St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-18
BaSe Rail.


The league teams are hard at work. In
the National league New York has won
nine games, gaining her lead of two
games, with Chicago and Philadelphia tied,
each having seven games won. Providence
and st. Louis are tied, each having won six
games, while Detroit and Boston are tied,
each having won three games. Buffalo has
won but one game, losing eight out of nine
played.
In the American league St. Louis and
| Cincinnati are tied, each having won four
teen games. Louisville comes next with
nine games won; Brooklyn seven. The
Athletics are tied with the Metropolitan,
each having won five games.
| In the Western league Indianapolis is in
the lead, having won thirteen games. Mil
waukee and Kansas City are tied, each hav-
ing won ten games. Cleveland comes next,
with eight games won. Omaha follows
with four and Toledo with three.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Two of the postponed Buffalo Chicago
games will be played in Buffalo, N. Y,
Aug. II, when the Chicagos will be ON their
way home from their Eastern trip.
|. The pitching averages of the American
association show Carruthers of the st. Louis
club in the lead. He pitched for the Min
neapolis club last year.
The directors of the Boston club have
written to the other league clubs, except
Providence, for expressions of opinion in
the case of Fred L. Shaw, who signed with
Providence in violation of verbal promise
to play with Boston. They ask that Fred
be again blacklisted.
Sweeney, who was with the Baltimore
Unions last year, has signed as pitcher with
| the ClevelandS.
Another base ball club has been organized
in ST. Paul, with Henry Devlin, pitcher;
William Walsh, catcher; William Crap,
short step; A. Bonn, first base; Henry Mar
tin, second base; William Allen, left field.
The two other positions have not yet been
filled.
The Merchants hotel nine were to have
played the Quicksteps ON the West st. Paul
grounds yesterday afternoon. but the rain
prevented.
The base ball park at the corner of
Nicollet avenue and Lake street is now
well under way.
Joe Werrick, who played short stop last
year in the st. Paul club, is now playing
the same position in the Nashville club, and
is reported to be doing excellent work, both
in the field and at the bat.
It is understood that Hengle, who played
in ST. Paul last year, and who has been
playing with the Buffalos this season, will
be released.
Ted Sullivan, manager of the Kansas
City club, is indignant at the action taken
by the ministers, and says that all the men
in his club were engaged with the under
standing that they would be required to
play Sunday games, and that if Sunday
games are prohibited he will disband the
club.
Caskins and McKinnon, of last years
New York team, have signed with the
Lucas St. Louis club, and Hugh Daily, the
ne-armed pitcher, is to join them.
Wellington Bingham of st. Adams, Vt,
professional ball player in the Eastern
states, is in St. Paul, visiting Isaac Lincoln,
No. 179 Pleasant avenue, a relative of his.
Mr.. Wellington carries a badge for being
the best base runner Of Massachusetts.
President Root Of the Providence club
has resigned his position, disguised with the
course taken by the club in the matter of
reinstating the contract breakers, and then
engaging them. The action of the league
the Boston and Providence clubs being at
loggerheads in consequence, while the hon
orable players on both teams are diSsat-
| isfied.
Washington is the first city to be dis
graced by the conduct of the crowd at the
| base ball matches in making cowardly at
| tack upon an umpire. Throughout April
one man umpired all the National club
games in Washington, and he evidently
suited the local crowd. When the regular
games began the Eastern league umpires
were substituted for the local official, and of
course the home crowd differed from him.
| This was shown in very offensive manner
Nav II, when the ''heelers" made an at
| tack on Umpire Taylor at the close of the
game between the Virginia and National
clubs just as he was leaving the grounds.
He was first struck in the face with cane
| by someone in the crowd and again Oh the
| head with piece of brick. The police
saved him from further violence by hurry
ing him into a carriage. It is i'll the power
of the National club to put stop to this
work. and the sooner they do it the better
for their credit.
The Brooklyn club will play thirteen of
it's announced fifty-six games at Coney
Island, every one on Sunday, and with the
strongest clubs in the association. The
grounds selected for the club are to be 10
Gated between the Sea Beach and the Pros
pect Park and Coney Island railroad depots.
The first Sunday game is announced to be
played at Coney Island, May 81, by which
time everything will be in readiness, it is
| thought.