The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1916, Page 11

STAR—FRIDAY, SAY, JEFF 'S ‘THE STEAM RD | ESCAPING FROM SCRIBE ON BENCH GIVES US DOPE ON | BROOKLYN OUTFIT (The first of four articles telling how the Brooklyn Robins are winning their way into a world’s series, written by Harold Johnson, The Star’s special sport writer, who sat on the Brook- tym bench during several days to get the real inside dope on how they are doing it. Johnson got into a Brooklyn uniform, and, disguised as a player, eluded the umpires, who are under z strict orders to keep “outsiders” off the grounds during games. # —SPORTS EDITOR.) BY HAROLD JOHNSON ROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept. 29.—A great, big happy family, | fathered by a giant-hearted fat man! ‘ That's my impression of the Brooklyn Robins, prospec-| tive National league pennant winners and principals in the} | 1916 world’s series, gained from a seat on the bench along-| ) side Wilbert Robinson and his men at Ebbets Field I asked Robinson for permission to get into uniform, sit on the bench and study his methods and those of the coming ON THE BENCH WITH THE PENNANT CHASERS—Harold John. | champions during the pennant drive. He finally granted the son, The Star's ep ond - aad jal sport writ It's me time. The good-natured ~ play of the preliminary practice suddenly seriousness. re! > My first hunch with the clanging of the starting gong ™ Was that I had invited myself to witness a battle of wits, plus gives way to | with 50 different kind of bandages, }t bottles, phials and Bone bruises, spike beanball, heat, ete, require prompt wounds, the Htrength, in which 25 veterans and budding stars would) medical attention a Match their craft and brawn against the same number of Comedy is a minus quantity 7 ‘on the pennant win bench. | rivals. Everywhere on the bench and within the Brooklyn dug Out there is an atmosphere of coldblooded business. The Dats, balls, gloves, sweaters, the ice-cooler and the club| adjuncts. spikes | Weird odors permeate the ozone | is registered, scarlike, all over the| the aroma, if you would call it that, ‘woodwork and cement. As their|/combining the smell of sweaty Wearers sidie about these same flannel and the magic contents of spikes give off a metallic, clatter-| the half-opened grip of the trainer. | ing noise which grates on one's|I peered into the littie black hand nerves. packed bower and the master mind of the wat Gus Brown Sas: ABOUT Mack, has been, vital factor in r the Robin rise | I didn’t hear much about the | errors made by the Robins. These Brooklyn boys are too engrossed in the pastime to in- duige in humor. And they don’t need score cards| to refresh thelr memo’ They can tell in deta! what & y hostile tter has done at the plate during ine, the sort of ball he hits whether it be a splitter, a| curve, a fast one, high or low; the count on the hitter when he con- nected and whether be hit with men on the sacks or with the sacks empty There's a wealth of gray matter wembled here. In the main, Rob- bie's troops are seasoned veterans | }who have learned their lessons under o t leaders but who read ily fa th ambulance a ayatematically / ne code ac themselves to outlined by their portly pliot Jack Coombs is Robbie's right- derstands error: part of the game. The player who “boots” one in a crisis doesn’t need to be mace to fee! worse by suffering a bawling out But “boners” are termed of judgment Robbie unpardonable sins. errors calls them 3 Why did you hold the ball? | were you asleep? Why dida’t you peg home? Why didn't you go | NATIONAL LEAGUE Pe | Brooklyn | Philadel 15 Re 1480 + | 297 Cineinnatl 9a '380| | PHILADELPHIA 8 9° is the pri AT BROOKLYN 4 6 38 If $15.00 is pee Alexander and Killifer; Cheney, Coombs and Miller, First g2me— you want to pay for a Suit or Overcoat, you BOSTON ia ee 4 ih ‘ie : AT Ww YORK 6 & will find that here its Rudolph and Gowdy; Tesrean and | McCarthy. Second game— | BOSTON ....-ceeeers |AT NEW YORK......6 8 | Ragan, Nehf and Gowdy; Schupp }and McCarthy | No others scheduled. buying power is vastly greater than usual. For at $15 we offer Penn Brook and Michael Stern Suits and Over- coats that look and wear far better than the average $20 gar- ment. Percy Cove, Boxer, Killed in Battle| Percy Cove, well-known North | western lightweight boxer, was killed recently on 4 European bat- tle field. This information reached |S le yesterday via Vancouver. Cove's real name was Percy Cham | berlain, iB. F. Day School Is Victor in Contest Always the most for the money in Furn- ishings, Hats, Shoes. Just come and see. The B. F. Dny achool was re Mm turned the winner in a round robin game of volley ball last even the Colling field house, The ing a m game was the first of a series for @ the city championship EVERETT, Sept. 29.—Glen My- ers, right end on the Everett high school gridiron squad, will become a star of the game before the end of the season, This is the predic- tion of Coach Bagshaw, Opposite 42-Story i. C. Smith Bldg. Second Ave. at Yesler THAT RADIATOR IN “THERE ? left, in the uniform joshing and horse-|tyn player, on the Brooklyn bench, next to Manager Robinson. hru with a double instrumenta.| your head up! These are samples of boner.” Yet, calidowna of th eldom resented on letim of such a esent the affront The bench breeds « for there ts the old happy he-back for the play inch. There is the general der assistance when a «pike slices a leg or hand, or a foul tip smashes Unger. If You Want an Overcoat or Clothes. 1) tages of high - sive woolens, comfort, style We will save —he knows. play with smart dash of up - to - the - minute style, order Dundee made - to - measure With all the advan- tailorship and exclu- right combination of service. Order today. money. Ask the man who wears a Dundee >) #9 th Ww Plin | tin of a Brook. |! exproasions | directed at the athlete who pulls|NEW YORK . | AT BOSTON is sort are} the bench, | whereas in other lines of work the roasting would Ww N comradeship paton- | a) er who has| rush to ren || | De | us | Or Union Made SEPT. 29, 1916, a DOBIE WORKS Complete Report ———|| of Market Today —————=_ ——$—$—$ PAGE 11 (Copyriaht, 1918, by al rl ELEVEN With the first practice game of the season scheduled for Sat- urday, Coach Gilmour Doble, of the U. of W., is putting his charges thru some of the hard- est paces that have marked the training grind to date. The workouts consist of the und going thru the regular scrim © direction of ayne Sutton, Dobie is also lay & streas in the art ne in Yiis direction Morrisdn, the big varsity tackle,| Shamrocks Prove to getting his punts off in fine fash many of them going 60 yards nd tnore Game Birds took them down the |cracked yesterday. Today they are | American w line, 16 to 8. Next Wednesday the |!0oking to Marquard, Jeff Pfeffer) Players A.B. Hits Pet. ores 8 | Birds take on the Black Cats, or Sherrod Smith to take the Speaker . ..531 205 «= 386 1 PT Pry -— <<< |mound and regain the lost ground. Cobb 193 366 5 $s 5] | Rixey May Twirl |Jackson ........57 196 = 340 4 0817 Hayne and Cowing On today’s game may hang the | National : $07 e result of the pennant race. The/Chase . 527 178 337 ; Fight for Honors Pnitiies are iikely to present Rixey | Daubert 452 «146328 = as their pitching choice, and when | Wheat 651 164 316 Ten innings Mogridge and Walters; Mays and ASHINGTON T PHILADELPHIA Gallia snd Henry; and Schang Chicago at Cleveland postponed 4 s 1 5 3 Nabors, Bres combed a long drive, or the pitcher | rain who has fanned a@ hostile in the No others scheduled Prices Paid Preducere f: Poi omentio wh mburmer egon tripl Cal. lemons, Cantaloupe, grade the and you PI wi ME AHN UN i") White, now, Ci Cantaloupe, Lu * neapple, Florida, crate. MOM oveecesietees nite river oe aye a °c. Trade Mark Keg U. & Pat. Office) }last night at Brown & Hulen's par }lors in their mated |cushion billiard tournament for the elty ttle. | Tono Ball Club the mages with the second team, under | Sunday Assistant Coach | three-game h t ind poised today to drive In the American league, the Red te the iat game of 6 Wine first place in |Sox have slipped slightly. Three ~ series between the! se wational league. games must be added to the Red | jtown teams, The melee will be Sox’ victory column before they of hurling and | 4 staged here with crow receiving forward passes and is de | Se ae voting a considerable amount of his green at the indoor baseball game last night at the Elks 0} Laurence Cowing and Robin Hayne | | were fighting it out today on the | pulling the Dodgers off their perch. | ; Unks of the Burlingame here for | Larry th nia Louisville Looks Colonels are the American this season have to drop four games 4 Ray Logue Wins | fans coming over Fisher, BY BUD FISHER. “Values Tell’ Test the Statement in Our Matchless Stocks of Made-right, Smart Clothes. Priced Billiard Melee) le JOLLY DODGERS which might mean a world’s series for the victorious club. He was jeroft, Niehoff and Paskert starred all afternoon. M. J. Wolfe lost to Ray Logue Logue won, 35 to BY H. C. HAMILTON NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Only one point behind the Dodgers and with the advantage of the jump game of the all-important series tucked away, the Phil- Meets Olympians OLYMPIA, Sept ball club of this place clash that he was officiating in a game | ler ked by brilliant fielding. Ban- 29.—Tono and The Dodgers cracked badly thru their collision with the fast trav- jeling Phillies, but are prepared to | fight desperately for the struggle |"@™ r today, which will tell whether they |d°Ww2ed the leaders yesterday |retain their leader or skid into sec- | Are ee for another contest with Be Green at Game 04 piace. Twenty thousand rapid |‘P©™ today |fans yelled, cheered and then groaned and moaned as the Dodger | @—> a machine showed fine form, then|| The Stick began to hit bumps and finally | T | will have the pennant cinched, in lease the White Sox win all their remaining games. The Y: The Shamrocks seemed rather Battle club. The DEL MONTE, Cal, Sept. 29.—|Rixey is right, he is hard to beat. | Nerve was the biggest factor in| Rreninsenin Will Cheney, who has turned in| Have Good Team e ;olf champlonship of C .|vietory after victory of late, and| Plonship of Callfor. | vp has pitched hie way past other| BREMERTON, Sept. 29.—Things ltense situations, faltered in the |!ook rosy for a good football equ | second inning and completely gave |t the Union high school. oth” way in the third. Two hits, an er-|West and Edgar Draper, physical ror and a sacrifice fly in the second | director, are whipping the eleven inning apparently unnerved him, |!mto shape for a tough struggle. and with one man out in the third. 3 he lost everything. One man hit ost certain to cop | safely and Cheney walked two and sociation gonfalon | uncorked a wild pitch before Jack jattle and Tacoma city ball leagues, — To lose it, they would |Coombs was called to the mound. | will not mix Sunday scheduled, — vhile In-' Meanwhile Alexander was pitch-|'The melee has been postponed @ — unruffied Like Sure Winner LOVISVILL The Burnside Hatters and the Smelter team, champions of the Se- Sept. 29.—The Step Upstairs and Save $10 ON YOUR Fall Suit Overcoat $25 Values Hand-tailored, All-wool and Perfect Fitting at our upstairs price We have cut the ground floor rent from the price of clothes, that’s why we save you ten dollars. Come and let us show you the great- est real clothes val- ues in America. Open Saturday Nights Until 10 o’Clock Tailored Ready Co. 401-403 PIKE ST.