New-York tribune., 1912-08-26
RAIN RUNS ON SUPERBAS
Cardinals Make Farewell Game
a Batting 0rgle.
RAGON AND STACK VICTIMS
Nine Tallies Made of Both in
Fourth Frame of a One
Sided Contest.
lBy relegraph to the Tribune.

! St Louis. Aug. 25.-Four thousand
fans bade farewell TO the Brooklyn
! Superbas for the season OF 1912 at Robir-
son Field here this afternoon, and by way
/ of making the parting more impressive.
| Bresnahan's men turned to and wallopeu
the Eastern players TO the tune OF II To
t. The Cardinals INDUCED in wild bat
! ting orGie at the expense OF Roaring
| Pat Ragon, who started TO pitch for the
visitors, and, after hammering him out of
the box. a feat which required only three
/ innings and fraction of the fourth, they
gave a sound drubbing to Stack. who re-
placed him Meanwhile Harmon swung
along in his own panstaking way and the
Superbas accomplished little or nothing
with him until he slackened his pace in
| the closing innings.
Ragon warmed up in good style. When
he went into the box. however, ne was
totally unable 10 curb the slugging Car
dinals. who Jumped on him with all fours'
Ragon was pounded for seven hits, one
triple by Konetchy. and he issued two
bases on balls, and the Cardinals mace
only three runs on that combination Two
singles and triple yielded only one run
/ in the first inning, thanks to some lacka-
daisical base running, and two singles
and a base on balls filed the bases in the
second inning. with no one out. Ragon'
however, pulled out Of this hole without
| being scored on.
In the fourth. however, he blew up for
good and for all. He passed Evans ana
Houser bunted safely. BY way OF HELD
| ing this last. Ragon tossed the baIl over
Daubcrt's head and Hauser took sccohn'
while Evans ran TO third Rebel Oakes
was passed as dangerous ana Nihto
stepped into the breach with single
scoring Evans and Hauser. All this un'e
Dahlen was doing some heavy thinking
and finally he told Ragon 10 take 10 t"e
bench and sent in Stack.
Stack was a huge joke. and before the
inning ended seven additional runs were
scored. He started well enough. ana got
Oakes at third on Harmon's roller to the
box. but then the real fun began. HUG
gins got off with a safe bunt ming the
bases Magee walked. and Wingo was
! forced to score. and In the next moment
! NJ. Smith laced one down 10 the renee
for three bases. scoring Harmon. Huggins
2
and Magee. Tony Konetchy singled. scor-
| ing Smith. and Evans. up for the second
time in the inning. larruped the ball to
the left field fence for home run. By
this time the home team was all bu,
exhausted. so IIauscr grounded out TO
Cutshav. and Oakes did the same.
For a fitting moment Brooklyn held inc
lead. In the fourth inning j. Carlyle
Smith triplcd to left. and Jake Daub"rL
refusing to be outdonc. trpled also. scor-
/ ing the fiame-haired guardian OF tn" far
turn before him. Iack Wheat went ou'
on n slow roller TO Huggins. and Daubert
scored easily Brooklyn took brace IN
the eighth and ninth innings and scored
two more runs. but Harmon let them
have little fun for themselves, since
danger was past long since.
/ Galloway. recruit. played second base
for the Cardinals after Huggins was re-
tired and the youngstcr made name
| for himself In a day. He handled seven
| difficult chances with the ease and skill
! OF veteran.
The score follows.