John Wesley Donaldson - Newspaper Headlines

Wilkerson's gingery Monarchs in their opening game Saturday on their home grounds, was made to go 13 frames by their competitors, St. Louis Giants. Manager Wilerson selected the old faithful Rube Currie for his opening pitcher, with Frank duncan receiver, and everything went well until the ninth inning, when the visitig (sp) team put over two runs and tied the score, then nothing was doing until the last half of the thirteenth inning, when the Monarchs put over the winning run. Mendez was called to the mound for the home team in the tenth and held the strong Giants until the winning run came across.
The St. Louis manager selected as his mound performer his star flinger the mighty Drake, with "Jay Bird" Ray, former Monarch receiver behind the bat, but one Mr. Oldham worked the last four innings.
The mayors of the two Kansas Cities, Harry B. Burton of the Kansas side, and Mayor Cromwell of the Missouri side formed the battery at the start. A crowd of 3,500 saw the opening game, all going home with a seasoned smile on their faces.
At 12:30 the two teams in autos, with hundreds of citizens in cars, led by the Second regiment K.P. band, paraded the colored districts and down town and then to Association Park, where the band after the two teams and the Twilight City league teams with the two mayors leading marched around the field. Band gave concert until 3 p. m.
The score:
St. Louis - AB H O A
Budley, cf . . . . . 6 2 4 1
Hewitt, ss . . . . . 7 2 2 2
Ray, c. . . . . . . . 5 2 4 1
Blackwell rf. . . . 6 2 3 4
McAdoo, 1b. . . 6 2 16 2
Brooks, 3b . . . . 7 2 2 4
Wesley, lf . . . . . 1 0 0 0
Woods, lf . . . . . 5 1 1 0
Holt, 2b . . . . . . 5 4 4 4
Drake, p. . . . . . 3 0 1 2
*Kennard. . . . . 1 0 0 0
Oldham, p. . . . . 2 0 1 0

Totals . . . . 51 16 29 24

Monarchs - AB H O A
McNair, lf. . . . . . 5 1 3 0
Rogan, rf. . . . . . . 1 0 0 1
Anderson, 2b . . . 4 2 3 3
Carr, rf,-2b. . . . . 5 2 2 3
Moore, ss. . . . . . 5 2 2 5
Duncan, c. . . . . . 7 3 4 1
Port'ndo, 3b. . . . 6 2 3 5
Donaldson, cf. . . 6 1 3 1
Hawkins, 1b. . . . 6 2 15 2
Currie, p. . . . . . . 4 1 2 2
+Johnson . . . . . . 1 0 0 0
Mendez, p . . . . . 1 0 2 1
=Joseph . . . . . . . 0 0 0 0

Totals . . . . . 51 16 29 24
*Batted for Drake in ninth.
+Batted for Anderson in ninth.
=Batted for Portuondo in thirteenth.
The summary: Runs-McNair, 2: Anderson, Moore, Ray, Woods, Halt (sp). Errors-Hewitt, Ray, McAdoo, Brooks, Anderson 2, Duncan, Mendez. Stolen bases-Hawkins, Currie. Two-base hits-Anderson, Ray. Double Play-More (sp) to Carr to Hawkins. Hits-Off Lrake (sp) 11 in 10 innings; off Oldham 6 in 3 innings; off Mendez 4 in 4 innings. Struck out-by Drake 3, by CurCire (sp) 2, by Oldham 3, by Mendez 2. Base on balls-Off Drake 4 off Currie 2, off Oldham 1, off Mendez 1. Hit by pitched ball-By Oldham (Carr). Wild Pitch-Drake. Umpires-Boyle and Wheeler. Time of game-3:10.

St. Louis Wins Second Game
Six thousand saw the Monarchs lose the second game of the series, four costly error chalked up against the Monarchs and St. Louis won, 9 to 6. Bullet Rogan was on the mound for the Monarchs with "Heavy"
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