The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-04-23
SCHEDULE MAKERS SNUB ST. LOUIS
Local Fans Without a Game To-day,
After Ordeal of Six Conflicts.

SCHEDULE MAKERS SNUB ST. LOUIS
Local Fans without a Game To-Day,
After Ordeal of Six Conflicts.
When the joint committee adopted the
playing schedule now in vogue It must
have turned out the lights when ST. Louis
was reached and dumped the playing dates
allotted to the Worlds Fair city out Of
a sieve.
Six conflicts in a row was the first por-
ton. After this gorging the fans are
forced TO fast two days. including a Satur-
day without any baseball.
II tbs Schedule Committee decides to
VISIT the big show" here this summer
the fans should see to it that they are pro-
vided with a cage properly fitted with l2-
inch padding.
A body that has 50 poor a conception Of
st. Louis as a baseball center is not very
conrersant with the status of the great
crowd. with favorable conditions. is usu-
ally from twelve to eighteen thousand,
yet the Schedule Committee failed to pro-
vide a game to-day in a city where there
are two teams.
And on the top of this oversight the
same august body makes the Browns
Jump from Detroit to St, Louis tonight
Straits for another encounter with the
Tigers tomorrow.
q q course. the St: Louis fans like the
A'SNAc US { OS ttSy W LILY OINeE
tenn. but they would prefer q change of
Diet early In the season. when the fans
appetite for the national pastime Is go
keen.
Just for this i'll treatment, the entire
Schedule Committee should be barred
from seeing the spotted leopard or the
Eicking mule on the Pike. and 1t would
serve them right.
For a j~umping-jack schedule. the pres
ent enc takes the bun.
Ney.,rn l.. l,a1yp- ,hA r,rJt,oy. n
IT cry dance. The water boy butted in
again at Chicago in time to prevent the
Cardinals from slaughtering the Cubs.
But then it is an i'll wind-or water-that
blows no one good. 1t saved the Chicagoe
from getting walloped yesterday. Without
a catcher of major league ability able to
do duty for the Cubs. the Cardinals would
probably have won yesterday. on the bit.
suit such is the luck OF baseball.
day baseball in New York. as we'll as hold
down the lid,' declared Commissioner
| McAdoo yesterday. This statement was
general outlining Of his policy. Someone
came to me to-day and said it was in
tended to have Sunday baseball. say
there will be no Sunday games in Goth
am" No one would suspect q man with
a name like McAdoo to thus taboo base
ball in New York. but his word Will about
do the game In the burg Of Manhattan on
Sundays.
Charley Hemphrl must have regained
thrsb batting eye L IT. the game against Pc,
made live hits out Of six times Up. This
number Of safe raps was about the limit
for the entire Browns nine last year.
Buelow did the best willow work for
the Detroits yesterday, the yellow-haired
youth making three ~safeties out of six
siht, no -yn Nh III 2. w foDk EN~a1
was the only member Of the Wolverines
who was able to pelt Petty with any de-
gree of success
Garry Hermann Of Cincinnati bet a
thousand dollars to $50 with Barney
Dreyfuss the other day that the Pirates
cams do as well against Pirates" as
Hermann's team has been doing. the
money is as good as won already.
President Ban Johnson OF the American
League. In a recent interview. picked the
Cardinals as the team likely to give Pitts
burg the hardest tussle for the pennant.
prophet or the son Of a prophet.
Wallace is still bfngling them out. He
made two hits off sMullin, the Moor. yes
terday. Last yeaf Mullin was a plain
Turk. but his work this season entities
him to the distinction Of being called a
moor, and a Black-a-Moor for the Browns.
Gleason made another two-bagger yes
terday. II he keeps on tapping the horse.
hide for doubles he will soon be called
the 'Two-Base-Hit KID"
.Padden and Heidrick will probably be
charged with grand larceny before the
SQUIRT OF the fans to-day at Detroit. Both
players stole two bases apiece yesterday.
With all its Crosses the Philadelphia
Athletics are playing quite a game of
ball these days.
Wagner made an error at Pittsburg
yesterday. which simply illustrates the
old adage that the best Of us are liable
to fall at times.
"Muggsy'' McGraw is back in the game
again, and his reappearance on the d.
amond has had a good effect on the
"Disturbers." With the Mug in the game
with the same handsome person ornament
ing the bench.
Another one of the Delehantys prom
ises to develop into a good bali player.
Jim Is his name, and he Is playing third
base for the Boston Nationals.
Icy retribution has overtaken the money
mad-Nullahs OF the National and Amer
lean leagues. The season opened too soon,
a fact which must have by his time pen
etrated the woolenS OF greedy baseball
| promoters. who are losing money on an
early start. Because Of the cold, the games
of this week We're practically without profit
or enjoyment.
The games already played nave entaiIed
nothing but suffering. shared alike by
players and public. More injury than ben
eft attends the athlete who exposes him
self to Klondike weather, and the fans
have taken on a chill that will require
much sunshine to dispel.
Of course the magnates are responsible
for this balk in the schedule. They are,
likewise, shocked by the ungentlemanly
conduct of the climate. They extended
the season. not because the fans cIamored
for more sport, but to further their W
ends. and likewise hasten the end Of the
fan with weak lungs.
The last week Of April or the first week
OF May is soon enough to start the bali a
rolling.
About the only thing the early bird In
baseball has caught this time IL q bad
cold.
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