- Believes It Gave Him Victory
- Vance and Petty Think Warmth in Measure Responsible for Downfalls
- Batting Averages Fall Off with Exception of Hendrick’s
- Dodgers Win 6-1, Doak’s Record Improving to 5-3
Game Date: June 5, 1927 Age 36
By Thomas W. Meany Times Union
ONE Man’s meat appears to be other men’s poison, so far as the Brooklyn Dodgers and William Leopold Doak, the most venerable of all Uncle Wilbert Robinson’s nephews, are concerned. While most of the Flatbush pitching staff complain of the unusual torridity of this city, Ole Bill finds it quite to his liking and attributes his victory here yesterday to that fact more than anything else.
Doak is evidently exceptional in more ways than one. No other pitcher with a two-year layoff could come back as successfully as Bill has thus far and few could stand the heat as well as did the veteran spitballer.
But Bill Thrives
Whatever the hardships that Dazzy and Jess may have undergone from the heat, the frail and antiquated form of Bill Doak seemed to find rejuvenation in it. He pitched as good a game as ever he did in his life, limiting the powerful Cards to five hits and one run, while his cohorts were getting to Jess Haines for nine hits and six runs, aided by four St. Louis misplays.
Doak’s victory was a fine booster for the morale of the club. The Dodgers having suffered successive shutouts at the hands of Flint Rhem and Grover Cleveland Alexander, were not very chipper.
Now that Doak has come to the fore with a triumph, his third straight, the boys are smiling once again, and stand an excellent of evening the series in the final game here this afternoon.
Wee Willie Sherdel, ever effective against the flock, will not be on hand today, as he has been called to McSherrystown, Pa., by the death of his mother.
2nd Non-stop Transatlantic Flight After Lindbergh — June 5, 1927 Levine, mentioned in the caption, was the backer of the flight.
