BELLS RING REDBIRDS BACK INTO WIN COLUMN, 3 TO 2 Les Bell’s Heavy Blows And Herman Bell’s Seven Scoreless Relief Innings Stop Reds At Sportsman’s Park — Huntzinger Hammered Early Before Cards Rally

The Bells were ringing all over Sportsman’s Park Tuesday afternoon.

Les Bell cracked the big blows that drove the Cardinals back into the fight while Herman Bell climbed out of the bullpen and choked Cincinnati cold for seven scoreless innings as the Redbirds finally stopped their losing slide with a tight 3 to 2 victory over the Reds.

After the savage Chicago beating and Monday’s rough loss to Eppa Rixey, the Cardinals badly needed steady pitching from somewhere.

Herman Bell gave it to them.

Herman Bell

Walt Huntzinger started for St. Louis but never looked right from the beginning. Cincinnati jumped on the Cardinal right-hander early and tagged him for 5 hits and 2 runs in the opening two innings while the Reds threatened to keep right on battering the exhausted St. Louis mound staff.

Huntzinger simply did not have his usual stuff.

The Reds were getting solid wood on him almost immediately and the Cardinals quickly had to start warming relief help.

Then Bell entered and changed the whole afternoon.

Working the final seven innings, the young right-hander held Cincinnati scoreless while allowing only 4 hits and striking out 3 men without handing out a walk.

Bell worked fast, kept the ball down, and finally gave the Cardinals the kind of cool steady pitching they had been begging for ever since the Chicago series started turning into a slaughter.

While Herman Bell was quieting Cincinnati, Les Bell went to work with the bat.

Les Bell

The Cardinal infielder delivered the hard blows that helped push St. Louis back in front and finished with 2 runs batted in during the afternoon fight.

Bob O’Farrell tripled during the Cardinal attack while doubles by Ray Blades, Heinie Mueller, and Chick Hafey kept pressure on Cincinnati pitcher Dolf Luque.

By the middle innings the whole game had changed direction.

What began looking like another long afternoon for the Cardinals slowly turned into the first steady ball game St. Louis had played since leaving Cincinnati for the disastrous Chicago trip.

The victory lifted the Cardinals to 9 victories against 11 defeats while Cincinnati slipped backward after letting the game get away once Bell settled onto the mound.

Duster Mailes

There was more movement around the Cardinals besides the standings.

Trying to shake life back into the battered club after the Chicago wreckage, the Cardinals released pitcher Duster Mails while catcher Walter Schmidt was optioned to Syracuse.

Young catcher Ernie Vick has been called up while the Cardinals also brought in the hard-throwing young left-hander Wild Bill Hallahan in hopes of giving fresh life to the worn pitching staff.

Ernie Vick

After the past week, fresh arms cannot arrive fast enough.

— Mike Allen, Bird Chatter Post