St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-29
EIGHT BEATS SEVEN.
The st. Paul Teams Lucky Ninth In
ming with the Terre Haute Tossers.
The Minneapolis and saltwater Mines Sue
cumb to Fort Wayne and Grand Rapids
Where is the Evansville Team ?---SpOrting
Events in Other Fields.
st. Paul as. Terre Hamte.

IL w do ouOWn )CSuOiody III thS
last game between the Terre Haute and st.
Paul teams that the result of base ball con-
test cannot be predicted with any degree of
certainty until the last man in the last half
of the last inning has been safely retired.
When eight innings had been played the
score stood six to two in favor of the visitors,
and no sane man in the audience had even
a suspicion that the home team would win.
In fact, fully one-half of the audience had
already gone down to Seventh street and got
comfortably seated for the ride down town
at the beginning of the ninth. so sure were
they that nothing very surprising would
happen. But seeming certainties do not all
ways prove absolute certaintes. All the fun
of the game was crowded into ten minutes of
the last inning, St. Paul sending ten men to
bat, who made six hits, including a double
and three-base drive, six of them crossing
the plate and the scores thus added turned
the tables and st. Paul was the winner. At
the beginning of the game the visitors did
beautiful fielding, while the work of the st.
Paul infield was wretched. Foster pitched
wild CAMEL couldn't hold his delivery,
O'Brien's hands were troubled with super
fluffy of thumbs, Foley's short stop
ping was extraordinarily weak,
and Nettleton's third base play
was worse than Browns. 1t is unfortunate
that Netteton is to be sent on the trip with
the team. He really has no strength as
fielder or batter, and his blunders outnumber
bis good plays two to one. If the intention
is to win games on the trip some effort should
be made to get third baseman or q short
stop. Foley could cover the field at third if
some one could be secured to play short.
Hengle and Tilley did what work they had to
do in good shape. No flies were sent to Til
leys field but he hit the ball to cool place
twice. Barnes, who is turning out to be one
of the heavy hitters, slugged the ball for two
bases and caught fly thatwas hard to handle.
Carrolps playing, however, was the best of the
day. He got under two very difficult flies, hit
the ball twice for total of five bases and
scored the winning run. He has made host
of friends in st. Paul, and he deserves all
the praise he gets. McCue, formerly of the
Saltwater team, occupied the box for the
visitors, and in the first eight innings but
five safe hits were made off him, but the
ill-fated ninth must have set him thinking.
The fielding of Carr, Van Dyke and DON
nelly was splendid, the third base play of the
latter being especially meritorious. He ac-
cepted every one of the seven chances of
ferred in fine style. McQuery at first is not
excelled by many first basemen in the North
western league.
st. Paul opened the first inning without
reaching first. For Terre Haute Carr reached
first on thirds tumble, and was retired from
short to second on Halbriters grounder.
Then wild pitch and three passed balls
gave Halbriter his run. In the second
inning st. Paul scored two runs. Barnes
reached first ON seconds tumble, went 10
second on passed ball and home on a bad
throw to first of Folev's grounder to second,
Foley going to third and home on a passed
ball. In the fourth inning MeQuery and
Moore scored on errors of short, third,
pitcher and first In the fifth McCue and
Carr led off by striking out. Halbriter made
first on shorts tumble, and crossed the plate
on hits by McQuery and Mappis, and both OF
the latter scored on a tumble and bad
throw by third. Both sides scored blanks in
the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. The
Terre Haute team, manager and all, looked
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seemed to have u sure thing for once. Barnes
stepped to the plate, and sent the ball spin
ming for two bases to extreme right field,
Foley brought him home on hit to center,
was himself sent around notch on Fosters
hit to right and the bases were filed on sec
ond's failure to hold Netteton's grounder.
Camel put III good hit to center, Foley
and Foster scoring Tilley's hit to center
brought home Nettleton and Gan
Eel. Tilley was caught trying
to steal second, and Hengle
was retired from short to first. Carroll then
got in a terrific drive to right center for three
bases, O'Brien bringing him to the plate on
daisy cutter between shorts legs. Barnes
then came to bat for the second time in the
inning, and gave first foul fly. The crowd
was wild with delight, but the turn things
took in the last half of the inning becalmed
their enthusiasm at once Carr led off with
a hit to left, Halbriter sent him 20 third on
two-bagger to the same field, and he scored
on a wild pitch, Halbriter going to third.
Nobody was ont, the score stood 8 to and
man was warming his toes on third. Mat
ters looked exceedingly serious again. Nc
Query famed the breezes, Mappis tipped the
ball to Camel, and Moore closed the game
in grounder to pitcher, who sent it to first
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