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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM September 13, 1912 ... The Red Sox express rolled into St. Louis this morning from Chicago and continued to show their class at Sportsman's Park, putting the first game of the series away for safekeeping by a 6 to 2 score. Hugh Bedient was picked to do the pitching, and though a bit wild at times, he managed to go the distance by effective work and phenomenal support by his team. Manager George Stovall sent in his 6'-4" left-hander, Carl Weilman and in seven of the nine innings that he pitched, he looked good. But in the first and eighth innings, the Speed Boys put the bat against the ball and scored five of their six runs. It was simply a continuance of the way they were playing in Chicago, always confident and producing when needed. There were two misplays charged to the Red Sox, but they were on difficult plays and may be considered excusable. Tris Speaker dropped a fly ball after a long run while taking the ball at full reach over his head, holding it for an instant, before it popped out of his glove. Steve Yerkes made a wild throw in trying for a doubleplay, when he took a grounder, touched second for the force, and threw off-balance to first. These errors had nothing to do with the two runs scored by the Browns in the end. Wild throws by Jimmy Austin and the pitcher gave Boston two of their runs, while the other four went over the plate as result of clean drives by Yerkes, Larry Gardner and Jake Stahl, all who knocked out doubles. The Red Sox started in the first inning when Harry Hooper opened up with a base hit and Yerkes smashed the ball against the left-field fence for two bases to score Hooper. Speaker got two bases on a wild throw by Austen, and Lewis forced Yerkes at the plate. Larry Gardner then brought home two men with a sharp base hit to left. That made the score 3 to 0 and the Browns had an uphill fight.
St. Louis got one run back in the third inning when Bobby Wallace singled and scored on a base hit by Walt Alexander that went over Speaker's head. The ball was played to third where it Heinie Wagner pulled it down, with a jumping one-handed catch, and got the man who was diving into the base. Boston scored their fourth run with two outs in the fourth inning, when Austin threw Carrigan's bunt over the firstbaseman's head, allowing him to get to second. Carrigan was then driven in on a nice base hit by Bedient to make it 4 to 1. Boston went out in order in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. In the sixth, St. Louis cut the deficit again when, with two outs, Joe Kutina and Jimmy Austin singled to score Heinie Jantzen, who had walked. In the eighth inning the Red Sox scored two more runs and put the game away. Speaker opened with a single and Lewis sacrificed him to second. Larry Gardner doubled off the left-field fence to score Speaker and Jake Stahl nearly knocked a board off the right-field fence with a double that scored Gardner. In the ninth-inning the home team made a valiant try. They opened with a single and Bobby Wallace drew a pass. Gus Williams came to bat for the catcher and smashed a hot grounder that Heinie Wagner blocked and managed to throw to second for the force out. Pete Compton came to bat for the pitcher and struck out, and manager Stovall came up to pinch-hit for Elmer Brown. He shot a grounder to Yerkes that he gathered up and tossed over to Stahl for the last out of the game. The Browns got eleven men to first base, eight to second, four over to third and two over the plate during the game. Gardner did the best work for the Red Sox with the bat, knocking out a single and a double. He knocked in three runs and scored one himself. Ray Collins was not feeling well when the team arrived and was examined by the house physician, who found that he had a temperature near 100° and was told to stay in bed. Tris Speaker's mother, who has been with the team for over a week, made her goodbyes and was packed up and boarded the train for Hubbard City, Texas. President and Mrs. McAleer were entertained by old St. Louis friends on their return to the city and their party was on hand and enjoyed the game. |
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