Sallee At Best, Cardinals Break Even With Cubs
Doak Pitches 1.4 Innings, 2 ER, 3 hits, 5 BB, 1 SO
Record Now 5-2, 1.95 ERA
May 31, 1914 Age 23
By W. L. Veeck, A Staff Correspondent of the Post Dispatch
CHICAGO, Ill., May 30. The Cardinals didn’t do anything marvelous on this Memorial Day. Neither did they do anything that they need to be specially ashamed of.
They played the Cubs two games of ball before the largest crowd of the season, this afternoon, and when they quit they were both bad and good. They were bad in the first game which they dropped 6 to 4; but they were good in the second, for they grabbed that one, 4 to 2. Sort of a fifty-fifty club, as to success and failure. Nothing to make you rant with enthusiasm, but not the kind of a ball club to make you tear your hair with anguish.
Young Doak can be held responsible for the defeat. He got the impression that four innings constituted a ball game. That is, when a double-header is to follow. In the first four rounds, he allowed one run and one hit. But in the fifth he ascended so high and fell so far that he was still dazed when the shades of evening fell. He allowed the Cubs to score five runs in the fifth, which were quite sufficient.
Sallee in Fine Form.
It’s difficult to bestow praise where it is due in that second. Sallee was immense. He gave six hits, but three of them, and all the Cubs runs, were made in the ninth when he felt he could be lenient.
Butler, up four times, drove out three hits, more than half made by the Cards, and scored two runs.
Wingo also starred. He walloped a drive against the brick clubhouse in center for a homer and was across the plate and swallowing the last of a long drink when they finally got the ball back.
Magee was bad in the second. He kept saying naughty things to Umpire Byron and was finally chased to the clubhouse.
20,000 Fans See Buffalo Buffs and Brooklyn Tip Tops, of the Federal League, Split a Twin Bill.
Even Without Ty Cobb, Organized Ball Teams Outdraw Federal League
ORGANIZED baseball scored a huge victory in an attendance way over the Federal League in St. Louis yesterday. The count was 16,000 in favor of the Browns-Tigers game at Sportsman’s Park to 3000 for the Terriers-Kawfed show at Federal League Park. The peculiar feature of the attendance test was that the American League bargain bill outdrew the twin show at the Fed park, without the services of Tyrus Cobb, the greatest drawing card In baseball. Cobb is not with the Tigers because of a fractured rib.