The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-23
Schedule.

'I-ltsbUlE az S-lt1-n.
Mr.. Peter Hastings. a lawyer by profess
sion, hut temporarily a bender of horse
hides for Mr.. c. Mack of Philadelphia. in
troduced John Anderson and Baruchio Nc
Cormick to a congregation Of 9.GO at Sports
mans Park yesterday afternoon as stars in
the popular skit Over the Garden Wall"
The piece proved an instantaneous hit with
the crowd and incidentally helped Br'er
Jimmy McAleer's Browns 10 another cut
of Athletic pie. The score was I to 4. with
a Brown accent on the 4.
After young Mr.. Mitchell. who started to
pitch the game, displayed a signal of dis
tress c. Cassius Mack said Away to the
bench with him." Hastings was trotted out
and the Browns proceeded to revenge them
selves for the defeat of Thursday. Not to
Hastings. however, can the blame for de-
feat he laid. Mitchell was very obliging.
for when the fan chorus limited that he re-
sembled bad money and requested him to
take to the airship ne made an ascension in
double quick time.
"Methinks our young friend Mitchell hath
not discovered the location OF the plate"
quoth the above mentioned C. Mack. Go
thou Peter and prithee continue the search"
Hastings might have made the game a
close contest had he performed from the
start. for he held the Browns to four hits
In the last two innings. but two of these
were home runs. John Anderson put all the
pent-up energy that he saved from his bat
ting slump into one terrific poke In the fifth
in~ning-when no one was on bases. of
course. Had Topsy Hartsel had time he
could have scaled the wire netting in front
OF the overflow bleachers in left and caught
the ball. but he backed helplessly against
the fence and watched the sphere sail over
his head. clear the wire and descend In the
crowd. Big John took his time going around
the bases.
Mccormick Duplicated Andy'S Hit.
Mccormick led off in the next inning.
Hastings put plenty of goo geo. on the
ball, but Barry started a few seams when
he hit it. Again did Hartsel read the railroad
sign on the fence for n sign of hope. but it
was not there, and the ball disappeared in
the surging wave of bleacherites like a cork
In a whirlpool. Hastings proceeded to wipe
the smile off his face then, and. getting
down to hard work, he allowed but one hit
thereafter. and the Browns gathered no
n ore runs. Mitchell proved to Manager
Mack's satisfaction that the loss of the
game to the Athletics was the fault of the
Browns. and that even the great Hastings
could not turn the tide of defeat. Luckily
for Mr.. Hastings there were no pilgrims on
the bases when Anderson and Mccormick
let out their extra links, for IL there had
been, there would have been grief and
COnSleI ldtlon III Hnllly To-Day.
The game proved one thing and that is
that Mitchell will never do for a railroad
president. The reckless liberality with
which he handed out transportation was
not a thing of joy to his teammates. The
first two innings gave promise of a close
score. Mitchell started well and then lost
control. He grew wilder as the game pro-
gressed until. as, a fitting climax. he sur
passed all previous performances bp pas
sing the first three men in the third inning.
Flowers for Live Cross.
Three things combined to make Lave
Cross happy-a good sized chunk of "mazu-
ma in hfs pockets. wrung from the unwill-
ing wallet Of Colonel John l. Rogers,a huge
bouquet. presented to him by st. Louis adj
mirers on his first trip to the plate, and a
three-base hit. Lave can thank the ropes
that were stretched around the field for his
hit. Hemphill could have stabbed the ball
otherwise, but he lost it when he hurdled
the ropes and Cross touched three bases
before stopping. He trotted in when
Socks Seybold skied 10 Heidrick. ]. EN-
NETS throw to the plate from deep center
field was a beauty bright and right into
Dcnohue's hands, but it arrived a second
late. but that was no fault of Heidrick's,
for 1t was a quick piece OF work.
In the next inning the Browns dug a grave
for that tally and two others gath
cred in the third Nand covered them with
four more. The continuous yell from the
spectators disconnected Mitchell. Padden
came up and walked. Donohue waited and
went the same way. Four wide ones put
Powell on base and the Brown house was
filled with none out. Burkett showed oyt a
singing rap straight to center and so hot
that Mitchell didn't care to burn his hands
with II. Psdden and Donohue counted on
the drive. Hemphill tried twice to sacrifice
and then struck, out.
Five Runs In Third Inning.
Heidrick risked his life on a pop foul in
Lave cross's territory, but the crowd
surged forward on the ropes and bluffed
Lave out Of the catch. Butts then hit
to Monte Cross. and Burkett was tele-
scoped at second. With two gone. Anderson
walked I'D. The Worcester giant wanted
to put It in the bleachers on that trip, but
Hartsel, after a hard sprint, reached his
line fly. "Topsy," however. was forced to
try for an overhead catch, while going at
full tilt, and the leather bounded from his
mauIers and lost itself in the crowd. An
derson was on second a moment later and
would have gone to third had tie field
been clear, but under the prevailing rules
he was forced to be content with a two
Dagger. His hit put Powell and Heidrick
in the clear. And still the end was not.
About this time evidences of distress were
noticed at the Philadelphia bench. Mitchell
bore a kill-me-quick misunderstanding
look on his face, and Mack sent Hastings
and Powers out for a Mitchell :
was doomed to one more shock. for Wal
lace Jared one OF his slants through the
shortfield, scoring Anderson: Mccormick.
the ninth man Up. was rendered a vote of
thanks by the Athletic crew when he
famed for the third out. ,
The five runs were good. The Athletics
had thought they had a mortgage of plaster .
on the game, for In the first half the in
ming they made their total three, but
Powelrs run tied the score and thereafter
the Browns remained in the lead. Hits by
Mitchell. Hartsel and Seybold. a pair OF
wild pitches and an outfield fly resulted in
the pair of tallies.
and eighth innings, the runs in the fifth
and sixth being the pair of noners. Powell
was steady and good support, especially by
HeidricE in center. kept the score down.
In the eighth Lave Cross singled. stole
second, went to third on Bonners fly to
center. scoring on a passed ball.: Seybold
killed a st. Louis run by a running catch !