The sun., 1919-05-25
GIANTS SECOND
BEST TOCARDS
IN EVERY WAY
st. Louis Outfits New Yorks
by II to 3 and Triumphs
by Score Of 6 to 2.
TUERO TANGLES LOCALS
Cuban's Pitching an Enigma
-Shotton's Batting a
Feature.
BY FREDERICK G. LIEB.

The Cardinals again gave the bali an
awful FASTING on the Polo lawn yes
terday. Those terrible tail enders from
Champ Clark's State continued to mas
sage McGraw's pitching stan by
splattering fourteen more hits around
the Harlem green. That gives st. Louis
twenty-nine blngles for forty-one bases
IN TWO afternoons, which Is cutting the
horsehide trihe.
Yesterday there was more luck to ct.
Louis's fourteen base knocks than there
was to their fifteen of the day before. +,
as Branch Hickey uncovered a pitcher
who held the check rein on the Giants
all afternoon. He was only mite
OF a Cuban spitballer. Oscar Tuero by
name, but he made the Giants put in
a dismal two hours. He held the biting
Harlem crew to three sparse hits and
pitched his team to a creditable to q
victory.
But here is funny one. While tho
Cards won their sixth game of the
season they tumbled to the bottom berth
| In the National League. BY the strange
intricacies of the percentage table the
| Boston Braves, who have been indus
| triously guarding the cellar all spring.
emerged out of last place by two points.
the Cardinals falling into the vacant
subterranean cavern.
Hickey Full OF Smiles.
But even the stuffy cellar air couldn't
| take the smile off Branch Rickey's
| countenance 1t was a day for celebra-
| ton In the st. Louis camp Not only
did tie Cardinals win a game, which
| was unusual. but a ST. Louis pitcher
| remained on the job nine innings, which
was still more unusual. When Tuero
| was in the game at the finish Il was
| only the fourth time this season that
| the Cardinal pitcher who started saw
| the finish OF the same game. Once
before Tuero went the full distance and
jake May and Goodwin also won fame
in st. Louis by pitching nine innings
| without sending an s. Q. s, for succor.
Jesse Barnes, McGraw's original pitch
| ing choice, took his soundest drubbing
| OF the year. The Cardinals had his
| range in the first inning and continued
| driving clean liners to all fields until Nc
Graw lifted him in the seventh.
Then Ferdie Schupp, the Louisville left
handler, made his 1919 debut. Two sin
giles were 1olted out OF Ferdinand and
he also uncorked a wild pitch, but he
| got by without a run.
Perritt and Gonzales Battery.
| In the ninth Polly Perritt and Mike
| Gonzales were trotted out as the Giant
| battery 1t was also the first 1919 ap-
pearance OF Poll and Miguel in one of
| John Heydler's box scores. The Cardi-
| nails made a strong finish on Polly, sting
| ing him for a pair OF hits and a run.
Is 1t any wonder that Hickey laughed,
even II his crew did hit bottom?
There were plenty Of fancy fielding
stunts Hornsby, Zim and Chase making
fine sprinting catches of foul flies. Tuero
| knocked down Larry Doyle IN the sec
ond, when he exploded a splitter against
| Lawrence's brow but remembering the
Salation Army cry Doyle wouldn't stay
| down. John Smitka. appearing on the
score card as Jack Smith. tried to help
Pete Harrison with his umpiring in tho
| first inning and finished up in the cooler.
The Cards got off to two run lead
| in the second. Clifton Heathcote, the
dainty lad from Penn State, led of with
a single and was sacrificed to second by
| Miller, the marine. Vernon Clements OF
Clements. Ia, permitted Clifton to ride
homo with him on his homo run punch
into the left field bleachers. The home
| run habit sure Is winning daily con-
yerts on the Polo Grounds
! A Giant run trlckled home in the sixth
| when Barnes walked, took second on
wild pitch and ambied in on Youngs
single.
| Cardinals Riot in Seventh.
| There was real CarulHal flot IN tho
seventh when St. Louis scored three
runs Bert Shotton bounced a triple of
the right field wall as a starter. That
old fellow Shotton seems to be all In!
| In two games he has knocked out six
hits for thirteen bases. How do they
get that way?" Clark Griffith. Shottons
last employer, may appropriately ask
Schultz sent Shotton homo with
double and scored on Stocks out and
| TInrpah,-'c IpAaId ainQlp RnpATS StOlA
second and came in on Paulette's double.
The Cardinals raised little goosefesh
on Hickey In the eighth when they
started pegging the ball all around the
yard, but a pass to McCarty and two
base wild throws by Hornsby and Stock
let in only one Giant run.
There was no sighting Perritt when
he came in for his 1919 baptism in the
ninth. Stock said hello. Poll T. with
sturdy single to right and Hornsby sac
rificed Mit TO second. Paulette drove
him in with a single which scorched ths