OTD 10/6/1914: Sinking Brooklyn Tip Tops Lose Third Straight

From the desk of: THE BROOKLYN BAKERS NINE

Buffeds lead Tip Tops; 2-0

I - BUF 4; BTT 3

II - BUF 3; BTT 1

Brooklyn Tip Tops (74-75)

vs.

Buffalo Buffeds (78-68)

Watch in dismay is all manager Bill Bradley could do as his docile Tip Tops drop their third straight to slip one game under par.  Starter Ed Lafitte pitches well, I guess just not well enough.  He yields three runs, two earned, on ten hits and three walks with five strikeouts through eight innings en route to his 16th loss of the season against 15 wins.  A 2.62 ERA apparently doesn't seem to stretch as far as it once did.  Meanwhile Buffalo Buffeds starter AL Schultz allows Brooklyn just one run on seven hits and one walk with seven strikeouts through nine complete innings pitched.  Steve Evans goes 2 for 4 and drives home Ed Lafitte in the third with Brooklyn's lone run of the game.  Lafitte also collects two hits in three at-bats, which for what its worth is a better day at the plate than Buffalo first baseman Hal Chase.

The Kansas City Packers sweep a double-header against the ChiFeds at Wrigley Field.  And so with a victory over the St. Louis Terriers, the Indianapolis Hoosiers retake first place by a full game with two left to play.