Rogers Hornsby Day Nears as Cardinals Battle Back Toward .500

Content from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Wednesday Morning, May 19, 1926

In This Edition

• Phils Open Five-Game Set With Cardinals Today
• Mayor Proclaims May 22 Hornsby Day
• Full-Blooded Indian to Catch for Branson
• Dan O'Neil, Famous Baseball Figure, Dead
• Negro Stars, Halted by Rain, Play Two Today
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PHILS OPEN FIVE-GAME SET WITH CARDINALS TODAY

Jess Haines or Arthur Reinhart in Line for Rogers Hornsby's Pitching Call—Final with Braves Is Washed Out by Rain.

Traveling as they were on the crest of a hitting streak which produced forty-four hits and thirty-three runs in three straight games, the Rampant Red Birds were sorry to be checked by yesterday's rain, but they could not help themselves, so the Braves got out of town with the final game deferred until a later date. The Philadelphia Quakers get in this morning, hoping they will receive better treatment than has been their lot on their Western trip to date.

The Phils come in this morning from Chicago for a five-game series. They meet the Cardinals on a rampage, for the Cards have won their last three straight games and five of their last seven. Last year, it will be recalled, the Phils did not defeat the Cardinals in St. Louis until the last Cardinal-Philadelphia game at Sportsmans Park, which Hal Carlson won by shutting out the Knot Holers.

Fighting for .500 Rating.

The Cardinals, at present, are fighting to return to the .500 class, which honor they relinquished weeks ago when they lost two out of three in Cincinnati and four straight in Chicago before losing two out of three to the Reds and three out of four to the Dodgers upon their return to Sportsmans Park.

To regain the .500 level, prior to their swing around the National League, starting May 26, the Cardinals must win six out of their remaining eight games at home this month. Of these eight games, five are with the Phils this week and three are with the Reds, starting next Monday.

For today's opening intersectional clash with the Phils, Manager Rogers Hornsby has in line either Jess Haines, his veteran righthander, or Arthur Reinhart, one of the best southpaws in the National League last season. Hornsby has not definitely decided upon employing either of these men, so it may develop that some other Cardinal hurler may get the assignment.

Phil Hurler Questionable.

Just which pitcher Manager Art Fletcher of the Phils will send against the Cardinals in the opening game is a question, although Wayland Dean, the righthander obtained from the Giants, is about due. Dean became a Quaker along with Jack Bentley in the deal last winter, which made a New York Giant out of Jimmy Ring.

The Phils at present are in seventh position with eleven victories and eighteen defeats, while the Cardinals are in fifth place, with fifteen victories and seventeen losses.

MAYOR PROCLAIMS MAY 22 HORNSBY DAY

In recognition of what Rogers Hornsby has done in placing St. Louis before the public eye, Mayor Victor Miller has proclaimed the coming Saturday as Rogers Hornsby Day. Saturday has been set aside as the day on which Hornsby will be presented with a diploma and $1000 for being voted the most valuable player in the National League in 1925. The presentation will be made by Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis at Sportsmans Park just prior to the game between the Cardinals and Philadelphia Nationals.

Incidentally, the Executive Committee of the Rogers Hornsby Day celebration has requested that the Municipal Athletic Association take part, so Jack Grosse, president of the association, has invited the Muny athletes to get in line with members of the Central Council in the parade to be held from Fairground Park to Sportsmans Park prior to Saturday's game.

Grosse has appointed Charles Pollock chairman of the Muny division and requests all Muny athletes who**** desire to participate to obtain their tickets at the Cardinals' downtown ticket offices.

Full-Blooded Indian to Catch for Branson

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE GLOBE-DEMOCRAT**.**

BRANSON, MO., May 18.—The Branson baseball club has secured the services of "Big Chief" Newasha to do the backstopping for the team this season in the White River League. "Big Chief" is a full-blooded Sackanfox Indian from Miami, Ok. He has a reputation of being a steady catcher, with several years' experience and a hard hitter. He has reported at Branson. Lefty Cahney, who will be one of the Branson pitchers, reported, and Carl Kentling, first baseman, and Keeton, infielder, has returned and will again hold down the third-base position. Manager Smith expects to turn out a winning team this season. The White River League opened May 16, with Crane playing at Branson and the Springfield Frisco Tigers at Aurora. Branson is making several improvements of the local ball park. The diamond has been graded and an addition built to the grandstand. The diamond will be one of the best in the league this season.

DAN O'NEIL, FAMOUS BASEBALL FIGURE, DEAD

Said to Have Caused Many New Rules and Brought Cubans Into Game.

By Associated Press. HOLYOKE, MASS., May 18.—Dan O'Neil, president of the Eastern Baseball League and a member of the National Board of Arbitration, died today. For years O'Neil was a picturesque figure in baseball, politics and light harness racing. He had been seriously ill a week. He is credited with being the cause of more baseball rules than any other figure in the game. He was successively player, captain, manager, owner and finally president of the league he founded. Once, in a desperate fight to win a pennant, he forced his club to play four games in one day—resulting in another rule. He came with his parents from Ireland in the 60s.

Negro Stars, Halted by Rain, Play Two Today

The fourth game between the St. Louis Stars and the Detroit Stars was called on account of rain yesterday at Stars Park after two and one-half innings of play. The local team was leading by a 5 to 2 score when the downpour arrived. Those teams will conclude the series with a double-header this afternoon with the first game at 2 o'clock.

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