The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-09

Joustt Meekin. the premier pitcher of the
great New York Club of 1884. had very
bad hour. probably the last he will ever
spend in the National League. In s.. Louis
yesterday. In five innings ne was hit hard
and safely twelve times. OF these drives
Wallace and Donovan secured triples, keis
ter and Donovan doubles. and Burkctt
home run. Burkett, McGaun. Donovan and
Young secured singles each. while Criger
and Sudhoff made two singles. Then Meek
in gave four bases on balls and made two
wild pitches. All OF which gave the 81.
Louis team fourteen runs. In the sixth
inning. Tom McCreery. an outfieldcr. sue
ceeded Meekin. He was hit safely hut
| thrice in the three innings he pitched. but
Burkett and Mccain swiped homers and
Wallace sandwiched in a single These
three hits gave 81. Louis three runs in the
seventh inning. making the final score Il
10 ;. by all means the largest score made
| by the club this season.
Young was very fast aad effective. The
only runs made of him came IN the sixth
inning, when Clarke ST Eird, Beaumont
doubled and Williams singled. making three
runs. The Pirates secured but min. hits of
Cyrus and were at no time dangerous for
St. Louis made enough runs In the first
three innings TO win two ordinary games
LINZ the Slols.t. t!tIS III the SG4lHk pond
it was death To- Na.kin II IL was fun to
the crowd. The big pitcher who once had
speed the like of which has never been
seen in tie arm al man, was having his
last trial in the National League. III had
neither speed command. curve, slow nor
change of pace. PittSburg has been nurs-
ing him all season hopin" that he would
do well. Manager Clarke deliberately
threw away a game yesterday that he had
chance Of winning. to give Meekin fair
trial
Those who saw the big Ohioan Siaught-
cred could not help rever ing TO the days
of 1894 when he and Rus.e pitched every
otter game in that phehomenal squirt Wn.cn
eiGhth TO second position in a month.
Then Meekin had the greatest speed That
ever crossed a Plate pa HSTer a ai"" IAN
curve, his speed was his all New he has
lost that. Tile ball which he once whizzvd
across big as pea lOafsI up as large
as the toy balloons which float about the
city skies these fair nights. Poor Meekn.
II was not that St. Louis made 50 many
ouertially and when needed. Very few
games have been played by the team in
which it did not make close 10 a. many
hits as il did yesterday. In very few
games. however. has the club hit 50 hard
and so well. one man after another. This
inability (" go up and crack il out in Sc
quence has cost the team many games
Yesterday the men just raped IT one
after the other. 1t may be an omen OF
pitching and NcCreery is an Outivlder. bIIt
the hitting good gust the same.
BuIkett did some great rappinS with 4
new bat. He dashed out two terrific drives
for complete circle of the bases. His first
WAS clipps. over third base ana rolled along
the stands. The second homer was Il drive
to left center that rolled under the bulletin
board. Then he threw in single .Ur good
MEASURE and hunched his batting figures be-
yond the go mark.
McGanns hon.-run drive was a fearful
iofteT to left center. which carried beyon.
the mark Of the Old race track, and al
most hit the bulletin board on the FIRST
bound.
Donovan was in the game strongly with
a double, triple and single. Patruecio
is hitting them as he did in the spri.is. He
also made nice catch Of line fly from,
Schriver's bat.
In addition to getting three hits Wallace
put up a remarkably fine gam 81 short
His catch, shift and putcut Of Schrlver on
McCjann's wild throw in the seventh inning
was beyond praise. Ely hit hard to Me-
Gam. who hurried the throw to second. 1t
was very high and Schrivtr was close to the
bag. Wallace leapad high in air got rha
ball I'm his glove. switched IL To tho other
hand as he came down and touched the
runner. truly rema hable play. But ne
makes that kind every day. The official
score: