The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-03

ST. Louis's baseball clubs had a eoHipa4%
lively disastrous week The Pirates 'ooh
the Cardinals into camp thrice anu tne
Cleveland Blues had little trouble in DIS
posing of the, Browns. the American League
representatives of the Mound city
In the Pittsburg series the Cardinals dts
played many strong points ard several gar
inc defects. With the willow the tribe OF
Donovan has los. very little of Its Prov
ess In this respect "Deerfcot" Barclay,
the speedy left gardener of Donovan's team.
shows M very vel. batting at the high
rate of .3To. Snoot is also batting rtceiy.
end the rest of the tribe are doing al the
heavy work with the willow that Is neces-
sary for 9 frst-division team In the Ma
fiona, League. The boys are meeting the
ball. and that counts.
For a while the felders may be able 10
get in front of some of them, but a gooo
many OF the lire hits the Cardinals are
manufacturing will be sure TO land IN sate
territory. Brain. Barclay. Smoot, Williams
and Nichols all meet the ball with the
proper force. Donovan is not now ana
never was a hitter Of the class nat breaks
boards in the bleacher fences, but Pat man
ages to connect with the ball frequently
enough to make him a 800 hitter, and that
liz the ambition of most bali players.
Tit infeId has been the troublesome point
in Donovan,s team, and until Pat gets the
,~lyoungsters drilled, the Cardinals are gong
70 lose many games through errors Of
omission and commission. Brain, Williams
Farrell and Nichols are good raw material,
but they are not accustomed to each oth-
ers method of working. After a trip around
the circuit the newness they now display
will be worn of, and q better line on their
true form will be gained.
Mot a man on the infield. with the prob
able exception OF Dave Brain. Is playing
ball calculated to win a pennant. Williams
at short is a vast Improvement on Kruger,
but he is not a Wallace. He seems TO be
a trifle nervous. However. he is the pos
SCISSOR of a good arm and can throw men
out after he fumbles the ball. and thus
save himself many errors Farrell at sec
ond has been playing anything but a good
: fielding game. while Nichols on first IS do
ling only fairly well. All the infelders seem
to be -overanxious. They are never sure Of
a play until it is completed. and their hurry
to get the ball away from them displays
lack of form. In making the inside plays
OF the game the youngsters are weak. on
more than three occasions in the Pittsburg
= series tNey leu COWH Wueu u oSup-S pAos
looked almost assured.
Or the bases the Cardinals display a woe
sful weakness for the number OF fast men on
the team. Barclay. Donovan. Williams and
Brain are all sprint men, but. barring Dom
ovan. thev are only mediocre base runners.
This is a department of the game that Don
5pvan will nave to coach the youngsters in,
and. as Pat is one Of the best base runners
IN the country. he can be relied upon to
grain his tribe properly in this direction be-
fore the end of the campaign.
= In the outfeld the Cardinals have dis
5played only mediocre ability thus far il the
> race. Donovan is the only man in the out
rheld who has not had hobbies of an irrt-
Eating nature. Barclay and Smoot both
dropped flies In the Pittsburg series that
amateurs could have captured. Poor work
In the outne,d. however. will not last long,
as Barclay and Smoot are both reliable
men when going.
The defeats the Browns have suffered
have been due in a large measure to the
cold weather and the inability of the Nc
tAleerites to hit behind their pitchers.
Powell, Sievers. Donahue and Sudhon have
all been doing clever work in the box for
the Browns, but their batters supported
ahem so poorly that they lost games that
should have been won under ordinary cir
scumstances.
n The Browns. have been playing a very
good fielding game. Mccormick. Wallace
sand Anderson have been getting everything
that came their way. During Padden's alb
ssence Billy Friel cavorted around the sec
hond cushion and his work was very fair,
considering the fact that he is not a sec
sond baseman. His errors. however, were
costly. and Padden's return to the game is
,xelcomed by the fans. o the bases the
Browns are abnormally slow. Burkett
Heid-ick and Hemphin are fairly fast mer
on their feet. but they did not do any pill.
fering this week