Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
POOR PITCHING
DEFEATS MACKS
Perry, CrevelI and Watson Fail
to Halt St. Louis
Team
CONNIE is OPTIMISTIC
Nv EDWIN ]. POLLOCK
speciaI STAFF Correspondcnt Travelling with
the Athletics.

Special STAFF Correspondent Travelling with
the Athletics.
st. Louis. Mo-. May 15.-Elevcn to
nothing! What a game! The Browns
looked like champions and the As made
more mistakes than Trotsky..
The men Of Mack made their 1919
appearance in the West billed as a re.
modelled and much improved ball club
and looked as coed as j. Hoover's north
side professionals. The only thing that
the AS had on Hoovcr's club was that
they are a fully uniformed team.
But it was just ono of those days
that pop up now and then in the life of
every big league club. when everything
goes dead wrong. The weird exhib-
tion given by the Shibe family was an
other vindication of the oft repeated
adagc that ball team is as good as
the pitchers. And the pitchers were
bad.
Tho lean leader sacrificed three hurl-
ers to the hogging parcelcd out by the
Browns. and among them was Scott
Perry. hero Of 1918. and the bone of
contention in baseball and civil courts
between G.. McGillicuddy. of the first
part, and G. Stallings, of the second
part, last year. Perry was not there.
Plenty of Speed
IT never had more stuff than | had
in those first two innings Scott con
fded after the game as he was about to
ttt.na In
suburbs. Il had more speed to my fast
ball and more of a break to my curve.
But after that I had trouble with con-
troll, something that never bothered me
last year.
Pm not trying to alibi my way out.
The Browns hit me and hit me hard, but
there were few breaks against me, aud
then the whole club went wrong.
Perry is not entirely to blame for the
showing he made yesterday against the
st. Louis reformers. for he has had
very little work this season between
games. and Perry is man who needs
work TO be good Adverse conditions,
have. prevented him from having more
than one workout between each of his
five starts. The big Oklahoma finger
has vet TO break into the win column
for 1919.
In the first two innings Scott was the
Scott of ycstcryear. He retired the side
in order in the first and, although Sis
Ter and Jacobson led off with singles in
the second, he frightened up with men on
the runways.
Austin Triples
With one out in tho third. Jimmy
Austin whangcd n triplc to deep center
and then the first break went against the
blond haired Mack twirer. Gcdcon
bunted on the squeeze to Burns. The
Tioga youth might have tried n, throw
to the plate, but he didn't, and when he
turned to first there was no one cover
ing the bag, which bone can be laid at
the feet. or head. of Red Shannon.
Perry's control got him in the fourth.
when he walked Jacobson to start
Sloan sacrificed and the big st. Louis
center fielder counted when Joseph
Dugan chuckcd wild on Gerber =
grounder. A walk was mixed up in the
two Brown tallies in the fifth. Gcdcon
was passed and Siscr got an inficld sin
gle. Both scored on jacobson $ clean
rap to left for base.
Grover batted for Perry in tho sixth
inning for no worthy purpose, for he
popped to Gerber. and when the As took
the field for the Browns half of the
same chapter Bill Grevel was in the
firing pit. The former Main Line
League finger gave such II good cXhibi-
ton that if he repeats he will be back
in Charley McCree's circuit in time for
the Fourth of July double bill. Grcvell
wa cd three of tho four mon to face