St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-20
THE BROOM CAPTURED.
The Grand Rapids Team Taken Into
Camp Second Time.
Minneapolis and Saltwater Take the Scalps
of the Hoosier Ball T0ssers.
The Results of Games Elsewhere-The Bay
City Club to Disband Shortly.
st. Pon, ~. Grand Rapids.

The base ball fever struck st. Paul yesterday
harder than it ever did before. The West
Seventh street park had its first crush Of the
| season. 1t was full in the fullest sense. The
grand stand was full, the side stands were full,
the spaces between the railing and the fence to
the right and left of the field were FULL the house
J tops of the vicinity were FULL the frisky gamins
oyerhowed numerously into the players ground
and every crack in the fence was brilliantly set
with human eyes. We couldn't make an accur-
ate guess at the crowd in an arithmetical sense,
but it was large enough to fill the treasury of the
association with pecunlary joy, and the fun that
everybody had in the two brief hours far
more than is usually SUCCEED out Of that space
OF time. st. Paul had taken one game of the
series, Grand Rapids the second and the interest
in the third was deep and widespread. Nothing
more nor less than broom was at stake, but we
venture the assertion that had st. Paul been
second in the league the attendance would have
been no larger. The victory perched upon the
banners OF the local club but the broom was not
forthcoming, as the Quincy team neglected to
deliver the property to Grand Rapids last Tues
day. However, the honor of winning it loses
none of its effect from that fact st. Paul will
be entitled to wear the broom as its button-hole
bouquet until some club wins two games from
the team. Foster and Camel appeared as the
battery, the former with a boiled arm, SO to
speak, and the latter with a sore finger, and their
soreness was SO contagious that the whole Grand
Rapids team left the grounds feeling sore. Fos-
ter was not so effective as on Thursday nor was
his support so good, but the game was in the
hands of st. Paul from the start. Getzein was
pounded for ten safe hits, three of them being
credited to Carroll two each to Foster and Foley
and double-bagger to O'Brien. Both Brown
and Madden had hard day of it at third base,
the latter getting four errors and the former
three. st. Paul audiences are beginning to look
upon Browns playing with good deal of solicit
tude, and if de doesn't do better playing in flu
ture games somebody will say unkind things
about his field work. Some other errors were
made by the St. Paul team but they come under
the head of the unfort innate rather than the in
excusable. The worst errors of the game were
made by Cox, short stop for Grand
Rapids. He muffed fly after
two men were ont, and then over
threw to second, three men scoring before the
ball could be returned. We are disposed to look
upon Umpire Hoover's work with good deal Of
charity, but one two Of his decisions were GER
tainly questionable if not unjust. In the fifth
inning Houtz took first OF bad balls and went
around to third on wild pitch. Gastfeld was
retired on fly to right field. Cox reached first
on third tumble. Eden drove the ball on a
| line to first just outside the foul line, the UNI
pire crying foul. O'Brien heard the cry, picked
up the ball and stood on his base, Houtz running
tome from third. The umpire then reversed his
decision, calling Eden out and allowing Houtz
to tally Plainly Eden should have been called
back to bat The decision in the first inning,
putting Hengle out at tho plate for running out
of line. was also open to criticism. Carroll drove
fly to right. Hengle being on third, and the lat
ter tried to score before the ball could be felded
in. The ball was not held by the catcher and
the runner had ample time to score without run
ming out of line. The slight swerve Hengle
made to keep from running over player was
not sufficient cause for the decision. Following
is the score