Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-13
ON THE DIAMOND.

The Ball Game Yesterday Between the
Minstrel Nine and Silver stars-The Lat
ter victors by IL to 5-Some Good and
Many Bad Plays.
The crowd of pedestrians who yesterday
afternoon walked across the bridge, and plod-
ded through the sand of the West st. Paul
flats to near the location of the old Red Cap
base ball grounds-and the goodly number of
ladies and gentlemen who were
present in their carriages -
and sat and stood around in the broiling sun
for two hours and half to witness the ball
game between the nine of Haverly's New
Mastodon Minstrels, Manager Joe Mack,
captain,) and the Silver Star nine of this city,
shows that the interest IN this great American
sport is not dead In st. Paul, but only sleeping,
waiting some favorable combination Of cir
cumstances, to awaken it into renewed and
even more healthy life than ever before.
The game was announced for 2:3e o'clock,
but it was before the minstrel nine appeared
on the ground, when another fifteen minutes
was consumed in arranging the details. When
it is understood the diamond was improvised
for the occasion, small stones forming the
bases, that the ground was rough and covered
with grass and weeds, and that
both mines were out of practice, the Silver
Stars not having played half dozen games
this season, and the minstrels not having been
out for more than two weeks, anything more
than muffing game could not reasonably be
expected. And such it was in the main, though
every now and then there was squirt, a flash,
a scintillation of good play-enough to keep a
thorough base ball enthusiast instructed in
the progress of the play. The two mines were
as follows:
Haverly's-Mullen, D.; Ingham, c.; Mack,
s. g.; Queen, b.; Harley, 2 b.; Garland, 8 b.;
Mills, /. f.; Russell, c. f.; Flynn, T.. +.
Silver Stars-M. Cody. c.; j. Rody, p; W..
Fetzer, b.; j. Worrick, s. s.; W. Allen, 2 b.;
j. Becker, 8 b.; D. Kelley, !. f.; G. Nettleton,
C. f.; T. Merritt, r.f.
THE PLAY.
The minstrels went to bat first and were re-
tired In one, two, three order, not being able to
hit Cody just little, while the Stars sue
ceeded through the drop of an easy fly by Null
lens and two wild throws in scoring three
-uns. The second inning was a repetition of
the first except Haverly, dropped two easy
succeeded in scoring, though had they minded
captain Mack, the minstrels might have Sc
cured at least one if not two runs In the fifth
inning. Up to this time the batting had been
very light, but the work now began to tell on
the pitchers and hits from this out were more
frequent. In the sixth inning clean
hit and bad throw gave the
Ministries their first run, the Silver Stars fol
lowing with two, on one hit and errors. In
he seventh inning the minstrels scored
two runs and the Stars three. This ended the
run getting for the Stars, both mines Being
whitewashed in the eighth, while in the ninth
and last the minstrels added two runs to their
score. The following is the score of the game
by innings:
Haverly's ......o 0 o ola 0 2-5
Stars. 8 o 0 0 2 8 0 Oil
Both the pitchers and the catchers did some
excellent work, and with practice would I'M
doubtedly be very proficient in their positions.
Quite number of really brilliant plays were
made, and any number of bad ones, but the
game was good deal better than no game al
all to ball enthusiast, of whom st. Paul has
a good many left. The game was umpired
very promptly and satisfactorily by Mr.. Frank
Wright, treasurer of the Ministries. Had the
minstrel boys paid little more attention to
the coaching of Capt. Mack, who we under.
stand is an old league player, the game would
have resulted more to their credit