Burleigh Grimes Dominates Cubs While McGraw’s Giants Face Growing Pressure

Today's Edition

1. CUBS TOOTHLESS BEFORE MR. GRIMES
2. GIANT OFFICIALS DENY IMPENDING OFFICE SHAKEUP
3. WHO'LL SAVE GIANTS? THEY LOSE. 6-5

CUBS TOOTHLESS BEFORE MR. GRIMES

Robins Collect Sixteen Hits, Staying Up Front.

By JACK FARRELL. - NY Daily News, Wed May 12, 1926

CHICAGO, May 11.—Burleigh Grimes had his spitter working to perfection today, and he kept the Robins in first place by turning back the carnivorous Cubs by 6 to 2, allowing them but six, two of which were of the scratch variety, and another a homer by Charlie Grimm.

As a result the Robins are a game and a half out in front of the Reds, who passed the Bruins by waylaying the Braves.

Burleigh Grimes of the Brooklyn Robins delivers during his six-hit victory over the Cubs as Brooklyn stayed atop the National League standings in May 1926.

Cold, but Fun.

It was another treacherous day, the mercury registering 38 in the shade and very little sunlight in the press stand at least. Some 5,000 shivering fans sat through the skirmish and watched the Robins batter Big Sheriff Blake and Bob Osborne for sixteen healthy base knocks.

Blake, who hasn’t won a game this season, served them up to the Robins’ liking. They measured him for three runs and four hits in the second, at which time the first two errors charged to Joe Munson, the Cubs’ cartoon left fielder, proved of material assistance. Charley Hargreaves’ double accounted for two of the runs and Mr. Grimes scored the other with a long single.

Where Was Hack?

The sheriff was given the gate during a bad uprising in the sixth to make way for the heroic Hack Wilson, who was supposed to do some pinch hitting, but fell down on the assignment after Butler Maranville and Herman squelched the rally with an electrifying double killing.

That one double play just about dampened the Cubs’ ardor and made the issue safe for Grimes for the balance of the afternoon as the moist ball heaver retired the boys in order of their appearance at the next three frames.

Young Osborne didn’t do half bad and while he yielded six more hits he would have gotten by without being scored upon had not the erratic Mr. Munson juggled the last of Zack Wheat’s three singles and permitted Chick Fewster to jump across with the final run in the ninth.

Gus Felix was the only Robin who failed to hit safely. Wheat and Fewster led the offensive with three each, while the bottom of the batting order from Johnny Butler down got two each.

Zack Wheat collected three hits for the Brooklyn Robins in their 6–2 victory over the Cubs on May 11, 1926.

It was Grimes’s third consecutive triumph, and the end of the Bruins’ winning streak of four straight.

Box score from Brooklyn’s 6–2 victory over the Cubs at Chicago, highlighted by Burleigh Grimes’s strong outing and Zack Wheat’s three-hit performance.

GIANT OFFICIALS DENY IMPENDING OFFICE SHAKEUP

That old familiar rumor of dissention in the directorate of the Giants and an impending reorganization of the executive end of the club made the rounds of the baseball rialto again yesterday. This time the gossips had it that Leo J. Bondy would supplant Judge Francis X. McQuade as treasurer of the National Exhibition company, the corporate name of the Giants, and that Secretary James Tierney was about to get the air.

In spreading the rumor, the gossips laid great stress on the supposed unfriendly relations existing between McQuade, on one hand, and President Charles A. Stoneham and Manager John McGraw on the other for the past couple of years and another alleged feud between McGraw and Secretary Tierney.

Enter Denials.

In this connection it was pointed out that Judge McQuade did not go south with the club this spring, as was his custom previous to 1925, and that Tierney is not with the club on its present ill-fated tour of the western provinces. The gossips say that McGraw objected to McQuade’s practice of making the training trips with the club, that he also insisted that Edward J. Brannick go west with the club as business manager instead of Mr. Tierney.

The rumor went great until it was referred to those directly concerned. Then it met up with a series of emphatic denials. McQuade denied that he had been ousted, and so did Tierney. Bondy said he had heard no changes in the Giants’ directorate, and that he expected none.

New York Giants president Charles A. Stoneham and manager John McGraw were central figures in 1926 rumors of a possible front office shakeup.

“That report went the rounds about a month ago,” he said, “and was denied by Mr. Stoneham. McQuade still is the treasurer of the Giants, is signing all checks and vouchers, and, so far as I know, he will continue in office indefinitely.”

More Rumors.

But despite all denials, the belief still persists in baseball circles that a shakeup of some sort is about to hit the Giant office. This belief is based partly on the fact that John McGraw signed a new three-year contract as manager of the club and partly on a notion that he wouldn’t have signed unless he had been assured that McQuade and Tierney would be eased out of office.

Judge Francis X. McQuade and Leo Bondy were mentioned prominently in 1926 speculation surrounding the New York Giants’ front office structure.

Up to very recently the Stoneham-McGraw-McQuade triumvirate was bound together by an agreement not to sell their holdings in the club except to each other and then at a specified price considerably lower than the present market value of their stock. It is understood, however, that this agreement has expired and that the triumvirs now are free to sell out.

WHO'LL SAVE GIANTS? THEY LOSE. 6-5

MR. SOUTHWORTH TRIED, BUT HIS PALS FELL DOWN

By WILL MURPHY. - NY Daily News, Wed May 12, 1926

ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 11.—One or two more Billy Southworths and the Giants would have no difficulty winning an occasional ball game. They lost to the Cardinals again today, 6 to 5, in the second game of the series. It was their sixth licking in a row, and their twelfth out of their last sixteen battles.

Billy Southworth led the Giants’ attack with a homer and three RBIs despite New York’s 6–5 loss to the Cardinals in St. Louis.

It will not be surprising if Mr. McGraw does something drastic about this club real soon. In fact, it will be surprising if he doesn’t.

Mr. Billy Southworth who is playing only because Ross Youngs has a strained rib, was the inspiring force in the Giants’ attack, such as it was. In the first inning, Billy found Freddie Lindstrom perched on third, where he had arrived through Thevenow’s error and Frankie Frisch’s single. William fetched Freddie home by a unique method of hitting into a double play.

After that Southworth stuck to orthodox means of scoring. In the sixth he lined a homer into the right field stands after Frisch had singled. In the eighth he came up with the bases full and singled cleanly, scoring the other two runs that the Giants made.

That single disposed of Flint Rhem, who had been pitching nicely up to that time. Jesse Haines entered with two men on and nobody out, just when it looked as though an old fashioned Giant rally was in the making. The Giants do, indeed, rally these days, but they generally lose enough men when he laid down a perfect sacrifice. Then Kelly fanned. Ouch!—and Terry lifted a fly. Nothing at all happened to Haines in the ninth. The Giants had done their rallying for the day.

Hughie McQuillan started the New York pitching and gave reason for no kind words. Bottomley homered over the right field roof in the first with Hornsby aboard. Then in the second three hits in a row gave the Cards two runs and ended Hughie’s working day. The score:

Box score from the Cardinals’ 6–5 victory over the Giants in St. Louis, highlighted by Rogers Hornsby, Jim Bottomley, and Billy Southworth’s big afternoon.

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