Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Robertson Springs Into Game.

Robertson Springs Into Game. For three and g. half innings the op- posing boxmen had proved invincible and the thirty-odd thousand fans present were settling down for a pitch | ing duel when Robertson sprang into fame. He ended the White Sox fourth 1 inning attempt to penetrate the pitch l ing of Benton with a great running catch of GandiTs lang, sizzling drive to right field when he hurled himself against the concrete wall of the grand stand and plucked the ball with one hand just as it was about to strike the wall. Had he missed the catch Gandi1's smah would have goon to spell it.
 But Robertson was not done. The
 Norfolk player doffed his fielder's glove and stepping into the batter's box, picked one of Cfcotte's sharp breaking low balls and drove high sailed upward and onward until it seemed certain to equal Felschs home
 run drive of the opening game. Both
 Jackson and F'elsch raced frantically
 fence and bounded away from their
 clutches. Robertson was sliding into
 third base when the ball was returned
 to the infield.
 l. HoIke Scores Robertson.
 Holke followed with a two base drive
 to left field, scoring Robertson. Catch
 CT Rariden, playing in place of Me
 battle at Chicago. advanced his team
 mate to third with sacrifice. Cicotte to GandiL Benton could not fathom Cicotte's curves and struck out. As Burns came to bat Umpire Klem took the ball away from Catcher Schalk and, after examining 1t carefully, threw it into the Giants dugout while the crowd scenting the shine ball. booed vigorously.
 When Cicotte hurled up a new white ball Burns hit a puzzling low grounder toward third which scored Holke, who was half way to the plate when the bat met the ball. Cicotte finally cap. tured the sphere and tried to retire Burns at first but his throw was wild and the batter continued to second. With Herzog at bat the crowds were roofing strenuously for continuance of the hitting but Gandil checked the rally with a wonderful running catch of the Giants field captains foul which he speared one handed as the ball was about to disappear among the spec tators in one of the ground row of field boxes. That was the end of the run making for the day, for after that spectacular inning both Cfcotte and Benton pitched nearly perfect ball. Both teams got runners on the bases. but the hits to bring them home never were forthcoming.
 Benton Pitches Most BaiIs.
 As was the case in the two to one win of Saturday the winning pitcher was forced to deliver more balls than his defeated rival. Benton today pitch ed a total of 1O7 balls to Cicotte's 87, just as Cicotte in his victorious game hurled the ball 101 to Sallee's 95. Dur ing the nine innings which Benton pitched, the Giants grenadier hurled 26 strikes ,38 balls, IA foul strikes; the White sox made five hits drove out 21 field outs and fouled three balls.
 Cicotte, pitching 97 times, secured 27 strikes; IS foul strikes; gave 26 balls; and was fouled five times. The Giants reached him for eight hits; went out 16 times on fielding plays and J. Collins two errors on auff's drives account for the remainder.
 While there was little if any ad- vantage between the two pitchers 1t more on the ball than Cicotte. His came up with wide sweeping curves or broke with almost right i angle slants which had the White Six ,ime. The Chicago twirler varied his pitching to a greater extent than Ben l ,n and his control was as perfect as lsual. To those who saw him work in | he initial contest it appeared that he | lid not have as sharp a curve or break | Ls on Saturday when he turned back | he Giants with seven hits and one run. lis record today was eight hits and | wo runs, while Benton let the White | sox down with five hits, no two coming | n one inning.
 Cicotte Fans Eight.
 Cicotte famed eight Giants to Ben on's five. Burns. Holke and Benton II fell twice before the Chicago hurler's lants. while Benton's only double trikeout victom was Cicotte. The New York team had twice as many unners stranded on the bases as the White Sox, the count being eight to our. Roberson led all the players yith three hits in four times at bat or total of five bases. while of Chi ago's five hits Eddie Collins and Weaver each secured two. Neither -auff nor Jackson had a fielding nd Robertson stole the only base pur- )ined. Neither pitcher gave a base n balls and none of the five errors in any way to the score.
 The total atte ndancc was 33,616 and he receipts $73,081. Of this amount he players received S39, ,463.74 each Tub $13.154.5S and the national com nee nor receipts did the figures of oday's game equal several world se- es contests played in other years at ne Polo Grounds
 The few vacant seats in either the teachers or stands were not visible rom the field and the thousands root | d loud and frequently for the Giants. | he White Sox, however, were not '1endleSS, for there was a delegation I [ some hundreds from Chicago and lese supporters lost no opportunity cheer on their faycrites. The stern | by the umpires against riding" of. opponents was effective . nd there was no repartee among the I layers and no disputing of arbiters' i scisions.
 Fans After Collins. T Early in the game there was some f tempt to start organized booing sainst Eddie Collins, apparently in ,taliation for Zimmerman's treat 1 ent earlier in the series, but this as soon hissed down. In every oth- . respect the contest was all that Y orld series contest should be- The i. " was partly overcast and there was ! tile wind, but the cold, damp atmos- 1ere made wraps a necessity. Y With Cicotte turned back for few ,ys at least, the Giants supporters Y e looking for McGraw to start eith-