OTD 10/7/1914: Modecai Brown Lifts Brooklyn Tip Tops Over Buffalo

From the desk of: THE BROOKLYN BAKERS NINE

BufFeds/Tip Tops Draw; 2-2

I - BUF 4; BTT 3

II - BUF 3; BTT 1

III - BTT 10; BUF 4

IV- BTT 10; BUF 4

Brooklyn Tip Tops

vs.

Buffalo BufFeds

If nothing else Mordecai Brown's effort against Buffalo opponent Harry Moran helps lift Brooklyn back to .500 and snaps their three game skid.

• BOXSCORE: Wednesday, October 7, 1914 - BR

The Tip Tops score early, often, and late, in a commanding 10-4 victory at Buffalo's International Fair Association Grounds.  Catcher Yip Owens leads the charge going 3 for 3 with a double, home run, and three runs batted in.  Brown helps his own cause with a hit in four plate appearances and a run batted in.  George Anderson, Al Halt, and Steve Evans, each drive in a run apiece.  Making his seventh start for the Tip Tops, the 37-year old Mordecai Brown yields four earned runs on eight hits and three walks with five strikeouts over eight innings for his 14th victory of the season against 12 losses with a 3.61 ERA.  Manager Bradley's bunch improve to 75-75 with four games remaining on Brooklyn's schedule.  Their sole mission now is to avoid slipping into the sub-par second division.

INDIANAPOLIS HOOSIERS CLINCH PENNANT

Otherwise the inaugural Federal League season is drawing to its conclusion.  With their seventh straight victory the Indianapolis Hoosiers clinch the league's first ever pennant by a 1.5 game margin ahead of the Chicago ChiFeds.  The Hoosiers improve to a league best 87-65 with Wednesday's defeat of the St. Louis Terriers, while the ChiFeds sat idle after losing both games of a double-header against the Packers on Tuesday.  The season comes to an end on Thursday, but there's nothing more Chicago can do.

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OTD 9/5/1914: Brooklyn Tip Tops Win Third Straight Against Rebels

From the desk of: THE BROOKLYN BAKERS NINE

Tip Tops lead Rebels 3-0

I - BTT 7; PIT 6

II - BTT 7; PIT 1

III - BTT 3; PIT 2*

Pittsburgh Rebels

vs.

Brooklyn Tip Tops

FROM

WASHINGTON PARK

Both on the mound and at the plate Brooklyn hurlers win the day.  Tom Seaton notches his 21st victory of the season, and Ed Lafitte goes ten innings and drives in the winning run in game two.  At the plate they join for two hits, two runs scored, and two runs batted in.  Brooklyn wins their third in a row and fourth in their last five.  The Tip Tops (62-58) gain one-half game on Indianapolis to close within 6.5 games of the first place Hoosiers.

• GAME ONE BOXSCORE: Saturday, September 5, 1914 - BR

On the strength of Tom Seaton's right arm, the Tip Tops cruise to a 7-1 victory in the first of Saturday's two games at Washington Park.  Seaton, who last year led the National League with 27 victories, yields a lone unearned run on seven hits and four walks with five strikeouts through nine innings to win his 21st decision of the season against ten losses with a 3.06 ERA.  Rebels first baseman Cy Rheam scores Pittsburgh's lone run in the fifth.  Rebels starter Walt Dickson is betrayed by his defenders who commit seven errors behind him.  Dickson yields seven runs but only four are earned.  He nonetheless surrenders 14 hits and one walk with three strikeouts.  Steve Evans is 3 for 4 with a double, and two runs batted in.  Tex Wisterzil and Al Halt each drive in a run apiece.  At the top of the line-up George Anderson and Claude Cooper join for five hits with three runs scored.  Tom Seaton helps his own cause with a triple and two runs scored.

• GAME TWO BOXSCORE: Saturday, September 5, 1914- BR

Brooklyn and Pittsburgh remain stalemated at two through nine.  With two outs in the first, Rebels shortstop Steve Yerks triples to score center fielder Rebel Oakes and third baseman Ed Lennox for an early 2-0 lead.  Like Walt Dickerson in game one, Rebels starter Mysterious Walker is victimized by poor play in the field as Brooklyn ties the game with unearned runs in the fourth and sixth innings.  Brooklyn starter Ed Lafitte retires Pittsburgh in the top of the tenth.  Catcher Yip Owens strokes a double in the bottom half of the frame, and is replaced with pinch-runner Hap Meyers.  After which Ed Lafitte's base hit plates the winning run.  Brooklyn sweeps the day and take a 3-0 lead in the series.  Mysterious Walker loses his 14th decision upon yielding three runs, one earned, on ten hits and seven walks with five strikeouts into the tenth.  The game marks Lafitte's second extra-inning effort this season.  He pitched eleven innings back in April against the Packers.

OTD July 4, 1914: Brooklyn Tip Tops Split Twin Bill With Buffalo at Washington Park

FEDERAL LEAGUE
Buffalo Buffeds

vs.

Brooklyn Tip Tops

FROM

WASHINGTON PARK

BROOKLYN

A little over one century ago, the Federal League Brooklyn Tip Tops host the Buffalo Buffeds for an Independence Day double-header at Washington Park.

GAME ONE

• Federal League: Buffalo @ Brooklyn; July 4, 1914 - Baseball Reference

Making his seventh start of the season Brooklyn starter Happy Finneran goes the distance, limiting the Buffalo Feds to just one earned run on six hits and three walks with three strikeouts.  He improves his record to 4-1 while lowering his ERA to a stingy 1.90 mark.  Brooklyn scores straightaway in the first inning off Buffalo starter and inevitable loser Earl Moore whom incurs his tenth loss of the season upon yielding three runs overall on seven hits and five walks with six strikeouts through seven innings pitched.  Tip Top right fielder Steve Evans and catcher Yip Owens each go 2 for 4 at the plate and drive in a pair of runs apiece.  First baseman Hap Meyers and third sacker Tex Wisterzil also drive in one run each.  Brooklyn gets extra base hits from Al Shaw and a double and triple from second baseman Solly Hoffman en route to a 6-1 final margin of victory.


GAME TWO

• Federal League: Buffalo @ Brooklyn; July 4, 1914 - Baseball Reference

Buffalo turns the tables on Brooklyn with a 6-2 victory in game two at Washington Park.  Trailing 6-0 after eight innings, the Tip Tops rally for a pair but it's too little too late.  Russ Ford, the former 20-game winner for the New York Yankees goes the distance, limiting the Tip Tops to a pair of runs on six hits and no walks with eight strikeouts.  He improves his record to a stellar 11-2 mark with a 1.87 ERA.  Brooklyn starter Ed LaFitte takes one for the team, yielding six runs, four earned, on seven hits and five walks with five strikeouts.  His record falls to 6-8 with a 3.30 ERA.  Center fielder Al Shaw drives in Brooklyn only two runs.


With a 29-33 record, the fifth place Tip Tops trail the first place Chicago Whales by eight games in the standings, and remain 3.5 games back of fourth place Buffalo.  An announced crowd of 3,000 attend Saturday's Fourth of July twin bill at Washington Park, Brooklyn.

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