- Inability to Beat Weaker Clubs a Failing of Cards
- Braves Are Easy Victors
- Huggins’ Men Show Pennant Ability in Giants’ Series, but Come Back With a Tail-end Display Against the Lowly Boston Outfit.
- Bottle Throwers Must Be Stopped
- Doak Loses, Giving Up 6 ER in 3.2 Innings With 3 BB, 1 SO.
- Record Now 9-4 With 2.29 ERA.
July 13, 1914 Age 23
St Louis Post Dispatch
NOW that the Saturday and Sunday crowds have been keenly disappointed with genuinely bum baseball, one might expect the Cardinals to right themselves for another winning streak. Hug’s men flatly refuse to win on Sunday, and as a rule save up all their bad baseball for that day. They were walloped yesterday, 12-5, by Boston, which is still a tall-ender.
Manager Huggins employed 16 players, including such debutantes as Senator Nash, Reese Williams, Riggert and Charley Miller. They all played indifferently well and managed to drag the game out until almost 6 o’clock. The actual playing time, counting in the minutes lost while the park police picked up empty bottles, was 2 hours and 50 minutes. About 8000 fans stewed through the mad matinee.
The heat played a prominent part. Two perfectly good pitchers – “Humming Bird” Tyler and Willie Doak – were knocked out by Gen. Humidity early in the game, and in the selection of relief men, Manager Stallings was better fortified than Huggins. Stalling put it up to Crutcher, who had the Cards hypnotized in the last six innings, while Huggins took a chance on Perdue and lost. The defeat, though, is charged to Bill Doak.
The one bright spot was a clean-up wallop by Lee Magee, who slammed a triple to left in the third inning with the bases filled, and three runs treked home. This wallop tied the score but Doak soon saw to it that the Braves got back in the lead.
The enemy went to the post without Rabbit Maranville, star shortstop. Maranville’s brother died Sunday and the clever infielder withdrew from the box score after being acquainted of the facts. He hopes to get back in the game Tuesday. In the meantime George Bostick Whitted, late of St. Louis, will continue at short.
Reese Williams pitched one inning for the Cards and committed almost everything. Three walks, an error by Nash and two singles netted the Braves two runs at Williams’ expense in the ninth, which was one of the longest innings of the game. Reese had the bases filled three distinct times, and how he escaped with his life is a mystery. Williams was secured from the Great Falls (Mont.) club, last fall, and has been with the Cards all spring. He almost pitched himself into Montana Sunday.
Chief Wilson continues his terrific hitting. A triple and a single was Chief’s contribution Sunday. His three bagger was a drive that Devore just couldn’t absorb, although he touched it on the wing. The fans gave chief a noisy reception.
Cozy Dolan had a bum day with the stick, striking out three times. Cozy was retired in the eighth to make room for Riggert, who got his first hit in St. Louis, a solid single to left.
Sport Salad by L. C. Davis
Put on the Lid!
OH, they really ought to stop
The sale of soda pop-
It seems to drive the bleacherites insane;
For it makes the Demon Rum
Look Innocuous and bum,
The way it acts upon the rooter’s brain.
When old Matty was all in
And we had a chance to win,
They showered empty bottles all around;
Whereupon, with joy he grinned,
For he’d got his second wind
Ere they gathered up the bottles from the ground.
When Magee cleaned up the sacks
On Sunday, they went tacks
And did the bottle-throwing stunt again;
For which, we all agree,
They ought to serve from three
To 20 years hard labor in the “pen.”
Forty-seven coppers sit
Where they chew the rag and spit –
A shady spot for them has been reserved;
It’s a wonder they would not
Circulate around the lot
And see that law and order are preserved.
And It Won’t Be Pleasant.
If the enthusiastic but misguided individuals in the left-field bleachers who have aided the visiting teams so materially in the last couple of days by throwing empty bottles on the field, will send their names and addresses to Schuyler Britton they will learn something to their disadvantage.
If the umpire did half as much to help the visitors defeat the home team, these same bottle throwers would want to hang him without the benefit of clergy.
If Hub Perdue keeps on getting trimmed, he will soon be down to weight.
Someone seems to have slipped word to the Terriers that they are being paid fancy salaries for playing ball.
The Cards swallowed the Giant whole only to be in turn devoured by a microbe.
By W. J. O’Connor St Louis Post Dispatch
Inability to beat the weaker clubs always has been a failing with the Cardinals, who are nearer a pennant today than they have been in a decade or more. After taking three out of four from the Giants and pulling McGraw’s entry back to the field, the Cardinals became careless and kicked off the opening game with the Braves Sunday.
The gingery Giants “crossed” the rail-birds by tearing loose a victory in Chicago, 7-2, at Larry Cheney s expense.
This was an important conquest for McGraw. With Marquard on the sick list and Mathewson overworked, he would have been in a bad shape had Tesreau failed him Sunday. However, he’s now prepared to rest up his pitchers, and if he can break even In his remaining games on the road, he will go home two weeks hence with the championship in his hip pocket. {check actual record}
If the Giants are to be deprived of their fourth flag, that job must be done at once. Chicago today is four and one-half games behind, while the Cards are six full lengths to the rear and battling at home. McGraw’s men suffered Sunday by losing Chief Meyers, whose finger was busted by a foul tip; but it’s no sure thing that McLean will weaken the team. Larry can hit as well as the Indian and he probably will break up the double steal just as often as Meyers, who always falls down.
Meyers’ Loss Serious.
But of course there is some misfortune in losing a regular, no matter how good the substitute is, and the injury to Meyers may indicate a run of bad luck for the champions. If this is true, there should be sustained interest In the National League race: if not, it’s time for shouting in the shade of Cooghan’s Bluffs, N. Y.
One of the reasons why the Cubs lost Sunday was Heine Zimmerman’s utter inability to hit in the pinch. The famed Zim, therefore, was wise in trying to dodge the Giants series, a trick he has pulled for the past two years. Zim kicked himself out of the game last Thursday, but President Tener saw to it that the suspension was lifted in time for him to meet the Giants. Whether this procedure suited the temperamental Teuton is a question.
If the Cubs can subdue Demaree today and if the reports on Marquard’s illness are true, there may be some interesting developments in the National League; if not, it will be up to the Cards, and Cubs, to fight It out for second place with the Phils knocking at the first division door rather loudly.
Bottle Throwers a Menace.
Ball games at Robison Field are being marred right regularly these days by the pop-bottle throwers, who thrive In the left-field bleachers. There is only one way to stamp out this brand of rowdyism. That is to prevent the sale of pop in that section.
President S. P. Britton has realized this fact and announced Sunday evening that he would absolutely stop the sale of pop If there was another such outbreak. The bottles have not been thrown with intent to harm anybody, but they have been thrown in copious numbers, thereby delaying ball games.
Just copper this tip: Kenneth Nash, the New England lawmaker, will get a trial at short very, very soon. Nash moves around nicely and has enough of the “old pep” to deserve a trial. Butler absolutely refuses to regain his stride and the number of hits which are shooting over second is amazing. Until Hug plugs up that hole the Cards cannot be seriously considered in the pennant struggle. Bring on Mr. Nash!