New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
Weird Playing
By Dodgers in
4th Costs Game
Pirates Take Advantage of
Lapses and Score Their
Runs for 5 to 2 Victory
By Ray Mccarthy

The Dodgers virtually handed a game
to the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday at
Charles II. Ebbetss ball yard. The
whole inner works of the local defence
went to pieces in the fourth inning,
enabling the Pirate crew to score all
their runs. The final tally was 5 to g
Had the Dodgers not suffered this
lapse there is no telling how the strug-
gle would have ended. In every other
inning Sherrod Smith pitched fully as
well as Frank "Bullet' Miller, who
twirled efficiently throughout, and the
Dodgers looked as good as their op-
ponents But in the fatal fourth the
Ebbets employees looked like anything
but big league nine
1t may have been d case of naughty
boys taking advantage Of their mas
ter's absence Uncle Robbie, for some
reason or other, wasn't on hand to di-
rect affairs yesterday. The fault may
also be attributed to gummed signals.
But it looked like mental negligence
and sudden cloudness of the gray mat
ter more than anything else.
Carey Starts Trouble
Max Carey in his second appearance
at bat, walloped his second hit to left
field to open the fourth. Southworth
flied to right field. SO far so good.
SulSnaW hammered nit INTO right,
Tommy Griffith holding Carey to sec
ond by neat fielding. Barbara slashed
a hit TO centre, Carey scoring and Gut
shaw making third. Nothing to COM
plain of yet.
But at this point came the break.
N'cnolson, who had replaced Fred
Motswitz at first base after the latter
haG been sunmarily elected by Umpire
Klein because of his (Mollwitz's) in
sistence that he (Klem) had no busi-
ness calling strikes when it was quite
obvious that he was bind-as we
started to say, Nicholson tapped to
smith Sherrod picked up the ball and
looked at third, then at first Finding
everything O. X, he suddenly wheeled
and shot TO second.
Olson and Johnston stood on each
side of second base, watching all the
above proceedings. and were dunn
founded when the ball went whizzing
between them and into centre field.
Cutshaw scored on the play and Bar
bare reached second. Then followed
another. Terry slipped one at Honey,
who hurled to Olson, forcing Nichol-
SON. While Ivy was looking the ball
over Barbara kept hustIing along and
dashed safely across the plate
Lee hit to Ward, who kept the pot
wiling ny booIiliS Cuc SnncfC.
Even the Pitcher Hits
Smith decided to take a hand in the
merry whirl and tossed one up to
Miller. The Pirate pitcher crashed the
offering into right for a double, and
two more runs came over Bigbee end
ed the thing by lofting to Myers
In no other inning was Smith both
cred to any extent. But the live-run
lead proved too much with Miller
singing so effectively. The few hits
made off the visitor came in two clus-
ters and were responsible for the two
runs. Zach Wheat started the scoring
each time with a vicious clout.
Zach's first contribution was a swat
TO centre in TIE fifth. Meyers's single
advanced him to third and he tailed
on konetchy's out. In the seventh Zach
led off with a drive down the right
field line, went to third when Terry
fumbled Myers's grounder and scored
while Myers and Konetchy were being
doubled. Terry to Cutshaw to Nichol-
son.
The score: