The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-26
SMITH IN DEBUT
SHUTS OUT PIRATES
Triple by Myers With Bases
Full in Third Helps bod
gers Win, s to o.


sherrod smith-good old Sherry Of
the cannon bali spssd, superb control and
Iron nerve In the pinchss-cams into his
town again at Ebbets Field yesterday.
Making his 1919 debut before q Sunday
/ aftsrnoon throng Of 10000 persons the
0eorEia southpsw set the heavy hitting
Pirates down with three scattered
safeties. issued no passes and made the
Buccaneers walk the plank to the tune
OF to o. II took Sherry only an hour
and twenty-five minutes to turn the
trick.
Earl Hamilton, the former st. Louis
Brownie, crossed shoots with Smith in q
southpaws' duel. One of those savage
sluggfng soirees which the Dodgers have
had the happy faculty of injecting in
most OF their recent games brought
about Hamilton's downfall in the third
inning.
A third inning collapse Of the Corsair
defence. crsshing crescendo OF savage
lbrooklyn slams in which Hy Myers
struck high G with triple of the right
held fence. which cleared the decks,
which at the time were loaded to the
gunwales, gave the Dodgers the series
three straight over the smoky City crew.
Despite the fusiilade Of Brooklyn hits
in the third none OF the five runs was
learned, for two Pittsburg errors put
Hamilton IN jeopardy. After the palpi-
tating third Hamilton gave Smith worthy
battle until the eighth, when he retired
to allow pinch hitter Buster Cation to be
distinguished at frst on q corking one
hand pickup and throw by Schmandt.
who was shifted over from second to
third to let Magee take his old place
lagain At second Bill Evans. the former
MorSanton, ". @, semi-pro, turned the
Dodssrs back In the last frame
i BresAiyn Rallies.
Each Of the three Brookiyn-Pi ttsburg
games was decided by q one inning
Dodger batting saturnalia- Frank Bull
let Miller blanked the Dodgers for seven
frames on Thursday only to run afoul of
q Brooklyn swatfest in the eighth that
resulted in six runs and the overcoming
Of . two run lead the Dodgers had
spotted Pittsburg in the nrst frame. In
1.-THE fourth inning on Saturday, with the
Pirates leading . to I, the Dodgers
touched on a mine under Erskine Mayer,
blew him on the peak, registered I'VE
J runs and eswed up the game. Brooklyn
Opened up with the heavy artillery one
inning earlier yesterday. Eventually
the Dodgers may get started in the FIRST
, frame and relieve the anxiety.
Shsrrod Smiths return to active boz
duty sets Brooklyns pennant aspirations
ms enew, ohth yesterday Robbie
- ~ 20 hcoole aions win nve work
: s p'eners rener. Srlmes, MarQuard'
Pfeffer and Grimes pitched good ball
, and oven the work OF Grimes was moi
up to last seasons standard. Cheney
. Is rounding into form and IL abou,
; ready 20 work. With Sherry and Larry
. m harness tne nve overworked Brookiyn
pNsners VIII Do eoie 10 ger httie RESI-
cno may oehset tne paIi theiI past per.
anoes meicats them capable OF.
ene sfookvn Dox corps lives up to ex'
uons cnosnsr psnnsnt Is nkeiy &c
the team behind the pitchers is the
: A''" mas oo~s'e" III yeaf'
Smith IN Great FERN.
a seasons oAseoaii respite and army
r I've apparenly has agreed with Smith
He came BACK IN all his pristine glory
p certainly Sherroo never pitched bet
ter game than yesterday. His crosi
fre offerings had the Corsairs eating
Q out OF his hand. OF the few balls thai
9 were hit out Of the infield most OF then
were easy flies. OF the three Pittsburl
hits Cutshaw got two. Sherrod hat
4 | speed galore, a sharp breaking cur~,
and superb control. He kept the run
ners glued to the bags in hts Eoou OF
!. wsy. Smiths speed in shooting tn,
q bali over to nrst. in fact. resulted |,
-? his being charxed with one error.
: BiRbee singled past Konetchy will
n two down In the third. Smith with ,
a sudden peR to Konetchy caught Carlso,
on frst The throw came so ouickI,
that Konetchv was not his old sure sr,f
Righee'a nIyy,ee carried him in m,
path Of the BAH and Il caromed Of
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