The New York herald., 1922-07-03
Wheat, Myers and Decatur
Star in Second Game in
Brooklyn.
BY DANIEL.

What with the heat and humidity
and a couple OF red hot ball games
which developed brace OF torrid tri-
umphs for The Dodgers In the first
Sunday double header staged in Flat
bush since Noah wore knickerbockers.
there was no call for earmuffs at
Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon. The
supine Braves. who say they like Mr.
Heydler's cellar because IT is so much
cooler down there, handed over the
entire bill, but not before they had
kicked up a fair fuss for lot OF last
placers. The Dodgers took the first
men. by to 3.
Some 2s,oc0 fans responded to Charley
Ebbets's urgent call TO take advantage
of the extraordinary bargain. They
came arrayed In shirt sleeves. fly swat
ters and Turkish towels. They mopped
and mopped and went home minus
lot of starch. but with the satisfaction
of having got their moneys worth The
fans filled the stands and flowed over
into the circus bleachers in left field.
The boys in this section were toasted
to fancy brown.
Both games were full of lively hit
ting, lively fielding and a lot of inde-
cision as to where the verdict would
perch. In both contests pitchers We're
treated with compliments of the season.
Quite few Fingers were worn ragged.
but it hurt the base batsmen as much
as it did the singers for scooting
around those paths was not exactly in
the line OF polar exploration. AS we
may have indicated before, II was
slightly hot.
Wheat's Homer Handy.
OF course no real bargain day is a
success without at least couple of
home runs. Horace Ford of the Braves
walloped one in the first game, but it
didn't do his club much good Zack
Wheat soaked one in the second de-
bate, and that was quite another mat
ter. The Wheat wallop drove in Tommy
Grsffith ahead of him in the sixth
inning and was major factor in the
native success. Zack was quite a
worker all afternoon.
A pretty little double by Hy Myers
and fine little single by Clarence
Mitchell, which came in winning rally
which produced three runs in the eighth.
also had quite bit to do with the
way the game went.
The Braves got away to a fine start
in that second game, scoring three runs
In the opening frame. mainly through
the thoughtlessness and inaccuracy Of
Harry Shriver, the young right handler
OF the locals. Shriver got off a neat
wild throw but with that throw got
himself right out of the messy and
humid ball game.
Harry opened the proceedings with a
pass to Powell He could not find the
plate for Barbara either, and some OF
| the overheated pop guZzlers In the
| bleachers began to sound the recall for
the young man. Had your Uncle Robbie
taken the advice Of the second guessers
he would have been spared about ten
pounds and lot OF anguish. But this
time he did not happen to know as
much as some of the blescherites--and
Shriver remained to delight the bean
eaters.
Faces Only Three Men.
Nixon. with two on and none out of
course had orders to sacrifice and this
he attempted to do Shriver got ii
into his head that he would land Powell
at third, and he had plenty of time
to turn the trick. But after long de-
bate with himself he came through with
a wicked heave over Highs head and
two Braves scampered over the plate
just as merry as could be.
That was enough for Shriver, who
apparently was not acclimated. In
came Steve" Decatur and another run
for the Bostons, for Cruises sacrifice
| fly to Wheat scored Nixon, who had
| reached third on the Shriver sling
Steve" stopped the visitors dead, and
they got nary another run in that game
Decatur gave only three hits In seven
innings. being removed in favor of a
pinch hitter,
1t wasn't until the fourth that the
Dodgers were al BILE TO make any inroads
on the three run lead OF the Braves.
| They put over run on young Nc
CULLEN by dint of sheer perspiration.
Then came the sixth and the home boys,
amid great banzais. got themselves a