Heine Mueller Wins Over St. Louis as Cardinals Surge in May 1926
The St. Louis Star praised Cardinals outfielder Heine Mueller’s brilliant May 1926 play, while Alan Gould reflected on baseball’s unpredictability and a feature chart examined White Sox first baseman Earl Sheely’s steady career.
Content from the May 26, 1926 St. Louis Star
In This Edition
PLAYING A GREAT GAME
If “handsome is as handsome does,” Clarence "Heine" Mueller, the Cardinal outfielder, must be the best looking ball player in the game. His sterling recent performances have helped considerably in the fine showing made by the St. Louis Cardinals in their Sportsman’s Park stay.
GOULDS' GOSSIP
MOST games are uncertain and this uncertainty makes for their popularity. If any baseball fan—no matter how rabid for his home town team—knew that said team would win every day, he would soon give up the game. Connie Mack proved that with his old Athletics. Then, there is tennis. A recent local tournament shows this uncertainty. At Sherman Park, three players were engaged. These were Bernero, Leche and Sarazon. Here's what happened in the round robin. Bernero beat Leche; Sarazon beat Bernero and Leche beat Sarazon. About the only thing certain in tennis is that there is a net between the players.
Handing It to "Heine."
OUT in the Cardinal outfield is one of the most colorful players in baseball. He is Clarence Franklin Mueller, better known to the fans of the country as "Heine." It has been necessary to criticise the play of Mueller (always constructively, we hope) on divers occasions. But, of late, there has been no reason for criticism and the young South St. Louisan, almost single-handed has won several games for Hornsby.
There never was any doubt as to Mueller's "possibilities." Sometimes, his "actualities" were a bit off but, from his play of the past month, it is apparent that those fine "possibilities" have become present "actualities" and future "probabilities." Everybody hopes so. When "Heine" is playing up to his present form, he's a whale of a ball player.
SHEELY'S RECORD.
Earl Sheely is another player who stays put. He has been with the White Sox continuously throughout the five years and has managed to hover very close to the average line.
He isn't a whiz bang of a first baseman, like George Kelly or Jack Fournier, or Jim Bottomley or Joe Judge. But he's good.
Although his slugging is light, being in the clean-up position, he ranks very high in batting in runs. In scoring, too, he's above the average and has improved in each of the five years.
He never has been good at stealing bases, ranking way down the line in this respect. In fielding he's good, leading the league in number of double plays last year.
In spite of the fact that he is not a dangerous batter he always gets a generous allotment of passes to first. Waiting them out is one of the best things he does. 1926 ought to see him doing par at least.
Copyright, 1926, by Current News Features, Incorporated
TOMORROW—Heine Sand.
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