Dodgers Roll Into St. Louis While Hornsby’s Bats Fall Silent

Made Good, but Loses Credit - CHESTER FALK. Falk, who started his first game for the Browns at Cleveland yesterday, made a fine showing on the hill, but credit for the victory went to Ballou. Falk yielded only four hits in six innings, walking two men. He was removed for a pinch hitter. The runs scored during his time on the mound were made by errors of teammates.

## Contents of this Evenings Publication

- Grimes Likely to Face Cards in First Game
- Hornsby’s Answers
- Who's Who In Baseball

-Batting And Pitching records of the Two St. Louis Teams

Grimes Likely to Face Cards in First Game

Robinson’s Team Out in Front With 12 Victories and Six Defeats—Reds Trim Hornsby’s Men in Final, 6 to 1.

By J. Roy Stockton - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Evening May 6, 1926

Wilbert Robinson and his surprising Brooklyn Dodgers, who are leading the National League race with 12 victories and six defeats, will open a series with the Cardinals at Sportsman’s Park this afternoon. Manager Hornsby has saved Flint Rhem to shoot at the league leaders and it is probable that Burleigh Grimes will do duty for Robinson. It is Grimes’ turn to work, though Ehrhardt or McWeeny may be slipped in. Managers are that way. They hesitate to waste a Grimes on a game when the hostile pitcher is a tough baby, and Rhem is all of that.

Rhem has won three games and lost one, and apparently is set for a great year. He would have four victories and be undefeated had it not been for the Cardinals getting the give-it-to-’em complex in Chicago, where, on four different days, the Cards found four different ways to donate ball games to the soon-to-slump Cubs.

Where Is That Punch?

Hornsby and his men will have to perk up in their batting during this series with the Dodgers or they will find themselves skidding toward the basement. The Dodgers have battled to the top of the league by virtue of surprisingly excellent pitching and the team also has shown an admirable tendency to rally to the support of its flingers. For instance, the other day Jess Petty was being handed his first defeat of the season, after having scored four straight victories. The score was 2 to 0 when the Dodgers went to bat in the ninth. They put on one big push, shoved over three runs, saved the game and Petty’s winning streak.

The former Association flinger now is leading the world with five victories and no red ink on his book.

Something ought to happen to the enemy pitchers soon. Hornsby has gone hitless for two games in succession and that is an almost unheard of calamity. When a .400 hitter like Rogers Hornsby goes to the plate and fails for two days, it means a pitcher is going to suffer soon, in the rebuilding of the .400 average. Nothing could be sweeter than to see a little batting average reconstruction against the powerful Brooklyn flingers.

Hornsby is not the only Cardinal who is in a slump. Jim Bottomley also has failed to hit in the last two games and that’s not like Sunny Jim, it’s not.

Reds Capture Final.

This impotent batting gave the Reds an easy victory in the final game of their series with the Cards. Red Lucas, a young man who once made a great mistake by taking up infielding, but who was put back in the paths of prosperity and wisdom by Jack Hendricks, keeper of the Reds, showed that he should do nothing but pitching. He held Hornsby’s men to five scattered hits and won, 6 to 1. It was his fourth victory in five starts and had it not been for some errors, which gave the Pirates a 3-2 victory over the red-headed youth, he would be tied with Jess Petty for the league pitching lead.

Sylvester Johnson tried his luck again and it was the same as always—bad. He pitched one excellent inning and then in the second a line drive plunked against his toe and upset his pitching equilibrium. In the third inning the Reds bombarded him for four extra-base hits and four runs, after which Sothoron went in to protect Phil Ball’s nice new bleacher and pavilion walls. Sothoron was punched for two runs in the fifth, but pitched excellent baseball, giving only three hits during his 6 1-3 innings on the hill.

An Extra-Base Orgy.

Six of the seven Cincinnati hits were for extra bases. The Cardinal hits, on the other hand, were all singles. Singles by Sothoron and Blades and Mueller’s sacrifice fly produced the only St. Louis run.

Lucas was too good. In the eighth the first two Cardinals at bat reached base, but Blades struck out, Mueller tapped to an infielder and Hornsby fouled to the catcher.

The Cards played well in the field, but they must wage a devastating attack with their bludgeons, or they do not appear to be the Cardinals. Perhaps the heavy guns will swing into action today.

1926 newspaper box score showing the Cincinnati Reds defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 behind Red Lucas’ pitching and extra-base hitting by the Reds. — Box score from the Cincinnati Reds’ 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on May 6, 1926, as printed in the *St. Louis Post-Dispatch Evening Edition*.

Hornsby’s Answers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Evening May 6, 1926

Who is captain of the St. Louis Browns?—SAM OBERMAN, 1424 Blair avenue.
Manager Sisler acts as field captain for the Browns.

If the batter is up 5 times, gets 3 walks and 2 hits, how many times at bat is he charged with in the box score?—ARTHUR EULTGEN.
He is charged with two times at bat.

Man on third, none out in ninth inning, score is tied. Batter hits over fielder’s head and goes all the way around. Does he get credit for a home run?—L. L.
No; he gets credit for a single, unless the ball is hit out of playing field.

(1) Runner on first base. Batter hits foul and catcher returns ball to first baseman, who tags runner on his way back to the base. Batter remains in box. Umpire calls runner out. Is he right? (2) Give a description of a balk.—H. H.

If the ball is a foul tip caught by the catcher, the runner is out. If it is a foul ball not caught, the runner is entitled to return to his base without risk of being put out. The batter’s position does not alter the case. (2) The balk rule (No. 34) has 14 sections and is too lengthy to be treated of here, except for specific cases.