The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-18
LAST GAME WITH CHICAGO TODAY.
Pirates Come To-Morrow for Series of
Four Games.

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| The Remnants will make their last APP
pearance In ST. Louis this season at League
Park this afternoon. There Will be no IeaLs
from the other end Of the canal has certain,
ly proved q tough proposition; pitcher Ma
Eason. the Adonis Of the Windy Cityltes,
Harper may 20 In to win the last game Tor
| the locals 1t was not originally INTENDED
that Harper should be worked IN tne mi
cago series. but the two consecutive defeats
! of the resident aggregation by the Ioitus-
! ties may work a change. In case Harper
does not work. Eddie MURPHY Viii HkeiS
for the opening Pittsburg game tomorrow.
Bob Wicker may also get a cnance 10 10
some work this week. II rs NOT nks,y una, and
| garden. Ryan looks ripe for the fray. but
he h,,S certainly rita h, e ,SsG h Ri, s cSns no in De the last
| week. and II IL hardly to be expecte1 that
he could hit the clip that Papa" BIZ has
been doing.
Bobby Wallace IL the peer Of any infielder
! in the country, and in his time has done
some ysaer dax1i mat p ceytainly y's was a pippin. K
fan who has watched Wailace's work since
| Bobby has played in st. Louis expressed II
stop ~ ever made by Wallace. 1t was in the
sixth inning and the Remnants were at pat;
Two men were gene when kahoe smashed
, the ball down toward second. The ball went
| so hot that II almost smoked. When kahoe
met the ball Wallace was playing well on
from from s ssc9 9Se bali he came naa 20 down. oSn a s s1Ia ho:.
| fully a foot to the right Of second 1t
seemed as If nothing could stop a hit from
s ssins ti sSSre to set se h s:mseif for %at the stop Sle nor
even to get both hands on the ball While
running at full speed hs reached far &c:
the hit had gone through him. but the next
second Bobby turned and shot the baii
down to MeGann for the put;ont, II was a
roundly applauded for II.
Despite adverse criticism by some. the
conviction has forced itself upon local fol-
lowers that Otto Kruger il not only, a COM
er. but that he has already arrived. kru-
gers work with the willow has been con-
sistent. especially in the last week. when
the rest of the team has been more or less
impotent with the ash. Kruger gained the
In the ninth inning he unfortunately popped
up a high foul to Kahoe, but the game was
already past retrieving. unless. indeed: the
Another time Kruger laced out a long hit
TO left field. hic Haruei captured after
he had nearly run mis- legs on.
The error charged to schriver was the re-
suit of a bad throw to second. which can
that Schriver has done In cutting on ex-
panders at second. The throw was made
in the third inning. when. with one man
field the bah in time to nip Dexter Green
scored and Dexter made a bluff at second.
when Doyle went to bat. SERVER threw
three feet wide Of the base. and the ball
went low. striking Pa6den's shoe and
bounding of to left. Dexter went on to
and Raymer! were famed out.
The Donovanites had a good chance to
score in the eighth. After Sudhon struck
out. Bur<ett SINGLED and was advanced on
Heidrick'e hit Donovan popped up a puny
fly to Childs. and Wallace raped out a ny
TO center. The Hall looked safe. but Green
made a heroic enort and smothered it in his
mitt.
For the first time since the middle of
June enough rain fell on the diamond at
League Park TO wet the surface Thoroughly.
Much as rain Is needed, II was not appre-
ciated yesterday at League Park. The dry
earth coon soaked up the moisture. and be-
fore the end OF the game the grass was
around that the game would be postponed
and . larger attendance was thus prevented.