The Washington herald., 1916-10-11
0LSOk'S CLOUT
SAVES DODGERS
Brooklyn Shortstop Stops
Rout and Wins 4-3 Game.
~ DAMON RUNYON.
international News Service

Brooklyn, n. Y, Oct. lO-When the cur
tain Of events dropped upon the third
game Of the 1916 worlds series at Ebbets
Field, Flatbush, 1t was Ivan Olson's ter
rife wallop in the fifth that had the Dodg-
ers still in front of the Boston Red Sox,
Py score of I to 3
II was Ivan Olson's smash that stopped ,
the apparent rOut Of the Dodgers and put
them back in the battle for the baseball
championship after they had lost two
games in Boston and seemed to be on the
run. The Red Sox still hold a one-game
margin, but few OF the 5000 chilled fans
in the wtndswept stands IN Flatbush to-
day doubt that the Dodgers have a good
chance to take the series.
Ivan Olson's clout practically drove
young Carl Mays, the right handler with
the weird underhand delivery, from the
game He finished out the nth, but in
the next inning Bill Carrigan, manager of
the Red Sox, sent Olaf Henricksen up to
bat for him.
1t was young Carl Mays who stopped
the rally OF the Dodgers in the ninth in
ming Of the first game of the series at !
Boston Saturday, and it was after that
game that thousands Of Brooklyn fans !
were abusing Ivan Olson numerically be [
cause Of his errors, and placing him
among the goats" of the series.
Chased to Dressing Rooms
One wondered If any of these abusive
fans were among those who were saying
all summer that WiIbert RobinsOn's club
could not win the National League pen :
nant without a shOrtstop, or if there were
any OF them among the wild-eyed that
spilled out on the field at the close Of the /
game today and chased Ivan Olson as he
fed with the rest Of the Dodgers to the !
dTessiHg-roOms under the stands
y Brooklyn band brought some order !
cut OF lot of enthusiastic chaos by
starting a march around the field. The
Brooklyn fans promptly fell in behind
the band, waving Dodger pennants, and
shriekin- vocferousIy.
The royal roOters' OF Boston and
band with the interminable "Tessie'' had
followed the Red Sox over to Brooklyn
and the rival cheering squadrons met in
he middle Of the field and mingled their
yells and music.
Many Seats Empty.
It was more Ike an outburst after a,
football game than the celebration of a
baseball triumph The state OF the
weather helped in making it seem more
like football than baseball. It was quite (
old. although the sun was shining
brightly. The spectators were encased in I
wraps
Il has been said In this story that there ,
were 5000 present 1t is a mere guess. ,
No official statement was given out at
l4FDelLS flel0 To-Day. EttheIs regarding
the attendance or the finances Of the
game. 1t IS the Custon1-in fact. it is I
the baseball Iaw-that these figures shall ,
hc issued Immediately. Usually they are
Inc=aphoned to the press stand before
tho end Of the game.
There were many empty seats in tine /
roDel tier Of the stands at Ebbets Field !
Today Whether it is simply a Ease Of I
tho BASEBALL public declining to pay the
= asked for those seats. or whe her it is .
-uu,thing else. remains to be seen. !
There was much criticism of Charles .
II. Ebbets president Of the Brooklyn /
club. at the time he first asnounced his
prices. The National Commission de- I
ro0ded him by stating that it fixed the
prices. For the first four games of the
series the commission is merely trustee /
for most Of the money taken in. as the /
greater part goes to the ball players.
Rows Of boxes have been built out on
tho field. end some of these boxes show
"a empty seatS today. There we're empty /
soets iu the stand. The bleaChers were
;l1 hacked. Il is said that there has
been some sort Of a clerical miN-up. but
just what it is could not be learned.
Coombs Causes Fears.
ndcr the weather conditions prevail
INK many Brooklyn fans we're a little
fearful Of the result when they saw fat
old Inci- WiIhert Robinson motion tho
veteran Jack COOmbs to the station
Y here the Brooklyn pitchers go through |
that preliminary called warming up" /
Pitchers who have reached COOmbS' age
usually require hot day to get the
ear-stifeHed muscles properly oiled up.
Colby Jack" hero of many a world s
series encounter when he was part of,
connie Mack's marvellous machine, was
given 2 four-rUn lead by his teammates.
Yet he did not last the game out. He
pitched carefully and craftiy, but the
Sox were hitting his delivery with re-
sounding whaCks from the start, al
though good fielding behind him kept
him out Of trouble.
In the sixth when Olaf Henriksen
came up. batting for Mays, Coomhs
passed him with four pitched balls. The
score was 4 to In favor Of the Dodgers
One Of the Red SoK was out.
The always dangerous Harry Hooper
tripled to right, scoring Henricksen.
Janvrin. the school phenom," popped to
Cutshaw. Chick Shorten, a mere recruit.
playing center in place of Clarence Wal
ker, singled over second. scoring Hooper.
Coombs himself tossed out Hoblitzel but
there was murmuring Of apprehension
in the stands.
Gardner MakessLOng Drive.
In the seventh inning, with one out,
Larry Gardner, the SOx third baseman.
smashed drive over the right field wall.
CoOmbs turned even as Gardner was
trOtting around the bases and began
waving his arm toward center field,
where a bunch OF Dodger and Red Sox
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