St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-18
ST. PAUL NEWS.
BASE BALL.
Our st. Paul Club and Their White
and Red Uniforms.
General News from the Diamond Field
and Its World of Supporters.

pleted. No new men Of any particular note
have been engaged, but Manager Hunter has
about concluded who the members Of the
club viii be. There is no particular change
from the list that has been published. While
the club may not be as strong as the associa-
ton would like to have 1t, it has some good
material that is likely to improve as the sea-
son progresses, and the club viii play at least
a creditable game. Mr.. Hunter seems to
have shown good judgment in selecting his
players, considering the disadvantages
he labored under, the principal Oh
which is that the formation
of the club was commenced SO late in the
season. The opportunity for practice, owing
to the unfavorable season, has been very
limited indeed and it can be said with strict
truthfulness that the club has had but little
more than a week during which it could ap-
pear out DOORS With these disadvantages
the club will 90 into the contest at Milwau-
kee on the 1st Of May. This gives the club
from eight to ten days for practice, proyid-
ing the weather is pleasant enough all
the time This is not enough, but will have
to do.
The men now appear in their new uni
forms which are regarded as the neatest and
most attractive in the league. This
uniform consists Of white throughout with a
red belt and necktie. They practice every
afternoon, and il was the intention of Man
agcr Hunter to play exhibition games two or
three times a week, but this seems to be i'm
practicable He tried it one after
noon, but the spectators crowd
on the diamond so persistently that he has
about abandoned the idea Of playing any
more of these games. 1t seems impossible to
keep the crowd back, inasmuch rs the club
neither own or lease the grounds, and conse-
qucntly has no more authority or control oil
them than the spectators themselves have.
1t is expected that work on the new grounds
will commence soon, though there seems to
be time enough so that there need be no great
hurry about the matter, as they will not be
required before the 1st of June, when the
Minneapolis club play here in st. Paul
Three games will be played on our grounds
between these two clubs, viz: on the Dist, 23d
and 24th of June. 1t is quite evident that
when these games are played here great in
tcrest will be manifested as to the result.
and ought to have as she commenced to or
ganize while good players were to be had.
The PLAYING Of the Minneapolis team at
Evansville, Ind, and st. Louis, is such as to
demonstrate that it is an organization that
can not be trifed with. 1t is well known
that st. Louis has a strong nine. In the first
game Minneapolis was beaten by to 0, and
in the second game by7 to 0. AS in the last
game the home club had eight base hits and
Minneapolis seven, it is evident that all st.
Louis had to boast of was that her base hits
happened to come together, or as it is term
ed, were punched so that she was able to get
runs from them while those of the visiting
club were scattered so that she really got
nothing from them. OF course, this is
simply chance of the game. 1t it only re-
ferred to here to show that Minneapolis has
team that can be relied upon.
The st. Paul club will leave for Milwaukee
on the goth inst. and will open the season
with three games there on the 1st I'd, and
Sd of May.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Milwaukee grounds are well under
way The fence and the Glands are com
pleted and the grounds which were plowed
several days ago are nearly ready. The
woodwork viii be painted either white or
cream color, while the chairs are to be a
light red. The management OF the MilwaU
KEGS contemplate boring an artesian well
and erecting windmill and pump to sup
ply the ground with good water. Steve
Dunn, the regular first baseman Of the Mil
waueee club, is described by one of the
papers of that city as "a stout, mUscularly
built young man, about twenty-five years of
age. five feet seven inches tall and weighs
40 pounds" He is evidently regarded as
sumner.
The directors of the Quincy Base Ball club
of the Northwestern League have released
Isaacson, Koran and Sands, and have secured
Sweeney, of Boston, as first baseman and
captain of the team.
Secretary Morton announces the following
staff OF Northwestern league umpires for
1854; Dickev Pierce, of Brooklyn; VIM.
Tuuson, of Cleveland; F. w. Gunkle, of
Dubuque; c. II. Cushing, of Philadelphia;
Byron f. Clark, of Chicago; George Frank,
OF Detroit. The umpires will report to Sec
rotary Morton on April %, to receive their
uniforms and confer regarding the interpre-
tation of the rules.
Milwaukee Sentinel: BY the acquisition Of
Cushman, the pitcher, both the regular team
and the reserves are now complete. The
aggregate of salaries and expenses incurred
by the management is $4,000. On Friday
last the Western Union company's linemen
looked up the shortest and most convenient
route for running a wire to the grounds, and
will supply an operator to report the result of
all league games. A complete list
of the players as they will appear during the
season is as follows: Regulars-Cushman,
Mckinley and T. McDermott pitchers
Straub, Broughton and NJ McDermott, catch
ers; Griffin, Lotus and Morrissey, on the
bases; Sexton, shortstOp, and Behel, Dunn
and Hogan in the outtield. Reserves-Bald-
win, Clayton and Scheirz, pitchers; Falch,
Dealy and Purvis, catchers; Schomberg
Toole and Himmelstein, on the bases; Nor
ris, shortstop, and Delaney change pitcher
and change catcher, in the outfeld. The
club is thus provided with three complete bat
teries, to guard against the loss of any game
by the disability of pitcher or catcher.
The Peoria club has purchased from the
Central City Railway company ground S92x
455 feet, at a cost of So, 500. A twelve foot
fence will enclose it, and seating capacity for
5000 people will be furnished.
That 1 to game between the Buffalos and
Baltimores was an unusually fine exhibition
of fielding, There was but one error on each
side, with only three hits by the Buffalos and
five by the Baltimores.
Richardson, second baseman of the Boston
Beacons, was offered SO, $50 to catch for the
New Yorks, but it was refused. If accepted,
this would make him the largest salaried man
in the league.
The municipal election at Columbus, o.,
settled the question Of Sunday games in that
city. There wss majority of $500 against
them, and the schedule of the Columbus will
have to be revised.