PIRATES SMOTHER REDS UNDER 13-4 SCORE

Glenn Wright Leads Bucco Attack With Two Homers

Corsairs Bunch Blows for Eight Runs in Eighth Inning.
MEADOWS EFFECTIVE

By CHARLES J. DOYLE.

Wright Stars at Bat.

’Twas no fault of Glenn that he didn’t have a couple of four-sackers on the day before, but he changed his range in the second game of the series. Instead of hammering the ball to the left field fence he slammed two full-distance wallops to the right of second base.

Glenn Wright’s second homer was a thundering drive to right center that put a fitting climax on the big inning. The shortstop opened his fruitful period with a fluke hit, but there was nothing scratchy about his grand slam to deep right center, with Kiki Cuyler and Clyde Barnhart on the runways and two out. His first homer was made when the youthful star hung a “clothesline” from the home plate to the right field seats near the foul markers.

Meadows Effective.

Lee Meadows rung up his second triumph of the season as the Oakmonter waded through the Reds. Opposed to the spectacular twirler for seven rounds was the well-known submarine plunger, Carl Mays.

Mays gave the Pirates a trimming in Cincy not so very long ago, but the underhand flipper found the same batters in a different mood as he challenged them on their own lot. Carl was not any mean on Porkaty Knoll, but our boys kept pecking away at him with much success.

The submarine pitcher made way for a pinch-hitter in the eighth. When Mays left the mound the Pirates were leading the Phillies four tallies. Mays had not reached the showers before his club was right back in the game.

Three errors injected into the bad period by Smith, Carey and Rhynes, coupled with a bad play by Pie Traynor, jeopardized the position of the Pirates. The invader actually had the winning count on the put-in when Kiki Cuyler took Sammy Bohne’s toss at second base. The tying tally was on second at the time of the last out of the inning.

Realizing their precariousness as they went to bat in the last half of the inning, the Pirates soon were on their way to a feast. Wright’s fly to left was a lucky blow, but ere the inning was over Glenn belted the ball for a three-run four-base hit. Hit-and-run singles on the part of George McInnis and Eddie Moore were pivotal punches in the inning. Moore was batting for Earl Smith. Hal Rhynes came through with a pretty hit that sent over two of the markers. All of this happened with Pea Ridge Day on the mound. Pea Ridge got one on the wrong foot when Wright’s opening fly fell safely.

REVENGE IS SWEET

How Reds' Submarine Was Bombed and Sunk By Bold Buccaneers

FIRST INNING.

Reds—Critz singles to right. Pipp sacrificed, Meadows to McInnis. Roush doubled to left, scoring Critz. Rhye threw out Walker as Roush advanced. Carey made a fine catch of Pipp’s long slam. One run. Two hits.

Pirates—Rhye walked. Hall went out stealing. Picinich to Emmer. Carey grounded to Pipp. Cuyler singled over second. Taylor stole second. Wright hit to short. One run.

SECOND INNING.

Reds—Christensen and Emmer were thrown out by Wright. Picinich fanned.

Pirates—Traynor lined a single to left. Wright sacrificed. Mays retired the side. Two runs. Three hits.

THIRD INNING.

Reds—Mays was thrown out by Traynor. Pipp and Smith were both clever in the play. Rhye threw out Critz. Tyler retired Pipp.

Pirates—Emmer threw out Carey. Cuyler was called out on strikes. Barnhart lined to Walker.

FOURTH INNING.

Reds—Roush singled to center, but he went out. Carey to Rhye. Rhye threw out Walker and Pipp.

Pirates—Emmer made a one-hand stop and threw out Traynor. Pipp threw out Wright. McInnis singled to right. One hit.

FIFTH INNING.

Reds—Christensen flied to Barnhart. Carey robbed Emmer of an extra-base hit by a fine catch in deep center. Picinich was thrown out by Rhye.

Pirates—Meadows singled to center. Rhye sacrificed. Picinich to Pipp. Carey flied to center. Two hits.

SIXTH INNING.

Reds—Mays was thrown out by Wright. Critz singled to right. Pipp’s liner to right was foul by a few inches and then Babe popped to Wright. Roush forced Critz. Wright to Rhye.

Pirates—Traynor singled to Christensen. Wright drove a long homer into the right field stands near the foul line. McInnis doubled down the left field line. Smith lined to Christensen. Meadows fouled to Pipp. One run. Two hits.

SEVENTH INNING.

Reds—Walker singled to right. Cuyler’s fast fielding held the hit down. Wright failed to get Pipp’s hot grounder, and it was a single. Walker took second. Wright made a fine assist when Pipp attempted to advance from Rhye. Walker took third. Bresler batted for Emmer and lifted to Rhye. Rhye took Pipp’s fly. Two hits.

Pirates—Babe went in short for Mays. Rhye singled to center. Carey sacrificed. Rhye to second. Carey singled to center, scoring Rhye. Roush fumbled the ball and Ki scored. An error. Taylor grounded into a double play. Pipp to Critz to Pipp. One run. Two hits.

Didn’t get anybody. McInnis held them, and the bases were filled. Day relieved Mays. Rhye doubled, scoring McInnis and Critz. Carey grounded to Pipp after trying to sacrifice. The runners advanced. Cuyler’s high fly to short left fell for a scratch hit and Meadows scored. Rhye held second. Barnhart walked, filling the bases. Traynor’s long fly to Roush scored Rhye and sent Cuyler to third. Wright hit a homer to right center, scoring Cuyler and Barnhart in advance. Picinich threw out McInnis. Eight runs. Six hits. One error.

NINTH INNING.

Reds—Gooch went in to catch for the Pirates. Picinich singled to left. Bresler lined to Carey. Critz grounded into a fast double play. Rhye hit to Wright to McInnis. One run.

Pirates—Unplayed.

Reds 4
Pirates 13

CHILLY SAUCE

By CHILLY DOYLE

In His Stride.

Ball Hawk Wright’s two homers were not cracked a bit prettier than his two impressive smashes of the previous afternoon. It makes a big difference with the shortstop meeting the ball in his best stride, for, like Rogers Hornsby and other natural batters, he hits to all fields.

Any batter can learn a lesson from Wright or Hornsby. As the players say, “They hit a ball where it is.” In other words, if the pitch is on the outside they swing naturally and the ball as a rule will go in the direction of right or center. An inside pitch is likely to be driven to the other fields.

It wouldn’t be much out of place to institute fly-catching for catchers. It is true that a stiff wind baffled Earl Smith as he failed to get Critz’s loft in the eighth which started all the trouble. This will happen on any club, but there is no law against perfecting one’s self in art of grabbing shorts hoisted high above the batter. These apparently easy chances are the bane of nearly every catcher’s life.

The majority of good shortstops are weak on a slow ball batted directly at them, or almost any kind of a ball that does not permit of a side view. But in the fielding sessions before the game you rarely see the batter or fielder trying to overcome this fault. Yet the weakness looms game after game.

That’s Different.

Seventeen hits, including Wright’s two home runs, represent the best drive the Pirates have staged this season. Wright made three hits in a row, and two of them came in the eighth. He scored three runs in his three times at bat and won more honors by hitting safely twice and scoring as many times in one round.

Young Stuffy McInnis of Manchester-by-the-Sea, or Gloucester-by-the-Shell, was deep in the triumph of the Pirates. McInnis rapped out three more hits including a double. His hit-and-run slam of the eighth was one of the high spots of the delightful afternoon. Stuffy has made six hits in the two games and his batting average has placed him high among the league’s leading batsmen. For that matter, Stuffy finished second to Hornsby in the games in which he participated last year.

Kiki Cuyler also came through the afternoon with three hits and the Michigan greyhound swiped a couple of sacks.

Nice Work, Beans.

Beans Reardon, making his first appearance behind the plate in Pittsburgh, did not have a single protest to make to his work. Twice this season Reardon has been in charge of Pirate games, and his calling of balls and strikes has been flawless.

The umpires yesterday explained why the tapeline was brought into play in Thursday’s game.

“We did not ask for the line,” said Umpire Firman. “There has been contention on the matter of balls being in play. A pitched ball is in play and the runner is entitled to all the bases he can make, provided the ball does not strike an obstruction within 90 feet from the home plate. A small part of the plot near the home bench in Forbes Field is within 90 feet, and in the event of a pitched ball reaching this zone, the ground rule would allow only one base. The ball would be dead in this case.”

Hints.

Stuffy McInnis is batting .378, on top of his two big days at the plate.

Kiki Cuyler has moved into the .300 class after a nervy fight from behind. He is batting .301.

The resonant ring of Glenn Wright’s bat the last two days speaks ill for pitchers in general. Stay in there, Glenn.

Lee Meadows kicked up a big fuss by making two successive hits. Lee scored one tally and drove in another.

The spectacled twirler held the Reds to seven hits. He did not yield a blow in the eighth when they scored three runs.

The Pirates made three errors in the inning, but the “boots” were made on hard chances. Smith’s muff might have appeared easy, but any catcher would much rather tackle a loft on the run than to try to gauge it from the plate.

Pie Traynor doesn’t make two “wrong” plays a season, but he momentarily faltered when he tried to put over a force on Roush’s ball in the eighth.

Critz was running behind Pie, and the Pirate tried to nail him. Apparently nobody yelled directions on the action.

Traynor is likely to be yanked out any day with varicose veins in his legs. Doctors who are attending him fear he will do himself permanent injury.

The medical man who told Traynor to run on his lame ankle shortly after the bad injury in California “pulled a boner,” according to Pittsburgh physicians.

Pete Higgins, renowned tenor of the Hilltop, took advantage of his last opportunity to see the Pirates for several months. Pete left last night for an extended big time tour of the Far West. He will cover more ground than the Pirates ere he returns.

With the approval of President Heydler, the Pittsburgh club schedule has been changed in two places. The game slated for Thursday, September 16, at Brooklyn has been moved up to Sunday, May 16. A game originally scheduled at Forbes Field for Wednesday, September 8, between the Cards and Pirates, will be played Monday, June 21, in Oakland.

Shortstop Emerson Welk, recently sent out under option to the Wilson club of the Virginia League, has been sold outright to Johnstown by the Pittsburgh club.

Source: Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Saturday May 1, 1926