Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-14
SINGLETON HUR[S
BRILLIANT GAME
Rookie Holds SIugging Cards to
Six Hits and Shuts Them
Out-A's Idle
BROWNS AGAIN BEAT YANKS

"NNHEN the Phillies get the right
w kind Of pitching they aren't
going to be the doormats Of the Ma
tional League" A st. Louis scribe
who has followed the Cardinals in their
turns around the circuit for many
years made the above trite remark yes
terday afternoon at the conclusion OF
the getaway game between the Phils
and the Cards.
Good pitching is right. Sheriff Sim
gleton, who was not considered good
enough at the start Of the season, but
who was recalled after the breakdown
Of the staff week or so ago. handed
the hardest hitting aggregation IN the
National League just six hits and
blanked them.
For a rookie hurler to stop the Car.
dinals as completely as did the Sheriff
person yesterday Is no mean feat. He
had the Indian sign on the Mound City
aggregation from the start. Two of
the six hits. those made by Rogers
Hornsby, the hitting star Of the League,
were of the scratchiest variety. An
other In the first was the result of the
horsehide colliding with Singleton s
oAii oul " lVll lclu.
In the first and ninth the Cards had
the bases filled. but they proved un-
equal to denting Singleton's delivery
for the hit necessary to score runs. A
double play. in which the hurler played
a prominent part, nipped the rally in
| the opening and in the concluding
round his clever covering of first ON
Shotton's torrid grounder to Leslie
| saved the day.
While Singleton was deceiving the
Cards his teammates were giving vent
to their anger at seven successive de :
feats by handing Willie Doak. who in
his last start held the Bostonians to
four hits, North, Bailey and Pertica
as terrific n lacing rs they have given
any team this year.
The Damage
Sixteen hits, including four doubles,
two home runs and the remainder
singles. went mcrrily into the outer
garden or out of the gardens altogether
Art Fletcher and Lee were the bludgeor
wieldcrs credited with four-ply shots
They each scored pair of their mates
on the round trippers. The day was q
field day for the Phils. every membe,
Of the team getting one or more hits
Fletcher and Leslie checking in with
three apiece.
While the Phils were lambastng thu
Cards the Macklcts were collecting thci
baggage preparatory to shipping to Chi
cago, where they open fOur-ga
series this afternoon with Gleason
aggregation. Rain halted the get ava,
game with the Indians, who capture(
two of the three game series.
Braves OH Rampage
The Boston Braves may not dupli
cate their remarkable achievement o
1914, when they fought their way from
the cellar to the top. won the pcnnan
and trimmed the Athletics four straigh
in the Worlds Series, but they ar
staging n drive reminiscent Of that fca
and upsetting championship contender
right and left.
Hank Gowdy, the teams only play
ing survivor OF the 1914 outfit, was
hero again yesterday when the Brave
humbled the Pirates for the third tim
in four games, to ..
The result gave Boston a record Q
nine victories out of eleven games wit
J the leading three clubs of the league
including three out of four from $,
Louis and three straight from tn
Giants.
Tho Hubmen also made a clean swce
of four games with the Cardinals l.
the recent Western invasion and, al
though still in seventh place, are Onl
three games from the first division.
Four for Giants
The Giants. meanwhile. outsluggc
; Cincinnati for their fourth straigf
. from the Reds. 10. and have n margi
,, of four games over the Pirates, wit
whom they open an important sere
J today. In the other National Leagu
game Brooklyn bowed to the proves
Of Alexander and the Cubs won, S-3.
Charley Robertson, of the Whit
; Sox. came close to duplicating his no
hit feat when he held Boston to tw
safe blows, the first Of which came j
the eighth, and won, so.
Mauling Shawkey, Murray an
O'Doul for sixteen hits and 49,
victory. the st. Louis Browns obtainc
, an even break In the series with tn
Yankees, George Sisler leading the at
tack with four hits, including tw
, triplcS.
Ty Cobb, with two doubles and
single, blazcd the way for the Tiger
third triumph in four games wit
Washington, 81, home run by Harri
saving the Senators from q shutout.