The morning times., 1896-06-13
DIAMOND DUST.
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SILVER made a neat hunt in the ninth.
1t looks as if tile Browns were out
classed.
Tom Brown retired tile visitors in the
fifth by capturing three flies to center.
SILVER got his first strikeout in the
sixth. Catcher Mcfarland being the victim.
This will be the last chance to see the
Browns and BreiteDsteiD until next fall
The Pbill!es have quit shooting the
chute" and TUNED the boat over to Patsy.
Spiders.
Capt CoBnor will try hard to win totay's
game and will send the mighty Bretensten
to the box.
Bert Meyers is a natural hitter and is
sure to crawl over the 800 mark in the
league averages.
Herr Breitenstein. lie of the crafty south
paw. watched the uneven contest from
the st. Louis bench.
The Browns played careless. listless
game from the start and well deserved the
trouDcing they got
The Senators were full of snap and ginger
and contrasted most pieasingly with the
slow, sleepy st. LouisaBs.
Tommy Dowd scored the first run fo-
the Browns on a two-bagger, a passed
ball and PARROTS fly-out to center.
Gentlemanly Joe Quinn is us steady and
reliable rs ever at second. Joe is one of
the most respected players in the profession.
Selbach made one of his sensational
ruDning Z catches in the sixth. and incidently
remarked I've got it, us he grabbed the
ball.
'.Tacks'' Parrott must have bis yellow
clarioDctte on the trip. Theatrical folk
claim that such u thing is the worst sort of
Jonah.
In the Sixth Hart and Parrott ex-
changed places. "Tacky Tom Jared but
little better in the box and was as wild
as rabbit.
Big Bill Knorr of the New York World
says the COlonels IRE cherry pie. Then the
Browns are mush, puddin' and tapioca all
mixed together.
''Old Reliable Jim" made a great catch
OF Cross foul fly in the second. Jim
squeezed the high twister gainst the grand
stand after hard run.
The st. Louis club appears to be in
need OF few pitchers, oatchers and in-
fielders and outfielders With these ad-
dit:ons they will be all right.
Yesterday was observed as Flag Day
by the pupils of the public schools and m;Iny
OF the pretty misses had Old Glory in their
hats or pinned on their dresses.
When DeMontreville and Rogers were
on the coaching lines i'll the fourth inning
a veteran patron of the game said. There
is the best pair of youngsters in the
League"
Bert Meyers has way of momentarily
fumbling ball. but he can do that and
then get the ball to first ahead of the
average runner, SO fast and true is his
throwing.
The fifth was woeful for the Browns.
Thirteen Senators went to bat in the
inning made six singles and a homer and
scored eight runs. II was very fruitful
turn for Joyce's men.
"a penny for your thoughts. Murphy"
said a roOtcr To the st. Louis catcher.
who was stretched out oD the sward watch
ing the game. Il am glad to say" replied
Morgan. that it is not my day to think
Johnny Doyle, who usually catches all
the fouls that fly up TO the press box,
made an error ON his only chance yester-
day. But the ball took an ugly twist
misplay was very excusable.
A dyed-in- the-wool suggests that The
Times chapel make a practice OF giving
presents to the pitchers OF opposing teams
He reasons that the gold-headed cane
presented Hart jonahed him and his club
and made victory easy for the Senators
Tommy Dowd, than whom no more
popular player visits National Park Lad
fun with the boys in the press box in the
third inning. Tommy fOGled NO less than
a half dozen balls at the brainery and
had the gang jumping and lodging at 4
most lively rate.
play took place in the sixth that
puzzled great many people who wit
messed the game. DeMontreville was un
second, King OH first, and Tom Brown at
The ball just did Craze Tim, but Joyce,
who was watching close, as he always
does, from the third base cuach line, saw
the ball strike and called to DeMoDtreviIle
and King TO move up base each They
accordingly walked To third md second
respectively. willie Catcher Mcfarland
waited on them, with the bah iD hand.