Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12
League Clubs Standing.
League Clubs Stan ing.
American League Games Today
Washington at st. Louis.
Philadelphia at Chicago.

ST. LOUIS. Mo- May list. Louis ham.
mered its way to twelve-inning victory
over Washington this afternoon at Sports
mans Park. with the final score to and
none out when Fred Glade crossed the plate
with the winning run. Both teams hit the
ball hard, st. Louis holding the advantage
with sixteen hits to the eleven of the Ma
tfonals. Each fought gamely on the defen-
sive. hard chances coming often and being
handled in fine style with but three excep-
tons. -9s
AS in every game where the hitting is as
heavy on both sides as it was today, both
teams had a number of chances to win. but
waited to take advantages Of them to the
fullest Luck was almost dead against the
batters and base runners. ant. nearly every
time the latter tried to pull something of
out of the ordinary the play went wrong.
Three times Washington got mixed up lin
double plays. but one Of these was caused
by foolish base-running. st. Louis ran into
one double-play, which was sheer luck, or
the game wood have been tied up for good
in the fifth inning.
How the Game Was Lost
Glade got OF to a bad start for St. Louis.
but he not only made q good finish on tho
slab. but practically won his own game
He was hammering the ball hard all after
noon. as he had previously made two good
long singles and he drove liner past
third which hit the fence between the two
bleachers a smash which could be heard
for block On larger field the hit would
have ended the game right there, but as 1t
was Glade got to second only. Niles tried
twice to bunt and then hit toward first.
The ball was going some and with Ander-
son fielding 1t. 1t took a jump through the
latter's hand and over his shoulder This
advanced Glade to third. 1t was up to
Hemphill. and the latter finally found his
batting eye and slashed a beauty through
Altizer. the Washington shortstop trying
hard to make stop, but failing. Glade
came home on this and the game was over.
Previous history of the game is varied.
with Washington to the good practically
all of the time up to the eighth inning,
when st. Louis tied the score.
Patten gave the Browns their early lead
in the first inning. but his retirement in the
second gave the Nationals the chance to
get in front. Niles started OF with a slash
through Patten. Hemphill laid down a
perfect bunt and beat the throw to first,
while Niles took third on low throw by
Cross to Anderson, Schlafly backing up and
getting the ball. Pickering put smash
through Altizer and Niles scored. Wallace
drove on a line to right and Hemphill came
home.
Nationals Take the Lead.
Anderson opened UP on Glade in the sec
ond with a hot grounder which went
through Yeager. Altzer sacrificed and NIL
walked. Then Glade hit Schlahy and the
latter walked to first filing the bases. Hey
or had
chance for a double play but the ball got
away from him, and all hands were safe,
Anderson scoring Hickmana went in to
bat for Patten and he came near knocking
a home run through the left field bleacher
fence with a line drive, and landed on Sec
ond base, with Mill and Schlafiy across the
plate. Ganley sailed line hit out to Pick
ering in deep right. and Teydon started
home after the catch, only to be caught
by a fine throw to the plate.
Smith went in to pitch for Washington In
the second half Of the third. and O'Connor
and Glade got hits of him before he made
Niles and Hemphill pop flies for the final
outs.
Washington ran into double plays in the
third and fourth. and the Browns met
a similar fate in the fifth. when Pickering
drove a liner right at Cross with Glade and
other run across the plate In the sixth, when
Anderson drove hit through Yeager and
Wallace, Altizer singled to right and Mil
dropped one safe just over first. Altizer
finally going out at the plate on this same
play. When he first started to try for home
Mil started for second. Niles. O'Connor.
Wallace and Glade helping to run the two
men down.
st. Louis evened up In a hurry in the Soc
ond half which Wallace started with
strike-out Stone drove one of his first good
hits over second, line drive for a single.
Yeager drove to left for a double. and Stone
came home from first with ease.
st. Louis Ties Score.
st. Louis tied the score in the eighth, and
came close to winning. Pickering started
with a SINGLE and Wallace advanced him
to second on a groupder to Altizer.
Stone proved that his hit in the sixth
was not an accident by another line Single
10 left. Pickering went to third. Yeager
drove deep to center and Jones made the
catch. but of course. Pickering scored, as
the throw was too long.
Each team had one chance between that
inning and the end, and both came in the