St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-18
TROUNCING THE LEADERS.
The Grand Rapids Ball Tossers Find
q Waterloo in st. Paul.
Saltwater Shuts Out the Hoosier Twirlers
From Fort Wayne.
Minneapolis Beats Terre Haute, Saginaw
Milwaukee and Bay City Quincy.
St. Paul rs. Grand Rapids.

The rain during Wednesday night and Thurs
day morning made the West Seventh street ball
grounds SO sticky and uneven that it required the
services of two men, q boy and wheelbarrow to
pnt them in condition for the game yesterday
afternoon, and it was :15 before they finished
their work. Omnous clouds were sailing abont
all day, and the crowd ON this account was much
smaller than it otherwise would have been. How
ever, more than 1000 people were present, and
they saw what not probably fifty OF them ex-
pected to see the st. Paul team win. st. Paul
held down the foot of the list In the league,
While Grand Rapids was at the front, and it was
the biggest surprise of the season to have the
home team not only walk away with the victory
but shut out the visitors completely. Not man
of them got beyond second base, al only six of
them were left on bases in the game, and not
more than one in any inning. The surprise was
probably greater to the members of the visiting
team than to anybody else They not only lead
in the league but they came here just after beat
ing Peoria and Quincy four games in sue
cession, and the two latter are reckoned among
the crack teams. The game was practically
contest between the pitchers, Foster and Get
zein, and the former got the better of his great
antagonist. Foster was hit three times safe,
whereas Getzein was pounded for nine bases.
Eleven men struck out trying to find Fosters
delivery, and sixteen that of Getzein. The field
ing of both sides was unusually brilliant, only
four errors being made, three by Grand Rapids
and one by st. Paul The latter was made by
Tiley at left field. He was coming rapidly to
meet fly to his neighborhood, and the sudden
ness of his contact with the ball caused it to
bound from his hands. The error was an excusa-
BILE one. Two of the errors by the visitors cost
them run each. CAMEL played wonderfully
strong game behind the bat, retiring ten men and
assisting four times without an error. Besides
this he made base hit that brought in score,
and tailed once himself. Brown did the best
days work he has done since he came to St. Paul.
He put out twomen, assisted twice, made base
hit and scored run. Hengle was weak at the
willow, but he accepted all of the five fielding
chances offered Carrolls right field wasn't
fruitful of labor, but he landed
the ball in safe place twice
with the bat. Hunters work was an exact
counterpart of Carroll's with the exception that
he was once left warming
his toes on third. O'Brien did
himself proud all around, putting out eleven hit
ting safe once and scoring. Foley got one fly,
one grounder and one run, and hadn't anything
else to do. The performance of Tilley, however,
was the great feature OF the game, and probably
his hit of yesterday will be remembered as long
as he remains in st. Paul. We will lead up to
his great double Dagger by first covering the run
made in the fifth inning. Foster opened the
inning with a grounder to third, who fumbed
it till the former made first. Foley hit to
pitcher, who chose to catch Foster at second.
Tilley famed the zephyrs and Foley stole sec
ond. Camel reached first on muff at second
and Foley got home. Hengle struck out. Moth
ing was done till the ninth. OBren
started the ball rolling TO sec
ond so fast that the latter couldn't
stop it, and went around peg on Browns good
hit to left. Foster struck out and Foley went
| out on foul tip, O'Brien and Brown taking a
base each on a juggle of thrown ball to second.
Two men were out and the bets were 8 to that
Tilley would strike out. He hit at the ball twice
without success, but the third time he got it
| square on the end of his bat, and it went clear
out of reach of everybody nearly to the fence in
right center, Tilley going to second and o. rien
and Brown home. CAMEL followed up with
hit just thirds head, Tilley scoring. Hengle
then stopped the performance with fly to
ter. The audience was just at this point very
happy, but trife nervous, as Grand Rapids had
another inning to play. The suspense was of
short duration, however, as the visitors were re-
tired one, two, three without reaching first.
Following is the score: