The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-08

The St Louis Cardinals made It stand
of in their douhie-header at League Park
with the Brooklyns yesterday afternoon.
In the first essay Comma nder Donovan
sent his new Toronto recruit. Dunleavy, to
the firing line. This was the lads initial
bow. and he made good with a vengeance.
Throughout the game he had the Brooklyn
batters describing seometric figures in the
atmosphere with their bats. When they
closed their club-swinging exercises they
had but four hits chalked UP to their
credit
In the second contest the Cardinals went
TO pieces. and had seven errors charged I'D
against them. This. coupled with the ina
bility Of the Cardinals to connect with the
ball when hits meant runs. cost them the
game by score OF 8 to l.
THE FIRST GAME.
When Dunleavy made his appearance in
the pitchers box he received a welcome
that he will remember the rest of his life.
For fully two minutes the 1900 fans
cheered Donovan's new man.
Dunleavy showed his gratitude 10 the fans
10y presenting St. Louis with a game after
es trying siege as pitcher has been I'M
der for many weeks III st. Louis.
Umpire Holiday. who handled the inii-
Gator made Dunleavy split the plate. Cor
ners were barred. Dunieavy however, did
a
the harder His efforts were rewarded
The fact that he had six free gifts TO first
over the four-ball Holiday special is no
!udica ton that Dunleavy had not control
At least tf,ree OF fhese gifts were The re-
SAT- Of some optical Illusion of Holidays
mat made the plate appear about as large
monty labeled 'ona dime"
Not only was Holiday hard on Dunleavy,
hut he made Roy Evans work hard for
"ve,E strike that he got. In all. Holidays
exhibition vas the poorest sample of ''indi-
gator working" ever dished up TO a st.
Louis crowd.
BRAIN PLAYED WELL.
As usual. Davy Brain put up brilliant
fielding game. Twice the speedy third
sacser ran Brooklyn players down on the
line after they had the rest of tine Cardinal
infield playing tag with them.
In the sixth inning Dunleavy pitched him
self out = a bad hole After allowing
Sheckard and Dobbs TO walk he settled down
and forced McCreedie to bite on fast
curve that resulted in the ball grazing the
big right felder's bat and laying in place.
from where O'Neill easily headed off Sheck-
ard to Brain.
famed Dahlen. the next batter.
St Louis got off in the lead: Farrell
pretty single. Shoots perfect sacrifice aG-
vanced both runners. Brain grounded to
Jordan and was tossed out at first Farrell
Sheckard-
The Cardinals added another to their
total in the second. Hackett was an easy
out. Williams doubled. but by stupid base
work was caught at third. Jack ONeiII
walked and stole second: punleavy doubled.
scoring ONeiil. Farrell famed
Brooklyn scored one in the third. Jordan
walked and Evans hunted safely Strang
grounded TO Hackett. Shockard walked.
Dobbs out to Hacket, Jordan scoring on the
out. McCreedie was easy.
The Cardinals scored another in the
third. Donovan was an easy out. Smoot
singled. Smoot took second on Brains
sacrifice. Barclay singled scoring Smoot.
and went to second on the throw to the
plate. He wss caught mapping. and in a
run-up was tagged out by Strang.
Another tally was added to the Cardi-
nails total in the eighth period. Srnoot was
out. Jordan to Doyle. Brain walked Bar
CLAY singled Hackett doubled scoring
Brain Williams famed. o'Neiil walked.
Dunleavy popped up TO Ahearn
BROOKLYN made an effort, 70 tie matters
up in the ninth inning. but ONLY man
aged to score one run. Doyle walked Dab
len Doubled Ahearn popped TO Williams
Jordan was out. Farrell to Hackett. Doyle
scoring on the play. Jack!itsch batted for
Evans and popped TO Hackett.
The official score was: