The New York herald., 1921-05-18
SLUGGING BEE WON
BY DODGERS, 9 TO 7
Cardinals Pound Grimes for rs
Hits, but Go to Pieces on
Defence.
By SAMUEL j. BROOK MAN.

When ball team can't win on eigh-
teen hits. including a home run, triple
and pair Of doubles, there Is something
seriously the matter with its defence.
That's what allied the Cardinals yester-
day in about as weird a game as has
been played at Ebbets Field this season.
Jess Haines. after pitching great ball
for four innings, went to pieces in the
fifth and then several members OF the
inield cracked with him. North sue
ceeding Halnes, was no Improvement.
and when it was all over the Dodgers
had the long end Of . to score 1t
was sweet solace for the Brooklyn club
for the loss of the first three games or
the series
Pretty lucky to win that sort OF a
game was Burlcigh Grimes Burleigh
will admit it himself There was not an
inning in which the Cardinals did not
connect for at least one hit In five
innings they grouped two and in two
others they had three. There was this
to be said about Grimes's pitching. how
ever---that he somehow managed to
tighten whenever the Cardinals had men
on bases, and that invariably after sin
gle runned had scored and there were
several others waiting to be batted in the
St Louis hit was not forthcoming. In
seven Of the nine innings the i.rst Car
dinal to face the Brooklyn spitball pitch
er reached first on each occasion
through the medium of a safe hit.
Hitting Galore.
Smiths single and Hornsby's double
yielded the Cardinals their first run in
the initial inning. Mueller and Dill
hoefer were the men who grouped hits
for another run in the second. Then
Fournier and Hornsby kept up the hit
ting average in the third for the third
run In the fourth the visitors, or,
rather, Haines and Smith. were the safe
hitters, but az the blows came after two
were out they did no damage. Stock
opened the fifth for the Cardinals by
beating out an infield hit and Hornsby
sacrificed him to second. On Mueller's
rap TO Grimes. however, Stock was run
down between second and third and
Mueller was nlpped trying to reach
second.
McHenry. North and Smith stirred up
more trouble for Grimes in the sixth
and one run was scored as a result OF
three hits. Wheat's fine throw TO the
plate cutting short a threatening rally.
Again in the eighth the Cards earned
three hits, including a home run By
was pinch hitting for North. yet the
result of that offensive, thanks to a
double play, was just one run. In the
ninth Fournier. first up greeted Grimes
with a triple. Then Olson fumbled
Stocks 2rounder. After two force plays
at second McHenry walked and Lavan
singled. but Dilhoefer famed and the
st. Louisians had to be content with
two runs for the inning.
Up 10 the fifth the Dodgers We're
more or less helpless before the speed
and sharp breaking curves of Jess
Haines. the Cards pitching ace. Their
assault therefore in the fifth inning
came with startling suddenness. After
Johnson had doubled and Griffith and
Wheat had singled in succession Myers
hit a puny lick that bounded off Haines' 5
glove. The pitcher chased the ball,
picked IL up and then threw far over
Fournier's head. Griffith scoring. Then
Fournier in attempting TO catch Wheat,
who was digging for the plate, hurled
the ball wide and into the st Louis
dugout, Myers following Wheat over the
plate. The four runs put the Dodgers
in the lead and they were never headed.
IN the sixth Olson's single. Griffith Is
double. \ base on balls and Dilhoeter's s
Wild throw added two runs to the Brook
lyn total. and Otto kruegers home run
to left field after <ilduff had singled
augmented the Dodger score to nine.
That total was quite sufficient. The
score