Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-08
GREAT RALLY FAB s
TO WIN FOR DODGERS
Nlnth-nning Desperate Charge Stopped Outside Breast
works of Victory-"Tessie" Floats Over Boston
Mays Possesses Most Peculiar Delivery
ny DAMON RuNYON.

BRAVES FIELD. BOSTON, October
Prom the shadow of a fyc-run Ion,
the BROOKLYN Dodgers swung a dos
per'tc ninth inning charge against tho
hoS'oh Rcd SoX in the first battle az
the WoridS series here this afternoon
only finally to stop just outside tho
breastworks OF victory.
Icssi", the worn war song of tn.
iioston baseball rootcrs. il once more
floating raggediy around the s.rco,s
and hotc! Hobbies of the town to.uir.ht
Tor the final score was TO > I'm favor
Of the Red Sox
ihc dodgers went into the ninth
timing with the score 10 against
them
They were apparently beaten. brok-
en- and in ,disordcrly retreat.
People were walking ont of ,,o
stands. making dcrisivc comments on
the showing of the brooklyn club. II
was joke outfit. they said, and the
licd SoX would take the championships
OF the baseball world in four games
lhen II was that the Dodgers turned
ana began fighting. Stolidly. phlegmat-
ic;,lly they fought. moving up run nv
rum on the dashinS champions of tito
American League. until they routed
shore. the great right handler Of tho
SoN, and needed hut the slightest break
in baseball ,unr 10 put them i'm
front.
THOUSANDS LEAVE WHEN
DODGER DEFENSE: CIUMPLES
There were 5000 people in tho
stands when the game began. less than
was expected. Probably u third of
that number left, disguised. after tho
seventh inning, when they saw tho
DodGcr defense crumplc.
Errors. errors. errors; errors by Cut
shaw. by Olson and by Stcngel: errors
Of the hand and occasionally of tho
head. those were the reasons why every
one thought the cause 81 brooklyn was
wholly hopeless
ltubc Marquard. the former Giant.
had pitched we'll against the SON lie
had pitched carefully. and with good
Judgment, but his support was too
rickety.
The old fault Of tho Dodgers that
was characteristic Of them through
the National League drive was marked
in them to-day. The men seemed to
be fearful they wcrc going to lose.
instead OF confident that they would
win. which WAS the attitude Of the
Red SoX.
| In The veruarular Of the world OF
! II.
shore was none too effective against
them ut amy time. lie went completely
TO pieces in the ninth when the
Dodgers were making their stolid rush.
Even then Robinson's men had no wal
l"p. one hit by Chief Meyers, the In
dian. once ono of the greatest slug
gers OF his era, or by Fred Mcrkle,
acting as pinch hitter. or, finally by
Jake Dauhcrt, captain of the Dodgers,
would have put the Brooklyn club on
thu road TO victory.
Mcrklc got u base on balls from
shore at time when the bases were
illcd. forcing i'm run for the Dodgers,
aud that finished the lank Carolina lad.
lie was succeeded by Carl Mays. and
much OF the credit for stopping the
Dodgers must so To Mays.
MAYS HAS MOST SINGULAR
DELIVERY IN WOULD
lie is "a pitcher with the most Sinsu-
lar delivery in the world II Is called
undermined. but il is more than undcr-
handed. Before lac lets the ball GO
Mays stoops 80 far over HAT his head
Is within Il foot of the ground
lie pitches from that crouch the ball
shooting up TO the batter AT weird
angles, trstain Mayer of the phillics.
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