- HUG AND O’MARA ALMOST MIX, BUT CARDS WIN AGAIN
- Local Boy With Brooklyn Tags Manager Out Three Times, Precipitating a Row.
- The prize baserunning boner was pulled yesterday by Doak in the third.
June 12, 1914 Age 23
St Louis Post Dispatch
NEW YORK, June 12. With two games to their credit already, the Cards are beginning to hope for a clean sweep from the Dodgers. If they cop this afternoon’s game, which will likely be a duel between Sallee and Rucker, they ought to turn the trick. Rucker hasn’t been quite right this year, but he is generally a hard nut for the Cards. Sallee is practically invincible, so It will likely still be a love set tonight.
Yesterday’s game, which was won by the Cards, 2 1, was marked by several unusual happenings, most conspicuous of which was a near battle between Huggins and O’Mara, a St. Louis boy, in the eighth. With runs scarcer than Penrose Bull Moosers, Huggins had made a two-bagger to right, his first hit in “the Lord knows when.” He took a big lead off second, and Reulbach suddenly wheeled and Huggins had no chance to get back. Reulbach edged over between him and third, while Huggins was gesticulatorially trying to convince Umpire Byron that Reulbach had made a balk, Byron shook his head, and Huggins made a rush for the bag. O’Mara got the ball as the two came together, and O’Mara touched Huggins out three times, each time in the ribs with the two still clinched.
Midgets Almost Mix.
Huggins said something, and O’Mara answered appropriately, and it looked very promising, when Byron made a dive and, with the savoir faire of a Harry Sharpe at his best, succeeded in prying them apart. He just did do that, though, and if it had not been for the arrival of reinforcements, who were ultimately made into a human fence between the two gentlemen, there might have been an immediate conclusion.
Doak was chased by Huggins in the eighth. While he was in the game, Doak allowed five hits, three infield taps that the runner just did beat to first, Dalton’s solid rap to center, and Wheat’s wallop over the right field fence. Up to the eighth inning, he had issued but one pass. Reulbach was first up in the eighth, and with the count three and none, Doak fanned him, but he passed the next man, Dalton, and with only a one-run lead, Huggins got cold feet, and sent Doak away, calling in Sallee.
Doak was thunderstruck, and started an argument with Huggins. Huggins insisted, and after a heated colloquy, Doak started for the bench, venting his ill-humor on Whitted, tossing the ball at him from a distance of about six feet with considerable and wholly uncalled for speed. Sallee, in his brief presence, made the Dodgers look like monkeys.
Cards Weak on Bases.
The game would never have been close but for the miserable work the Cardinals showed on the bases. All through their visit to Manhattan and Brooklyn their base-running has been bad, and at times stupid. The prize bone in this line was pulled yesterday by Doak in the third.
Beck had walked, and Doak was told to sacrifice. He sent a piffling little fly to Reulbach. Beck started, but scrambled back to first, and Doak did not even run. Reulbach intentionally dropped the ball, then shot it to O’Mara for a force of Beck, and O’Mara relayed it to Daubert for a double play. Had Doak run it out he would easily have reached first.