- Collapsed in Action
July 19, 1928 Age 37
By Thomas Holmes The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
AS A TEAM, the Robins were shamed by the lionhearted exhibition of Bill Doak In the second game. Through the intense heat of the late afternoon, the antiquated spitball heaver was master of the Cincinnati hitters so long as he could throw a ball. He’d be holding them yet, but the heat got him at last. Old Bill collapsed in action in the seventh inning, yet stayed out on the mound for almost ten minutes, hoping that he’d be able to recover and finish. He couldn’t make it. He scarcely reached the bench before he became deathly sick at his stomach.
Ehrhardt and Vance followed. Ehrhardt, who had pitched part of the first game, was tired out. Dazzy came in after the first Red had singled in the eighth inning. The celebrated ace of the Brooklyn staff had nothing to fool the boys who had been so tamely subservient to Doak’s spitter. A few minutes, a few hits, two runs and it was all over.
All this time, Ray Kolp, a pitcher who’ll never have any streets named after him, was making the Robins look as useless at bat as they had appeared powerful in the first game.
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