FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM
Nice and easy for the Red Sox

August 15, 1912 ... 13 to 6 was the score at Fenway Park today, in a game that was a walk over for the Red Sox against the St. Louis Browns. The Red Sox could not only have made more runs, but might have prevented St. Louis from scoring so many.

Jack Powell had won games from the Red Sox by using his head and mixing up his pitches, lobbing up slow ones for them to break their backs on, in an effort to knock them out of their rhythm. With the result that they never touched him, or if they did, they just popped up the ball for the field. He tried that tactic again today and it worked all right for just one inning. But in the second inning, the Sox sized him up nicely and they knocked out five hits in succession, including a triple and a double, before anybody was out. They put the game on ice, scoring seven runs, and then it was a case of getting in 4 1/2 innings to make the game an official one, before rain had the potential to end the festivities. Strangely enough Tris Speaker was the only Boston batter who did not get a hit off Powell.

Duffy Lewis started the second inning by lacing out a single to left. On the hit-and-run play, Larry Gardner poked one between first and second as Duffy made his way to third. Clyde Engle timed a mighty wallop that sent the ball to the outfield bleacher fence and was good for three bases. Heinie Wagner smashed one against the wall in left field for a double, Bill Carrigan blooped a single to right and Wagner held second. Not knowing whether the ball might be caught. Powell next passed Hugh Bedient to load the bases. After Hooper popped one out to Daley, Neil Ball hit a grounder that Jimmy Austin gathered up to force Carrigan, as there was no chance to get Wagner at the plate and his run would not have counted had things had gone as planned. But Austin threw the ball over first to double up Ball, and George Stovall muffed the perfect throw and Ball was safe. Now things are coming fast and Stovall was so befuddled by his error, that he got a little mixed up and failed to realize that Carrigan was the man out at third. So as Bill jogged in from the base, he was touched again by Stovall, who was surprised that the fact that Carrigan made no effort to avoid the tag. Powell gave Speaker a base on balls and Lewis came to the plate for the second time in the inning. He cracked out a double on which Bedient and Ball scored. Gardner was finally thrown out on a ball hit back to Powell, but seven runs had been scored in the inning.

The Red Sox scored two more in the third when Engle led off with a double, Wagner hit one down to Daley who tried for Engle at third, but his poor throw got away from Austin and Engle scored. Wagner went to second on the play and was advanced to third when Carrigan laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt. He finally scored a moment later, when Daley mishandled a ground ball hit to him by Harry Hooper.

With the clouds gathering and rain threatening, St. Louis scored a run in the third and a run in the fourth, adding two more in the fifth inning. But the Red Sox were busy again in the bottom of the fifth. Engle, the first man up, came across with his third single of the game. Wagner also singled and Carrigan filed out to Austin. Bedient hit a ground ball down to Del Pratt, who threw wild in trying to get Engle at the plate, and another run was across. Hooper and Ball singled and Wagner and Hooper scored when Austin field to handle a return throw from the outfield.

St. Louis scored in the seventh as Pratt came across on Stovall's single that got away from Lewis, and got another in the eighth on Daley's home run.

Les Nunamaker went in to catch the last four innings and appears to have entirely recovered from his injury. The Red Sox big-lead took considerable interest out of the game for the fans as well as the players, as they did not extend themselves so much as a ordinarily would do even in practice.

There was some brilliant fielding in the game by Speaker and by Austin, Daley, and Bill Brown. Brown came in and caught Hugh Bedient's fly ball in short center field that looked like it was going to drop in for a Texas leaguer. Dailey stopped Speaker's sharp grounder over near second, falling flat on his stomach in doing so, and while in that position shoved the ball over to Pratt in time to force Ball at second. He was cheered all the way as he walked into the bench and the cheering was again renewed when he was the first man up and cracked out the ball to center. The ball took a bad hop just as Speaker was about to grab it and bounced over his shoulder, making good for a home run.

Hugh Bedient did not have to extend himself and he took things easy. He appeared to be in good form and undoubtedly had the goods if he had been called upon to deliver.

Jake Stahl took the opportunity to take a day off and first base was handed over to Clyde Engle. He played a good game and also knocked out a triple, a double, and two singles in his four trips to the plate. He could easily have reached base in fifth time if not for the clever fielding by Stovall at first where he nipped Clyde on a hot ground ball that shot over the bag in the sixth inning.

It was announced that the Red Sox had purchased Rube Foster, a pitcher from the Houston club, leaders in the Texas League race. He will report at the end of the season. Secretary McRoy also announced that the club has exercised its options on Hal Janvrin of the Jersey City club and Dutch Leonard of the Denver club. Both of these plays were with the Red Sox in the spring and they have developed during the season, to such an extent that they are now regarded as viable men.

Foster, the men secured from Houston, is a very promising pitcher. Chicago's Charlie Comiskey was also after him, as he is regarded as the best right-handed pitcher in the Texas League. His record up to a week ago was eight and six. Seven of the games he won were shutouts and just one of the games lost was a shutout for his own team.