The sun., 1919-07-12
BARNES GETS RID
OF CARDINAL JINX
For Second Time in His Major
League Career, Jesse De-
feats st. Louis.
By FREDERICK q. LIBB.

By FREDERICK q. LIBB.
Beating the humble Cardinals is no
Jesse Barnes blanked the Rickeys on the
Polo Grounds by q Q to score yesterday
the young bridegroom felt like taking the
Mlssus downtown and doing little cele-
brating.
Almost every pitcher finds some club
Kansan's pet "bete noir' has been the
Cardinals. Whether up or down in the
league race, the st. Louis boys always
could be depended upon to take a fall
out Of Jesse. Barnes came into the Ma
uonal League via the Braves in 1915, and
up to yesterday he had defeated the Car
dinals only once. The Cards, on the other
hand, had tripped up Jesse nine times.
Dame Fortune started to switch to
Jesse as soon as he tried HIS luck at the
noble institution Of wedlock. On the last
trip of the Giants through the West
Barnes took a day on to get married In
the old home town, Circleville, Kan. He
was back with the club the next day and
pitched nine innings against the Cards.
The score was tied when he left and Jean
Dubuc won in the eleventh.
Yesterday Jesse made his 'bete noir"
jump through a hoop. stand On its head.
roll on its side and play dead. Every
time Jesse would snap fast ball at
them the Cardinals would do everything
he wished. This time he took all the
credit for the victory.
Burns Allows Only Tive Hits.
Barnes blanked the Rickeys with two
hits, O double by McHenry in the hfth
inning and an itchy single by Joe schults,
a pinch hitter, in the ninth. Joe broke
his bat hitting one down 70 Zimm. ana IL
bounded out of the Bronx boys glove. A
press stand plebiscite voted II hot enough
TO 60 as q bingle.
Especially did Jesse play horse with
Rogers Hornsby, the big gun OF the 81.
Louis team. The brilliant Texan famed
twice. In the seventh he struck out on
three bad balls, missing two by loot
Only twenty.nine men faced Barnes yes,
terday. only two more than the iesai
number. -,
q AS Jess held the Phillies to one hit
in a game last week he again Is pretty
valuable twirlipg asset to have around.
Married life assuredly has not hurt
Jess's pitching. The victory OF the
Giants yesterday gave New York Two
out of three from the Cardinals, and they
certainly needed it The Reds rolled the
Braves in the dust twice curing the
course Of double header and tied the
McGraw band for the league lead. ga.
Little Jackie May, the pony left
handler, pitched q pretty smart game for
the Cardinals. st. Louis National pitch
ers who start and finish the same game
are few and far apart 1t was Rickeys
luck yesterday to dig UP dependaple
pitcher on the same day that MS cruz
was opposed by invincible pitching. May
kept the nine Giant hits nicely scattered
and the first New York run was the re-
suit OF a poorly played fly by McHenry.
Plenty of Fielding Thrills.
There we're plenty Of fielding thrills.
Al Baird, the Louisiana lad, who was
subbing at second for Doyle, played q
cracker1ack game. He handled dozen
chances without a slip. Eleven OF them
we're assists, and for a spell In the MID
die game he was tossing out almost
every ST. Louis batter who came up.
Larry pulled up little lame in the first
game OF the series played with BIT. Louis
last Tuesday.
Burns made several star catches In
left field. He caught Stocks short loop
ing fly in the fourth after a great run.
catching the ball after a forward lunge.
In the next inning he made cross
country dash and absorbed Hornsbys
low line drive near the foul line. Burns
also smote q homer in the eighth. his
second of the year. 1t ran the Giants
total number of homers up to twenty
eight.
made two fine plays in the NTH inning.
After throwing out Burns. trying to
stretch a single into a double, he made
a leaping one handed catch Of Youngs
vicious line drive. The game was one
of the briefest of the year. consuming
only one hour and twenty-seven minutes
The Giants scored their first run in the
second inning. Stock made pretty stop
behind second base on Kauff's bounder.
but Benny beat the throw to first base
Zimmerman hit q long fly to left. and
McHenry ran around In circles trying to
ret under II. The wind was pretty strong.
and finally the ball eluded him entirely.
dropping over his head. II enabled
Kauff to sprint to third, while zimin
made second.
May was lucky to get out of this with
only one run scored against him. Chase
tanned, but Kauff came In on Gonxaless
long sacrifice fly to Heathcote, Zimm
taking third. Barnes was out on roller
60 Stock.
Pitcher May Il Lucky.
ct. Louis got It's only player around to
third base in the sixth. when Smith
walked with two out. He stole second.
aided by a short passed ball, and wild
pitch advanced him TO third. Miller left
him, lining to Kaun.
Burns opened the eighth inning for
New York by lifting home run into the
right field seats.
There was a little fear that ct. Louis
miRht start something in the ninth, when
pinch hitter Schultz opened with an In
neld hit, but he was forced by Smith.
and Miller ended the game by whacidng
into a double play. The score:
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