterday, however. thu
Dodgers surprised the populace by carv'
ing out the victory with their W slap
sticks.
And they battered their way to the
pennant after one OF their own boxmer
-Sherrod Smith. noted for his stead!ncss
and nerve in the crises-had apparently
been seized with the blind staggers In
the opening inning and presented th'
Giants with a three run lead.
At the end of the first inning that
three run lead loomed up as gigantic
- the Woolworth Building or the Roci
Of Gibraltar. But burned II those
Dodgers didn't rise on their hind legs
and lombard. blast and batter tina
Giant lead into mere n~othingnessl
They pasted Rube Benton for a rur
In the second canto. They fell on thu
big southpaw like a TOT OF brick in th'
third. blasting him out OF the box. bang
1ng in four runs and rushing into thu
lead. The Superbas Kept up their can
nonadlng on Poll Perritt in the NTH
sixth and seventh cantos. ringing thu
gong for a run in each Of those sessions
and got Ia George Smith. the ColumDit
sollegian. for another run without tn,
hid of "A hit in the eighth epistle.