St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-26
ON THE DIAMOND.
st. Paul's Club to Play It's First Game
at Saltwater Saturday.
Good Talk of Milwaukee Papers for Their
Home Club.

Good Talk Of Milwaukee Papers for Theil
Home Club.
To-day the st. Paul club goes to SILVIA
ter to play an exhibition game with the club
OF that city. The club win leave in the 70 IA
p. m. train, and another train will leave at 9
p. m. The Royal Route has reduced the
fare to S1.00 for the round trip, and a good
many people will go over from st. Paul to
see how the men handle themselves The
Saltwater club was formed early in the
season when it was very doubtful
IL st. Paul would have club at all. OF
course the manager of the Saltwater nine
had better material and more of it to select
from, and very likely it is better organi-
cation than the st. Paul team. The Still
water follows have been '!laying low,'
for some time and whispered reports have
come around in various ways and at differ
ent times that they were preparing to take
the starch out of the st. Paul
fellows. 1t would not be surprising
if they should do this little
piece of washing up to-day in a way that
would cause Ching Yang to smile. So far as
can be learned the Saltwater club is a good
one. The St. Paul club is fair. 1t lacks in
practice and neither of the teams have had
sufficient team practice to enable any one to
form judgment as to which will win, or as
to the relative merits of the respective clubs.
The game will be merely an experiment in
Irhio c,.-i11 ha 10
obtain some gauge of their men.
THE ST. PAUL TEAM.
The following is the st. Paul team in the
batting order as named Hunter, IF; DIN,
I'd; O'Brien, 3D.; Clapp, LIST; Barnes, If;
Ober, p; Foster, CT; Camel, C; Werrick, S.
This arrangement of the batting order may
be little different In one or two instances
but it is substantially correct
THE MILWAUKEE CLUB.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin has nearly col
umn devoted to the players in this club
Judging from what that paper says of the
members of it, one would nat
urally conclude that the Milwaukee club
is little the best there is in the world. Man
ager Mckee, according to an interview the
Wisconsin had with him, has tall idea of his
men. OF Dunn, the first baseman, the man
ager says, she can find a ball anywhere, and
covers the ground beautifully" Tom Griffin
''is dead sure of his ball every time -
''Should Dunn become sore on first bag
Tom will relieve him occasionally" This is
kind of Tom. A little Of st. Jacobs oil might
help some. Bchel is left field, and sseyery
ball going into his kingdom is pie for him. y
Manager Mckee was clicked to see Tom
T off,,
shaved off his mustache,'' and pleases
the manager SO well that
he ''don't want any better man at short stop y
Morrissy "handles the willow conscientious
ly.' Delaney reaches up for his ball every
time and fields it without a moments hesita-
ton" NJ. McDermott ''pitches swift drop
curve that is a puzzler," while Mckinley
''shoots drop ball in like cannon shot"
OF Cushman the manager says he 'fairly
lifts Strqub, the catcher, from his pins y
Better have poor little Straub spiked down,
or set him up against the back stop. Brough-
ton throws to second so fast that a player
''who steals second on his throwing will have
to travel on an electric wire.' The inter
view closes as follows:
''Himmelstein will come out all right be-
fore the season opens, although he is trife
too fat for good work. He plays third base
for all it is worth, and fires the ball to Schom-
berg on dead line. Fach is fairly looming
up behind the bat. His condition is hardly
light enough, but he is quick thrower and
stands any amount of punishment. Toole is
an ambitious young man and knows how to
play well. l have appointed him captain of
the Queen City Professionals. Straub, the
cashier, is in his regular form, hits the balls
hard and quick and corks them all over the
field. He has worked off about seventeen
pounds of superluous flesh and never looked
better"
From what is read in this complimentary
interview one will naturally conclude that the
Milwaukee club is prepared to walk through
the northwestern league, with its fat men,
and its lean men, its lightning tflrowers
and telephone fielders, and take the flag with
out any doubt. We say it in sackcloth and
ashes, that there is nothing in this part of
the world that can hope to compete with such
performers on the diamond field. If Straub
has worked of seventeen pounds of flesh he
has done good thing, and there can be no
doubt that if he keeps up slicing off the su-
periuous flesh that when he reaches the end
of the season he will be good man for a
running race. Taffy don't win base ball
games though
OF the game that was to have been played
yesterday between the regular and the Cream
Citys the Sentinel says: 1t is the intention Of
the management to change the batteries OF
both teams during the game in order to dis
play the ability of the respective pitchers and
catchers. Cushman and Straub will be the
regulars battery for the first five innings and
will be succeeded by Mckinley and Brough-
ton. The reserves will put forward three
batteries during the game, namely, the Nc
Cormick brothers, Baldwin and Dealy, and
Schierz and Falch. The attendance promises
to be large, as there is great curiosity to see
NE work of the different batteries The vari-
oe;s native players are showing great promise
Straub, who first acquired notoriety as ball
player with the Aucklands, of this city,i is said
to hold Cushman's curved lightning in ex-
cellent style. Sexton, the favorite shortstop
of the Maple Leafs, and Delaney, the relia-
BILE left-felder, are also showing up In
splendid form. The Becker Street Railway
company began the work of extending the
track to the grounds yesterday and it will be
completed to-day. The players who are now
in Rockford will be here tomorrow morn
ing.
For Arthur and Lincoln.
New YORK, April 25.-James Gordon