BY HARRY F. PIERCE.
A chew of tobacco beat Pat Moran’s flying Phillies at Robison Field yesterday afternoon. The score was 3 to 1. But for the aforementioned chew, however, there might have been a decidedly different yarn to spin.
Blonde Bill Doak held the Phils scoreless and allowed them but one hit during the first six rounds. At the start of round seven, Luderus tripled to the left field wall and scored on Weiser’s out. Two hits in one frame indicated that something was going wrong with Doak’s spitter, but Bill failed to discover the trouble until the next inning.
When Luderus started the seventh with a triple Doak decided that the big quid of slippery elm bark he had concealed in his jaws was not emitting enough saliva to produce the proper break on his pitched efforts. He then threw the slippery elm away in disgust and called Dick Niehaus from the bench. Twelve thousand fans thought something terrible had happened to Doak. Every spectator present believed that Niehaus was going out there to replace him. The fans waited with bated breath until the Cardinal southpaw reached back into his hip pocket and pulled forth a small piece of old-fashioned navy plug.
NIEHAUS SAVES DAY.
Doak grabbed the plug, bit off a man’s size “chaw” and immediately set his masticators to work, chewing it to a pulp. Cheers went up from the assembled multitude when the fans realized that Doak had halted the game for more than a minute to obtain a chew of tobacco. It was a record that has probably never before been equaled in baseball.
The “chaw” evidently did Bill a world of good, for Cravath, Nlehoff and Luderus expired in the order named and a threatening rally was nipped in one bite. We now recommend that President Britton purchase a few pounds of Niehaus’ favorite brand and keep it on hand for all future emergencies. Whenever a pitcher is going poorly, halt the game and give him a “chaw” Sky, give him a “chaw.”
Then too, ‘ Schuyler, you must not lose sight of the fact that a valuable premium tag is attached to each plug. If the Cards fail to win the National League burgee this year you “will have enough tags to secure a handsome gold embellished pennant before another season rolls around.
There was a very decided change in the Cardinals’ attack yesterday as compared to that of Saturday. Artie Butler registered the only blngle in Saturday’s contest, while Butler wan the only member of Huggins’ squad who failed to garner a safety yesterday.
Jack Miller’s double and Tommy Long’s triple gave the Cards one run off Chalmers in the first inning. Singles by Hyatt and Snyder combined with Bill Doak’s 1915 double in the second failed to produce a tally because Bunnie Betzel hit into a double play.
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