The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-28
BROWNS ARE PLAYING GOOD GAME;
WORK OF CARDINALS is IMPROVING.
McAleers Men Hard Uphill Fight the
Capture Majority of Played-Winnng
Donovan's "DuckingS' Surprise bu Indicates
That the Team Is Rounding %

! one pennant to arrive simultaneously with
| the Worlds Fair.
SHOWING Is GOOD.
Their showing in their crippled condition
almost conclusively bears out this last
| statement. for when the team is intact they
| will surely play % per cent better than they
| have been doing, and II they do, they will
| more than likely float the bunting over the
! Grand avenue Enclosure next season.
| Another thing. it must be remembered
| that the finish of the race is still three
! months off. and that a great many things
| are liable 20 happen between now and then.
Il is very doubtful matter whether
| there is any better team in front OF the To-
| Gals not. Many OF the Eastern scribes
are saying pretty things about the Ath-
letics and painting Toseate pictures of their
finish. Some of these writer's would do we'll
to remember that the Athletics have been
very lucky in the matter of being enabled
to present a solid front the greater part of
the season.
An injury to any of the Athletics pitchers
or nfelders that would put one of them oft
of the game for any length of time would
more than likely put the posies on the pen
nant aspirations Of last years leaders
To the writer. Boston and Cleveland both
look better than the Athletics. Boston GER
tainly has the edge on the Athletics in the
infield. while Freeman. Stahl and Dough-
erty look every bit as good as Hartsel.
Pickering and Seybold. In fact, if anything,
the Boston outfeld has the Athletics trio
of Fly traps outclassed.
The other two teams that in the mind Of
the writer the locals will have to beat are
the Cievelands and New Yorks The former
team has at last struck its stride and from
now until the END of the season they will
fight the distance every inch.
New York. of course. has made a poor
showing up TO date, but there are enough
good players included in the Greater New
Yorks list TO make them pennant contend
ers.
This team is due FOR squirt shortly.
and when they get going they will be
factor in the race. Their pitching staff.
infield and outfield rank with any in the
American League, and the other teams in
the league may well make lip their
minds to it now that the Griffith aggrega-
ton will give them a fight for honors
CARDINALS ARE IMPROVING.
Not only have the local American
Leasuers shown improved form. The Car
dinals their present invasion of the East
have made remarkable showing consider
irg the array OF talent that Donovan has
TO oppose to the National League teams.
The Cardinals feat Of capturing a double
header from the BostOns has been their best
effort this season. In both contests the
Tribe of Donovan played in champion
ship form. OF course. it is true that Wiley
Piatt performed the remarkable feat of
pitching both games against the St. Louis
team. hut the fact remains that they beat
him in both contests. Neither of these
wins was of the fukey order. but
the result Of clever and aggressive fielding
and base running and sharp, clean stick
work at opportune times.
Previous to defeating the Bostons in the
double-header. Donovsn's men licked the
Beaneaters in an eleven-inning contest
Barring the Cardinals weakness with the
willow they have played a very fair article
of the national game Of late. Mcfarland.
Currie. Dunlevy and Rhodes have all shown
good form.
in the outfieid Donovan and Smoot have
done well. while their batting has been i'm
proving.
Left field still remains the weak spot in
the teams outfield. In fact, that territory
has not been well guarded once during the
season by a local player. Mike O'Neilrs
work has been improvement on the
form shown by "Deerfoot'' Barclay, but
the big pitchers work in the field cannot
be considered that OF finished artist.
INFIELD IN GOOD FORM.
Since Williams has been dropped from the
fnieId, that department has also shown i'm