The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-06
First Exhibition Tilt of the Season
Results in Shut-Out for
DonOvan's Men.
CONTEST DEVOID OF FEATURES.
Both Teams Use Three Pitchers
and Two Catchers Same
Teams to Meet Again
To-Day.

threatening skies yesterday and bundled up
in overcoats to witness the opening Of the
exhibition season at League Park. What
they saw was a featureless game between
Patsy Donovan's colts ard the st. Paul
team OF the American Association. which
resulted in a victory for Kelley's men by
the score of 3 to 0.
With only one days practice for the fray
and with an outfield badly crippled by the
detection OF certain players to the Eastern
League. Kelley's performers put UP a cred
liable exhibition agaiEs: the Donovanites.
who were not evidently prepared for such
spirited opposition at the getaway.
As neither team has had much practice
1t Is hardly fair to draw conclusions from
their performances yesterday. The Cardi-
nails played an errorless game, and only
one mlspldy. was recorded against the tribe
of Kelley. but those exciting situations
which make the fans rave were almost en-
tirely lacking. The battery mer OF neither
team extenCed themselves, and there were
so many changes made that the fan audi
ence found II nard to form an estimate Of
the swatung abilities Of the new talent
gathered for st. Louis. 1t was simply a
practice game. and was more valuable to
Manager Donovan than ii was to the box
Office.
Donovan. himself, was not a participant.
He sat on the bench and made mental notes
OF his players, changed pitchers three
llIltS, anu CdtClGTS twice. HIS tW1rIeIS
were a little wild on account of the lack
of practice. and they lost the game for
him. On the other hand. the fielding de-
partments SHOWED uo exceptionally well.
Little Kruger n to become more
popular with the bleachers this year. He
did a nice stunt In the short field and moth
Ing got away from him. Some of his stops
were pretty pieces of work and his throw
ing was accurate. In fact, but little was
overlooked by the infield.
Brashear n Good Performer.
The regular team took the field with the
exception of Brashear in the right field. He
put up a nice exhibition and handled him
self so well that his position as utility man
seems to be assured. Smooth and Barclay.
In the other outiield positions. were given
but little opportunity to create sensations.
The latter spent a great deal OF his time
chasing hard-hit fouls and showed himself
to be possessed Of good speed. Smooth
captured only one drive in the center sub
urb. but 1t was a neat side stop of a hard
smash and won him applause.
Manager Kelley worked one of his pitch
ers in the field and three others in the box.
The former Cardinal. Pat billiard. who
see ms to have taken on a little weight since
he last appeared here. stood guard in the
left pasture. Kelley's infleld is fast, and
with two weeks practice should be a hard
proposition. Shay, the former Spider; turned
some neat tricks in the short field. and
Lefty" Geier. on the third bag. proved that
he was far from being 'all In" as some
critics will have it. Geier,s throwing arm is
In good shape. Kelley directed operations
from sack No. 1, and he performed his du-
ties well. Jerry Hurley did the most of the
backstop work. The catchers on both sides
were no attempts made to steal.
Tit game was called at $50. with Chris
Chic, the Southern League umpire. handling
twirling for the Cardinals, with Jack O'Neill
as his receiver. Geier and billiard were re-
tired on line drives to Hartman. and after
Shay had drawn a base on balls Kelley end
ed the inning by a rap to Kruger;
Hitless Game for Three Innings.
The first few innings were devoid Of
snappy playing; The Cardinal batters were
able to do but little in the hit-and-run line,
and the redoutabie Smoot famed the first
time up much to the disappointment of the
the tree for the first time. he was given an
ovation There was nothing doing In the hit
line until the third inning, when Hurley
dropped the sphere safely out in right.
Cook. who did the Iwirling in the first few
innings for the Saints. followed this up with
q sacrifice. but Hurley died on third on
Billiards rap to Hartman.
Cook struck out two men in the third.
ONeill was the first to go the route. and
Bryan. who was sent up for Yerkes' reg
istered the second fiasco. AS a batter. Bry-
an failed to make good, He seemed In
mortal terror Of the pitcher. and pulled
a% *Wes frI %ill the P Pepe S SiSpiadsi Murphy in
give a good account of himself on account
Of q bum. SpsicI the result Of a collision on
by giving Shay free transportation to first.
Kelley smashed for two bases. Brashear
made a nice stop and relayed the ball to
O'Neill through Hazleton just a second too
late to invalidate Shay's registry at the
plate. A wild pitch put Kelley on third:
but Pierce famed and Chech's fly dropped
and stuck on a piece of Brashear tangle-
foot. Barclay registered the first hit for
the Cardinals in the fourth-a neat rap to
left center. Kruger went safe on a Smash
which was too hot for Shay to handle and
Kruger at second and one of the best
was wild and was saved a number OF times
by the clever work OF Arthur Nichols. who
the mask at the beginning OF the
'''A Geier's Double Play.
Three bases on balls filled the cushions
with st. Paul men in the fifth. but Kelley
failed in the emergency by hitting u kru-
ger. In this inning the Saints pulled on
the only double play Of the game. Popp
reached first on a scratch hit. Geier took
a hot liner from Farrell's bat and threw to
Kelley before Popp could get back to the
base. thus retiring the side.
Roy Evans. who once wore a st. LOUIS
uniform In the service Of Chris Won der
Abe. was put in the box by Kelley In the
fourth inning. In the sixth Jessup replaced
behind the bat. Eddie Murphy
twirled the last three innings for the Card,
nicely. He worked his old trick of a quick
return and in this way struck out Evans,
who didn't see the ball until 1t flashed over
the plate. In the ninth inning Brashear and
Smoot tried to start a batting rally. but
both their drives were picked up by Fergu-
son, who twirled the last three innings for
the Saints. Barclay got to first on Shay's
error. but Kruger ended the game will a
fly Shay turned one of the p~rettiest catches
OF the day. taking the bali while running
his back to the diamond.
The score: