The sun., 1919-07-12
THIRTEEN DODGERS
LEFT TO LANGUISH
Carlson Tightens in Pinches,
While Pirates Pound Pfef-
fer and Win, 5 to 2.
~ GEORGE n. UNDER WOOD.


Hal Carlson may be something Of
hero in Rockford. Ill, his home town.
or in Pittsburg. Pa, where he pitches
baseball for tho we'll known Pirates, but
over In Brooklyn Hal in just plain
villain.
The big fellow 10 just back from Over
There. When Carlson was drafted in
the spring OF 1918 Barney Dreyfuss
wanted TO have him exempted on the
ground that he Is the sole support of his
| widowed mother. but Hal would have
none OF II. TITS the big game OF moth
Ing for me-" declared Hal. and straight-
| away went of to war. AZ q member of
the sosth Machine Gun Company of the
fighting Seventy-eighth Division he took
part In many bloody engagements on the
Argonne sector and helped chase the
Heinies across the Rhine. About q
month ago he came back. They killed
the fatted calf for him in Rockford. H..
and gave him hero's welcome in
Pittsburg
After yesterdays final game Of the
Dodger-Pirate series at Ebbets Field
the Brooklyn fans felt like pulling off
another fatted calf stunt--only with
Carlson as the corpulent bovine. The
Plttsburg right handler beat the Dodgers,
|
games out Of three. and bumped Brook
Ign right out Of fourth place into the
second division.
Thirteen Dodgers Stranded.
Brooklyn had no difnculty in planting
| mon on tho hassocla The trouble was
they had to keep them there. The
Dodgers Jolted Carlson for eight hits
At times he was wilder than a March
hare and seemed to have left his range
| finder In the Argonne. He pitched eight
straight balls to Olson and Johnston at
the start of the game Atop Of the eight
hits the Dodgers drew seven passes. All
uf which awaited Brooklyn little, for in
the pinches Carlson was all Ice and cold
steel and left thirteen Dodgers stranded
on the bases
Except in one inning. the seventh.
Carlson's burning speed pulled him out
of every tight hole. There wasn't an
inning the Dodgers didn't get on bases.
but the seventh was the only one in
which Brooklyn could work a man
| around
Two were down In the seventh when
Griffith drew a pass. Whereupon Wheat
thumped a two Dagger to right centre
that sent Tommy scurrying home. Hy
Myers then injected his second hit Of
the fray, a lash to left that sent Wheat
when konetchy walked, and was ma
rooned with Ed when Kilduff. after work.
ing Carlson to a 3 to 2 count, took q
vicious third strike.
i Pirates Pound Pfener.
A second inning assault on JEFF Pfeffsr
gave the Pirates four runs and sewed
up the game for Pittsburg. though the
Corsairs added another run OF Mamaux
in the ninth, when Cutshaw shot a
smoking drive between Wheat and
Myers for a home run.
Terry singled off Pfeffer with one
down in the first, stole second and went
to third on an infield out. only to be
marooned when Johnston threw out
Southworth After warming UP in the
first the Pirates proceeded to make
Pfefrer walk the plank in the second.
Cutshaw singled and came the rest of
the way on successive srnashes by Moll-
WITT and Cation. On the throw to the
plate Mollwlts took third and Cation Sec
ond. Pfeffer frightened and famed both
Schmidt and Carlson. JEFF then walked
Blgbee, filling the bases. Whereupon
little Fob Terry swept the paths clean
as the proverbial Dutch kitchen with a
two sack soak 10 left. Mollwitz. Cation
and Bigbee all scored on the two Dagger.
but Terry died stretching 1t. Wheat to
Kilduff
II was a double by little Terry that
put Bigbee in position to score from
third on Stengers sacrifice fly with the
run that beat the Dodgers in the hrst
game OF the series.
Hickman batted for Pfefrer in the
third and Smith pitched great ball from
the fourth through the eighth, when
Mitchell batted for him. Mamaux fin
lshed the game with results aforemen-
toned. The score: