OTD 9/14/1914: First Place Hoosiers Rout Brooklyn Tip Tops in Series Opener

From the desk of: THE BROOKLYN BAKERS NINE

Hoosiers lead Tip Tops; 1-0

I - IND 10; BTT 0

Indianapolis Hoosiers

vs.

Brooklyn Tips Tops

FROM

WASHINGTON PARK

The greatly anticipated rematch against Indianapolis is underway.  Game one features a battle of 20-game winners: Brooklyn ace Tom Seaton versus Cy Falkenberg for the Hoosiers.

• BOXSCORE: Monday, September 4, 1914 - BR

Fan anxiety runs high at Washington Park as Seaton and Falkenberg match each other pitch for pitch through five scoreless innings.  However the game's latter innings prove calamitous for manager Bradley and his men, as the Hoosiers unleash a ten run assault against their Brooklyn hosts.  No Tip Top pitcher goes unscathed.  Seaton is knocked out of the box in the sixth, charged with two earned runs on just two hits and four walks with two strikeouts through 5.2 innings.  In relief of Seaton, Rudy Sommers yields another two runs, one earned, on three hits before finally closing out the sixth.  The Terriers then strike for five more run in the seventh against reliever Bert Maxwell.  A bedeviled manager Bradley then hands off to Jim Bluejacket whom allows one run on two hits and two walks over the final 2.1 innings of the game.  Brooklyn commits four errors with shortstop Al Halt accounting for half.  Left fielder George Anderson has two of Brooklyn's seven hits against Falkenberg.  Hoosiers left fielder Edd Roush is 3 for 5 with a run scored and three runs batted in.  While starter Cy Falkenberg yields no runs on seven hits and four walks with seven strikeouts in a complete game shut out performance.  He wins his 21st decision of the season against 16 losses with a 2.36 ERA.

This for Brooklyn is nothing short of an opportunity lost; a blown opportunity to pull within two games of first place.  With four games left in the series against Indianapolis, the Tip Tops instead end the day exactly four games out of first.

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.

*

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.

OTD 8/28/1914: Tip Tops Bow to Buffalo at Washington Park

From the desk of: THE BROOKLYN BAKERS NINE

Tip Tops led series 2-1

I - BTT 6; BUF 2

II - BTT 7; BUF 5

III - BUF 3; BTT 2

BUFFALO BUF-FEDS

vs.

BROOKLYN TIP TOPS

FROM

WASHINGTON PARK

Solly Hofman's base hit gives Brooklyn a 2-0 first inning lead.  But they can not hold it.  Buffalo scratches out single runs in the third, fourth, and sixth innings to forge a 3-2 final score on runs batted in from catcher Walter Blair, third baseman Fred Smith, and center fielder Charlie Hanford.  Buf-Feds starter Harry Moran yields just two runs on five hits and one walk with nine strikeouts for his ninth victory of the season against six losses.  Tip Tops starter Bert Maxwell allows all three runs on ten hits and three walks with four strikeouts.  His record falls to 2-4 with a 3.21 ERA.

• BOXSCORE: Friday, August 28, 1914 - BR

Thursday's loss once again brings the Tip Tops back again to .500 with a 56-56 record.  Indianapolis was idle for a second straight day, thus Brooklyn slips another half-game to 8.5 games back of the Hoosiers.  Brooklyn and the Buf-Feds conclude their series Saturday afternoon at Washington Park, then it's off to western New York to complete the home and home series with a five game set at Buffalo's International Fair Grounds.