The New York herald., 1922-07-27
Sherdel Lasts Five Innings,
Then Batting Bee Puts
Game on Ice.
RALLIES IN 9Th AND 7TH
Shufflin' Phil Allows Seven
Hits, One o Home Run
sby Smith
\ b Y DANIEL.

In the cool of last evening Branch
Hickey. astute In business as he is
able in baseball. sent this telegram to
Sam Breadon, president Of the st.
Louis club:
Hold back orders for extra seats.
floral horseshoe for Hornsby. launder-
ing home uniforms and cleaning visl-
tors dugout."
Hickey had just suffered through
the anguish Of a long drawn out ball
game in which his hopeful Cardinals
had been tanned. toasted and other
wise walloped by the Giants by a
score OF 10 to 5. and Hickey was not
SO sure that the expense OF prepar-
ing for a world series at Sportsmen's
Park would be necessary after all.
That matter OF cleaning the visitors
dugout, in particular. would entail
quite an outlay.
The contest in which the New Yorks
made 1t two straight over their closest
rivals and stretched their lead to 7-45
games while some 1900 emitted wild
banzais was one of those knock down
and drag out scraps. 1t was give and
take, up and at 'em, with the Giants
wasting hits with the prodigality of
the familiar soaked salt--all that for
just six and half innings. Then. In
their haif of the seventh, the world
champions glued three more runs onto
their total Of six and moved away
majestically, IL not sneeringly. from
the anchored contenders.
Giants Get Twenty Hits.
The Cardinals happened to strike the
Giants in one OF their relentless. malev-
olent, jamboreeing moods. But our
gallant athletes We're no so successful
in making their hits count during the
first five innings. In that space they
cleaned only two tallies off eleven safe
blows. while the visitors collected a
similar number Of counters from only
four hits.
Beginning with the sixth the Giants
were far more successful In all they
go twenty hits for twenty-six bases
and the Cardinals collected only seven
drives off Shuffling Phil Douglas in as
many innings. Paddock was struck
on the pitching wrist by one of Barfoots s
mean shoots in the seventh and gave
way to Beau Ryan. who gave nary hit
in the last two sessions.
While Lefty Billy Sherdel was on the
lot for the Cardinals 1t was quite ball
game. Lefty used a roundhouse curve.
What with the curve being southpaw
shoot and slow one. too. 1t bothered
our valiant athletes when they wanted
to be bothered least. What with this
that and the other thing, not to mention
some elite fielding, particularly by the
vindictivc Stock, Sherdel managed to dc
pretty well for five innings. 1t was plain
that his luck couldn't last--and take 1,
from US as well as the box score, 1,
didn't!
In the sixth the Giants began to gauge
that slow, round house curve with con-
secutive success. Two singles, by Cum
ningham and Snyder. then a smackine
double by Bancroft, which would have
been triple had Frank been able &c
hobble away, from the hot corner ir
Bannie's favor, tied the score at 8 al
and also tied can to Sherciel. Hickey
declined to press his lucl< any further
and called on jeff Pfeffer, the Mar
Mountain. who soon was reduced to a
mole hill.
The time was when Jeff was not so
keen to face the Giants. but some weeks
ago he scored a decision over them and
yesterday he went forth with the naughty
mien OF conqueror. Jeff was erased
as he used TO be erased by the New
forks In other days-in less than one
inning. Rawlings slapped him for sin
gle TO left which scored Snyder and Ban
croft: Frisch walked and reached second
on Lavan's muff of Ainsmths fine
throw, and Meusel walloped single to
right, to score frankie with the fourth
tally of the inning. Young's foul bunt
after two strikes relisved JEFF and in the
next inning JEFF was further relieved by
hickey In favor of Barfoot, who also was
destined to be relieved by Pertica-
Those four runs in the sixth sent the
Giants to the front to stay there. They
got a bit of a scare In the seventh, when
the Cardinals got two runs and edged
UP to within one counter OF them with
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