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Senators Invincible - July 12, 1906

Austin Takes Two Games From Lake Charles --First Game 5 to 4, and Second Game was 11 to 7.

Cermak and Jeffries

Two New Players Covered Themselves With Glory, Cermak in the Field and Jeffries at the Bat.

Specatcular Catch Made

He Mitted Ball in Left Field When chances Were Against Him --
McGill Pitches Great Game -- McCall Turns Defeat.

Austin won both games of the double-header.
First Game -- Austin, 5; Lake Charles, 4.
Second Game -- Austin, 11; Lake Charles, 7.

Beaumont at the park today.

The Senators took two games from the Creoles at the Driving Park yesterday afternoon and furnished the fans more baseball than they have seen in any one day this year. This was the first double-header and resulted to the perfect satisfaction to all the fans. Of the two games the first was a "jim dandy," and the second was about as loose and crude as they usually make them. You could hardly realize at times that it was the same teams playing the second game that played the first. The first was along the order of the two preceding days, and the second was not up to the pace set by the three preceding games by a long shot. McCall went in the box for the Senators for the first and Bill Bailey and McGill did the work for the last. McCall on his game through the timely hitting of Cermak, Gardner, Short, Gordon, and a few errors on the part of the Creoles. The second game was won by a regular bombardment in the very first inning, when the Senators made eight runs, the Creoles more errors than could be counted easily, and also by the great pitching of McGill, who relieved Bailey after the fourth inning.

McCall and McGill

Too much credit can not be attributed to McCall and McGill, who did exceptionally fine work. McCall held the Creoles down to six hits in his game, though three of the six were made in the first, which netted the visitors two runs. After this inning McCall got on his toes and pitched a fine game, and but one run could be charged up to him, which resulted froma base on balls. McCall usually has hard luck, but he succeeded in turning defeat into victory yesterday. McGill went in the game after the fourth inning of the second game,and not a run or a hit was made during the five innings that he pitched. This is a record that is rarely equaled in this league. Only one man reached first base in his part of the game, and that was on an error. In the five innings that he pitched only sixteen men faced him, only three men in each inning for four innings and four in another. It was perhaps the best ball that the big fellow has ever pitched in this city, and will be hard for him to equal hereafter. He took the game in a pinch, when they were being batted all over the field, and reversed the order of things.

How First Game Was Won

The Creoles got the start on the Senators and in less time than it takes to tell it had made three runs. Cooper got a hit, went to second on a sacrifice. Horn followed with a hit, putting two men on bases. Then Lathan came to bat and batted McCall for a three-bagger, which brought in two men. Hardy flew out to Cermak and Lathan attempted to come home, but through the magnificent throw of Cermak was put out at the home plate. Only four Legislators faced Colgrove in the first and three in the second. The third gave Lake Charles one more run. Cooper reached first, through a scratch, when Bradley played ping pong with the ball. A hard hit by Horn scored Cooper. And then the fourth rolled around, when the Senators tied the score and should have raised it one point. Gardner started the ball rolling with a hit and Gill forced him to second. Short then got in a hit and put three men on Bases with no man out. Bradley went to first on a bunt but Gardner was called out at home. Three men on bases still. McCall got his usuall hit, which scored Short, and then Cermak got his swat, which scored Bradley, which tied the score.

At this point a squeeze play was made and the Senators should have had another run, but Quigg called the runner out, in which the umpire was in the wrong. Gordon was on third when McCully took the bat. McCully had three balls and two stikes, and as Colgrove delivered the deciding ball Gordon went for the home plate for all it was worth. In fact he started on the homeward jouney before the pitcher had turned the ball loose. This rattled the catcher, who jumped in front of the batter and got clear out of his box, thus interfering with the batter, exactly as Gordon wanted him to do. Of course he caught the ball and put Gordon out, and Quigg refused to allow the run. The catcher should not have interfered with the batter. The play was pretty "heady" on the part of Gordon and the run should have counted. However, the Senators afterwards won the game.

The fourth, fifth and sixth were uneventful. The seventh came near giving the Senators a run, and the eighth resulted in two more, which won the game. These two runs were made after the Creoles had made one run in their half of the inning. A base on balls, a sacrifice and a hit scored one run for Lake Charles. Bradley got to first in the eighth on an error. Jeffries followed him and got his base on another error. A sacrifice by Gordon and a two-bagger by Cermak scored the two men on bases. In the ninth the Creoles went out one, two three.

Second Game

The first four innings of the second game was a race between the two teams as to which could make the most runs. Austin scored eight runs in the first inning and two in the fourth. Lake Charles made six in the fourth, and the Senators added one more in the six and the fans were permitted to leave after about three hours of spectacular playing.

Twelve men batted for Austin in the first inning. And every man except Bradley scored. it was a perfect bombardment and the result was not so much on account of Lacey's pitching as it was the errors made in the field. Five hits and six errors made the eight runs. And this was aided by a base on balls and a wild pitch. With this kind of a record the wonder is that a dozen runs were not made. Lake Charles in the fourth inning ran up six scores on Bill Bailey. In the second they made one run on a hit and an error and then another hit. Four hits in the fourth did the work. This was aided by two bases on balls and one error, and the result was that six men encircled the diamond for scores.

Then McGill was sent int replace Bailey and succeeded in doing marvelous work. A base on balls, a hit and a three-bagger by Jeffries in the fourth scored two runs for the Senators. In the sixth the Senators added the final score and at the end of the game the score stood 11 to 7 in favor of the Senators.

Following is the score of the first game:

First Game --

Lake Charles

AB

R

H

PO

A

E

Cooper, 3b
3

3

1

1

6

0

Ollre, ss
2

0

0

0

1

1

Horn, 2b
4

1

2

1

0

0

Latham, lf
4

0

2

1

0

0

Hardy, 1b
4

0

0

12

0

1

McCreight, cf
4

0

0

2

0

0

Mier, c
3

0

0

6

1

0

Germillion, rf
4

0

0

0

1

0

Colgrove, p
3

0

1

1

4

0

TOTAL

31

4

6

24

13

2

Austin

AB

R

H

PO

A

E

Cermak, lf
4

0

2

5

1

0

McCully, ss
5

0

1

1

2

0

Gardner, 2b
3

0

2

2

4

1

Gill, 1b
4

1

1

11

0

0

Short, 3b
4

1

1

1

0

0

Bradley, 3b
4

2

0

2

1

1

Jeffries, rf
3

1

2

2

0

0

Gordon, c
3

0

1

3

0

0

McCall, p
4

0

2

0

3

0

TOTAL

39

5

12

27

11

2

Runs & Hits --

Lake Charles...
Runs................................201 000 010 -- 4
Hits..................................301 010 010 -- 6

Austin...
Runs................................000 300 02* -- 5
Hits..................................000 512 22* -- 12

Summary --

Two-base Hits -- Gardner, Cermak
Three-base Hit -- Latham
Stolen Bases -- Cermak (2), Gill, Cooper
Sacrifice Hits -- Ollre (2), Gardner, Jeffries, Gordon
Struck Out -- by McCall, 2; by Colgrove, 4
Base on Balls -- by McCall, 2; by Colgrove, 1
Left on Bases -- Austin, 9; Lake Charles, 4
Double Plays -- Cermak to Gordon; McCully to Gardner to Gill

Following is the Score of the second game:

Lake Charles

AB

R

H

PO

A

E

Cooper, 3b
5

2

2

2

1

2

Ollre, ss
3

1

1

3

4

0

Horn, 2b
5

0

0

4

1

0

Latham, lf
5

0

0

1

0

2

Hardy, 1b
4

1

1

8

0

1

McCreight, cf
3

2

1

0

0

0

Mier, rf
3

1

0

2

1

0

Billings, c
3

0

0

4

2

2

Lacey, p
4

1

2

0

1

0

TOTAL

35

7

7

24

10

8

Austin

AB

R

H

PO

A

E

Cermak, lf
5

1

2

3

0

0

McCully, ss
3

1

1

1

3

0

Gardner, 2b
4

2

1

1

5

2

Gill, 1b
5

2

2

16

0

0

Short, cf
5

1

0

0

0

1

Bradley, 3b
3

1

1

0

1

1

Jeffries, rf
4

1

3

0

0

0

Gordon, c
4

1

0

3

0

0

Bailey, p
2

1

0

0

2

0

TOTAL

35

11

10

24

11

4

Summary --

Stolen Bases -- Cooper, Cermak, McCully, Gardner, Gill, Bradley, Jeffries
Sacrifice Hits -- Ollre
Struck Out -- by McGill, 2; by Bailey, 2; Lacey, 3
Base on Balls -- by McGill, 0; by Bailey, 3; Lacey, 3
First Base on Errors -- Austin, 5; Lake Charles, 2
Left on Bases -- Austin, 6; Lake Charles, 6
Wild Pitches -- by Lacey
Umpire -- Mr. Quigg

Individual Batting Averages - Click Here to view July 15, 1906 batting averages.