St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-30
ST. PAUL NEWS.
BASE BALL.
The Spring Tour of the ST, Paul Club
and Probabilities.
The Minneapolis Clubs Ten Defeats Nay
be Advantageous

be Advantageous.
at nine O'Clock this evening the st. Paul
base ball club leaves st. Paul for its first trip
of five weeks, playing three games in Mil
waukee, May I, 2 and 3. From Milwaukee
it goes to Peoria, where 1t plays on the. 9th,
9TH and Sth of May. 1t is expected that II
will strike strong club in Milwaukee, and
still stronger one in Peoria. The members
of the latter club, most Of them at any rate,
have played together for several years. Be
sides this they are individually strong. The
Peoria team is regarded as one of the best
clubs in the league. From Peoria the club
goes to Quincy, where it plays on the 10th,
18th and 18th. Thence it goes to Grand
Rapids. where it will meet another very
strong club on the 18th, 10Th and 18th.
From Grand Rapids it will go to Muskegon,
where it will play on the goth, 21st and 22d.
This club is not regarded as very strong
one, though there is no telling what it may
be by the time our club reaches that place.
1t may have strengthened up good deal by
that time. On the Oath, 26th and 9th the
st. Paul club will play
on the 29th and 30th they will play three
games at Fort Wayne, playing one in the
forenoon and one in the afternoon Of the
Both. On the Cd, Sd and 4th of June they
will play at Saginaw, and on the 9Th, 9th and
TIN at Bay City. They will then return home
and play at Saltwater on the 18th and 14th
It viii be seen by the above that the club
viii have pretty active trip, and that it will
be playing ball pretty much all the time from
the dav it reaches Milwaukee till it finishes up
he last game of the trip. 1t will meet some
very strong clubs that have played together
for several seasons, and will be often defeat
ed. 1t is not expected by the projectors and
managers of the club that it will walk into the
arena and at once proceed to pick up one vic
tory after another. There is a long and cred
liable distance between the poorest and the
best clubs. If the st. Paul club plays good
strong, steady game, and is sufficiently strong
to hold the best clubs down to a reasonable
score, and compel them to play their best to
get that, it is about the most that can be
asked of the management for the first year.
The club was behind hand in its organiza-
ton, and of course labored under good
many disadvantages, which have already
been mentioned. 1t is q reasonably good
one and Will be a good deal better before the
season is over It is understood that some
men who have played with the club, and
who have not been able to meet the demands
will be released before the club leaves for its
trip. Negotiations have been begun for
other players to fill their places. The second
base seems to be the principal weak spot in
the organization, and Mr.. Hunter expects to
have Curray, who has been playing that base
for the Cleveland reserve team, meet the
club in Milwaukee, where he will be tried.
The following is the team that will play the
first game in Milwaukee tomorrow: Hunter
p; Oln T. f.. O'Brien Sd; Foster I'd or field;
Barnes C; Camel 1st; Clapp l. f.; Calvin
c. f.. Werrick s. s.
The weather has been so cold and rainy
that the club has had no practice at all this
week. Even the grounds have not been
certainly secured yet, and it looks as though
this matter Of grounds was being delayed
too long.
The Minneapolis club was beaten at Toledo
on Monday by a score Of s to 5, by the Tole-
do club. Yott pitched and caught for the
visitors. This is the tenth defeat this club
ago, and it is not at all surprising. The
players were new to each other. They lack
what is known as team practice. The play
ers are individually probably very good.
Some of them are known to be good, but the
club lacks that unity of action and mutual
sustaining confidence that comes from long
playing together. Of course they will be de-
5eated by old, experienced and better clubs.
The Minneapolis club will be all the better
for these defeats, and will show up in the
games at Minneapolis Saltwater and st.
Paul, five or six months hence, in much bet
ter form than it does now. The prediction
is here made that the public will see better
games of ball this season, in the three cities
above named, than they ever before witnessed
here, except only those played by the CHI
cago White Stockings.
Lawson, who played first base for the Red
Caps last year in this city, and who has been
playing with a Cincinnati club until couple
of weeks ago, when he joined the Minneapo-
lis club, has now been released by the latter.
On Saturday afternoon the Milwa ukee
club opened the season with game with the
Cream City club, in Milwaukee, before 1900
people. The Cream Citys are nearly all
members of last years Maple Leafs and Arc
tics. The WiSconSia's report of the game says
that after disposing of the Cream Citys with
blank, Hogan led off for the Milwaukees
with base hit, stole second and came home
on Behel's clean hit to right field. Sexton
reached his base on called balls, got second
and third on outs of Griffin and Dunn and
came home on a safe hit of Morrisey.
In the last half of the
second inning Hogan reached first on
called balls, while Sexton, Bethel, Griffin,
Morrisey, Lotus and Broughton hit for a
base, each scoring six runs. ''The seventh
inning was conspicuous for the hard clean
batting done by the Milwaukees, Sexton send
ing short one to center field, Behel following
with long hit for two bags. Dunn, not to be
out-done, gave the sphere high, sharp drive,
which landed over the fence near Eleventh
street, scoring the only home run. On the
whole the game was brilliant one.n The
score was thirteen for Milwaukee to three for
the Cream Citys. The next game was played
Sunday and according to the Wisconsin the
Milwaukees put on their batting caps. Fiji
teen hundred persons were present. Dunn
covered the second base in the absense of
Lotus. The batteries were changed again,
Mckinley and Broughton appearing in the
points for the regulars during the first five
innings and Cushman and Straub the re-
naming three. Cushman with his wonder
full curves retired eight luckless s'colts.''
The Milwaukees had 10 errors, 90 runs, 25
base hits. The Cream Citys had 20 errors,
6 runs, and base hits.
An Interesting Decision.
Judge Brill yesterday rendered judgment