New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-14
By Charles A. Taylor


for the second day in succession the St.
Louis Cardinals finished last. The score
was to 4. Roy Walker, who upset the
Giants on their visit to ST. Louis Ca
most disastrous visit, by the way, was
on the mound for the Cards and was
getting along swimmingly until he met
Earl Smith in the fourth inning and
with the bases all occupied.
Earl has punch, and whether the
stories about Earl's punches, bootleg
and otherwise, are true or not, there
was no fan among the seven thousand
on hand yesterday who did not agree
that Smithy had nice, nifty uppercut.
The ball that Earl punched" in the
big inning never wavered for an instant
as it sailed into the upper tier of the
right-feld stand. And to all intents
and appearances that "punch" settled
the ball game.
Arthur Nehf was so encouraged after
the big smash that he almost was will
ing to rest content on his four-run
lead and let the chips fall any old
place at all. But Arthur had rude
awakening in the ninth when savage
drive hit by Jacques Fournier landed
on Nehf's right arm and put the south
paw in agony and at the same time
1t was an unfortunate ending for a
pitcher who had performed 80 cleverly,
but luckily the diagnosis of the IN
jared arm disclosed no broken bones.
Nehf is a left-hander and that proved
to be a "happy deformity," for it Is
with his left that Arthur has been
moving down the opposing batters.
Homer Cracks the Ice
The first runs Of the game came in
this Earl Smith fourth, though it is
q shame to use this puncher's name as
an adjective. Frank .sFordham Frisch,
the first batter, singled past short.
Ross Young walked, and Long George
("Toothless") Kelly, instead of hitting
another home run, sacrificed most clev-
erly, pitcher to first. Honey Walker,
who is getting more and more danger
Gus every day, was purposely passed,
and there was no room for anybody
else on any base.
Rawlings was not equal to the de-
mand, popping to Doc Lavan, but then
the Earl took his punch into the stand
and four runs 'trickled over the plate.
rival and fouled weakly to Stock.
In the sixth the Giants made the
game even more one-sided. After
Kelly had flied to Schultz in right
Honey Walker singled to center. Raw
1ings flied out to right, but the mighty
Smith was presented with passport
to first. Nehf connected finely to center
and Honey scored. Burns doubled to
left and Smith registered. Davy Ban
croft continued the good work with
single off Stocks glove and Nehf rang
the scoring gong.
Two entirely unnecessary runs came
the way of the Giants in the seventh
and eighth, when the Cards lost their
bearings and committed few bungles.
In the seventh Kelly went all the way
to second on wild throw by Doc La
van. Brown, batting for Walker, was
hit by pitched ball and Rawlings
singled to center, filling the bases.
CASTOR, hitting for Hero Earl Smith,
banged the ball safely to right and
Long George tailed
Score on paul" Rivierre
In che eighth an error by paul"
Riviere, who had assumed the mound
for the visitors, gave Bancroft q life.
FordhAm Frisch walked and single
by Young was sufficient to bring Ban
croft across with the final run of the
afternoon for the Giants.
The Cardinals scored one run in the
seventh as the result of Dilhoefer's
triple and sacrifice fly from the bat
or CIemonS. Nen1 seemingly eased up
bit in the eighth and two additional
Cardinal runs resulted. Fournier
walked and was forced at second by
Stock, who in turn was forced at the
same bag by Hornsby. McHenry sim
gled and Lavan tripled to right center,
scoring the Doc and Hornsby. Doc
himself tailed when Frisch messed up
Schultz's grounder.
But that was all for the Cards, as
the next batters were helpless.
The score: