New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-16
St. Louis Miners Get Six !,
a Game Wild and
Also WOOlly.
HITTING FOR EXTRA
BASES TELL STORY
Two.Bagger, Three Triples and
Home Run Help Brooklyn
Feds to a Victory.

A thrilling melodrama In nine acts =,
performed for the cdihcation % soe
thousand spectators AZ Washington Pa
Yesterday afternoon. The heroes q p
production, Bill Bradley's Tip Tops o.
quered the woud-be williams. known
real life as tho Miners OF 81. Louis
It took round two and half houu
While the action was fast In stresa
It dragged badly at intervals. Elghls.
runs were scored. and OF these the 4
Tops collected twelve. BY simple 81
traction IT, will readily be seen that d,
Miners gathered six.
All sides OF the great American r,r,
were brought out. When the batters vn
not hitting the ball the ball was hi,tg
the batters. WEIGH. who is no relation
the once famous Smiling Mickey VI
the sharpshoOters medal He hit Cooss
Westerzil and Gagnier. In the eigh1
frame he placed the ball hrmly and VI
no degree of gentility in the geometria
centre of Westerzls and Gagniers ria.
Let us have peace" said the batter
but Welch was apparently more intent =
having the pieces. Herbert also four
time 10 hit Danny Murphy. There weH
dashes Of ground and lofty tumolins lie
wise low and lofty throwing.
When 1t came to pitching Well then
was a representative from the Natola
American. college and plain ordinary blcI
league. Bobby Groom, former sena'0I
Herbert. an ex-Red. and Welch, OF FL
where in particular All these worked "a
the Miners. and none very well Haui
Vernon. who won his a at Amherl
College. and Ed LATTE. once with II
Detroit Tigers did their best 10 hold a
opposition in check. and succeeded farl'
well.
Discipline is not strictly enforced n on
Federal League. or at least, 50 the asuaI
observer might have gathered YESTERDAY
In the fourth inning Al BridweN val
called out on strikes with the bases nue
He few into towering rage, ana nur'
ing imprecations AT Mccormick. the I'M
pire in charge, threw his bat into III
middle Of the field. In the same inuin,
Kommers was called out on strikes. AM
There are leagues where such condut
would have been punished By eXpulsim
from the game and a suspension. Nr|
Cormick listened 10 much airy persiHai'
AT the plate. Simon kept telling him Cha
the plate had corners. until At last MI
Cormick replied that he was aware Of ID
fact. but insisted that IT had no "a
windows.
II was a hard day for the pitcher
general. but the visiting moundsmen -
fered most. The Tip Tops exercised VIA
amounted 20 a monopoly in the EAU
base hitting.
Drake got a two-base hit FOR the I'm
ers. but to offset this was a home ru
and A two-bagger by Myers and trip'a
By Holman, Westerzil and Evans Me-
ers's home run came With no one on N /
bases. but the majority or the o,hs
drives came along at timely moments
The game lost all the outward ssn
Of struggle in the early innings ID
Tip Tops scored two runs In the nrst
a double by Meyers, triple by hofmA
and Bridwell's error. That lead was shcS
lived. for in the second frame the Mines
got over two.
In the third. however. Brooklyn leapa
all over Bobby Groom for I'VE rgH h
made on four hits and a couple Of euN'
The hits included triples by Evans ar
Westerzil That was an end OF the s'Hl
so far as results were concerned
The n,n-es follow.