New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
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Run in the Third
Beats Pirates
lack Wheat's Sub Makes
Good with the Robins
Pfefer at His Best
BY CHARLES A. TAYLOR

A stitch in time saves . nine. The
victory of the Dodgers over the Pitts
burgh Pirates yesterday by score Of
6 to 0 proves this. The fact that the
champions of the National League have
won five Of their last six games fur
nishes additional evidence.
Zach Wheat, the esteemed left fielder
of the Flatbush aggregation, got,
troublesome stitch in his side, which
forced his retirement from the batting
order several days ago. Jimmy Kick
man, who won fame in the Southland.
whence he sprang, as q football star on
many college teams, replaced Zach.
Jimmy often played on three different
elevens in the same year, and always
made good on the gridiron, but never
with the various faculties he con-
fronted.
Gridiron vs.. Greek
The "profs" invariably discovered
that he had matriculated for Q course
in football rather than courses In the
classics or engineering or, IN fact, any
thing else they had to offer. So Jimmy
was told TO move on. He gained most
of the speed he shows on the bases
these days running for touchdovns,
but he gained perhaps even more By
running from college faculties.
But to return to the stitch that saved
a nine. Jimmy has been most busy %
the bat and on the bases since he was
called upon 10 enter the Brooklyn line
up where Wheat's name usually ap-
pears. Jimmy's batting average, de-
spite his greenness, during his expert
ence as a regular totals PIT ss against
Zach's 300 or thereabouts. But jim
my's blows have for the most part been
struck when men were on bases, where
as the brilliant Zach often did his
Jimmy delivered one Of these timely
smashes yesterday and pranced around
the path behind two Of his teammates,
three runs resulting and the outcome
OF ball game being settled.
The Dodgers, it is true, tailed three
more counters before the end came, but
this powerful blow Of Hickman's was
the one that shook the confidence OF
Burleigh Grimes. The Pirate pitcher
never rcgained his equilibrium, and in
the sixth inning he departed to the
shower bath, Albertus Mamaux, the un-
fortunate as far as this years pitching
statistics 60. succeeding Grimes on the
mound.
Albertus, fresh from his defeat at
the hands of an independent ball club
in Jersey City last Sunday. was won
der with his dazzling speed for two
innings and then collapsed. George
Cutshaw, who has been hitting the ball
far these last few days, spoiled the
afternoon for Mamaux by . crashing
double to left centre in the eighth inn
ing.
Olson Scores Run
Mowrey was an easy out shortstop
to first, but Ivan Olson brought Gut
shaw across the plate by a single to
centre field The Swede was caught
stealing, but Otto Miller took all the
pepper out Of Albertus by driving out
triple to the fence in centre. A dou-
bic, triple and single in this frame
showed that Mamaux must continue
for a time trying his wares on semi
pro teams in exhibition games. He
seems to need the exercise.
JEFF Pfcffer, who twirled for the
Dodgers, was in top form. The big
fellow allowed only five hits and famed
six men. George Cutshew and Mike
Mowrey saved JEFF from possible trou-
BILE on two occasions by their sensa-
tional stops and throws.
But the whole story of the conflict
must Of necessity go back to that
stitch in time furnished by Jimmy
Hickman which made the populace on
hand forget the stitch in Zach Whest's
side.
h. g.