The New York herald., 1922-06-12
SCRAMBLED BRUINS
EASY FOR DODGERS
Hollocher's Early Banishment
Aids Ruether and His
Colleagues.
by DANIEL.

Failure to recognize the old truth
that tbs far more profitable to scatter
your pepper on the ball field than into
the shelllike ear of some unapprecia-
tive umpire is getting the odd looking
Cubs into a lot OF trouble these torrid
days. A handful of paprika thrown
at an overheated Bill KLEIN at Ebbets
Field yesterday brought the banish-
ment. in the first inning, of Charlie
Hollocher, main cog in the Chicago
works, and made things a lot easier
for the rampant Dodgers. The Brook
lyns walked in again by 6 to I.
Comingfin the wake OF the suspension
OF Bill Killefer and Oscar Dugey for
their little pleasantries with Ernie
Quigley at the Polo Grounds the retire.
ment OF their shortstop made the cubs
particularly helpless. Hollocher was
guilty OF poor Judgment of kissing
Jesse James" at the umpire when KlenY
called third strike on the infelder. Bill
glared at Charlie. Charlie glared at Bill.
and added: "A bats sharpshooter
compared to you" This aspersion on
Bills principal professional tools was
the last straw. and he howled. Yer out
of the gamev
The Cubs have been bad enough with
Hollocher at short. but with Charlie gore
the already badly scrambled mess took
on the general appearance of box Of
eggs caught In a wreck. Krug moved
over from third to short. Friberg. right
| fielder. took up the burden at the hot
| corner and Heathcote was sent Into the
outer works. With Terry apparently
suffering from the heat and Grimes
having a bad day. with two errors
charged against him, this makeshift
| showed just little more vim and dash
than rheumatic turtle.
Dodaers Revel I'm Heat.
The Dodgers furnished a striking con-
trast They simply revelled in the hu-
midity. They worked smartly in the in
| field and they operated with deadly
effectiveness in the more distant reaches.
In the box Dutch Ruether held the
Bruins safe without half trying. Rue
ther pitched carelessly. gave six passes
and seemingly was in tight place
against innumerable batters. He had
way of throwing three bad ones, then
putting over two strikes--and then forc-
ing his man into retirement,
The Brooklyn southpaw gave seven
hits. and they were as scattered as the
Ku klux membership over ON Tenth
avenue. One of these hits, a single by
| Statz in the fifth. was followed by an
inheld out by Heathcote and q wild
throw by Ward on Grimess grounder.
That saved the Cubs from a whitewash-
ing.
The Dodgers got no more blows thar
i - lFtstxA I..A N1x- L
tunely and was favored with timely err.
rors. Zack Wheat favorite son of the
left field bleacherites, once more was
acclaimed the blooming hero. lack go,
a home run over the right field fence In
the eighth--a parting shot--e double
and a single. Wheat may thank Hack
Miller for that double. Hack went after
the ball with all the speed and judg-
ment Of Josh Devore on one OF his bad
days. Miller got both hands on the
leather and then let it travel hence. but
the scorer called II a two Dagger. and
| we'll let 1t go at that. IL happened In
the fifth. with two gone--and was trans
lated into a run when Myers followed
with a single to center
Jones Gets Poor support.
For six innings the Dodgers operated
on Percy Jones. left hander-and Percy
got some mean support. He got himself
into mess right off the reel, the home
boys combing him for couple of runs
An the first. But Percy was not so bad
With fair support IN the field and at bat
he might have sneaked in. Irish" Stue-
land went the seventh and eighth and
gave only one hit. but that hit happened
TO be the Wheat homer.
Jones gave the Brooklyns start to.
ward their big lead in the opener when
he passed High. Johnston's double to
left put run on third and Bert Grif-
fth's martyr lift to STATE cashed in the
counter 1t also put Johnston on third
which he left pronto when Wheat sim
gled to left.