- Cards 11-5 Since Invading the East
- Doak Gets Base Hit Off Opposing Pitcher
- Doak Wins 3-0, Giving Up 4 Hits in 9 Innings
Game Date: June 24, 1914 Age: 23
By John M. Quinn, The St Louis Star and Times
The fight for third place is on. The Cards came out victorious In the first battle, which was staged at Pittsburg, Wednesday. The score was 3 to 0. The Cards not only annexed the first victory, but slammed Babe Adams of world’s championship fame and Fred Clarke’s best bet right now, to all parts of the lot.
By winning the inaugural from the Corsairs. Wednesday, the Cards annexed their eleventh victory since leaving home on June 3. Five black marks have been chalked up against them. A neat little record for a team that left our fair city in sixth place and that promises to return in third place.
Willie Doak of spitball fame was on the mound for the Cards, and the way he smeared the whitewash brush around in Pittsburg, Manager Clarke thought that owner Dreyfuss was having Forbes Field whitewashed. Willie had everything, including a very fast breaking curve that stood the Pirates on their head. Four hits were all that were accumulated by the Pirates. Two of these were gathered by our old college chum, Ed Koney, but neither of the big first sacker’s hits had any effect on Doak.
Doak went through the nine innings as though he was simply sent in to hurl the pill In the direction of home plate.
Doak not only featured in the winning of the game, but also hit Adams for a single. When Willie can collect a hit off a pitcher, the opposing hurler surely has nothing whatever.
Elsewhere in Baseball, June 24, 1914: White Sox owner Charlie Comiskey seeks to stop Hal Chase from playing with Federal League.
