The sun., 1919-08-17
PREFER FAILS
TOHALT REDS
Behind Stonewall Support
Ruether Blanks Brooklyn
by 3 to 0 Score.
DEFENCE is IMPROBABLE
Cincinnati Infield Holds Like
a Rock Before Brook
Ign Bats.
By GEORGE b. UNDERWOOD.

AS after four of the six games on the
Polo Grounds last week Field Marshal
Fat Moran of the rampaging Red bat
talon last night might have wired wild
Cincinnati fandom: I'VE have met the
enemy and they are ours"
Jeff Pfeffer. Brooklyn pitching ace,
failed to stop the mad rush of the raging
Reds. Fifteen thousand fans saw the
Cincinnati sluggers unload eleven roar
ing bingles. including a trio of doubles
and a triple, on the pride of the Brook
Ign hurting corps and send three GRIM
son hosed runners hurting across the
platter.
While Pfeffer was facing the wither-
ing barrage. Southpaw Dutch Ruether.
aided and abetted with a Gordon Of de-
fence that stood firm and impregnable
as the rock OF Gibraltar, held the
Dodgers to six scattered safeties and
kept the home plate unsullied by the
foot of any Brooklyn foeman.
Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn 0, tells the
tale and yet leaves much to be &C
counted.
On the face of returns one would I'm
agine the Cincinnati southpaw out
classed the big blond Brooklyn right
handler. and that as far as the pitching
went the duel was as one sided as the
game itself. Such was far from the
truth. however.
Without taking away any credit from
Ruether for his mastery pitching Il new
ertheless Is true that the support ac-
corded him by his teammates would
make almost any pitching look good.
Cincinnati, the team as a unit. held like
a rock throughout. Always was there
Red infielder to bob up and hurl him.
self in the way of q Brooklyn drive.
InheId Work Features.
The working Of the Cincinnati In
field-Daubert, Rath. Kopf and Groh.
basebalrs 'Hindenburg lino"-was a
delight to watch. Try as they might.
by smoking liner. sizzling bounder,
grass burning grounder, the Brooklyn
batsmen could not find hole in the
lmpregnable front of Cincinnati's FIRST
line defences. BY attack or strategy.
as evinced by unexpected and neatly
placed bunts Brooklyn always found
the Red infield firm and alert About
the only way to blaze a hit past the
Cincinnati infielders was to knock the
ball high over their heads.
a Red outfielder to streak across the
greensward and turn a prospective hit
into a simple out, The Cincinnati out
field cover q lot of ground and cover
It like a carpet.
Little Heins Groh alone robbed the
Dodgers OF q whole flock of bingles.
Not since the palmy days Of Jimmy Col
Inns has baseball had as wonderful field
ing third baseman as the Giant CASTOR.
No hit was too hot for Heine to hurl
himself In front OF. He went to either
side and ,plucked drives out OF the air
or the dirt with a smoothness and nom
chalance that bespoke the master. II
a Brooklyn batter had driven the ball
six feet down into the earth Brooklyn
fans would wager Heine would have bur-
rowed into the ground and grabbed It.
No angle was too difficult for Heine to
get his throws away from, and his pegs
went to their mark with the accuracy
of a sharpshooter's bullet.
Dodgers FAN short.
Had Pfefrer been accorded the same
wonderful support that was Ruether's
the Cincinnati base hit total would have
been cut In half The Brooklyn infield
was as slow as cold molassss compared
to Cincinnatrs. Even the Brooklyn out
felders failed to measure up to their
Red rivals. This somewhat was due to
the truly great Hy Myers having some
thing of an Off day. Such days with
Myers are few and far between.
For two innings the contest was a
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