The Washington herald., 1916-10-08
DODGERS BEATEN
DESPITE RALLY
Battle Hard in Ninth, But Red
Sox Win, 6 to 5.
By DAMON RUNYON.
UnternafIonal News servfee.)

By DAMON RUNYON.
international News serviee.)
Braves Field. Boston. Mass, Oct. T.
From the shadow OF five-run lead. the
Brooklyn Dodgers swung a desperate
ninth-inning charge against the Boston
Red Sox in the first battle of the world
series here this afternoon, only to finally
stop Just outside the breastworks Of
victory.
Tessie," the worn old war song of the
Boston baseball rooters, is once more
floating raggedly around the streets and
hotel Hobbies Of the town tonight, for
the nnal score was to 5 in favor Of
the Red sox.
The Dodgers went into the ninth inning
with the score to l against them. They
were apparently beaten. broken, and in
disorderly retreat
People were walking out of the stands,
making derisive comments on the show
ing OF the Brooklyn club. 1t was a joke
outfit. they said and the Red Sox would
take the championship of the baseball
world in four games.
shore Put to ROut.
Then it was that the Dodgers turned
and began fighting. Stolidly, phlegmati-
cally. they fought, moving up run by
run on the dashing champions of the
American League; until they routed
Shore, the great right-hander of the
Sox, and needed but the slightest break
in baseball fortune to put them in front.
There were $500 people in the stands
when the game began, less than was
expected. Probably third of that num-
Der left, disgusted, after the seventh
inning, when they saw the Dodger de-
fense crumble.
Errors, errors, errors; errors by Cut
shaw, by Olson, and by Stengel; errors
OF the hand and occasionally of the head
those were the reasons why every one
thought the cause of Brooklyn was
wholly hopeless
Rube Marquard, the former Giant, had
pitched well against the Sox. He had
pitched carefully, and with good Judg-
ment, but his support was too rickety
The old fault OF the Dodgers that was
characteristics Of them through the Ma
tional League drive was marked In
them today. The men seemed to be fear
full they were going to lose, instead Of
confident that they would win, which
was the attitude OF the Red Sox.
Dodgers Lack 'Punch."
In the vernacular OF the world Of sport
the Dodgers lacked the punch.
Shore was none too effective against
them at any time. He went completely
to pieces in the ninth, when the Dodgers
were making their stolid rush. Even
then Robinson's men had no wallop. One
hit by Chief Meyers. the Indian. once
one of the greatest sIugEers of his
era, or by Fred Merkle, Aacting as
Daubert, captain Of the Dodgers would
have put the Brooklyn club on the road
to victory
MerIxle got base onrbans from Shore
at a time when the bases were filled
forcing in a run for the Dodgers, and
that finished the lank Carolina lad He
was succeeded by Carl Mays and much
of the credit for stopping the Dodgers
must 90 to Mays.
He is a pitcher with the most singular
delivery in the world.
It Is called underhanded, but it is more
than underhanded. Before he lets the
ball go. Mays stoops so far over that
his head is within foot of the ground.
Weird Pitching Confu.es.
He pitches from that crouching posi-
ton, the ball shooting up to the batter
at weird angles. Erstaine Mayer, of the
Phillies. pitches ,underhanded and the
Dodgers were not wholly unfamiliar with,
that style. but Mays exaggerated under
handedness disconnected Hap Myers and
Daubert, the men who hit against him,
to some extent
Hap Myers pulled one Of the very
smartest plays of the game in that ninth
inning when he beat an infield roller by
a headlong slide into first. Had not
Myers made that strange slide, the rally
Of the Dodgers would have stopped be-
fore it did.
1t was not a good game-not for a
worlds championship game, anyway.
There were some slashing plays on both
sides, but the baseball experts speak OF
1t tonight as sloppy exhibition
Harry Hooper. the Californian stood
out, as Is ever his custom in the cham
pionship contests, and Duffy Lewis, and
who took Trts Speakers place. did notable
work.
Tessie Breaks the Air.
It was nearly o'clock when the band
entered the right field stand. They broke
into the strains Of "Tessie." A loud,
long drawn "Ha Ha' arose from the
crowd. It was the first time this after
noon that the old, old, battle tune of the
Boston baseball rooters had been raised.
Back in 1903, when it looked as II the
Boston Red Sox were surely defeated by
the Pittsburgh club, a devoted bunch Of
fans followed the home town team, start
TO hnsh, with a band that played moth
ing but "Tessie," then a popular song
OF the day. It was forlorn hope the Sox
put through that season. and always
since then the Boston rooters have trail
ed them with the old tune. Boston has
never yet lost a world series.
Shortly before o'clock there was a
conference Of umpires at the plate. Rube
Marqusrd was warming up in front of
the Dodger bench. Csrrigan. had two
pitchers working. One was Ernest Shore.
the long right-hander, and the other was