CARDS LOSE TO CUBS AND DROP NATIONAL LEAD
April 20, 1926 - 3PM edition East St. Louis Daily Journal
Fail in Three Successive Innings to Hit with Men on Base, Losing in Fourteenth, 5-4.
box score game took place on April 19, 1926
Although able to get men to third base in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth innings, the St. Louis Cardinals could not bring those men in home and consequently lost yesterday's tilt with the Chicago Cubs, 5 to 4, in a fourteen inning contest at Sportsman’s Park.
In the twelfth inning Thevenow walked and after Huntzinger was fouled out, Ray Blades smacked out a double, sending Thevenow to third. With this excellent setting for their sixth straight victory the Cards booted their chance when Heinie Mueller, peppery center fielder, lined to Adams who doubled Thevenow off third.
Then again in the thirteenth with two out, and the bases loaded, Thevenow forced his mate, O'Farrell. After Chicago had scored their lone tally in the final frame, the Cardinals once more showed a batting attack. To start, Douthit was fanned by Jones. Then Ray Blades hit his third bingle of the day, a single, and sprinted to third when his blow was fumbled by Wilson. D’Arcy Flowers, up for Mueller, fanned. The crowd expected something when the all-powerful Hornsby came to bat. Jones put everything he had on the ball and made Hornsby his third straight strike-out victim in the inning.
Huntzinger, late of New York, made his appearance in a Bird uniform and should have won yesterday's game if he had had the proper offensive support. There were only three innings in which Huntzinger had difficulty in taming the Cubs but in those three the Cubs took advantage.
Walking two men in the first caused a lot of trouble as Wilson, the Cubs' star of the day, drove these two men in, giving the Bruins a two-point lead. However, they didn't hold that lead very long as the Cardinals came through with three in their part of the first. Bottomley doubled Hornsby in and Chick Hafey followed him with a homer that went into the left field bleachers.
After that it was a hurling duel between Root of Chicago and Huntzinger for six innings. The youthful New Yorker only allowed two hits in the first six innings but was rather wild. Huntzinger and Jones fought out the remaining seven innings, Huntzinger giving six hits.
Wilson of Chicago made an extra good showing on the offensive by knocking in three of the winner's runs and scoring the other two himself. "Rajah" Hornsby struck out three times, flied out once, and hit thrice. He struck out twice with a man on base.
The fourth game of the series will be played this afternoon, being the start of the second week of the 1926 league race.
Source: (1926, April 20) East St. Louis daily journal. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn92053739/1926-04-20/ed-1/.
