St. Paul daily globe., 1884-07-05
The Conjurors Of the Sphere
Have a Day of Great
Activity.
st. Paul Plays Two Good Games
with Saginaw, and Loses
1fs Both of Them.
Beats Bay City and is
saElss Beaten by Bay City
in Turn.
Milwaukee and Grand Rapids and Quincy
and Terre Haute Divide
the Days Honors.
.Scgina,c as. st. PauL

More than 1 800 people were in the seats
provided at the West Seventh street base ball
park yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock when
Umpire Dunlevy threw up the penny
which sent the st. Paul team to bat and Sag
inaw to the field. Rittenhouse and Lock
wood formed the Saginaw battery and Foster
first welded the willow. With the men in
position ready for the game some description
of the visitors will not be out of place. All
of the team are heavy and powerful and at
the same time wonderfully active and accur-
ate players. West, the fat man, is claimed
to be the safest striker and is given the posi-
ton of honor at the head of the batting list.
He plays center field, and although his obes-
ity is becoming great Inconvenience to him
he is rapid runner and plays
ball with all the enthusiasm
of school boy. The realization of the fact
that he will ere many moons be relegated to
lent gentlemen of his native heath does not
seem to weigh h N down with sorrow.
FaatZ, the first baseman, isn't so tall as
telegraph pole, but his length is sufficiently
conspicuous to be mentioned. A ball might
be thrown too high for him to reach, but it
is SO thoroughly improbable that it is not
worthy of even passing notice. Whitney is
OF medium size, has a determined look and
plays third base better than any other man in
the position we have seen this season. His
aim is un herring and he delivers ball with
the velocity of circular saw. Forester cap
tains the team, and plays short field. The
only discovery we made with regard to him
was that his mouth is abnormally developed.
1t was the Fourth yesterday, however, and
all small fire arms went off pretty freely.
Therefore we will lay the matter to the day
rather than the man. Spence
plays second base with more good
humor than judgment. He is
tanned up like his brethren of the diamond,
and gets as much fun out of the national
sport as any of them. LAWN makes good
appearance in the field, and is one of those
fellows who hit the ball with tremendous
ball over the left field fence yesterday, a feat
that our O'Brien has been trying to perform
ever since the season opened. Rittenhouse,
the man in the box, has strength enough to
bear up under the serious work of his posi-
ton, but his pitching is of that ordinary char
acter that merits no favorable comment.
Quinn looks better than he plays, and Lock-
wood plays better than he looks, and if either
can get any comfort out of these remarks he
is welcome to it without charge.
The game was well contested throughout,
and had it not been for a couple
of erroneous decisions made by
the umpire, the result would have
been 4 to 4 at the ninth
inning. Mr. Dunleyy is not guilty of de-
liberately planned wrong decisions, but the
fault is rather that of the eyes and ears than
of the heart. 1t was o hard crowd to umpire
for, too, being full to overfowing of that en-
thusiasm so peculiar to and inseparable from
Independence day. The foul tip of batter
in the third inning after two men were out
was heard plainly in all parts of the grounds,
but it was called strike and two men after
wards scored. Decisions like this are so
palpably incorrect that they are very ag-
gravating, to say the least.
The heavy hitting of both teams was the
feature of the game. LAWN laid the ball to
rest in the COW pasture outside of the left
field fence, Whitney put it over into extreme
right field and got three bases, and Hunter
followed him with one of the same kind two
minutes later. O'Brien made the crowd
hilarious by hitting for two bases twice.
Graves gave himself and his friends regular
holiday surprise in the prettiest two-bagger
of the day but six inches within the left field
foul line. Forester and Rittenhouse also
slugged the ball safe for two bases. Follow
ing is the score: