- Cards Must Buy New Pitchers at Once or Abandon Flag Chances.
- Investment in Pitchers Will Prevent Overworking of Doak and Meadows
- Knot Hole Gang Faces Strenuous Road Trip West
Career Game 135
| Start Quality | Game Score | Team | Opponent | Result (Score) | Decision (Record) | IP | Hits | ER / (ERA) | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | @St. Louis Cards | CIN | W (4-2) | W (8-5) | 9 | 6 | 2 /(2.79) | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Game Date: June 24, 1917 – Age 26
By Harry F. Pierce, The St Louis Star and Times
The Cards have done enough experimenting with future prospects. The club has a chance for the flag if it gets good pitching. Twenty or thirty thousand dollars spent for high-class mound talent at this time will be money well invested. Two or three Sunday crowds will more than pay back the money invested in new pitching material if the club returns from its next Eastern trip in third or fourth place.
At the present moment the team has only two dependable slabmen, though Southpaw Jack May, who reports today, is expected to be of great value to the tottering staff. Doak and Meadows are the only hurlers who can be expected to pull through the next road trip with an even break or better. Ames and Packard will fill in nicely for relief work, but the pair of vets must not be relied on to go the route during the hot spell.
Two Winning Pitchers
Four times during the past week the Cards have demonstrated conclusively that they will play good ball behind good pitching. In the first game with the Pirates, Lee Meadows pitched superbly for seven innings, and when he began to weaken Leon Ames went in, only to be combed for four runs in the twelfth.
Bill Doak started the third game and had Callahan’s men on the run until Chuck Ward’s liner knocked his thumb out of place and spoiled his control. This same pair came back and pitched the games which netted the Cards their only victories in the series with the Reds.
Cubs Call Tomorrow.
Meadows and Doak are winning pitchers if they are not worked too often, but unless the club immediately lands a couple more men of their caliber they will be compelled to pay the penalty of overwork on the coming road jaunt, which calls for two double-headers in Pittsburg, one in New York, one in Chicago, one in Philadelphia and one In Boston.
Two double-headers are scheduled to be played in the series with Chicago, which opens tomorrow. The twin attractions are billed for tomorrow and Wednesday. Huggins has two regular hurlers to use in this series, as compared with five on the Bruins’ roster. The Cards may consider themselves exceedingly lucky if they win two of the five contests.
Three Hurlers Blow.
Doak brought home the bacon for the Knot Hole Gang in the opening engagement of the double bill which wound up the series with the Reds yesterday. The score was 4 to 2.
Also happening today: Eddie Plank Wins 300th Game
