The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-07
st. Paul Wins Second Game From
Cardinals After Score Is
Tied in Seventh.
LOCALS BAT FERGUSON FREELY
Saints Score Five Runs in Third,
Assisted by O'Neill, Who
Gives Five Men Bases
I on Balls.

up In the Clouds. or Not My First Trip
in q Balloon" is the title OF a collaboration
to be issued shortly by Michael Joyce,
ONeill and one Ferguson, as an eNplana-
ton OF their parts IN the second edition OF
-St. Louis VS.. st. Paul" which was put on
the boards at League Park yesterday be-
fore 1000 OF the faithful. These two men,
pitchers, respectively. on the ST. Louis and
St Paul teams. played the star parts in
he exhibition. which resulted in a victory
for the Saints by a score Of 6 to o.
o'Neill dished up free transportation to
the bases with a lavishuess that would
have given Jere Hunt heart disease. In this
way he put the Cardinals In u bad pocket.
the situation being relieved only when Fer
guson doomed up in the box for ST. Paul in
the seventh inning, and allowed the locals
to clout his benders all over the field for
three runs Then Il was a nip and tuck
race with the score at a tie until tina
ecintillant, Lefty" Geyer, punched out O.
four-base rap. Still. the fans had hopes. but
these were ruthlessly dashed 10 the ground
on Umpire Chris Ghio's ruling on Jack Far
rell's drive in the ninth. Chic called It 4
foul and refused to sign Farrel's bid for
a two-bagger, which. as subsequent events
proved. would have again tied the score.
Chic was honest in his ruling and. Of
course, was in a better position to Judge
than the spectators. but the august body of
fans. afflicted or blessed-to use a more
popular term-with that peculiar form of
strabismus which allows them to look at
the play only from a %rooter's standpoint.
declared that Farrell was the unfortunate
victim OF the umpire's bad eyesight. What
ever the merit of the ruling. II sandbagged
the Cardinals chances to tie the score in
the ninth.
O'NeiIrs Poor Control.
With only q four-day workout Of his
twirling arm, o'Neill is less open TO criti-
cism OF his performance than II IL was
later In the season, but his lack of control
was nuts for the Saints, who were net even
ssO 70 %1ppe,l to hustle rdgl6 to get around TSoEidt the hd bases:
when 0'Neill was making his ascension in
the third inning; The bases were crowded
at all times, and therefore they were In no
danger of being nipped on attempts to steal.
They didn't even have to exert themselves
In scoring, as they were given the privilege
OF saunterfng In for registry at the plate
without any unnecessary stunts in the
oNein was no respecter of persons. he
SERVED all alike, and In the fatal third al
lowed four men to walk on wide ones. Two
hits by the Saints sent Kelley's stock up
rapidly, and in all five runs were chased
The game began a, 3 o'clock. with the St.
Paul combination switched around 10 a
catcher who was given a trial by Chris
Won der Abe eeveral years ago and who
subsequently, played with the Bellsville
was given a trial by the visitors III center
held. In the last three innings he changed
positions with Pat pillard and went to left
stood guard In right. and Pierce. who
played the outheld Saturday. caught the
Arthur Nichols was worked In the re.
c~eivers position by Donovan, t~hroughout
the game. and though the pitchers were
through MIN that he could possibly have
captured. Nichols is deserving OF praise
for the way in which he handled himself.
In right field Roy Brashear turned some
neat catches and gave general satisfaction.
''Deerfoot" Barclay proved himself a ham
dy lad with the ash and batted LOCO in his
b Fatal Third Inning.
oNeil opposed Chech in the first three
openings, and In the two openers did nice
II. In the third. however. he jumped the
Geier hit safely and billiard walke5. Shay
yaneing Geler and billiard a, base. Then
succession he gave Kelley, Higgins, Jessup
and Clifford free passes to first, forcing in
Geier, billiard and Kelley. Higgins scored
on Hurley's safe rap to right, which was
neatly handled by Brashear. Cbech fouled
into Nicholas mitt. o'Neir was getting
Tor the Ss second Mi't time 4 he eta a screamer loose g
that went wide of the batter two yards.
Jessup scored while Nichols wss chasing
his ceacher. cIiaord attempted to com IN
also, but was laid out at the plate with
a wreath OF immortelles as fat as a horse
collar by Nichols's throw to o'Nelll after
the recapture of the ball from IN front of
the grand stand. This ended the agony
and two more prospective runs were thus
In the fourth inning Roy Evann essayed
the role of box artist for the SaiTt IL. Bar
clay hit safely. and on Miller Huggihs's bad
handling OF Kruger's singing rap, reached
the third corner. Hazleton. however. hit
Into q double play and Barclay died on
Bob Wicker made his debut for the Car
dinals In the fourth inning. He had ell
kinds of speed and fair control and held
the score down nicely. In the fifth he
struck out two men in succession and In
the sixth retired his opponents nicely.
FnrreIps Home Run.
"Yank" Yerkes did slab duty in the last
three innings. Yerkes appeared In thu pink
OF condition and worked his slow ball a
nuriber OF times to advantage. But one hit
-Geiers home run in the n~inth-was made
on his delivery. While Evans was in the
box the locals succeeded in breaking the ice.
In the fifth inning, with two out and none
right and made the entire circuit. The rap
Eot by the folders and rolled up against the
bleachers. Fast work on the relay might
have settled Farrell at the plate, but he ar
rived In plenty Of time.
The Cardinals began the pyrotechnical dis
play In the seventh. with Ferguson as a VIC
tim Nichols hit to left center and Clifford
lard hogged the catch and registered a
mum. Nichols went to third on the error.
Yerkes drew a round of applause by a en-
gle to center. which scored Nichols. Far
rel fouled 10 Pierce. who had replaced Hur-
ley behind the bat, but Hartman hit to right
for two bases, advancing Yerkes to third.
Brsshsr drove q long hy out to billiard and