The New York herald., 1922-08-05
RUETHER Is BEATEN
AGAIN BY REDLEGS
Caveney's Double i'm the Ninth
Scores Two and Downs
Dodgers by 6 to ).
by DANIEL.

Jinxes, jinxes. nothing but jnxes-
jinxes TO the right of them and jinxes
10 the left OF them in the major
leagues this year. It's a poor sap OF a
pitcher who hasn't at least couple OF
pet hoodoos all his own to fondle and
caress--and on which 10 toss the blame
for home runs and the like. Take
Dutch Ruether, for example-Dutch
and the Cards and the Reds-the Reds
who traded him to Brooklyn and whom
he would like TO beat almost as much
as he likes TO whip the Giants
Ruether who already had adopted
the st. Louis outfit as one of his prl-
vate iinxes. gave definite information at
Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon that
he also had taken unto himself the
Cincinnati club as little companion
for the other pet For the third time
this season Dutch tried to beat the
international potpourri under Pat
Moran and for the third time the Red
legs soaked Ruether to fare-thee-
well. They landed on the left handler
Tor fifteen hits. including homers by
while the Dodgers got only eight blows.
But at tina: 1t took q ninth inning rally
for two tallies to give the decision to
the Rhinelanders. by 6 to D.
1t looked as IL Ruether finally had
put strangle hold on the Red hoodoo
in the eighth inning when home run
by Tommy Griffith with one on, a
double y Zack Wheat and a pretty
triple by Hy Myers earned three runs
for the Brookiyns and gave them the
lead by to 4. But Dutch simply could
rot shake those voodoo doctors from
the Ohio veldt. In the ninth Giacomo
Castclucci, better known as Jimmy
Caveney. plastered Dutch for sinful
double with two on and two out and
cashed in the two runs which left Rue
ther once more holding the bag on a
coon hunt
Dutch Can't Make 1t sixteen.
Ruether has been having the very
devil of time winning in the last three
weeks. He has been particularly un-
fortunate in his quest of his sixteenth
victory. With his fifteenth success
came the assurance of a bonus from
Charley Ebbets. But since he earned
that extra little stipend Dutch has
found that it is just another little pet
Jinx. Somebody apparently put Scan
oInavian curse on that bonus.
Aside from jinxes and hoodoos and
the like that game Yesterday was a
whale-up and at 'en. YOU know--np
and tuck and all that sort of thing.
The Reds started with a run but the
Dodgers soaked Johnny Couch for
three hits and r couple OF counters in
their hals OF the first. Along came the
Reds in the fifth with those home runs
by Duncan and Hargrave and valu-
able single by Luis Fonseca. the Por-
tugce sandwiched in between. and
Cincinnati again was in the ascendant.
4 to g
But the Dodgers would not stay put.
They probably forgot that the Reds
had become Ruethers private pests.
With two out in the eighth tickle Dame
Fortune made Jimmy Johnston S
grounder take a mean bounce over
Rinaldo Pinclli's left shoulder and II
had to go for a hit. Tommy Griffith
heard the lions roar in the stands
those 1889 paid made enough noise for
a full house-and Thomas. who happens
to live in Cincinnati and once wore the
bright livery OF the Reds. lit on the
first pitch and sent II over the famous
right field wall.