St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-19
FAREWELL PERFORMANCE.
The Aber-Graves Ancient Artillery
Paraded Before the Public for
the Last Time.
Saltwater Takes Trounciny at the Hands
OF Fort Wayne anu --4nneapolls
Beats Terre Haute.
Saginaw Gets Left at Milwaukee and
Quincy is Awfully Whipped by
Bay City.
St. Pa,s. as. Grand Rapids.


season for outdoor sports, and more than 1000
people went out to the West Seventh street base
bail park to see the second game of the series on
the home grounds between Grand Rapids and
St Paul. The fact that st. Paul won the game
on Thursday probably made the crowd consider
ably larger than it otherwise would have been.
The supposition was that Brown would be the
pitcher for the home club, and because he had
never occupied the box since arriving here, there
was considerable speculation as to the probable
outcome. For some reason, however, the ex-
pected programme not carried out, and the
management tretted out its ancient artillery,
Aber and Graves, for farewell performance.
To say the crowd was Disguised and tired out
before the opening of the contest would blu t
feebly exp:ess the situation. Several persons
were mad, and those of them who were not Chris
tians, or had money at stake on the result,
swore right ont in meeting Aber had SO often
proved himself miserable failure that no one
dared to hope for victory, and the wonder is that
he was not punished more severely than he, was.
Thirteen base hits with total of nineteen Is
quite bad enough, but we think the Grand
Rapids singers could have increased the total to
thirty had they gone about their work with
little more determination. The fact is that Abers
delivery is not at all deceptive after the batter
once catches on to his one little quirk, and the
management made great mistake in putting
him in the box at all. With even passably good
pitcher the home team would have won yester-
days game with the same ease that it did the one
the day before. Graves did the worst catching
he has done since he returned to st. Paul, hay
! ing six passed balls. Foley and Brown each got
couple of errors, but the field in their positions
| is so bad that it would be impossible almost to
play perfect game. Hunters muf at
center was costly but excusable, as
he had long run for the
| ball, O'Brien got an error, but he evened up
his score by retiring thirteen men and making
two base hits, one of them double-bagger.
| Hunter showed his usual strength with the will
low. Carroll had no trouble in hitting the ball,
but in all instances but one there was somebody
| in the way to cut him off. His two fielding
chances were accepted in fine style. His long
run for foul fly in the third inning was
markable performance, and one which not one
fielder in fifty would have accepted. Eden
couldn't get one from Browns bat in the ninth
inning inside the line, whereas that taken by
Carroll was fully twenty feet outside Henge
| continues to play the same marvellous game He
| retired five men, assisted three times, hit safe
| twice and crossed the plate with two scores, but
| his error column is full of emptiness. -
! The home team was sent to bat. Hengle
drove fly to center and Carroll one to left.
! Hunter hit good one to left center and took
second on a passed ball, getting home on
! o'Brien's two-baser to right center. Brown
struck out. For Grand Rapids Cox got to first
on ceIters muff taking second and third on
! passed balls. Eden went out from pitcher to
first, and Jones brought Cox in with hit to CEN
! ter Stockwell and Henry were retired at first.
| In the second Foley got life on muff by short
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went out from short to first, Foley gong to
! third. Aber took first on seven balls, and ran
down to second. Hengle struck out Madden
famed the breezes. Kearns went to first on
short jugglc and was caught trying to steal
second. Houtz made base hit to center, got
to second on a passed ball and scored on Cast
| fields hit to left. The latter stole second and
crossed the plate on Coxs two-bagger to left.
| Eden went out from pitcher to first. Neither
side scored in the third and fourth. In the fifth
Henge led off with hit to center and Carroll ad
vanced him base with hit to left. Hunter
reached first on seconds tumble and Hengle
scored. O'Brien went out from second to first
Brown hit the ball to third, who chased Carroll
from his base nearly TO the plate
catching him within foot Of it,
Foley took first ON balls and the bases were full,
but Tilley cut matters short in grounder to
second. For Grand Rapids, e len was retired
on fly to center. Jones made double Dagger
TO left, took third on passed ball aud Tailed on
Stockwell's grounder to third. Henry hit a two
baser to left and Madden gave second fly. In
the sixth Grand Rapids made it warm for the
home team. Kearns made first on shorts fun
BILE. Houtz sent fly to second and Gastfeld
got life or thirds low throw to first. The side
should have been out, but only man had
been retired. Cox pounded the ball to right for
two bases, bringing Kearns and Gastfeld home,
| and Eden brought him TO the plate with a base
TO right, reaching home himself on Jones hit to
the same field. Stockwell hit grounder to short,
who nipped Jones at second, and second caught
Stockwell at first. In the seventh neither side
scored. In the eighth Gastfeld was retired from
third to first, Cox made base hit to left and
Eden brought him TO the plate with three -baser
to center Jones and Stockwell were retired on
grounders. St. Paul opened the ninthwith the
score standing Grand Rapids 0, st. Paul2. Aber
took first on bad balls, went to second on Hen
gle's hit to right, each moving around base be-
fore Carroll's fly could be felded in from center.
Hunter put the ball in safe place at right and
Aber and Hengle scored. Hunter stole second
and tried to make his tally safe on O'Brien's hit
to left, but was touched just before reaching the
plate. Brown hit the ball into extreme right,
Eden muffed it, and both he and O'Brien scored,
the ball being fielded over thirds head from
right field. Foley cut the game short with a
long fly to extreme left. Following is the score
GRAND RAPIDS.