New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Home Runs by Red Smith
and Sherwood Magee
Cause Havoc.
DICK RUDOLPH FAILS
TO STEM THE TIDE
Southpaw Twirler, How
ever, Proves Stone Wall
in Second Game.
By W. J. MACBETH.


sentence is 20 have lived not in vain.
The Braves. grim wreckers Of many
hope. in the last game Of the season
a. the Polo Grounds finally accom-
pl.shed that in which six other OF New
York's contemporaries had failed. Bos-
ton beat New York in the closing
battle Of a doublehesder By a score Of
to ?.
Dramatic in the extreme was thi,
final fall of the mighty. The largest
crowd Of the season, that packed every
nook and Granny of the grsndstand, up
stairs and down; that stood ten deep
ir the rear Of the two tiers and over
flowed the bleachers at every vantage
point, was there 20 spare tear Only
there was no occasion for tears.
Beaten, Not Disgraced.
This team Of McGrsw's was finally
beaten, but not for a moment dis
graced. Fate and the unremitting law
of average sat in with a stacked deck.
II simply was not in the cards for the
Giants longer TO continue their remark
able cha in of successes that already had
eclipsed by full half dozen the best
performance OF any other major league
club in all history.
Exacting, indeed, would have been
the fan who asked for more of a team
that had already performed super
human fests. Those who came for a
Roman holiday az the expense of the
Braves were favored to the most exact
ing sentiment. In the FIRST game the
Giants smothered the Brayes-smoth-
cred them under A shut-out for the
third consecutive time-and set a rec
crd Of twenty-six straight wins that is
likely 20 endure so long as major
league baseball prevails
No single note of resentment married
the death scene OF the Giant rush.
Never through baseballs history was a
more loyal. courageous and honorable
fight portrayed. II was n credit TO Nc
Graw's team credit 70 the crowd.
The boys in white did not strike their
them back and back. They fought quite
as courageously through the disaster as
they had fought 70 victory and renown.
Boston had not won until the very last
batter OF the very last inning had been
retired. The serried ranks of voclferous
humanity, that rose tier on tier 70 the
topmost pinnacle of Brush Stadium,
showed not one long face.
Roa,;n-
Never was there such roofing as
began with the first break Of the luck
against the home club, and swelled
higher and higher with each succeeding
wave Of misfortune. Pandemonlum OF
the most spirited worlds series was
hollow oy comparison. There wasn't an
instant. with the home team at bat,
that the stands and bleachers were not
IL. uproar, prompting. squirting. exhort-
ing-and as the time drew short, also
praying-for the boys TO come on from
behind.
While hope remained none would
concede victory 20 the Braves. Inc
crowd realized that already McGrsW
and his lucky legion had gone as lae
as lies within human capaollity: But y
wanted. oh so badly, Just TINS little
one more. Twenty-slx fell snort oy o's
OF Corsicana's minor league record
though Corsicana was N a four-cIuO
circuit. which it outclassed as FAR as
major league club outc!asseo the
bunblest aggregation OF the SUCKS
History was made in yesterdays
in the first. as IN
the second game. The inevitable set
hack that slightly marred the mos,
Gallant home stand Of any club spiked
TIE las. hope of New York for a pen
mt There can be no greater so!ace
row for a team that started TOO late
dan a winning fight for the show po-
sition. 49,, -oo-
It's a fans privilege TO take the sec
ord Guess Being fan and critic IN TINS
instance. here goes. McGraw strung
TOO far with Slim Sallee. recently resuf-
rected from a bed Of pain. This long
and lanky southpaw was not up 70
snuff His hook wasn't pronounced; re
lacked his customary speed. sim 20.
nv 20 the seventh princi paily because OF
sorne good luck and gIlt-edged support
Tba Rraves rapped him oft and with
snirit. but for the time the slams traF-
eiled straight at fielders. But IN the
seventh inning the Hub rebels began 70
hit after a fashion where luck coG!d
not count. They began. N the woras
of Wee Willie Keller, ITO hit wneFe tney
ain't."
Collins opened thisseventh with a
wicked single through the box. Smith
hooked a foul into the left bIeaener
inches foul. That seemed the once foF
a charge in scenery. Another p!tcher
and il might have been different NC
Graw has won only five pennants and
worlds series within fifteen years. HIS
team has just won twenty-six straight
Tho writer never managed anything.
So this suggestion is offered free.
Shower for Slim.
II might be called tough luck that
Ped Smith and Sherwood Magee saved
CD their home runs FOR poor old SICK
slim Sallee. Memory does not recall az
occasion where two home runs followed
in sequence on two pitched balls. That
is the horny. red-handed sort OF fate
that befell Sallee in the seventh. COM
ing like q clap OF thunder from the
blue sky. Il Just knocked poor, old
slim clear into the shower bath. rs
about the first piece Of luck that ever
fell 20 Sherwood Nottingham. He nred
himself from the Phillies a. the time
they were getting ready TO grab some
worlds series consolation, ard ne IS
still on the outside looking in.
Ungallant, to say the least, this con-
duet OF Messrs. Smith and Magee. But