- Giants and Cubs Fail to Profit by Cards’ Defeats
- New York and Chicago Clubs Have Been Losing With the Cardinals and Relative Standings Are About the Same as When Trip East Began.
- Doak Treated for “Lumbago”
JUST A FEW ALIBIS ADVANCED BY CARDS
- MILLER and Wilson have fallen down in hitting.
- The temperature fell from 100 degrees here to 56 in Boston.
- Team is not getting the “breaks opponents are.
- Club’s best hitter, Wingo, is out of the game.
- Zinn Beck has been lame and is now out of the fray.
- Harry Sallee has been out because of ptomaine poisoning.
- Willie Doak has suddenly been afflicted with lumbago.
- Pitcher Robinson has been on the hospital list for some time and is not quite ready.
August 1, 1914 Age 23
By W. J. O’Connor Of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sporting Staff.
BOSTON, Aug. 1. FOUR out of six games lost, three of the defeats shut-outs. That’s the scarlet record of the Cardinals in the land of the Eastern enemy. But whereas Hug’s men have wandered from the road of victory, they are today only one-half game behind the position they occupied when they pulled up stakes in St. Louis.
That’s because the Giants have bumped a snag in Cincinnati, losing two in a row.
The sudden shift In the Cardinal club’s winning habits has puzzled some folks, even members of the team. However, Manager Hugglns isn’t quitting. He issued a statement for the press last night, and he spoke about as follows:
“To win, you’ve got to get the ‘breaks.’ We got the breaks at home. They’re going against us here. Boston has had them all in two games, but that’s a part of baseball and is absolutely no alibi. However, I’m pleased with one feature of our play, that is the pitching. We have had good pitching in every game we lost, GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN.
Sure to Break Even.
“Griner has shown me enough to predict that we will break even on the trip, despite our bad start. We suffered some from the sudden change in temperature.
“We jumped from the broiling heat of 100 in St. Louis to freezing temperature of 56 here. That’s bound to tell, but I believe we will regain our stride with the stick and if the pitching keeps up we will finish strong. That’s my view of the situation.”
Beck Is Laid Up.
Huggins’ club is crippled more than ever, today, by the absence of Zinn Beck, the Texas ranger who plays third. Zinn’s right running gear is stiff with a charley-horse and he goes to the hospital squad today to join several others.
Beck was crippled yesterday and couldn’t run out infield hits, thereby losing no less than two. He was thrown out on a clean single in Philadelphia and things have reached that stage where Zinn thinks he owes it to himself to lay off. So he has asked for a rest. Either Artie Butler or Senator Nash will replace him. Butler is first choice.
Besides Beck the injury list Includes Harry Sallee, who was slated to pitch two games of this series but pulled up with ptomaine and is now “hors du combat .”
Ivey Wingo is at home with a sick ankle, while Robinson is nursing a sore arm. Willie Doak was booked to fling this afternoon, but he went to bed last night with lumbago and a doctor was called to straighten him out before the Brooklyn series. When a club suddenly is deprived of such men as Sallee, Wingo, Beck, Doak and Robinson, there In genuine reason for advancing the Red Cross alibi.
Wilson and Miller Drop in Batting, Cards Can’t Put Runs Across Plate
YESTERDAY’S game was handed to Boston, 2-0, because neither Jack Miller nor Chief Wilson could hit a lick. Both the big hitters have fallen from grace and have not delivered anything like a tiny punch since the club left home. Miller feels his disgrace so keenly that he is fighting himself on and off the field. John is as pleasant as a caged lion.
Hub Perdue was the victim of the Bostons’ heavy firing yesterday. Hub pitched the best game he has uncovered since he joined the St. Louis club, holding the enemy to six scattered hits, but his antagonist, Mr. Rudolph, yielded only two hits, one a scratch, and Hub took the short end of the deal.
Poor defensive work gave the Braves both their runs. In the second inning Cruise played Schmidt’s single badly and the ball hopped to the fence for a triple. Perdue got rid of Deal on a foul fly, but Mann inserted a single with the infield close and Schmidt scored.
In the fourth inning, with one out, Mann scratched a single through Huggins, who fielded himself to death In Philadelphia, and went to third when Snyder made a bum throw trying to flag him on a steal. Gowdy’s long fly let Mann score.
Rudolph a Puzzle.
The Cards didn’t get a hit off Rudolph until the sixth, when Huggins beat out a roller to Maranville. Hug died stealing. Miller’s double with one out in the seventh didn’t net a thing, as Wilson’s line drive hit Rudolph in the chest and dropped dead, permitting Rudolph to recover in time for the out at first. Wilson’s drive was labeled a hit, but Boston luck put Rudolph’s chest In the way. Rudolph had to take out time before he could continue.
In the fourth Magee opened the inning and reached first on Schmidt’s fumble. He advanced on Rudolph’s bum peg to Schmidt and took third when Rudolph made a wild throw to Maranville trying to catch him napping. Altogether three errors were made on Magee, but he died at third base because Cruise fanned and Miller and Wilson could not get the ball out of the infield. Some pitching by Rudolph here.
This was the Cards’ third shutout. Mayer and Alexander turned the trick in Philadelphia. In 18 innings against the Braves they have scored one run, that, a circuit drive by Snyder. Who said world’s series?
Manager Huggins said tonight that he had wired Pitcher Robinson to join him in New York. With Sallee on the sick list, Hug intends to be prepared for an emergency. He may work Robby against the Superbas.