The sun., 1916-10-12

about Leonard's being out OF condition
were, after all. well founded. Truly the
wondrous Leonard was being treated
harshly Bill Carrigan. the Red Sox
manager. who was catching. nal
for Nean Gregg TO become more indus
trious ut his warming I'M work.
Wheat forced Merkle at second and
advanced on "A wild pitch. Janvrln
iuggled Cutshaw's bounder and Myers
scored. The brooklyn burghcra went
wild with enthusiasm. The despised and
low!y Dodgers were to even the series.
4 Lack Lustre Content.
But Leonard frightened. Cutshaw's
double In the fourth nning and singles
by Merkle and Wheat In the ffth made
Leonard look shaky. but always he
emerged with flying colors. Always 1t
was fast fielding or his own ability to
recuperate that shattered Superbas'
hopes.
Escept for the continued brilliant and
almost miraculous work by Everett Scott
Al shortstop and the batting features
provided by Gardner and Johnston the
game was devoid Of high lights. II was
In the main a slow. lackadals'cal eNhi-
bition.
Scott KEEP, his clean fielding record for
worlds series u~ntarn!shed He pro-
Nlutu the Utluiilk Sfil VI wv "''N ~
the eighth inning. when MeTkle shot n
no, bounder past Gardner. II looked like
"A certain hit. but rushing into deep short
Scott did what has comc to be the usual
With him. He made a great stop and
got Merkle nj first. IN the same In
ming Cutshaw performed IA similar feat
to the discontinue of Gardner.
The game dragged along for more than
two hours and a half-only a few min
40. lees chan mara rnnptrat tn niay the
remarkable fourteen inning battle AT
Boston on Monday. \ good deal of the
blame may be laid on Leonard. Never
wac a pitcher as dllatory, as deliberate
and as exasperatingly slow as was
Leonard.
Crowd Again DisH P%pOinting.
True, he had a lot depending on his
efforts and It was his privilege to take
as long AS he liked. but 1t seemed lac
wasted altogether too much time. Every
pitch was accompanied by n preliminary
scraping up of dirt In the box. Leon
ard always stepped around several times
I'm a complete arc. He stroked his hair.
fixed his cap, pressed his trousers and
examined the ball. IT all these were
signals, then Leonard is "A superexpert
In inside baseball.
The slowness was increased when
Cheney mounted the rostrum. but dila-
tory az he was. Cheney looked like a
tyro in wastefulness when compared
with Leonard.
Many an onlooker wended his way out
as early as the sixth inning. when II was
seen that Boston's fne defence promised
to hold the Superbas at bay to the end.
and Brooklyn appeared unable to break
into any more scoring, In the late in
nings Brooklyn's actions breathed the
spirit OF hopeleesness. Not that the SUI
perbas quit. They Just looked very weak
by comparison.
Again the. size of the crowd was dis
appointing. The attendance MOUNTED
only six hundred higher than that OF the
disappointing home inaugural on Tues
day. Less than twenty-five thousand
persons were present. This time the
weather could not he blamed. 1t was
almost an ideal day for baseball, Not "A
cloud fiecked the sky. There was hard
ly any wind to speak of and the SUCCESS
ton of autumn In the air was tempered
by an Indian summe sun. old Sol never
smiled any brighter or more congenially
on an October day.
~Scalpers Again hit.
Once more the ticket spectators were
impressed with inadvisability Of depend
INK on tHe HulIlDlIll1 OF tne pubic, espe-
cially the Brooklyn public. Here and
there In the stands were long rows OF
vacant seats. Here ana there n vacant
box told its own story. Even after "A
Brooklyn victory the citizens refused to
muster enough 'civic pride to dig into
their Jeans to purchase tickets at what
many regarded were exorbitant rates.
Certainly the number OF individuals
willing to give up IS for the satisfac-
ton OF seeing the representatives Of
proud Brooklyn In action was not very
great, TIT series here has preached a
gospel more powerful tnan any uttered
In the magic tones Of a Beecher or a
Phillips Brooks
A good many fans saw the game, but
contributed nothing to the box office
Either they MOUNTED the summit OF Grow
Hill. beyond centre field. or patronized
some of the twenty-five cent bleachers
erected on ~neighboring roofs.
There was plenty OF Brooklyn enthu-
siasm. from the Royal Rioters and un-
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