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  "description": "Table of Contents\n\n 1. Pinch Hurling of Haines Enables Cards to Down Giants Again, 6–5\n 2. Browns Present Washington with Victory, 6–5, in Opening Contest\n 3. ATHLETICS WIN 8TH STRAIGHT, BEAT SOX, 6–2\n 4. BUCS POUND 3 PHIL PITCHERS TO WIN, 11 TO 1\n\n\nPinch Hurling of Haines Enables Cards to Down Giants Again, 6–5\n\n\nHolds Foe Scoreless After Replacing Rhem in 8th with 2 on Base\n\nCardinals Get to McQuillen Early, Routing Him in Second—Bottomley Drives in Two Runs with Sixth Homer of Season.\n\nBy MAR",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T11:30:15.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Jesse Haines",
    "Flint Rhem",
    "Meusel",
    "Southworth",
    "Bill Sherdel",
    "Grove",
    "Kiki Cuyler",
    "Johnny McGraw"
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  "textContent": "## Table of Contents\n\n  1. Pinch Hurling of Haines Enables Cards to Down Giants Again, 6–5\n  2. Browns Present Washington with Victory, 6–5, in Opening Contest\n  3. ATHLETICS WIN 8TH STRAIGHT, BEAT SOX, 6–2\n  4. BUCS POUND 3 PHIL PITCHERS TO WIN, 11 TO 1\n\n\n\n## Pinch Hurling of Haines Enables Cards to Down Giants Again, 6–5\n\n### Holds Foe Scoreless After Replacing Rhem in 8th with 2 on Base\n\n _Cardinals Get to McQuillen Early, Routing Him in Second—Bottomley Drives in Two Runs with Sixth Homer of Season._\n\n**By MARTIN J. HALEY.** - St. Louis Globe-Democrat May 12, 1926\n\nThanks to brilliant pinch pitching by Jesse Haines, the Cardinals made it two straight over the Giants yesterday, this time by a 6 to 5 margin. It was New York’s fifth straight setback, the last three of which have been decided by one run. As for the Cardinals’ winning streak of two straight, it is their longest in three weeks and advances them to sixth place in the N. L. running.\n\nHaines enabled the Knot Holers to tame the Giants for the second time in two days when he relieved the faltering Flint Rhem in the eighth inning. When Jess entered the box, the Giants had runners on first and second with none out and needed but one run to tie. Then Meusel, first to face Haines, sacrificed. This accomplished, the Giants had men on second and third with the danger-outs gone. Kelly at bat.\n\nWithout doubt it was one tough spot. Kelly is a bad man in a pinch and was more eager than ever to come through in this spot since a hit undoubtedly would check his club’s losing streak. There was no man on the field, however, who realized more than Haines the danger of the situation and Jess worked on Kelly like a master. The count finally became three and two. This usually is known as the “cripple” spot in favor of the batter, but Haines was so effective with his stuff yesterday that the odds were reversed.\n\n### Kelly the “Cripple” This Time.\n\nKelly was the cripple in this instance. He demonstrated as much by going down on strikes, swinging furiously at a fast pitch. To make his work a complete success in the round, Haines forced the hard left-hand swinging Terry to raise harmlessly to Heinie Mueller in right field. Out of that mess, it was no trouble at all for Haines to round out the afternoon by setting the Giants back in order in the ninth.\n\nHaines made it possible for Flint Rhem to win his first game of the season in six starts. Prior to his removal, Rhem had pitched a four-hit game for seven innings, but in the eighth it was plainly evident that he had lost the zip to his fast ball and the hook of his curve when the Giants bunched three singles with a pass before an out was made.\n\nPrior to the eighth, Rhem really had but one bad round. That was the sixth, when Southworth hit a home run into the pavilion following a single by Frisch. The Giants also had scored in the first inning, but Thevenow’s error on a ground ball gave them that marker.\n\nSave for the few fleeting minutes between the Giant first inning and the Cards’ first, the Giants never were better than one run behind at any stage of the contest. The Cards, in contrast, were 4-to-1 winners for several early innings. They assumed that lead by scoring twice in the first and twice again in the second.\n\n### Cards Rout McQuillen.\n\nVictim of the Cards’ attack in these two sessions was the curve balling Hugh McQuillen. Hugh proved a sweet target. He was pounded for seven hits before being removed, and he was removed before an out was registered in the second inning. Winding up the offensive maneuvers for the day, the Cards picked on Fred Fitzsimmons for two runs in the seventh, which this rotund right-hander had held them to one hit for five innings.\n\nEleven hits constituted the total damage done by Cardinal bats, outstanding among which were those wielded by Jim Bottomley. Flint Rhem, himself, and Heinie Mueller. Bottomley drove in two runs with his sixth home run of the season and added another with a sacrifice fly. Rhem admitted two more on a right field single and Mueller counted the final with another pinch single.\n\nBottomley hit his homer in the first inning. It was a long clout which skidded off the pavilion roof into Grand boulevard. It came with two out just after Hornsby had walked to first. Mueller then got a double, but Bell’s fly to Tyson left Heinie stranded at the midway.\n\n### Cards Get Two in Second.\n\nThe score now was 2 to 1 as the Giants had scored in their first on Thevenow’s miscue of Lindstrom’s grounder, Frisch’s hit and ringing to right and Southworth’s long drive, which was converted into a double play.\n\nThat was the last scoring for the men of McGraw until the sixth inning, for Crem retired the Giants in a row in the second, third and fifth and pitched out of a hole successfully in the fourth. In this inning, with two dead, Meusel singled and Kelly walked. Because of the high wind blowing toward right field, Manager McGraw sent in the southpaw swinger, Terry, for Tyson, but Rhem got Terry on a grounder to Bottomley.\n\nThe Cards at this time was 4 to 1. The Cardinals having picked up a brace in the second, when O’Farrell, Thevenow and Rhem’s successive following a wild pitch, scored both his catcher and shortstop and knocked McQuillen under a shower bath. Coming to the rescue, Fitzsimmons was greeted by a two bagger from Blades, but the portly Giant right-hander settled down then and retired the Cards without further scoring.\n\n### Southworth Hits Homer.\n\nContinuing his mastery over the Birds, Fitz held the Cards to one scratch hit in the third, fourth and sixth innings and when Southworth hit that home run after Frisch on in the sixth, the Giants again were the ball game, the score being 4 to 3, Cards’ favor.\n\nThe Cards had a chance to end up matters in their seventh, Terry stopped this round by walking and then raced around to third when Rhem threw past Bottomley trying for a pick off. Two hard-hit balls followed to close the round. Jackson lined to Blades and Snyder lined to Thevenow. Whose throw to Bell doubled Terry off third base.\n\nThis same Terry aided the Cards to their two seventh-inning runs. Rhem was on when Blades lifted a high fly to right field. Terry, not accustomed to much work, garden variety at least, misjudged the drive in the wind and it fell for a double.\n\nDouthit, next up, bounced to Jackson. The latter tried to throw out Blades going to third, but the throw was late and the Cards had men on the corners. Hornsby walked. Jimmie, the alias for Bottomley, whose deep fly to Southworth in center scored Blades. Douthit counted on Mueller’s single to right center.\n\nIn the Giants’ eighth, prior to Haines’ rescue work, pinch batter Ott, for McNamara, singled to left. Lindstrom singled to right and Frisch walked, filling the sacks. Southworth singled to left. Ott and Lindstrom scoring. Enter Haines, exit New York’s chances.\n\nBox score from the Cardinals’ 6–5 victory over the Giants on May 11, 1926, featuring Jesse Haines’ clutch relief work and Jim Bottomley’s sixth home run of the season.\n\n### Sherdel Due Today\n\nSouthpaw Bill Sherdel is likely to be Hornsby’s choice for mound service against the Giants today. Sometimes we managers to pick these starters and sometimes we miss. For instance, yesterday we picked Barnes, Scott or Ring. We had the right number, but the wrong nationality.\n\nYesterday’s New York hurlers, McQuillen, Fitzsimmons and McNamara, brings back to mind the Saturday battery of Hallahan and O’Farrell. McQuillen is a New York veteran. Fitzsimmons was brought up from Indianapolis late last summer. McNamara is the ex-Boston Brave. All are right-handers.\n\nMelvin Ott, who came through with a single as a pinch hitter yesterday, is an 18-year-old high school boy from Gretna, La.\n\nAl Moore, used as a pinch swinger by McGraw in the ninth, was brought up from Elmira of the New York State League.\n\nAt the game yesterday was the Quincy College Band, which is to appear of the Knights of Columbus convention being held in East St. Louis.\n\nThevenow made two scintillating plays, both in deep short, to rob Kelly in the second and Jackson in the fifth.\n\nBest outfield play was Heinie Mueller’s diving catch of Meusel’s bid for a hit in the sixth.\n\nRoger Bresnahan, well known hereabouts, was much in evidence as a coach, especially in the eighth, when he made two trips to second base and one to McGraw in the Giants’ dugout in an effort to pull over a bit of strategy. Haines, however, was too good a rescue worker.\n\n* * *\n\n## Browns Present Washington with Victory, 6–5, in Opening Contest\n\n### Five Free Passes and Two Errors Account for Three of National Runs\n\n _Ruether Holds St. Louis Helpless Until Ninth, When Belated Rally Is Cut Off in Nick of Time by Judge’s Great Stop._\n\n_Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat._\n\nWASHINGTON, May 11.—The Browns were in a mighty generous mood here today and presented the Nats with the game. The final score was 6 to 5, three of the Harrismen’s being gifts, two being over on five bases on balls in the first by Claude Jonnard, Sisler’s starting hurler, and another trickling over as a result of two errors. The victory sent the Harrismen into second place in the standings. Elam Vangilder relieved Jonnard in the fifth and granted but one run during the four frames he toiled.\n\nDutch Ruether drew the Nats’ mound assignment and he had the Browns eating out of his hand for eight frames, during which he granted but three hits. In the ninth, however, it was different, and Sisler’s men came to the tee and pounded the southpaw all over the lot and finally out of the game.\n\n### Judge Stops Rally.\n\nThe St. Louis rally netted five runs and, but for a great stop by Joe Judge, the visitors might have won out. McManus and Jacobson started off with singles and scored on the return. Lamotte and Dixon scoring when Harris made a bad peg on the return. Lamotte and Dixon then cracked out safeties, bringing Fred “Hurry Up” Hargrove at the plate in Vangilder’s place. On Pinky’s roller, the Browns’ fourth run came over, while the fifth was made while Harris and Peck were turning a force play at second. Then Sisler lined one right over the first base line. Judge made a great stab to knock it down and turn it into the final one, and the game was over.\n\nJonnard presented the Nationals with two runs in the first after the Browns had gone down in order in their half on infield rollers. Claud walked five men, forcing two tallies over. Had he gotten the ball somewhere near the plate, it might have been different, for the only three Nats who hit the ball got easy outs.\n\nSt. Louis again went down in order in the second, while Jonnard seemed to have gotten his bearings, and the only Nat seeing base life was Stan Harris, as a result of his double to deep left.\n\nWith one down in the third, the Brownies got two men on the sacks, but both were left. Bluege made a great one-handed stop of Dixon’s hot roller, but pegged badly to first. Jonnard then coaxed a walk, but who beat H. Rice and Durst could do was to loft to the outfield.\n\nThe Nats used their half to coin another run. Judge’s single and Peck’s walk put two on, and Rueb’s Texas Leaguer into left scored the first of this pair.\n\n### Lamotte’s Error Costly.\n\nIt was three up and three down for the Sislerites in round 4. Then they helped the home folks make two more runs. McNeely led off with a single to right and went to third on Harris’ safe bunt, which Jonnard booted all around. He scored while Sisler was making a great diving catch to rob Sam Rice of a safety. After Lamotte had fumbled Judge’s roller for what would have been the third out, Bluege singled, his manager home. Williams made an error on this blow, but it did no harm.\n\nThe Browns threatened mildly in the fifth, when Lamotte walked Schang, up for Jonnard, touched Ruether for the first alien hit, a single to center, which propelled Bobby to third. Two were gone at the time, however, and the bubs burst when H. Rice lined to McNeely.\n\nIn Washington’s turn, Ruether singled with one on and held, and McNeely then hit into a snappy double play, pulled off by Sisler. H. Rice and Slater Vangilder was on the hill for the Browns in this inning, having taken up Jonnard’s burden.\n\n### Washington Six Ahead.\n\nThe Harrismen became six up in the sixth after the visitors had gone down in quick order in their turn at the tee. Harris coaxed a pass as a batter, took second on Sam Rice’s out and dented the dish when Goslin missed to right.\n\nIn the seventh, the only men to get on the sacks were Ruel, who doubled, and Ruether who walked, but both were left, the Browns having gone out one, two, three.\n\nDixon piled one up off the eighth with a one hot to left and after the next two had flied out, Durst lined to the same territory, but Ruether had little trouble disposing of Sisler to make three singles no good. Rice walked in the lower half but died headling.\n\nThen came the Browns’ great rally in the ninth that all but turned defeat into victory.\n\nBox score from Washington’s 6–5 victory over the Browns, a game marked by wild pitching, defensive miscues, and a late St. Louis rally cut short in the ninth.\n\n* * *\n\n1926 La Palina cigar advertisement promoting “mild” Havana cigars, published by the Peter Hauptmann Tobacco Co. at 500 North Fourth Street in St. Louis.\n\n* * *\n\n## ATHLETICS WIN 8TH STRAIGHT, BEAT SOX, 6–2\n\n### Galloway’s Triple with Three On in Fourth Drives Faber from Mound—Grove Fans Eleven.\n\n**By Associated Press.**\n\nPHILADELPHIA, PA., May 11.—The Athletics ran their winning streak to eight games today, taking the first in their series with Chicago by a score of 6 to 2.\n\n“Lefty” Grove hung up his fourth triumph of the season and fanned eleven of the White Sox. Triples by Simmons and Galloway, the latter’s with the bases full in the fourth, accounted for the five runs that drove Faber from the box.\n\nBox score from the Athletics’ 6–2 victory over the White Sox as Lefty Grove struck out eleven and Philadelphia stretched its winning streak to eight games.\n\n* * *\n\n## BUCS POUND 3 PHIL PITCHERS TO WIN, 11 TO 1\n\n### McInnis and Cuyler, with Three Hits Each, Lead Pirate Attack — Kremer Holds Quakers.\n\n**By Associated Press.**\n\nPITTSBURGH, PA., May 11.—The Pirates won the opening game with Philadelphia today by staging a vicious attack on Mitchell in the second inning and keeping it up against a pair of relief hurlers. The final count was 11 to 1. The Pirates were greatly supported to Ray Kremer, who was just off the injured list. A triple by Kiki Cuyler drove Mitchell to the showers and Pearce was sent in, but he did not stop the hitting. Johnny McGraw’s 18-year-old rookie finished the game. McInnis and Cuyler each had three hits.\n\nBox score from Pittsburgh’s 11–1 rout of Philadelphia as Kiki Cuyler and Stuffy McInnis powered the Pirates’ fifteen-hit attack.",
  "title": "Cardinals Rally Past Giants While Browns Collapse in Washington",
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