- Pirates and Cards Play Until Dark
- Braves Take Lead In National League
- Buccaneers Win and Draw In St. Louis Bargain Bill
- Corsairs Fall on Perritt in First and Bat Out Victory, Then Hold Cards Even in 11 Innings
- Game Ends 1-1. Doak yields 1 ER on 9 hits, 10 strikeouts and 1 BB. ERA now 1.75
September 3, 1914 Age 23
By Ed. F. Balinger Pittsburgh Daily Post
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 2 – Darkness this evening dropped the curtain on one of the most bitterly contested double-headers staged in a decade on Robison Field. The Pirates won the opening clash by a score of 4 to 1. The second section of the bargain stood at a deadlock In the eleventh frame, each side being credited with one solitary tally when Umpire Hart stopped hostilities. Another double bill is thus provided for the St. Louis fans.
As Philadelphia lost twice while the Pirates were winning and playing a tie, the Quakers skidded down to keep the Pirates company in a tie for seventh place.
Heavy thunder storms during the night and copious trickling from the skies this forenoon made the ball field look like a dismal swamp, but it was decided to attempt play just the same. The sun appeared at lunch time but when the hour for a game arrived the diamond was decidedly soggy. Fifteen minutes respite was granted and then the struggle was launched.
BABE ADAMS VS. BILL DOAK
Babe Adams and Bill Doak did the hurling in the second contest. The Pirates made two hits in the second stanza and they bunched three in the third, but failed to score. After that they had great difficulty in solving Doak’s spitters. They accumulated a total of 10 safeties, while Adams let the Cards down with half a dozen.
Lee Magee was given a free pass in the fourth, and it proved costly, for he stole second and scored on Jack Miller’s single.
PIRATES TIE IN NINTH.
Viox opened the ninth with a safe hit and after Koney had fanned and Wagner had grounded out, Clarke sent Hyatt to bat for McCarthy. Ham never had a chance, and after Doak had passed him on purpose, Leonard was marched to first base as a pinch runner. Bob Coleman produced a timely clout on which Leonard tallied and the score was then tied.
Neither side was able to untie the knot and with the moon shining down from a clear sky and electric lights shining in the public park across way, Mr. Hart declared that it would be dangerous to allow any more baseball and besides, all hands were mighty hungry.
NOTES FROM CARDINALTOWN
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 2. – Believing a ball game impossible several downtown café proprietors took the liberty of displaying bulletins that today’s game had been postponed on account of wet grounds. The attendance was only about 6,000.
Bill Doak was glad to get off without losing his game this afternoon. He has won 17 and lost five to date. When Dolan stole second at the beginning of the first game, Wagner took Coleman’s throw and reached for the runner, but he sidestepped. A wrangle ensued, Wagner claiming Cozy had run out of the line, but Hart wouldn’t listen to Hans.
Beck fell in the wet grass while fielding Coleman’s slow-hopper in the second inning of the first game, but the third baseman recovered in time to throw out Big Robert.
Bob Harmon is in a quandary over his cotton crop which has been heavy. He says it will probably remain stored on the plantation for an indefinite period, as no sale can be expected while the European war continues.
Any Cardinals or Pirates who were glad of the idle day caused by Tuesday’s rain, will now wish they had not secured a day of rest, for they are paying the penalty with four games in two days, tomorrow being the date fixed for playing off today’s tie game.
As the last of the eleventh inning was started, darkness was setting fast and the telegraph operators in the press box lighted a lantern to assist them in sending their messages. A waggist war correspondent took the lantern on the roof and waved it at the umpires as an indication that night had arrived.
Edgar Collins did not have a fielding chance in right garden during the entire 20 innings.
Doak’s 10 strikeouts were all accomplished inside of nine innings. IPs victim were Carey, Viox, Wagner, Konetchy and two whiffs apiece for Kelly, Coleman and Adams. Bill fanned the side in the second frame.
The only Pirate to draw free transportation in the second clash was Hyatt, who was intentionally given four very wide ones. Adams gave a base on balls to Magee and he smacked Walton Cruise on the arm.
Wagner made one of his marvelous pickups in the fourth inning and he threw accurately to Koney, retiring Wilson for the second out. Miller was hiking ahead and he would have scored on the hit and run play had that ball gone past the Dutchman.
McCarthy sent a smart smash straight toward third in the seventh session of the second game. The ball would have gone directly over the bag and along the foul line but for a bit of highway robbery by Beck, who was aided by Magee, the latter stabbing a wide heave.
In the eighth Inning of the evening encounter a double play one doesn’t see often was perpetrated. With Carey on first, Kelly sent a hot grounder to Nash, who tried to tag Scoops unassisted. The runner turned and retreated, but he whirled about and again dashed toward second as Nash threw to Magee. Lee got the ball back in time for Dots Miller to tag Carey.
Babe Adams pitched a much better game for the Pirates than the box score shows, and while the fielding was sensational it was not perfect or Babe would have been credited with holding the Cardinals to two scattered singles in 11 innings. Cruise made a hit in the seventh that was very scratchy and Nash did likewise in the eighth, Wagner halting to avoid a collision with Kelly and allowing the ball to fall on safe soil. Miller’s drive in the ninth bounded badly and almost knocked the Dutchman down. Viox tried to trap Snyder’s liner in the tenth and it slipped under him in the mud.