The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-14
Yesterdays Results.
Despite the weather conditions. the

Despite the weather conditions, the
Browns and Senators played the third game
of their series yesterday. Not until a few
moments before game time was It positively
decided that the contest would be played,
and when the game opened up only a hand
full of thirty-third degree ~rooters. the score
book boys, the telegraph operators and
press representatives were present.
Less thar thirty minutes before game
time there was a steady %downpour of rain,
and the few persons that gathered in the
grand stand were waiting for the water polo
team to make its appearance.
Just twenty minutes before game was
called the sun ,peered out from behind a
curtain of clouds. and Mr.. Hedges subst!-
tuted his star baseball aggregation for the
performing seals"
When Old Sol made his appearance. Wal
Senators to jump in the bus and make all
haste to 'Sportsman's Garden" as there
was to be a show. in which they were ex-
After the game the Senators marched
away as proudly as the first division of a
st Patrick's Day parade. with Hewitt at
victory.
Despite the fac. that the Browns were
three runs the locals put up a creditable
game.
ORTIZ HAD PROBLEMS.
LOTUS sent Al Ortiz. the Stainless" to
the firing line for the Senators. Smiling
Al used a foater that wobbled its way
up to the batter like a drunken sailor at an
Irish fair. but it fooled the h%eavy-hitting
Browns plenty.
The locals tried earnestly 10 lambast Mr..
orth's pleasing foater. They danced at it,
swung on 1t, and Mike Kahoe even tried TO
bite one, but, like the tabled grapes. the
ball managed to remain always in sight,
but just out Of reach.
When the game was completed only thir-
ty-three ~Brown-hosed ball players had am
ers' bench. Not one MANAGED to come thst
way from third base.
Powell, who was on the firing line for
the locals pitched a steady game, but was
much .worsted in his tilt with Ortiz. Al
only allowed the Browns four hits, while
the se na,se Jumped On PoyesI for twelve
At that. Powell kept the Senator's hits
well scattered. and had the team behind him
batted in anything like its Tuesday form
ne Should have won his game.
BURKETT STARTS RALLY.
Only once during the game did the locals
have a chance to make a run and that was
in the last inning. Burkett. the first man
up. raped out a grass-destroyer TO left
field. Heidrick manufactured one OF the
same kind a moment later, but was taken
in" by Catcher Clarke for trying to Doodle
second. Hemphill and Anderson then proved
From a "senatoriar' standpoint the game
was a good one. In She field both teams
pidyeQ Steiuy Dali, Martln making the only
error of the day. and that an excusable
one. Kip Setback made a side-show catch
in the second inning of Wallace's bat.
"Rhody'' lifted one Of the Smiling Won
der's' Stainless shoots high IN in the air
toward right field. Setback got under the
ball. but the ball changed it's mind ahou,
lighting and was getting ready to perch on
the fence when KIP jumped In the air
and pulled the ball down. with his gloved
NIT. Burkett made a very pretty catch of
Martins line hit in the second inning.
Coughlin also figured IN the fielding
features. He robbed Burkett of what
looked to be a sure hit in the third inning.
HOW RUNS WE'RE MADE.
In the third inning. Orth singled. but wa,
thrown out by Hemphill in trying &c
stretch 1t into a double. Robinson doubled
Selbach was a corpse to Hemphill. De.
lehanty's single scored Robinson. Ryan wa.
an easy out.
Washington scored another in the fifth
Delehanty again driving in the runner
Ortiz singled, and went to second on Robin.
sons suicide to Anderson. Selbach's foul
fly advanced Orth to third. and he came
home on Delehanty's corkins single. Ryar
out to Heidrick.
The tribe OF LOTUS COMMUNICATED ou'
another run in the ninth. Martin singled
and went to second on Clarke's sacrifc,
and scored on Orth's single. Robinson ant
Selbach easy odts.
L. l Tho Snnra.