OTD 9/3/1914: Brooklyn Tip Tops Returning Home After Series Split at Buffalo

From the desk of:  THE BROOKLYN BAKERS NINE

Brooklyn @ Buffalo Split Series

I - BTT 4; BUF 1

II - BUF 3; BTT 1

III - BUF 5; BTT 5*

IV - BTT 10; BUF 2

V - BUF 5; BTT 1

The Tip Tops and Buf-Feds split Thursday's scheduled double-header at Buffalo's International Fair Grounds.  The five game series itself is split down the middle with each gaining two victories and one game suspended in a tie.

GAME ONE

• BOXSCORE: Thursday, September 3, 1914 - BR

Brooklyn scores early and often, then piles on again in the later frames en route to a 10-2 thrashing of the Buf-Feds.  Tip Top starter Bert Maxwell limits Buffalo to a pair of runs on nine hits and two walks with two strikeouts through nine innings for his third victory with a 2.94 ERA.  Buf-fed shortstop Baldy Louden goes 2 for 4, and drives in Buffalo's only earned run against Maxwell.  Brooklyn on the other hand is 12 for 39 (.307) as a team with four extra-base hits.  Solly Hofman is big man on campus going 3 for 4 with a double, home run, four runs scored, and two runs batted in.  Jim Delahanty is 4 for 5 with four runs scored.  Steve Evans triples and drives in his 73rd run of the season.  Tex Wisterzil is 2 for 4 with two runs batted in, and shortstop Al Halt drives in a team leading three runs.

GAME TWO

• BOXSCORE: Thursday, September 3, 1914 - BR

Brooklyn scores an unearned run in the fourth, but would threaten no more.  Buffalo starter Fred Anderson allows no earned runs on just five scattered hits and four walks with six strikeouts for his tenth victory of the season with a 3.03 ERA.  Brooklyn commits five costly errors in the game. Starter Bill Chappelle yields five runs, but only two earned, on seven hits and two walks with four strikeouts over eight innings pitched.  Buffalo left fielder Joe Agler is 3 for 4 with a run scored.  Center fielder Charlie Hanford is 2 for 4 with two runs scored, and third baseman Fred Smith drives in two runs in three at-bats.  Brooklyn's Steve Evans is 1 for 4 with a walk, and scores the Tip Tops lone run.

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The Indianapolis Hoosiers defeat Chicago at Weegham Park, and so the Tip Tops lose another half game in the standings.  They now head back home to Brooklyn where they'll remain throughout the balance of September.  Three series down the line awaits another potentially crucial showdown against the Hoosiers.  The last time they met at Indianapolis the Hoosiers swept them in five.  Before Brooklyn can set about turning the tables at home they have ten games ahead of them with which to first close the gap.  The Pittsburgh Rebels and the St. Louis Terriers may indeed prove convenient and conducive opponents in the days leading up to their encounter with Indianapolis.  Brooklyn enters this weekend's series against the last place Rebels at Washington Park three games back of third place Baltimore, and five games back of second place Chicago.