St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-15
A BELATED VICTORY.
The st. Paul Team Give, That of Mus
kegon Sound Threshing.
Minneapolis Gets Left in Close Game With
the Saginaw Twirlers.
Bay City Beats Saltwater, Grand Rapids
Quincy, and Milwaukee Fort Wayne.
St. Paul vs. Masskegoa.


West Seventh street park yesterday afternoon.
Nobody expected that many would attend
the game, but it was the largest wash day
crowd that has yet been on the grounds.
Everybody believed it would rain, but it
came no nearer rain than gentle drlzzle.
The general impression was that Muskegon
would take unto itself the laurels, but st.
Paul had the easiest kind OF victory. 1t
would be difficult to explain why the audience
was SO large. The day was cold and cheer
less, the clouds seemed to have their sprink-
ling pots in battle array, and the home team
had been beaten with such perplexing regu-
larity that it seemed like hoping against hope
to expect it to get another game. The fact
that Jennings was going to umpire probably
had drawing effect, for if there is any one
thing base ball audience likes more than
another it is to have judge of the perform
ance with the courage Of his convictions.
For up and down, fair and square umpiring
Jennings gets away with the bakery. When
he disciplined Nelson for trying to anticipate
his decisions by leaving his position for the
batters' bench, and Foster for dropping the
ball when angry because strikes were not
called, the audience was immensely tickled.
The decision in calling O'Brien out at the
home plate in the fourth inning was close
but just, as it was plain even as far away as
the grand stand that the runner did not
touch the plate. Foster and Camel were the
st. Paul battery and Nelson and Donohue
filed the points for Muskegon. Foster held
the visitors down to two hits up to the eighth
inning, when two more were secured.
Nelson was hit hard in but one inning, the
sixth, when st. Paul pounded him for
three-bagger, two-bagger and three singles,
scoring five runs before anybody was retired.
The home team made but three errors in the
game. Foley fumbled Rainey's grounder in
the first inning, O'Brien muffed NelsOn's S fly
in the third, and Camel threw wild to Hen
gle in the eighth. Hengle and Tilley had
light day of it. No balls went to left field
and the three that went to second were well
taken. Foley's short stop work was more
than usually good, and his hit for three bases
in the sixth inning was great performance
Brown and Carroll, two of the new men, did
themselves proud. Brown retired two men,
assisted three times, hit the ball safe twice,
and added two to the tally sheet. Carroll hit
for single, scored, put out one, and fielded
what seemed a safe base hit to first
in time to catch the runner. He
covers more ground at right
than any man put in that position before.
o brien put out thirteen with his foot on first
bag, pounded the ball for two bases, scored
once and was retired at the plate once. But
for his mutt he would have had great day
of it.Foster and Camel made it warm for t. e
Mnskegon batters, as they do for all, for that
matter, who have dealings with them. Hun
ter is one of the strongest men in the team,
and we wonder that he does not play more
His catchYof Douohue's fly in the fourth was
as pretty play as we have ever seen and his
one hand catch of Myers fly il the sixth
was not an ordinary performance by any
means. His fielding, too, is his weakness.
At the bat he is the surest man Of them ALL
and when he can't hit pitchers delivery it
is pretty safe to wager that the rest can't
Right at this point we would like to urge
that Yesterdays st. Paul team be presented
to-day without change. Foster, we think,
should pitch as usual, as he will have We'd
nesday for rest.
q The game opened with Muskegon at bat
Donohue went out on a foul tip, Myers on a
tumble, and was caught trying to steal Sec
ond. Hengle and Carroll sent flies to short,
and Hunter struck out In the second Har-
ter was retired from short to first, Brewer
made hit to center, Cook hit fly to pitcher
who doubled on Brewer at first. Foster got
around to second on first's muff of thrown
ball from short but the rest were retired
In the third Wright gave third foul fly,
fret fRria ,c R,1f
fly, Patton hit the ball over Browns head
some twenty feet, but he went after 1t and
caught it and sent it on line to first In time
to catch Nelson. St. Paul went out one,
two, three. In the fourth Donohue's fly to
first was neatly taken, Myers popped the ball
over Hunters head for two bases, and Rain
ey and Harter were retired from Sec
ond to first. In the fourth Carroll opened
with safe hit to left, stole second, made
third while Hunters fly was being fielded in
The catcher failed to hold O'Brien's third
strike and hit the latter in throwing to first,
Carroll scoring and O'Brien going to second.
He reached third on q passed ball and was
retired at the plate on fielder's choice, Fos-
ter taking first Brown took base ON balls,
Foley hit to right, the ball was fielded in over
catcher's head, and Foster and Brown scored,
Foley making his way to third. Tilley hit
grounder to first. Nothing more of moment
was done till the last half of the sixth Then
0'Brien's double, Fosters and Browns sin
gles Foleys three-baser, pitchers error and
Cancels single brought to the score five
runs. In the seventh Hunter
hit a good two-baser, but he spoiled
1t by trying to get three. In
the eighth for Muskegon Wright hit to third
too fast to hold, took two more bases on
passed balls, and scored on Patton's hit.
Following is the score:
MUsKEGoN.
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