The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-28
WRITTEN For TIE SUNDAY REPrRLrc

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
Not even the most persistent ''knocker'
can allege with any truthiulness that the
Cardinals have not played q great uphill
game during the past week. Beginning last
Sunday with the solitary Cincinnati game
the locals certainly have been playing the
game. When 1t Is considered that up to
Friday the mercury daily made strenuous
efforts to leap out of the tube, and that the
Cardinals were handicapped by the loss OF
EeidriclS, the off days Of Powell and Har-
per. and the loss of Dick Padden in Thurs
days and Fridays games, it must be ad-
mitted even by the most pessimistic that
the club has worked hard whether victory
or defeat was the result, and 1t de-
serves applause for the sort of grit which
causes a man burning up with heat TO
finish out q game when he should be or
namentlng bench or even 4 hospital cot.
Then. again, the locals were given a
hard battle by the Remnants all the way
through. The disciples of LOTUS always
were a hoodoo to the Donovantes. Many
Of the wise" ones predicted that Chicago
would take two, and possibly three, Of the
games OF the series. This presumption was
based more than anything else on the fact
that former st. Louis clubs had n peculiar
LAluLk Oh IQe tQ--llGleTS camp
and at the same time allowing a team near
the bottom to everlastingly slug them. How
ever, It must be remembered that baseball
advances with other things. This Is the first
year OF New st. LOUIS and We have 4
team OF ball players attached to the town
now.
When one thinks OF the Illness distributed
In the camp Of Donovan since the Societies
did their famous mesmerizing act ten days
age. 1t Is interesting to observe the progress
the team has made in the face of difficult
ties. First there was Eddie Murphy. usu-
ally q consistent performer. In the second
game of the New Boston series, Murphy, a
sick man when he went to the rubber, was
forced to retire in favor Of Sudhoff. Then
in tho Saturday game with Boston, Harper
was unable to go the pace and retired in
favor of Sudhon. Again in the first game
OF the series with Chicago, Powell suffered
q collapse, and again it was little Sudhofi
who filed out and won the game. Padder
was kept out Of Thursdays game by a bad
ly sprained thumb and Jack Ryan covered
the second bag Heidrick. called away by
the death of his father, left a gap which
Nichols filled acceptably. as far as fielding
went, but J. Emmett was sadly missed 10y
the sluggera Considering all these mis-
fortunes and the none too good condition o
Donovan and MCCAIN during the first %
the week, the locals should be given thei
full measure OF encouragement. and. with
the thermometer trying to reach Ito, as 4
did on several occasions last week. all er
ror1 made can be excused.
In the eighth inning Of fridays gam
with Pttts0urg, Hans Wagner. the thir'
saclmAn OF the Smoky Cityites. duplicate;
performance for which he was roundl
Kissed at Brooklyn last week. when Pitts
burg was battling with the superbas. Wag
ner gathered in hot one from the bat Q
Donovan and threw wild to Bransfield, al
lowing Donovan to scoot around to third
At Brooklyn q similar error on the part Q
Wagner gave Brooklyn the game.
Al q base-runninG aggregation probabl
wofse lot never were in one bunch tina
make up the present New York team. 1t
not because the men are especially slow
for. with the exception Of Cancel Hickman
8oWe6mAn. Warner and Mathewson. the
can cover ground fast enough. but becaus
thay have neither judgment nor the abilit
20 start properly.
Elys les made itself felt In IN iadire,