The St. Louis Republic., 1902-10-06
CARDINALS LOSE
LAST TWO GAMES
National League Season in ST.
Louis Closes With Double
Header.
SLIM CROWD in ATTENDANCE.
Chicago Team Wins by Hard Hit
ing and ST. Louis Errors
Second Game Called in
I the Fifth Inning.
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. HOW THEY FINISHED. .

= HOW THEY FINISHED. =
= Clubs. Played. Won Lost. Pct. .
{ PittzbuFg ....-...ls9 l0s Sc al .
. Brooklyn ...-..-.l2s IS g -Si2 .
o Boston .,...-....-ls7 q Gi .5S5 .
= Cincinnati .......i4 30 20 .5O) =
. Chicago .,..,---..i27 is es -45 =
. ST. LOuis-.........lS4 5s IS as .
. Philadelphia .....ls7 Sc 81 .Alo .
. New .York.....Iss IS IS yb3 .
. The race IN the National League .
. was not u race for the nag, 1t was .
. a procession. with Pittsburg always q
= In the lead. Brooklyn and Boston 8
were eontenders for second place. q
. and ths Hsnlonites won out by mar q
. row margin The Cincinnati team =
. was the only club TO play out is full =
schedule. ana il broke exactly even. =
. The Reds were lucky to finish fourth =
y after their poor start: Joe Kelley .
= and cy Seymour helped them out OF q
. the rut. Al that they finished but a =
. game ahead OF Chicago. The Cardi- q
. nails encountered miserable luck In .
q the way OF postponed games and were .
. six short when the season closed. g
. Their early season performances o
= were credltsble. but they have won .
= less than half a dozen games in the .
. because the New York and PhilRdel- =
. phia teams beat them to the bottom .
rungs by playing minor league .
. ball. .
aA@ A@%~~~~~H<~~~~~HI
when Johnny King wrapped his big mitt
around ''oom Paul" Kruger's pop foul at
League Park yesterday afternoon. the Ma
tional League season Of 1902 in St. Louis
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Cubs acted as pallbearers In the obsequies
and slim and half-froEen gathering Of
faithful rooters was present at the benedic-
ton. selee's men were vindie,ive TO the
last. for they sunk the gan twice Into the
hapiess Donovanites. Few. II any. OF the
mourners cared 20 see a second game. but
the double killing was pulled of. the last
gasp being a five-inning affair. The scores
were IA and e-5 with Chicago accent
on both.
With the melancholy days comes an abte-
ment OF the rOoters fever. and the last
DAY was Just about as raw as they are
made. Faithful 10 the last. some go or 100
dyed-in-the-wooI fans shivered through the
final spasm. but It was such a bizarre az
fair that they were glad to ring the bell
on IL Without Captain Donovan and
Johnny Farrell. the Cardinals presented a
pstched-up front. To add TO their list cf
handicaps the field was soft and sticky
and there was q chill in the air that made
the spectators vince IN sympathy whenever
a player put his hands to a hsrd-hit ball.
The sky was hung with gray clouds and
the early dusk CT the gray afternoon caught
the second game In the fifth inning. From
frequent contact with the muddy field the
balls softened and went dead and
toward the last the fieIders had 10 strain
their eyes to follow the sphere
jim Haekett and Bob Wicker pitched for
the losers. They stacked MP against South
paw Hardy. and Pop" Williams The Chica-
20 tWiriers were Just as bad as Hackett and
Wicker, but they had a semblanoe Of sup
port 10 lean on. while the Cardinals field
ing was very much Oskosh. The absence Of
Farrell caused a switch In the St Louis in
T. field. OTTO Williams. the 81. Louis boy. who
did bhort-held stunts at Memphis this sea
son. replaced Kruger, who was shifted 10
third base
WILLIAMS LOOKED GOOD.
williams worked under a handicap. which
aftected his Fielding in the first game, He
was unfamiliar with the field. and the slip
pery going bothered him. he made break
: at the start and got two more before the
hniHh but his work ranks him above King.
the unsuccessful candidate OF two weeks
ago Williams covers more ground than
Kruger, and Oh fast ana dry diamond
he should display even more ability In a
fielding way. He Knocked down several hits
that might have gone for extra bases. dis
played 6 nicely OF Judgment on ground
balls, and proved that his whip was able
to deliver the goods He Is a young man
whom Il might be wen FOR Manager DonO-
van TO keep track Of
Up 20 the seventh Inning OF the first game
the Cardinals had chance Chicago won
the game on three trays, and came near
filing to four OK q kind. but in the ninth
inning they fell short by one run. Their
runs came In punches, and not until after
they had spent some time In study OF the
elongated Mr. Hackett. Not hit did they
get until the fourth inning. and followers
Of the Cardinals we're dsiuding themselves
into the belief that at last a winner had
beer sighted for II the inaugural round one
run vas pinched or. II was q futile hope.
To take and hold a lead for three innings
proved too great q strain. and they let
DOWN. boosting several Chicago runs over
the plate by helding- breaks at the same
tine developing q serious case OF batting
debility.
PINCH HITTERs MISSING.
The locals opened with a pun. scored by
sncot. who walked. advanced on a sacri-
ice, and scored on hit by Nichols. Every
thing was peace and quiet until the fourth.
when the Cubs began TO Wallop the ball.
The remainder OF the game was a siusging
aGair-for chicago. Aloeu dlid aDeited oy
the errors OF Kruger and Hackett. the Cubs
tied the score and hung up three pluTns in
the fourth Kruger's two-6ase hit and
singles by Brashear and Williams cancelled
o1e of those runs, but. with runners on sec
ond and third neither Hackett nor Smoot
could Hupply connecting link
In the sixth the Seleeltes landed on Hack
EFT very hard and another bunch OF three
Was harvested. The last one resulted from
a double steal TIE Cardinals found Hardy
more Of a puzzle every inning. and until the
eighth failed 20 resume operations In the
scoring line. In the first half Chicago fled
q mortgage on the contest by chasing three
men across the plate. The trouble broke
looss after two Of the Cubs had been
handed burial certificates. Then the hit
factory started working again. Beginning
with Siagie. the Cubs worked a beautiful
c5mbinatioEi -Four men slapped ths sphere
60 safe coEners OF the field. Btashear con-
Verted single into three-baser. BY allow
ing Dobhs's liner 10 wiggle through his
feEs Chance singled and stole second and
third II Nss easy money.
Eackett drove IN the last pair OF 81.
Louis runs with his own stick in the eighth.
Errors By Tinker and Schlady and q Wild
pitch laid the foundation. and when the
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