Mordecai Brown

Doc Crandall

Al Bridwell

Dave Davenport

Danny Murphy

Tom Seaton

Armando Marsans

Hugh Miller

Globe trotters tell us that baseball is played in practically every civilized country on this mundane sphere, but one would have to travel to Mars to witness such a game ...

A "crowd" estimated at 300, perhaps held down by the Flag Day celebration in St. Louis, saw the game get off to a fast start.

• The Tip-Tops struck for 3 in the first against Dave Davenport. George Anderson singled, Claude Cooper walked, Art Griggs bunted them over, then Danny Murphy whacked a homer.
  Davenport was making his first start for the Terriers after jumping from the Reds, for whom he went 2-2.
• Facing Tom Seaton, who won 27 games for the Phillies in 1913, the home team matched that number in the bottom of the inning on five hits and an error.
  Seaton's switch to the Federal League was influenced by a tragic family event that occurred August 7, 1913. As he pitched against the Cubs in Chicago, his wife Rene was in labor and in danger of her losing her life. After he pitched seven innings, losing 5-2, he hurried to Philadelphia where his child had already died. Doctors gave Rene no hope, but she survived. However, she harbored a grudge against the Phillies and manager Red Dooin. She claimed that Dooin had withheld from her husband a telegram sent before the game urging him to rush to Philadelphia.
  On February 18, 1914, Seaton signed a three-year contract to play for the Tip-Tops at $7,000 per year. But he reported to spring training in Shreveport LA with the Chicago Federals! After some haggling, the righthander agreed to play for Brooklyn after they increased his salary to $8,500 per year.

The game stayed 3-3 until the 8th.

• A single by Griggs, Murphy's sacrifice, Solly Hofman's double, and Ted Wisterzil's triple plated two.
• But the Terriers rallied against Seaton for two in the bottom of the 9th on three hits and a walk to send the game into extra ininngs.

The three-fingered skipper took over for Davenport in the 10th and set down the visitors in the first two extra frames. Seaton did the same to the Terriers. But Brown fell apart in the 12th.

• The inning started innocently enough when Cooper struck out.
• But Griggs tripled, Murphy and Hofman singled, and Westerzil doubled to make it 8-5.
• Eddie Gagnier singled. Despite the lead, Grover Land sacrificed.
• P Seaton homered. 11-5
• But the Tip-Tops weren't through. Anderson singled and Cooper doubled to make it 12-5.
• Griggs, like Cooper batting for the second time in the inning, simply waved at three pitches to get the inning over. File that under "Don't count your chickens before they hatch."
• After all, as the Brooklyn correspondent wrote, "seven nice, juicy runs" are "apparently enough to win any game."

But not so fast, my friend.

• Fans started to file out but heistated when Tobin lofted one of Seaton's deliveries over the RF wall. 12-6
• Ward Miller popped to Griggs, and the customers started out again.
• Then the tornado broke. Seaton would not record another out.
• Fred Kommers, Delos Drake, and Al Boucher each singled. 12-7
• LF Anderson dropped Al Bridwell's fly, and Mike Simon walked. 12-8
• Grover Hartley pinch-hit for his manager and beat out an infield hit. 12-9
• Armando Marsans's single made it 12-11 and finally ended the day for Seaton.
• Manager Bill Bradley brought in Byron Houck, but he yielded a single to Jack Tobin to load the bases. Then he walked Miller to force in the tying run. The St. Louis fans celebrated by throwing bats, hats, and coats
• Bradley turned to Rudy Summers to hold the line but to no avail. Hugh Miller batted for Kommers and rapped a game-winning single. The Tip-Tops couldn't even get two outs.
• Seven runs in the top of the 12th followed by eight in the bottom of the inning!
  Terriers 13 Tip-Tops 12