St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-04
THE DUDES DOWNED.
st. Paul Wins of Minneapolis, With
the Assistance of Nettleton, OF
Dartmouth College.
The Prison City Team Defeats MuskegOn
With the Greatest Of
Ease.
Minneapolis as. Sc. Pa,.I.

The people who attended the game at the West
Seventh street park yesterday afternoon had two
hours of solid entertainment. Neither team
played strong game, but there is seldom so
much in a match to rivet the attention of the
spectators. With all the errors that were made
there were numerous brilliant plays, and from
the fifth inning the score was so close that the
excitement was intense. Minneapolis had no
very serious trouble to fill the bases but the way
the st. Paul team retired the men, after giving
them life on errors, was beautiful to behold.
In eight of the nine innings Minneapolis players,
ten of them in all, went to rest warming their
toes on bases. At four different times, one of
these in the ninth inning, men reached third, but
just at these critical points the ST. Paul felders
played like heroes. Foster, of course, did his
share in bringing about this remarkable result,
but the support he received should in no wise be
overlooked. Fosters record yesterday, how
ever, was far from his average in the box. He
was hit only five times, to be sure, but he gave
four men bases on balls, made a wild pitch, al
lowed man to make on overthrow to
first and gave another base on a tumble. The
game was won by the timely hit of Nettleton in
the first inning, bringing in two men. He just
arrived in town yesterday from Dartmouth
COlIcSe, "uere He pllyeu InTu pdse,
and, considering his long journey, his
playing was brilliant. He went to bat four times
and hit the ball for three singles. He also re-
tired man by pretty catch at left field. His
record as batter is first rate, and he will add
strength where strength is most needed. Wer-
rick had eleven opportunities to display his short
stop work, and accepted eight of them. He
caught five flies, one of them very difficult left
hand catch, and he recovered from the surprise
of his success in time to make double on the
man driving down to second. In the fifth inning
he had plenty Of time to make good throw of
Nichols grounder, but threw the ball three feet
over o Briens head. In the ninth he made two
inexcusable errors, letting man home and
another around to third. Hengle's work was
done in creditable manner, making two safe
hits, retiring two men and assisting three times,
getting a single error. Foley has two
charged to him, but one of these was from
difficult ball to handle and the other should be
charged to the umpire, as the runner should
have been called out. O'Brien did not have
his batting aparrel on yesterday. He hit the
ball every time, but it did not go outside of
the diamond. Fisher got a base on his muf of
Hengles low throw in the second inning. Gan
eel played as usual behind the bat, and had his
usual trouble in hitting the ball, Hunter got
base hit and run, but had no chances for
fielding. Barnes scored a run, base hit,
put out, and assist. Many in the grand
stand thought he should have run
back and caught the three-base hit Of
Reid, but it sent so near on
a line that it was difficult to judge Eor the
Minneapolis team the only men who hit the ball
were Reid, Fisher and Parker The latter plays
well in his position at second, but he was un-
doubtedly considerably surprised when he hit the
ball. Isaacson covers first in fine style, but his
weakness with the willow is well know to st,
Paul audiences. He had the opportunity yes
terday of striking out on four strikes on an er-
ror of the umpire in counting. Caruthers made
two beautiful fly catches in the ninth inning
running an unusually long distance for them.
Fisher also ran great ways in the ninth and
took Hengle's fly. Nichols and Walker played
well together as the battery, and Reid had good
luck with the willow. Andrus couldn't hit the
sphere, but he made two runs on errors, and as
sisted couple of times. Murray distingu ished
himself by getting to first on balls three times
and failing to get score on any of lhem. Dun
levy's umpiring is a great improvement on Kee-
mans. although some of his decisions yesterday
were plainly erroneous he seems to be mdde of
the right stuff for the kind of work he is enter
ing upon Following is the score in detail: