- Doak’s Record Now 8-2, 1.85 ERA
- In the complete game shutout against the Cubs, Doak yielded 5 hits, 6 SO, 3 BB, two doubles, 1 triple on 3 days rest.
- Largest Crowd of Season – 18,000 attend
June 29, 1914 Age 23
St Louis Post Dispatch
STEPPING off a train that had housed them for 16 hours, the Cardinals rushed to Robison Field yesterday and shared equal portions of a double-header with the Cubs. The first was bagged, 6-0, chiefly through the finished flinging of Willie Doak, while the second encounter was kicked into the discard, 8-5, because Hank Robinson was no match for the Cub clubbers. By dividing the bill, the Cards moved back into first division, thanks to Cincinnati’s double victory over the Pirates, who vacated fourth place.
Doak’s work was flawless. He had perfect control of a wicked spitball and with the lone exception of Thomas Leach, who broke into the big league the day Doak was born, all the Cubs paid homage to the blond Akronite. Leach appropriated for himself a single, a double and a triple, getting the lion’s share of all the hits made by the enemy.
Larry Cheney, the iron-man of the National League, opposed Doak. Larry was bumped for nine hits, three of them netting three runs in the fifth. A timely double by Lee Magee broke up the game in this epoch.
Robinson’s work in the second portion of the show was sad in comparison to Doak’s. The Arkansas Sidewheeler had nothing but the inclination to win and the Cubs robbed him of that perquisite in the fifth when they made six hits and four runs before Hug could change his mind. Eventually Robinson was benched in favor of Steele, who did fairly well.
The crowd was the banner one of the season, about 18.000. The grand stand was sold out and the fans stood four deep around the rail. The left field bleachers held a capacity house while the pavilion and center field stands were comfortably filled.
Any kind of consistently tight pitching would have won the second game for the cards. Pierce, the southpaw who propels a spitball, was wild and deserved to lose. He always was in trouble and four-fifths of the batters who faced him had him “in the hole.” However Corriden and Sweeney turned some smart fielding plays that carried Pierce to victory.
Teddy Cather was called in to pinch-hit for Steele in the eighth inning with the bases choked, three runs in, two out and three runs needed to tie. Ted took a reef at the pill and drove a tremendous drive at Keating who passed to Sweeney for a force play at second. Had Cather’s drive been five feet to Keating’s left it would have cleaned up the hassocks and probably finished the Cubs. Vaughan was pitching at the time.
Lee Magee basked in the “spot” in the first show. He went up in the fifth with Doak on second and Hug on first and ripped a double through Saier, sending Doak home and Hug to third. Eventually Hug was flagged at the plate, but Miller’s single scored Magee and Dolan, who perpetrated a steal of second.
The best piece of base-running was contributed by Cozy Dolan, now a full fledged outfielder. In the fourth frame of the second game he got around to third with one out. Then Butler tapped to Pierce, who bluffed Cozy back to third and cut loose a high throw to first. Cozy bolted for the plate and beat Saier’s throw by an eye lash.