Babe Ruth Roars and Giants Crush Cardinals — New York Daily News Baseball Coverage, May 14, 1926
Babe Ruth belts two more home runs in a Yankees slugfest with Cleveland while the Giants crush the Cardinals behind Virgil Barnes and lose Travis Jackson to another painful knee injury.
All Content is from the NY Daily News, Friday, May 14, 1926
Table of Contents
- New York and National League Coverage
- Scores and Scoreboards
- Off the Field
SULTAN OF SWAT SINGS SAGA OF SOCK
GREAT BAMBINO BANGS OUT TWO MORE HOMERS
And Yanks Beat Injuns, 13 to 9.
By PAUL GALLICO.
Sing a song of murderous sluggers; sing a song of faltering pitchers; sing a song of the whizzing ball as it streaks o’er the far green outfield, but above all, sing a song of Babe Ruth, a lilting song, a cheery song, a song from a full heart and a full throat. Wotta man; wotta man!
The Yankees took the second game from the Indians yesterday, 13 to 9, and all that poor old has-been in right field did was blast home runs No. 9 and 10 into the right field stands, drive in or score a total of seven of the Yankee runs and contribute a couple of fine running catches. O sing, yo ho; Ruth is great; O sing heave ho; ain’t he the cats?
Sincere Swatting.
Of the twenty-seven hits that popped and bopped and smacked and crackled all afternoon, eleven of them went for extra bases. Then sing, whoopee! m’lads, for the hard-hit ball. Earle Combs got a home run inside the grounds in the eighth, preceding Ruth’s second smash, and Charlie Jamieson got one of the same kind in the sixth.
George Burns, Ernie Padgett and Tony Lazzeri got triples, while Joe Sewell, the Bambino, Bob Meusel and Karr all got doubles. Then sing softly, boys; softly, my bully boys; for the poor, poor pitchers.
There were four of them all told. Waite Hoyt started for the Yanks, and Jamieson’s homer closed out his account. Sam Jones finished splendidly. Joe Shaute opened for the Injuns, and Hoyt’s single in the fourth finished him. Karr, known to his friends as Kiddie, went in. Not so good.
The Yanks scored their four runs in the fourth on a single by Combs, a pass to Lou Gehrig, doubles by Ruth and Meusel and a triple by Lazzeri. In the first inning, Gehrig singled and Ruth, with two strikes on him, took a grooved ball into the right field stand on a full swing.
O, Sing Anything!
The Injuns wouldn’t say uncle until the Yanks went out and won the game in the seventh on a pass to Ruth, singles by Meusel and Lazzeri, Karr’s error and two handsome sacrifices on the part of Mike Gazella and Pat Collins. The two homers in the eighth made it authentic and the Injuns curled up.
O, sing for the bravely smacking Yanks. Raise high your voices for Ruth.
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J. Sewell’s double, Burns’s triple and Homer Summa’s sacrifice caused the Injuns to tie the score in the second. In the sixth, they made it eight all when Luke Sewell singled, Karr doubled and Jamieson hit his long home run.
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You should have seen the beefing in the seventh when Miller Huggins and Collins opined that Karr had balked and Umpire Bill Dinneen allowed he hadn’t.
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And maybe you don’t think Lazzeri’s three hits and handsome fielding helped.
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Hist! Jones got his little single.
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Yes, girls, the Indians again today, Bob Shawkey against Hal Levsen and Buckeye. Come and bring your knitting.
GIANTS WALLOP CARDS; JACKSON CRIPPLED AGAIN
By WILL MURPHY.
St. Louis, Mo., May 13.—The Giants have started to right their wrongs. Before quitting St. Louis tonight, they left the Cardinals something to remember them by—a 12 to 1 trimming. This gaudy triumph gives our side an even break on the four-game series. Business is looking up.
Virgil Barnes pitched gorgeous ball and held the Cards to six hits, while the New York delegation was abusing four St. Louis pitchers for a total of eighteen safe socks.
Jackson Injured.
It may be that this day’s variegated conquest will cost the Giants sorely in the end. For Travis Jackson hurt himself again in a manner that makes his early return to the game extremely doubtful.
The brilliant young shortstop twisted his bad right knee, which kept him idle much of last season, in sliding home in the fifth inning. He was carried off the field, and was in great pain for several minutes.
Curious Plays.
This was but one example of the curious base running which blossomed at intervals all afternoon. Some of it came out all right.
The winning punch was shown by Mister John McGraw’s young men quite early in the battling. George Kelly and Alfred “Al” Moore singled in the second and Jackson was safe on an error. Bill Terry batted for Hartley with the bases full, and swept them clean with a triple to deep center. Freddie Lindstrom’s hit presently fetched Bill home and the Giants had more runs than they were going to need.
The drum fire was resumed ever so often. After rough outbreaks in the fifth and sixth, Irish Meusel lifted a homer into the right field stand in the seventh, nobody being on.
Billy Southworth lined another into the same convenient spot in the ninth with Frankie Frisch aboard.
Lindstrom, Southworth, Meusel and Moore each collected three hits.
Tomorrow the Giants start a five-game series in Cincinnati, where better things are hoped for. There also may be a player deal or two completed there.
BARNES, M’GRAW LIKELY TO FACE PIRATES TODAY
By JACK FARRELL.
Chicago, May 13.—While your Robins were preparing to feather their lofty perch with another victory over the well tamed Cubs, a thunderstorm broke shortly before 2 o’clock today and rained out the fourth and final game of a series which has been quite helpful to the Flatbush crew, but equally disastrous to Joe McCarthy’s athletes, who only a few days back had visions of superceding the Robins as pacemakers in the Heydler circuit.
The weather here since the Robins’ arrival on Monday has been anything but favorable, with high cold winds, which penetrated to the marrow, playing havoc with the attendance, with the result that the so-called crucial series which figured to draw on an average from 10,000 to 15,000 daily didn’t attract more than an average aggregate of 6,000 for all three games played to date.
Jess Barnes, who was all primed to pitch the final game for the Robins, will undoubtedly start the opening game of a five-ply series with those pillaging Pirates in smoky town tomorrow. But there is a feeling that your Uncle Wilbert Robinson may make a last minute pick and toss Bob McGraw into the breach. Master McGraw has won four games handrunning and stands out as the only unbeaten pill heaver in the Heydler circuit.
Robbie calculates that if he can get the jump on the world champions the business of taking a firmer hold on the top rung will be a mere formality.
He’s Optimistic.
Developments of the last few days caused Robbie to wax enthusiastic over the impending series with the Buccaneers, as he buried his bulky frame in one of the overstuffed divans in the lobby of the Robins’ temporary habitat today.
“Can’t see why we won’t take every game of the series,” ventured the optimistic Robin boss. “Last year we gave those Pirates a stiff fight with a half baked pitching staff and an undependable infield.
“If I pitch Barnes in the opener and they beat him, they will have to get by McGraw, Burleigh Grimes, Dazzy Vance, Jesse Petty and Tommy McWeeney in order to win the series. This may be possible, but, judging by the way my pitchers have been going, hardly probable.
Likes Infield.
“As for my infield, I look to Rabbit Maranville, Jimmy Butler, Chick Fewster and Babe Herman to show the Pittsburghs what a smooth functioning secondary line of defense looks like.”
No use in talking, but that infield has been a revelation. It has negotiated nine double killings in the last seven games. Rabbit Maranville, who has been behaving himself like a Sunday school pupil, has been the pivot in most of these game savers. What’s more, the Rabbit has injected a great deal of pep into the Robin lineup, something heretofore unheard of.
Combination Major League Scores
BASEBALL RESULTS
TINKER TAKES A BRIDE
JOE TINKER AND HIS BRIDE.—Joe Tinker, former manager of the Cincinnati Reds, selected that fair Ohio city in which to be married. Tinker was wed to Mrs. Mary Ross Edington of Orlando, Fla., which, by the way, is now home of the erstwhile manager also. Following a honeymoon of several weeks, in which New York is on the itinerary, the couple will settle in Florida.
