New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-15
ROBINS SCATTER
TO THEIR HOMES
$2,645 RICHER
Outclassed by Red Sox.
but They Will Try and
Forget II All
By FRANK O'NEiLL

80 IA N"S games Tor TIA
championship of the baseball vo,I.
have scattered to Their homes tb-or.s'
out the country. There they will 90
deavor to forget their defeat bv ~.
Boston Red Sox and plan new .triunnss
for the season Of 1917. They esvs =.
their best in the struggle with c.s
rigan's men, but that best was All -.
inadequate. Moreover. il was No, 40 So
same style of ball that carried n.
bows TO victory through SIX month, :,
gruelling strife in the National Lea,v.
race. The strain was terrific ana !.
told.
When grass has grown the vho,.
world heard it growing, SAYS the a..
man proverb, ard so let il with a.
Robins. They were beaten, and no-
everybody knew they would be I'm.
that team, beaten or not in the bic tss,
deserves the admiration and respect u
Flatbush fans. II was not gr,,,
team, but it was steady. conss,s,,
and superlatively game team. Had !,
not been such the pennant would }.
flung to the breeze from another A..
pole next spring. Another team woulJ
have been the opponent Of the Red sos
and that other team would have been
beaten just the same.
1t has long been one Of our cony,.
tions that just so long as the club own.
ers of the National Loa oue alh--e IA
the twenty-one player limit the Amer.
can League will prevail in the serie,
The clubs in the American League A.,
allowed to carry twenty-five men on n.
roster throughout the year. which. an
other things being equal. gives them
great advantage. Pitchers are bound %
SLUMP. injuries will creep in, and Il /,
our opinion that fair man in good
/ condition is greater asset than An
overworked star.
Led All the Way
The Robins came through the Va.
/ tional League and won the champion.
ship because they played the best bali
most of the time. They led the learue
/ almost without a break from Nav |.
and when it looked as if the Phlli.,
had caught them in the early days Of
September the boys rallied garnely and
beat Boston while the Giants wsrs
stopping Moran's men. Then they droy.
ahead and captured the pennant.
The cold black type of the record
books, which often is most deceving. 10
of some help TO the student OF stats.
! tics in discovering why the Robins wen.
They led the league III team batting;
they had the leading slugger OF tie
league in Buck Wheat, who, despite hi,
failure in the world series, still holds
his place in the National League and m
the hearts of Brooklyn fandom. Zach
got 26l bases out of l78 hits. Brooklyn
led in long hitting, thanks chiefly 10
Wheat's individual efforts. The tesn
was second in runs scored.
! Defensive play was always 3 depart.
ment in which the team was weak, and
it is not surprising to find the boys
down in fourth position in club fielding
The Giants, Braves and phillies out.
rank them. II was this weakness on the
defence that worked their destruction
in the big series just closed, and il iss
weakness that will have to be cor.
rected before they HAY hope TO repes.
their triumph i'll another year.
J. 1t is not in the nature of surprise
TO find that only one man wormed bis
4 way into the leading ten base runners
Of the league this season. George GU.
shaw, never rated p. a speed n vsl,
led the other men of the squad. Yet he
stole only twehty-seyen bases in ia
/ games. Not only were the base running
operations slow, but they were poorly
| advised in many instances.
Times almost without number pos.
sihle chances to score were tossed Of
because somebody blurdeyed on II,
paths. On the last Western trip AZ
least three games were lost becsus:
the boys ran with no Judgment
, Mighty Fence Busters
! Brooklyn led in team hitting, ss pr.
, viously noted, and we'll il might. Nun
/ bered among the Robins we're sons
mighty fence busters, men Who stood
up through the season under the FIRE Of
the best pitchers in the league, and vho
could be relied upon 10 deliver q blow
when hits were needed.
Jake Daubert led his team with n
average of 1922, and he compiled ne
! average under a handicap that migh'
have driven almost any other man %
/ the seclusion of the bench. Jake ssi'
fered from an injured leg throughos'
! most of the season, but he stayed
there, fighting until he could stand y
no longer. Buck Wheat was seeosc,
, ten points behind his captain, and Back
established season record oy hltling
safely in Twenty-Five conseeuu''
games.
! Casey Stengel piled up the tidy aver.
, age of PSI, and then Miller, Cvtshs1
and Hi Myers came along at 26O enN
Mowrey and Olson were the only req,
lars to hit under $50, so the attack sa
sufficient punch. JEFF Pfefer snd s5sii
rod Smith won fame as hitters as Ses
as pitchers, getting averages OF .2is -.
I .273, respectively. As little lhse'
dope on the matter, both these huriei'
won bets from Ed Appleton, who mss"
that he is some clubber. Ii
This atta.k, strong as IL was, esfns.
the pitchers through. Pfefer' va
worked in Al games in the box. Won -
I games and lost IL. lie was one
! few pitchers who won twenty gams.x
more. The others were Alexander,
/ 33, Rixey with %, Cheney WITH "
J Mamaux with 81. Cheney, OF eoui
was second, with his twenty yie'o...ss
Vanguard, who came along IN MS 80 80
! league boots in the closing days OF ~
season. won thirteen games, e. W.
Smith. Coombs won a dozen.
Olson Showed Pluck
It is almost making n bid for Io W.
to try TO convince some fans tns. -. -.
Olsen is not the worst shortstop IN ~ y,
world. We hold no brief for oI'ol, ~
in justice il must be said Ivan p.s,,t
some mighty fine ball this season .s
has just been entered into the Ieewh
He made his boots and olundeis sses
sure. but he put up hard. plueEy Cd 81.
in the face of some undeservea In
cism. He never stopped ngnunS III, q
was his example that kept the 'pmothsf
the team up. Mike Mowrey, an .'.sa
veteran. played fine gsme sll ss,sss
and is deserving Of nothing bus pr"
! for his work. .,.sest
Had the Robins been able 70 p..t.
their full strength TO the foe MI s
out the season there is no Soa.' ii
race would not have been so elos ia
was. But when Dapbert wa, was e s,s ssas
! his injured leg, and Lew Mccs,S Ne.
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