Reds Deepen Giants’ Misery as Babe Ruth Waits Out the Rain — Baseball News from May 17, 1926

Articles from the NY Daily News - Monday, May 17, 1926

In This Edition

• Reds Again Sock Reeling Giants, 3–2
• Giant Pilot Shoots S O S To Andy Cohen
• Yanks and Whippets Halted by Weather
• Rain Queers Robin-Pirate Party Here

REDS AGAIN SOCK REELING GIANTS, 3-2

JACK SCOTT AND YOUNG AL MOORE BLOW TOGETHER Third straight defeat in this town, too By WILL MURPHY.

Cincinnati, O., May 16.—More gloom. The Giants lost again this afternoon to the Reds, 3 to 2.

Jack Scott and Al Moore: Their slips in the eighth inning gave the Reds a 3 to 2 victory over the Giants.

It was one of those pitching arguments, in which Jack Scott had the better of Adolfo Luque for seven innings. But in the eighth, John went blooie, though young Al Moore assisted slightly.

Giants were leading, 2 to 1, at the time, having ground out their runs by keen footwork and opportune hitting. Bubbles Hargrave and Pinch-hitter Christensen opened up on Scotty with base hits in that eighth. Jack hadn't given but three up to then.

Promptly came another pinch-hitter, Red Lucas. This one lined a drive to center that Moore misjudged, coming in a few steps instead of legging for the fence. It sailed above his desperate glove and went for a triple. Two runs and, as the small children sing in St. Louis, "There goes your ball game."

The first Cincy run was a bit flaky. Wally Pipp, your old friend from 161st st., hit one to left in the second inning that lit fair and then hopped across the foul line into the temporary seats. It had to be a homer under the rules.

Our lads hopped on to Luque with destructive intent in the first round. Frankie Frisch singled, stole second and scored on Billy Southworth's Texas leaguer to left, which jumped away from Rube Bressler for a triple.

The younger set of Giants made a run all by themselves in the seventh. After two were out, Les Mann walked, stole second and hurt his ankle. Mel Ott ran for him and scored on Eddie Farrell's solid double.

The start of the game saw Irish Meusel on the bench. He hasn't been hitting.

The Reds park was jammed by an overflow crowd of over 30,000. Giants have lost eight out of eleven games in the west so far. Jimmy Ring or Virgil Barnes will pitch tomorrow against Carl Mays or Pete Donohue.

Giant Pilot Shoots S O S To Andy Cohen.

Cincinnati, May 16.—Andy Cohen, young Jewish shortstop of the Waco, Texas, club, has been sent for by the Giants and will report to Manager John McGraw here on Tuesday. Cohen was already the property of the New York club, but was not to be delivered until the end of the Texas season. Recent defeats of the Giants and Travis Jackson's injury decided McGraw to call out the reserves.

Pitcher Tim McNamara was sent to Toledo today on option. Travis Jackson left for New York today to rest and have his injured knee treated. MURPHY.

YANKS AND WHIPPETS HALTED BY WEATHER

Feature Hound Race Put Off Till Next Sunday.

By MARSHALL HUNT.

His regular Sabbath assignment, a Yankee baseball game, thwarted rudely by the roguish elements yesterday, your correspondent retraced an oozy route across Harlem to the Polo grounds.

Bob Shawkey and Urban Shocker: Hurler with ailing ankle and another who has lost teeth.

He discovered that the whippets are no more hardy than the baseball tribe and that the continuation of the International Dog carnival, too, had been postponed, few of the whippets evidencing the slightest willingness to scamper in the mire. The feature of the hound festival, the Empire State Whippet handicap, was to have been run, but that will be raced next Sunday when the carnival, a benefit for the American Woman's association, will be resumed at the Polo grounds.

The Yankees were intent upon extending their lead at the expense of the Chicago White Sox and it was with heart-rending sorrow that Cousin Ed Barrow, business manager of the Yankees, postponed the game.

The Yankees are magnetic these days and their magnetism is showing delightful tangible results on the company ledgers. There would have been a mammoth gallery in the stadium yesterday to superintend the batting progress of Babe Ruth, had the weather behaved.

The Yanks and Sox will try it again this afternoon. Not since 1921 has the Bambino been so much the fair haired boy of the community as he is today. Just a few more socks and the Babe will be neck and neck with his 1921 schedule.

In that season he hit his twelfth home run in the twenty-fifth game and it has taken him twenty-eight games to get a dozen this year. So far as dates are concerned, however, the Bam is now ahead, for it was not until May 17 of 1921 that he created No. 12.

There is some question as to the Yankee pitcher for today. It should be Bob Shawkey, but he has an ailing ankle and Urban Shocker has lost a row of teeth which will cause him discomfort for a time. Ted Lyons or Ted Blankenship probably will pitch for the White Sox.

RAIN QUEERS ROBIN-PIRATE PARTY HERE

ONE GAME STAND CALLED OFF TO ROBBIE'S GRIEF

By JACK FARRELL

A pall of gloom hung over the offices of the Brooklyn Baseball club at Ebbets field yesterday which couldn't be cut with a two-edged butcher knife. It was raining within and without.

Dazzy Vance and Burleigh Grimes: Robin hurlers who stayed in Pittsburgh.

Steve McKeever and your Uncle Wilbert Robinson were standing knee deep in a puddle of tears, and why not? Here they had gone to the trouble of bringing the Robins and Pirates all the way over from Pittsburgh to play a one-day stand and just when it appeared as though they would reap a golden harvest down comes the rain and spoils the whole party.

Loss a Big One.

So if one or two Brooklyn magnates die of a broken heart overnight or jump into the Gowanus canal you'll know the why and the wherefor. The loss of about 30,000 admissions is enough to make a mental wreck of any magnate.

Now the Robins must railroad right back to Pittsburgh to play the two remaining games of what was supposed to be a five-game series. The first game was rained out in the eighth inning with the score tied. On Saturday the Pirates nicked John McGraw for three hits, won 2 to 0, and bumped the Flatbush crew right out of first place.

Meet Reds Next.

At any rate the Robins will not wind up their road work until next Saturday, when they play the final of a four-game series with the Reds.

Jess Petty and Vic Aldridge, who were scheduled to do the pitching for both sides yesterday will get in their licks today if weather conditions are favorable.

The inability of Dazzy Vance to get into shape has caused a great deal of apprehension in the Robin camp. Dazzy was originally slated to take his turn yesterday, but when he developed a misery under his shoulder on Saturday your Uncle Wilbert left him behind in Pittsburgh along with Burleigh Grimes, Bob McGraw and a few others.