New Britain herald., 1916-10-04
] PHILLIPS CRACK
 WITH LOUD REPORT
to to Pieces Under Attack of
 Boston Braves

Philadelphia, Oct 4.-The Phils lest their fight for the pennant yester- day when Boston trimmed them in a Gouble-header, while the Dodgers Clinched the 1916 title by beating the Giants on Ebbets field. The double disaster puts the Moran men out of the pennant race. They are now two and a half games behind the Robins, and even if they won their two remaining games from Boston while the Dodgers drop two to Mc- Graw's clan the Phillies could not supplant Brooklyn. X
 The Phils went to pieces in the clos ing innings of the second game just as they did in the first ecounter, the score of the second game being 6 to 1 and that of the first to 3. It was a Eeart-breaking setback for the 15,- 900 fans who packed the stands and urged the Moran men on to another pennant
 Lefty Tyler and Erskine Maye1A fought a pitchers duel for seven in nings in the second game, then Mayerv was taken out to make way for pinch hitter. Bender tried to pitch, but his efforts in the remaining in- nings were ludicrous. The crowd quit :n disgust. Hundreds went home, while the others who fingered jeered the team which they had followed and encouraged all through the long peh- nant season. Boston scored four runs off the Chief in the eighth and filled the bases again in the ninth, but this time the Phils managed to retire the Braves without a run.
 The Phillies' lone tally was a home run clout by George Whitted the plucky fielder, who limped through the game with sprained ankle. Whitteds hard slam slipped through Chappelle as he leaned over the left field wall and dropped among the bleacherites for a circuit drive.
 The lead was maintained until the sixth inning. Mayer famed the first two Braves and then Wilhoit drove a hit to right. The ball bounded away from Whitted and before the limping left fielder could retrieve it WiIhoit rested on third. Koney tapped the ball weakly to Niehoff, who made Sp inexcusable boot, and Wilhoit scored the tying run. The Braves put over their winning run in the seventh, although it was unearned. Egan slammed a double to left center Blackburn bunted toward third. ByTn6 came III 1dSI, put HIS LnTOW bO first was wild. Luderus knocked down the ball, but could not hold it, aud Egan scored the winning run all the way from second Tyler held the Phils in check during the remaining innings but the efforts of Chief Ben der to hold the Braves in check were the essence of futility.
 The Phillies' hopes were given an- other jolt, in addition to losing the first game, when George Whitted joined Dave Bancroft on the injured 4 list While chasing Sherwood Ma gees liner in the eventful seventh ina ming, Whitted stepped on a pop bo@@ 1Ic in front of the bleacher wall and turned his ankle severely. George was helped to the clubhouse at the close of the inning by Mike Dee, the Phillies' trainer
 Up to the seventh inning it looked like certain Philly victory, for Eppa Fixey had pitched artful ball. He had the opponents runless, although the smart work of his associates had cut off two possible tallies
 The Moran men had also put over a Tair of runs that looked very big. But the Braves stormed the Virginian southpaw off the mound in the stretch inning, two doubles and a single being i1terlarded with bad blunders by Stock, Byrne and Paskert to give the Stallings clan the five runs which spelled victory
 The team played like bunch of Connie Macks cast-of recruits. Rix- cy retired and Mayer pitched out the ir ming. Kastlehner, the former Pitts burgh southpaw, worked in the eighth inning and yielded a run, and Oesch- ger went through the ninth un- scathed.
 The scores:
 First Game.
 r. h. e. Boston .......0 0O0O0O51O-6 II 2e Philadelphia .. 00O11O010-3 8 A
 Batteries Rudolph and Gowdya