CUBS WIN WILD 11-INNING SLUGGING BEE, 10 TO 9 Chicago Crowd Sees Clubs Pound Out 31 Hits In Free-Hitting Battle —

CUBS WIN WILD 11-INNING SLUGGING BEE, 10 TO 9

Chicago Crowd Sees Clubs Pound Out 31 Hits In Free-Hitting Battle — Hornsby Drives Hard Attack — Cubs Finally Break Tie In Eleventh

The Cardinals battered Chicago pitching for 16 hits Friday afternoon at Cubs Park and still came off beaten after the Cubs finally shoved across the deciding tally in the eleventh inning to capture a wild 10 to 9 struggle.

The defeat gave the Cardinals two straight losses in Chicago and dropped the St. Louis club another notch in the early National League fight after one of the loosest slugging battles seen on the North Side this young season.

Both clubs hit savagely from the opening inning.

By the time the fight finally ended in the eleventh, the two teams had piled up 31 hits between them while four Cardinal pitchers and five Chicago hurlers struggled to halt the wreckage.

Percy Jones captured the victory for Chicago after relief work in the late innings while Art Reinhart was charged with the defeat when the Cubs broke the deadlock in the eleventh inning.

The Cardinals hammered Chicago pitching all afternoon behind another fierce batting performance from Rogers Hornsby’s club.

Rogers Hornsby again drove the Cardinal attack and figured heavily in the St. Louis scoring drives while the middle of the batting order repeatedly tore gaps into Chicago pitching.

The Cardinals fought from behind more than once and repeatedly clawed even as the afternoon turned into a long-distance slugging match.

Chicago answered nearly every St. Louis uprising with another attack of its own.

The Cubs drove hard at Cardinal pitching through the middle innings and kept traffic crowding the bases nearly the entire afternoon.

Neither club could hold a lead safely.

The Cardinals drove back into the fight repeatedly with timely hitting and extra-base blows while Chicago answered with rallies of its own before the game finally drifted into extra innings deadlocked.

The clubs entered the eleventh inning still fighting even.

Then Chicago finally ended it.

The Cubs opened the final inning attack against Reinhart and forced across the winning tally to end the long afternoon struggle and send the Cardinals down to another bitter defeat.

St. Louis finished the afternoon with 16 hits but could not overcome the constant Chicago answering rallies and the heavy strain placed upon the Cardinal pitching staff throughout the contest.

Chicago finished with 15 hits of its own.

The final figures:

Jones received credit for the victory.

Reinhart suffered the defeat.

The clubs continue the series Saturday with the Cardinals now desperate to halt the Chicago drive after dropping the first two games of the series in bruising fashion.

— Mike Allen- Bird Chatter Post