Cardinals 5, Phillies 4: St. Louis scored three times in the top of the 9th inning to spoil a fine Phillies debut by starter Lee Meadows. The matchup at the Baker Bowl featured two hurlers that were part of the big deal between the two clubs just a few days ago, Meadows joining the Philadelphia nine along with infielder Gene Paulette in exchange for pitchers Elmer Jacobs and Frank Woodward plus infielder Doug Baird. Jacobs got the nod for the home club as well this afternoon, and the two new boys made both of their new clubs happy in the early going. There had only been one safe hit in the game before Rogers Hornsby came to the plate in the top of the 4th; he drove one deep to left-center field and Austin McHenry collided heavily with the outfield fence just after the ball had done the same. Before Paulette could back him up from center field and get the ball back into the infield, Hornsby had circled the bases for his sixth homer of the season and the first score of the game. Paulette tied the score with an RBI double in the 5th, and the Phillies took the lead when another new acquisition, catcher Walt Tragesser, followed two PHI singles and a sacrifice with a run-scoring fly ball to right field. But Doc Lavan's circuit clout to left knotted the scores again in the 7th and the contest went to its final frames tied at two. Philadelphia grabbed control when three straight one-out hits produced a pair in the 8th, Meadows (5-8) singling home the second himself, and the bespectacled 24-year-old took the mound in the 9th looking to finish off a nice day's work. He retired the first Cardinal, and got the second out after a pair of singles, but pinch-hitter Burt Shotton ripped a three-bagger over Paulette's head in center field to tie the game and Jack Smith then followed him with another sharp drive to center. Paulette, who had primarily fielded the first sack for St. Louis but was doing fill-in work for the Phils in center field in the continued absence of Cy Williams, broke in on the ball before realizing how well it was struck. He couldn't recover and Smith trotted into second with a double that gave the visitors the lead. Oscar Tuero relieved Jacobs (5-10) in pursuit of the final three outs and got those after allowing a leadoff single by Paulette, who reached base four times. [box]
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| Gene Paulette had two hits, but a ball hit out of his reach decided the game |
Robins 9, Reds 2: The top six men in the Brooklyn order each had at least two hits as a seventeen-safety attack overwhelmed Slim Sallee and Cincinnati at Ebbets Field. Things did not start auspiciously for the home side, as the first five Reds reached against Sherry Smith, but the Robins' hurler escaped with a single run's worth of damage and his teammates responded with three of their won in the bottom half. It as 4-2 for Brooklyn through four and they put some distance between themselves and the visitors with two runs in each of the 5th and 6th innings as they racked Sallee (7-4) for six hits in the span of seven batters to chase him from of the game. Smith (6-3) was largely untroubled after the first, allowing Edd Roush's home run (3) in the 4th to advance the scoreboard but only two hits after that, and Zack Wheat's sixth homer provided an exclamation point in the 8th as Cincinnati went down to its seventh-straight defeat. [box]
Cubs 9, Giants 7: Chicago surrendered the entirety of a large lead to New York before rallying back with two 8th-inning runs that were enough to outlast the Giants. After spotting the home team a run in the 1st, the Cubs scored in five straight innings to build a six-run cushion; pitcher Claude Hendrix homered for the first two runs and also plated the sixth on a groundout. But Hendrix couldn't seem to handle the prosperity he himself had helped to build, and gave four of those back to NY in the 6th (Frankie Frisch with a two-run single) and then the rest of it in the 7th when Larry Doyle launched his fast one over the left-field fence (5) with a man aboard. But, to the Cubs' credit, when the Giants gave them an opening in the top of the 8th they barged right in. Art Fletcher booted Charlie Hollocher's ground ball to start the inning, then Lee Magee singled and Fred Merkle doubled off of Jean Dubuc (3-6) to break the tie; two batters later Charlie Deal flied out far enough to left to allow Magee to score the insurance run. Hendrix (6-6) retired five of the last six Giants to finally put the game away. Magee, Max Flack and Bill Killefer all had three Chicago hits, while Fletcher matched that feat for New York. [box]
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