REDBIRDS BELT BRAVES INTO ASH CAN.

RHEM GOES ROUTE, SWATS HOMER, AND CARDINALS HAMMER FOUR CIRCUIT CLOUTS IN 13-2 BOSTON PASTING

The Cardinals kept right on using the Boston Braves for batting drill Sunday afternoon and flattened the tail-end outfit, 13 to 2, behind Flint Rhem’s stout right arm and a full wagon-load of Redbird walloping.

Rhem did not merely pitch the ball game.

He helped wreck it.

The Cardinal slabman went the full route, held Boston to six safeties, fanned five, walked only one, and then stepped up with the stick to crack two hits, drive home three runs, and send one of St. Louis’ four circuit clouts sailing into the seats.

That is a fair afternoon’s work for any hired hand.

The Cardinals got busy in the first and never allowed the Braves to catch their breath. Ray Blades opened the racket with two hits on the day, scored twice, drove home one, tripled, and walloped a home run. Rogers Hornsby kept lashing the apple as though Boston pitching had personally insulted him, collecting three safeties, including two doubles, while crossing the platter twice.

Les Bell joined the bombing party with three hits, a double, a homer, two runs scored, and two runs batted in.

Bob O’Farrell also cracked a four-base blow and drove home a tally before Bill Warwick came in behind the bat.

Tommy Thevenow, swinging from the lower end of the card, punched three bingles and stole a sack.

Everywhere Boston looked, another Cardinal was standing with lumber in his fists.

The Braves sent Johnny Werts to the slab and watched him take the first beating. Werts lasted four innings, gave up five hits, four runs, two walks, and two Cardinal homers before the day started sliding out of his hands. Skinny Graham followed and found even rougher weather, being pounded for seven hits and six runs in only an inning and a third. Johnny Cooney finished the chore but could not stop the bleeding entirely.

St. Louis scored once in the first, twice in the second, once in the fourth, three times in the fifth, five times in the sixth, and once more in the eighth.

That sixth inning was the killing.

By then the Braves had already begun looking like a club hunting the depot, and the Cardinals poured five more counters across while Sportsman’s Park customers roared at every fresh bingle. The whole Boston defense looked stuck in soft clay as Redbird runners went tearing from station to station.

Boston managed its only two runs in the fifth.

Eddie Brown doubled and finished with two hits. Andy High supplied both Brave runs batted in with two safeties of his own. But that brief Boston stirring amounted to no more than a match flame in a rain barrel.

Rhem stamped it out.

After the fifth, the Braves were finished as a serious threat.

The Cardinals stole three sacks, with Heinie Mueller swiping two and Thevenow grabbing another. Mueller scored twice despite only one hit, while Jim Bottomley and Taylor Douthit each drove in a run. Douthit went hitless, but even his sacrifice work helped keep the machinery moving.

The afternoon was not spotless, for both clubs were charged with four errors, but Boston never had enough batting force to make the Cardinal miscues costly.

St. Louis finished with sixteen safeties and thirteen runs.

Boston finished with six hits and a long ride back to the hotel.

The victory lifted the Cardinals to 14 wins against 17 defeats and gave Hornsby’s club exactly what it needed after the Giants had cuffed them around earlier in the week: soft opposition, loud bats, and a route-going pitcher who wanted part of the batting parade himself.

For two straight days now, the Redbirds have found the Braves mighty agreeable company.

— Mike Allen, Bird Chatter Post