The Washington herald., 1907-07-07
TO-DAY's GAMES.
Washington at st. Louis.
Philadelphia at Chicago
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Special 70 The washington htfai".
St Louis, Mo. July 6.-Washington
batted out a victory over st. Louis this
afternoon. 9 to 8, but it took eleven in
nings TO do it. The contest was one OF
those mixed pickle affairs in which most
of the excitement was furnished by close
ness Of the score up to the finish, the
clubs alternating in the lead with the
score tied good part Of the time. Both
teams hit the ball hard. Washington pick
ing up sixteen hits while St Louis was
getting sixteen. and not only did each
team pick up a bunch Of errors. but mis-
PLAYS which do not shov in the score
were also frequent.
Patten and Howell started off the game
on the slab, and they stuck it out until
the contest went into extra innings, and
men were used TO bat in their places.
Howell was taken out i'm the last hall
of the tenth and replaced by Petty, who
was hit hard in the eleventh, an error
by Hartsell helping in his undoing. Pat
ten retired i'm the first half of the elev-
enth in order to allow Graham 10 bat foI
him. and Hughes pitched the last half OF
that inning Long Tom did good work
despite "a bad start and held ST. Louis
off without trouble.
Both teams kept picking up runs in the
first six innings one or two at a time
Washington scored in the third on FUN
bic by Yeager Of Heydon's grougder. an
out by Patten. a hit by Clymer. and an
other out by Ganley Hits by Howell and
Stone and errors by Patten and Ganley
gave ST. Louis two runs In the second hall
OF that inning Nils single and Altizer';
triple scored Washington's second run il
the fourth.
Pickering's single. errors by Gan ey anc
Anderson, and an out by Hemphil gave
the Browns a third run in the fifth. Nill's
single. an error by Jones, and a hit 10y
Heydon tied up the score in the sixth anC
made the extra innings necessary.
John Anderson scores.
Howell began the tenth by passing Dele
hanty and Anderson, and Hickman sacri
feed. Nil bit sharp into Niles and th'
latter was unable to head off Delehant,
at the plate. but he got Nil at first
AItizer doubled to right, hut went out a
third. trying for an extra base, Ander
son scoring Stevens batted for Howel
in the second half, but he went out on
fly 10 Anderson. Niles drove a singh
over Nils head. ana Jones cut safe pas
Altizer. Stone drove on a line 10 the left
field bleachers. Niles and Jones score
on this. but Stone was out, trying 70
third. Pickering famed
Petty pitched I'm the eleventh. and Wash
ington soon had the game. Heydol
started with a single. and Graham bate
for Patten, Perrine running for Heyd0n
Graham popped q fly to Hartzell, but ely
mer drove single over Yeager's head
Ganley hit into Petty, and the latter threJ
10 third Had not Hartzen mUffed III
throw, Heydon would have been out, but
as il was, he scored when Roy fell whil
trying % recover the ball Delehaut
doubled past third. and ClyIner scored
Anderson singled to center. Ganley an
Delehanty scoring. Anderson went on
stealing, and Hickman grounded to Hart
zel
Yeager walked in the second half. an
HemphiU singled HartzeH famed. Spen
Ger drove a grOuUdeT at Altizer. Th
latter tagged second and threw to first
and the game was over