The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-30

The Browns celebrated their homecoming
and escape from injury in railroad wreck
bv taking severe fall ont of the Blues
yesterday. To Jack Powell belongs the
credit for the victory Powell was at his
best and his wonderful maneuvers in the
pitching box completely nonplussed the
holders of the place position in the Ameri-
can League race.
Powell began well and after the first two
innings ii required none of the attributes
of a clairyoyant to forctell that the Boiler
maker was going TO back the band wdgon
up against the St. Louis clubhouse and de-
liver the groceries in time for tea
The "Bluebirds" have been flying pretty
high of late. but Powell put severe crimp
in their aerial aspirations by winging ten
of their batSmen and sending them back to
the bench with bruised batting averages.
Besides tanning ten, Powelrs control was
perfect. and not one OF Lajoie's company
was allowed 10 pull off the usual cakewalk-
ing stunts between the home plate and first,
base
out of something like collection Of thirty
hats. nine sturdy hittors of the Cleveland
club We're only able to pull four hits after
much putting and blowing.
POWELL STARTS OFF WE'LL.
From the first inning the Cleveland bats
men could figure out their finish without the
aid OF higher mathematics. The old rule of
three was sufficient arithmetic for them in
nearly every inning. In the second fifth
sixth. seventh and ninth innings il was a
case oil one. two. three and out
Powelfs feat of tanning ten of the Slug
gers Is close to the. strike-out record of
the season for right-hand pitchers in the
American League. Early in the spring Null
len of Detroit turned the trick on the
Browns.
While the Blues We're playing the game of
fan tam the Browns We're strairhtenine
out the Blenders of Mr. Killian their latest
pitching recruit; Nine hits gave the locals
win.
Behind Powell the Browns put I'D an cr-
r1riess game. while the Blues fell down on
three chances behind Killian.
The only time the Clevelands looked due
to score was in the first inning. when Rrad-
ley tripied. After that rap Powell settled
doWn ana did not allow the visitors an
other hit until the third inning.
F'LICK'S SENSATIONAL CATCH
The Browns jumped on kiiian in the first
inning, and but for a sensational catch of
Elmer Flicks would have won the game
right there.
Hill met one of Kiliian's curves full force
and sent the ball sailing toward the left
field fence The drive looked good for a
triple. as Flick was playing well in. but by
ward the ball. he overlook the sphere and
pulled ii out OF midair
The catch was a beauty and robbed the
Browns out OF chance to score, as they
had man on base at the time.
HOW THE RUNS WERE MADE.
\ base on ball and Friers double gave
the Browns their first run in the second in
ming. In the fourth inning a iielder's choice.
two singles and double gave the Browns
three more runs
only one "Bluebird" reached third during
tripled III the first inning
In only three other innings did players of
the Cleveland club reach second and that
was as near as they ever came to scoring
Powelfs neatest pitching offering was in
the fourth inning. when he sent three of
the Blues to the bone yard over the three
strike route. In only two innings the first
and sixth, did he fail to strike out one or
more batters. During the nine innings.
only thirty-one men. or four more than The
legitimate number of batters, faced Powell.
In the ninth inning Anderson put fitting
climax on the game by making a good
one-hand catch of Hills bad throw and re-
firing the. last batter for the Cleveland
team. The score: