Pirates 1, Cardinals 0: Babe Adams pitched a four-hit shutout to run his season-opening scoreless streak to eighteen innings and the Pirates held on for the win after George Cutshaw's 2nd-inning home run. There was little to choose at Robison Field this afternoon between Adams and Bill Doak, but what little there was came in the first swing of the 2nd inning when Cutshaw sent one of Doak's offerings into the left-field seats for four bases. The visitors didn't threaten Doak again until the 9th, when he escaped a jam by intentionally walking Walter Schmidt to retire Adams on a fly ball with the bases juiced and two away. St. Louis, struggling for offense in the season's first fortnight already, could do nothing against the impregnable Adams - they managed a pair of two-out singles in the 1st inning, but were then held completely in check as the Pirate right-hander retired twenty of the final twenty-one Cardinals who dared bring a bat to the plate to face him. [box]
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Reds 4, Cubs 2: Greasy Neale's 8th-inning double led to two insurance runs as Hod Eller and the Reds eked out a close decision over Phil Douglas and his Chicagoans. The Cubs got on the scorecard straight away when Max Flack led off the game with a base hit, swiped second base, and scored on Dode Paskert's two-out single. The home-standing Reds pulled even in the 3rd when Morrie Rath doubled home Larry Kopf with two outs, and took the lead in the 5th after Jake Daubert singled, stole second, was bunted to third and beat the throw home on a fielder's choice grounder to Charlie Hollocher pulled in close at short. Chicago got three straight singles to load the sacks with one away in the 7th, but failed to score when Eller reached back to fan both Bill Killefer and his counterpart Douglas. In the 8th it was Eller who started the key Reds rally, singling to begin the inning and scoring on a sacrifice and Neale's two-bagger, after which a groundout and a Douglas wild pitch got the final run across. Eller walked across hot coals unscathed again in the 9th - his own fielding error, a single and a fielder's choice scored one Cubs run and a free pass to pinch-hitter Les Mann put the tying runs on base. But Eller again had another gear to spare, firing the pill past Flack for a third strike (his 8th K of the game) to put an end to the contest and join teammate Dutch Ruether as the League's first three-time winners. [box]
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