The St. Louis Republic., 1900-07-12
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
+. DE Haas Robson Talks About His
Team-Ininrics the uandIcaP.

F. De Hass Robson, president of the St
Louis Baseball Club, arrived from the East
yesterday. Like his es;imable brother. Mr..
Robson is a good loser. hilarious man
in victory he Is even-tempered and amia BILE
in defeat. IL he has been disappointed by
the work OF his very expensive team he
worked so hard and spent SO much money
admit II. Last winter Mr.. Robson spent
s25,1lo and two months TO get together a club
which looked like a pennant winner and
which is now in sixth place, below cheap
clubs like Cincinnati, Chicago and Phiiadel-
phia- Some of the players ne cast on. sold
priced stars, his pennant winners, are play
ing with teams far above him In the race,
vide Cross. Quinn. Chlids, Zimmer and
O'Connor These men, who were not good
enough for st. Louis, are helping other
teams wipe the earth with the club they did
not class high enough Tor. But the genial.
even-tempered MIR. Robson would not ad-
'The boys have had hard fortune" he
said They have been In injured right & along.
tire team in the game-that Is. our team as
it should be. Heidrick has been out. Dono-
van. Donlin, Wallace. McGraw and Keister.
Burkett and Mctiann are the only men who
have been right there all the time. OF course
We had good substitutes Tor these men. but
even the substitutes got hurt when their
stars were injured. as did Donlin when Held
rick gave way.
Even now the team has as good a
chance as any IL some one will only throw
Brooklyn down few games. We are in
with the Others but brooklyn is very
long way i'm front. and unless some one
heads IL off for a series OF games L fear
the race will be over by August 10
Asked IL he was not disappointed with the
work OF the team; IL he did not think that.
injuries and all taken into consideration. IL
should have done better. Mr.. Robson ad
mitted that the club had. of course, disap-
pointed him. or rather that results had
been disappointing, but reverted to the in
jured list 20 explain the low status of the
great individual team he possesses.
Mr.. Robson should not own winning
team. He deserves 10 own IL, and tried to
own Il. But ne is such game and gallant
loser that il would be very great pity
that SO good a loser should not have full
chance TO exercise I'm It's plentude his
great virtue of losing easily.
Mr. Robson and Mr.. Selee of Boston
stood In the stand looking at the game Mr..
Selee was bewailing his clubs hard luck or
Robson who WAS not wailing. But both
gentlemen agreed on one thing-that this
years Brooklyn club was the eighth Won
der of the world.
Il saw them play St. Louis in Brooklyn"
said Mr. RohisoD Il never saw a club work
so well together II was marvellous"
I'VE had them beaten four games in Bos-
ton, said Mr.. Seelee, yet they beat us
made mistake that they did not take In
stant and effective advantage of. Never nj
my life have I seen such a club to keep
opponents from scoring Many times in our
bases full and no one out, a man on sec
ond and no one out. man on third and nc
one out. or one out. or any possible stua-
ton you can imagine that should produce
Not only that You could be killing their
pitcher until the bases got full and maybe
a run or so in. Then, when you felt s,,Ire
that 1t was a case OF five or six runs sl