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  "description": "The Giants edged Cincinnati behind Jimmy Ring, the Yankees beat St. Louis without Babe Ruth as Tony Lazzeri homered, Jim Bottomley powered the Cardinals past Brooklyn, and Grover Cleveland Alexander was suspended by the Cubs in a busy day across baseball on June 16, 1926.",
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  "tags": [
    "Jimmy Ring",
    "Kent Greenfield",
    "Carl Mays",
    "Frankie Frisch",
    "Hughie Critz",
    "Irish Meusel",
    "Frank Snyder",
    "Heinie Mueller",
    "Ray Blades Southworth",
    "Joe Connell",
    "Ross Youngs",
    "Freddie Lindstrom",
    "George Kelly",
    "Edd Roush",
    "Rube Bressler",
    "Babe Ruth",
    "Urban Shocker",
    "Tony Lazzeri",
    "Mark Koenig",
    "Harry Rice",
    "Milt Gaston",
    "Andy High",
    "Earle Combs",
    "Pat Collins",
    "Bob Meusel",
    "Joe Dugan",
    "Miller Huggins",
    "Roy Carlyle",
    "Boston Red Sox",
    "George Sisler",
    "Baby Doll Jacobson",
    "Philadelphia Athletics",
    "Bing Miller",
    "Jim Bottomley",
    "St. Louis Cardinals",
    "Chicago Cubs",
    "Taylor Douthit",
    "Ray Blades",
    "Bill Sherdel",
    "Dazzy Vance",
    "Grover Cleveland Alexander",
    "Joe McCarthy"
  ],
  "textContent": "Content from the Wednesday June 16, 1926 NY Daily News\n\n## In This Edition\n\n  * S'Matter? Giants Again Step on Reds!\n  * Ruthless Yanks Take St. Louis Browns, 61\n  * Another Outfielder for Yanks\n  * Jim Bottomley's Mace and Sherdel's Arm Beat Robins\n  * Alexander Gets Suspension from Cubs for Drunk\n  * Baseball Summary\n  * National League Standings\n  * American League Standings\n  * Advertisements from June 1926\n\n\n\n## S'MATTER? GIANTS AGAIN STEP ON REDS!\n\n### RING GIVES ONLY 3 HITS AS HOME BOYS WIN, 3 TO 2\n\n _By WILL MURPHY._\n\nAmong the curious things which happened at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon, one stands out.\n\nPortraits of Giants pitcher Jimmy Ring and newcomer Heinie Mueller, whose pinch-hit single drove in the tying run during New York's 3–2 victory over Cincinnati on June 15, 1926.\n\nThe Giants beat the Reds for the third straight time. The score was 3 to 2, and our lads made their winning counters on nine hits, while the economical Reds counted twice on a measly three hits.\n\nThis sounds as though much good pitching was on view, and the implication is correct. Jimmy Ring held the Redlegs to three hits in seven innings and Kent Greenfield did not allow any in his two rounds after a pinch hitter had edged Jimmy out of the game. Carl Mays went the distance for the Reds.\n\nThe Reds have now lost nine out of their last twelve games and are pining for the friendly shelter of Zinzinnati.\n\nThe McGraws came from behind twice to tie the score and then knocked in the decisive run, all at the rate of one tally per inning for the last three rounds.\n\nFrankie Frisch's hit, Hughie Critz's error and Irish Meusel's sacrifice fly gave New York one in the sixth.\n\nIn the seventh Frank Snyder tripled—his third hit. Pinch hitter Heinie Mueller, acquired overnight in the Ray Blades Southworth swap with the Cards, fetched in the tying run with a single, while Joe Connell, another newcomer, who was pinch running, stepped across the plate with the tying run.\n\nSingles by Ross Youngs and Freddie Lindstrom, an intentional pass to Meusel and George Kelly's long fly scored the winning run in the eighth.\n\nThe Reds counted in the fourth on hits by Edd Roush and Rube Bressler's fly, and again in the seventh on Roush's triple and another Bressler sacrifice boost.\n\nPatrick Cardinal O'Donnell, primate of Ireland, viewed the game from a box. A shower in the second inning drove the cardinal and his party to sheltered seats.\n\n**Baltimore, June 15.—** In Pitcher Al Smith, signed yesterday, the Giants acquire a collegian with previous professional experience. Smith comes from Villanova College and attended the University of Pittsburgh. Playing under the name of Al Kendricks, Smith pitched two seasons for Hagerstown of the Blue Ridge League. He is credited with pitching the team to a pennant last season.\n\nBox score from the Giants' 3–2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds on June 15, 1926, highlighted by Jimmy Ring's strong pitching and Frank Snyder's three-hit performance.\n\n* * *\n\n## RUTHLESS YANKS TAKE ST. LOUIS BROWNS, 6–1\n\n### LAZZERI'S HOMER, WITH BOB MEUSEL ON, LETHAL BLOW\n\n _By MARSHALL HUNT._\n\n**St. Louis, June 15.** —Without the great protagonist of baseball, its hero, its harlequin—Babe Ruth—your Yankees managed to struggle along this afternoon in their final game with the St. Louis Browns.\n\nIt was discovered that the services of the Bambino, resting his weary legs for a day, were not needed. The Yankees succeeded in getting an even break in the series by winning today by a score of 6 to 1.\n\nThere are substitutes for the Babe, after all.\n\nOne, today, for instance, was Urban Shocker, the Yanks' spitball pitcher, who held the Browns to only five hits and perhaps would have enjoyed a shutout had not a comrade erred.\n\nToo, there was Signor Tony Lazzeri, who ably filled in as home run hitter and practically assured the—\n\nUrban Shocker and Tony Lazzeri starred in the Yankees' 6–1 victory over the Browns on June 15, 1926, with Shocker limiting St. Louis to five hits and Lazzeri delivering a decisive home run.\n\nDue to the errancy of Mark Koenig, the Browns got that run in the first inning. Master Koenig fumbled Harry Rice's grounder.\n\nSignor Lazzeri plastered so much impetus on one of Milt Gaston's throws that the ball rattled about the benches in the right field pavilion, and then there were three New York runs. No. 7 for our Tony!\n\nAn error by Andy High in the sixth on Earle Combs's grounder enabled Pat Collins to score. Bob Meusel drew a pass in the seventh, Lazzeri sacrificed, and Joe Dugan singled for the Yanks' fifth run.\n\nMeusel and Lazzeri singled in the ninth and Dugan sacrificed for a neat squeeze play, Meusel scoring with the Yanks' last run.\n\nBox score from the Yankees' 6–1 win over the St. Louis Browns, highlighted by Tony Lazzeri's home run, Urban Shocker's strong pitching, and New York's nine-hit attack.\n\n### Another Outfielder For Yanks\n\n**St. Louis, June 15.** —Before the Yankees-Browns game today, Manager Miller Huggins announced that the Yankees had obtained Roy Carlyle, outfielder, from the Boston Red Sox, on waivers.\n\nAt the same time, Manager George Sisler of the Browns announced that Baby Doll Jacobson, outfielder, had been traded to the Philadelphia Athletics for Bing Miller, also an outfielder.\n\n* * *\n\n## JIM BOTTOMLEY'S MACE AND SHERDEL'S ARM BEAT ROBINS\n\n### Dazzy Vance Fans Nine, But Loses.\n\n_By CHARLES HOERTER._\n\nOne Jim Bottomley, a long, lean left hander, practically single handed sent the Dodgers down to defeat at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 to 0, at Ebbets Field yesterday. As a result of their defeat the Dodgers lost a fine chance to move into the first division as the Chicago Cubs lost to the Phillies.\n\nBox score from the St. Louis Cardinals' 4–0 shutout of the Brooklyn Robins on June 15, 1926, featuring Bill Sherdel's five-hit pitching and Jim Bottomley's home run.\n\nAlthough Bottomley's deeds were many, his greatest feats were accomplished with his bat. In the sixth inning, for instance, with his team leading by one run, he poked his tenth homer of the season over the right field wall, scoring Taylor Douthit, who had walked.\n\nIn the eighth he rammed a single to right, scoring Ray Blades, who had singled. Outside of his batting and fielding, Mr. Bottomley did nothing at all to startle the patrons.\n\nAnother left hander, Bill Sherdel, a pint-sized pitcher, permitted the Dodgers five measly hits, scattered like a crowd at Ebbets Field on a rainy day and only two of the five were legitimate bingles.\n\nNone other than Dazzy Vance was forced to suffer defeat at the hands of Messrs. Bottomley and Sherdel. It was really a shame that Dazzy had to hurl against Sherdel at his best, but then it's all in the game.\n\nDazzy remained on the mound only seven innings, being removed for a pinch hitter. He continued his remarkable strikeout performances, fanning nine batters.\n\nOnly four hits were made off Vance, but three of them were put to good use by the Cardinals.\n\nBrooklyn ace Dazzy Vance struck out nine Cardinals but was outdueled by Bill Sherdel in a 4–0 loss to St. Louis on June 15, 1926.\n\n* * *\n\n## **ALEXANDER GETS SUSPENSION FROM CUBS FOR DRUNK**\n\n _Philadelphia, Pa., June 15._ — Grover Cleveland Alexander, veteran pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, tonight was indefinitely suspended by Manager Joe McCarthy for breaking training rules, following his appearance at the Phillies' ball park this afternoon intoxicated.\n\n\"Alexander has been bothered by a sore arm,\" McCarthy said, \"and he cannot hope to cure it by such actions, besides it is the sixth time it has happened in the last few days and doesn't fit in with my idea of a player's conduct.\"\n\n* * *\n\n# Baseball Summary\n\n### NATIONAL LEAGUE.\n\n#### STANDING.\n\n****| **W.**| **L.**| **Pc.**| ****| **W.**| **L.**| **Pc.**\n---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---\nCincinnati| 31| 24| .564| New York| 28| 28| .500\nP’tsburgh| 28| 22| .560| Brooklyn| 26| 26| .500\nSt. Louis| 30| 26| .536| Boston| 22| 28| .440\nChicago| 27| 26| .509| Phil’phia| 20| 32| .385\n\n#### YESTERDAY’S RESULTS.\n\n> NEW YORK 3, Cincinnati 2.\n>\n> St. Louis 4, BROOKLYN 0.\n>\n> Philadelphia 8, Chicago 1.\n>\n> Pittsburgh at Boston postponed; wet grounds.\n\n#### TODAY’S GAMES.\n\n> Cincinnati at NEW YORK.\n>\n> St. Louis at BROOKLYN.\n>\n> Pittsburgh at Boston.\n>\n> Chicago at Philadelphia.\n\n### AMERICAN LEAGUE.\n\n#### STANDING.\n\n****| **W.**| **L.**| **Pc.**| ****| **W.**| **L.**| **Pc.**\n---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---\nNew York| 41| 16| .719| Wash’ton| 27| 27| .500\nChicago| 31| 26| .544| Detroit| 29| 30| .492\nPhil’phia| 32| 27| .542| St. Louis| 22| 36| .379\nCleve’nd| 31| 27| .534| Boston| 15| 40| .273\n\n#### YESTERDAY’S RESULTS.\n\n> NEW YORK 6, St. Louis 1.\n>\n> Philadelphia 5, Cleveland 0.\n>\n> Chicago 4, Washington 1.\n>\n> Detroit 7, Boston 6.\n\n#### TODAY’S GAMES.\n\n> Washington at Chicago.\n>\n> Other teams not scheduled.\n\n* * *\n\n## ADVERTISEMENTS\n\nA 1926 Admiration Cigars advertisement uses a jungle bear mascot to suggest that discerning smokers prefer the brand's mild flavor and pleasing aroma.Bell-ans promoted fast relief from indigestion and stomach discomfort in this 1926 newspaper advertisement aimed at everyday digestive ailments.Cuticura Soap and Ointment were marketed in 1926 as a preventative treatment for pimples and irritated skin.",
  "title": "Giants, Yankees and Cardinals Roll as June Pennant Races Tighten",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-16T12:53:52.688Z"
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