New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
Brooklyns Take Two
Games from Tinker'S
Ambitious Cubs.
EBBETS MEN GAIN
GAME ON BRAVES
Flatbush Pitchers Responsible
for Double Victory
Fielding a Feature.
By FRANK O'NEILL.

Chicago Cubs with power that kne"
no stopping. the Brooklyn Robins con-
timed their frenzied dash for the PEN
nant at Ebbets Field yesterday after
noon. They took both games Of a
double-header, and ran their string OF
victories on the home meadow to four
teen in seventeen games played.
More thar cutting the double notch
in the gun stocks, Robes stat
warts gained another game on the bos-
ton Braves, who were held to an even
break by the Pirates. The scores were
Q 70 and a to /, respectively, and the
Robins came from behind in Dotn
games. =. ~.
The Brooklyn pitchers have held the
Cubs on a short leash in TINS series
In twenty-seven innings Tinkers men
have scored just two runs, ana these
were by no means enough. Larry
Cheney, stopping them up with wv
hits and no runs in the opening game
of the series, set the style, and, wniie
Dell and Marquard, who occupied the
centre Of the diamond yesterday, rose
to no such heights in effectiveness SO
far as hitting was concerned. ihey
were chary Of runs as miser is OF
gold. Claude Hendrix and Jim vaughn
offered spirited resistance, but they
fell victims to the relentless aggres-
sivcness and effective attack OF the
coming champions.
Hitting Decides Issue.
Free, heavy and long distance hitting
decided the issue. Both Brooklyn runs
in the first game were the result OF
drives that ratified off the fences, and
Claude Hendrix had reason to shake
his head dolefully as he stood helpless
and watched the Brooklyn runners
cavort along the paths that lead &C
glory and the plate. A savage fusil
lade of singles, well punched and OF
fair distance, drove Vaughn off th'
rubber in the second game, produclnt
three runs in the lucky seventh. II
the eighth inning, with Tom Seaton II
the box. Hi Myers clipped the cemen
in the centre field fence with drive
and completed the circuit while tn'
fans howled. Xuu-
Ivan Olson, the Doctor Jekyll-Mr
HYDE of the National League, brougn
iov to the heart of the Brooklyn fans
He brought Joy to the heart OF Charlie!
Ebbets. too, for his second double wor
the first game, and his line single e
left field sent George CutshaS over tn'
plate with the tieing run In the ma
and put good old Mike Mowrey IN
position to score on a wallop by Chief
Meyers. -.
Ivy played a bang up game IN tn'
field as well, and cut down several bud
ding singles. Buck Wheat, the greatest
Cherokee of all that great nation, Bile"
himself to three perfectly good two
base hits in the first game. and scored
the first run in that contest, They
were clean, ringing drives, too. Case,
Stengel got four hits, and one Of these
was a triple. which, followed by Oh
sons double. produced the winning rur
of the opening encounter.
Silence Hung Heavy.
The silence hung so heavy the fam
we're half afraid to speak during tn'
opening innings of the second game fol
RUDE Vanguard tottered on his feet a
intervals, only to rally and pull out o.
perils. In the third inning he passed
Zimmerman, filling the bases, but then
guided along by the crafty Chief Mey
ers, he famed Knabe and got Arti'
Wilson on a weak pop up to Mike NOW
rev. There were several other innings
when Rube was forced to call on hl'
courage and his fast ball, and he did
In the first game Wheeler Dell IN
terposed his six feet six inches between
the plate and the Bruins, and he heI'
the fort famously. The only ruI
scored from him was the result OF
wild pitch. Kelly dashed all the wa!
from second base. The Cubs scored OF
Marouard in the fifth, when Safer SIN
gled and Zimmerman trippled.,
No account of the double-heade
would be complete without some ac
count of the wonderful catch by Lesll'
Mann which robbed Jimmie Johnston
OF a triple in the seventh inning of tn
/ second game. Two men were on bas
with one out when the Oakland spec
merchant connected with fast bal
and rode il for the fence. Mann, how
ever. was off to a flying start, an
made a wonderful one handed catch
. Chief Meyers performed the impossi
bic by getting Saier's foul in his GLOW
| in the seventh inning. after run Z
| tho stands. The chief took the ball s.
close to the players bench that h
| stumbled over the bats, but he he'll
fast. In the ninth inning of the frs
game Johnston made a sensations
pick up of Saier's single to centre
preventing a double at least.
Brooklyn got its first run in the frs
game on Wheat's double, Wild thro'
! by Hendrix to catch him mapping, an
| Cutshaw's terrific drive 10 centre
{ which Kelly caught after hard rur
! in the eighth StengePs triple and
/ double by Olson, which was fair b
! inches, scored another run.
Fielding Saves Vaughn.
Brilliant fielding saved Vaughn IN
iii the seventh inning OF the final gam
but then the storm broke. Then Cut
shaw singled and Myers sacrificed
I Mowrey beat out rap TO thinner
man, putting Cutshaw on third, an
| Olson scored him with a single, Nov
reg taking second. Meyers singled
scoring Mowrey, and Marquard sir
gled, placing Meyers on second, an
serding Olson over the plate, but thel
the rally stopped, for Mann took Johr
ston's drive and McCarty grounde
out. In the following frame Myers hit
home run.