- Hug’s Men, in Woeful Batting Slump, Are Easy for Red-legged Pitchers.
April 29, 1914 Age 23
St Louis Post Dispatch
CINCINNATI. April 29. In three games here, all of which were lost, the Cardinals have put together a team batting average of .118, proving that Hug’s hirelings are in the throes of a hitting slump. Out of 85 trips to the plate the visitors have made only 10 hits, four each off Yingling and Douglass and two off Benton.
These hits have been proportioned among the cardinal swatters as follows: Butler 3, Cruise 2, Wilson 2, Butler, Doak and Huggins. And that’s the answer to the club’s present losing streak.
Lee Magee has made one hit in his last 19 trips to the plate. Dot Miller hasn’t combed a single in 127 times up, and with these two clean-up men off their stride the job of subduing the Cardinal clan has been comparatively easy.
As a result of yesterday’s defeat, 6 1, which was handed out by a recruit pitcher named Douglass, the Cards are now nesting in seventh place, while the Reds are hobnobbing in first division. The final game of the series will be run off this afternoon.