St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-22
roo NERVOUS TO PLAY.
The Chicago Champions Get Badly Rat
tied in Their First Game at
St. Louis,
And Drop the Fourth Contest in the Great
Series to the More Agile
Browns.
Clarkson Was Unable to Keep Up His
Pace and Accuracy as
Pitcher.
The Big Crowd Present Goes Wild
With Enthusiasm Over the
Result.
ST. Louis s. Chicago s.


Special to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Oct. 21.-Seven thou
sand four hundred and sixty-four people
saw the contest to-day between the Chicago
and ST. Louis clubs. For excitement it has
never been equalled in this city. When
GleasOn'S base hit in the fifth sent in two
runs and placed the Browns in the lead, a
portion of the crowd rushed on the field
and play could not be resumed for ten min
utes. When the same player did the same
thing in the sixth inning the tumult was
almost as great. 1t was a remarkable
struggle, not because of the fine playing,
for the players were too nervous to even
come up to their customary work, but be-
cause OF the Importance OF the game and
the intense rivalry between the clubs. The
true metal of both teams was tested to the
utmost, for it was the first close contest be-
tween them and as they pulled into the
home-Stretch neck and neck. the association
lads seemed to be only strengthened by the
excitement, while the leaguers weakened
completely The Browns outplayed the
Chicagos at every point, and won in spite
of the lead gained by the visitors in the
first inning, which would have discouraged
almost any other team. AS an instance of
THE DETERMINED MANNER
in which they played, they knocked in
seven OF their eight runs after two men
were out. Chicago made three runs in the
first inning on Cores single, Kelly's base ON
balls, AnsOn's single, Pfeffer's base on balls,
which forced Gore across the plate, Will
iamson's long sacrifice fly to Carutheis and
RobinSOn's wide throw. St Louis made
one run in the second On two errors by
Pfeffer and Foutz's two-bagger, and one in
the third on Williamson's tumble and
O'NeilI's liner into the crowd for three
bases. They took the lead in the fifth
when Bushong got his base On balls, La
than hit safely and Caruthers furnished a
long fly to right on which Bushong went to
third. Latham stole second. Clarkson
was afraid of O'Nell and would not pitch
the ball near the plate, giving him his base
on balls and filling the bases. Gleason
then hit safely, sending in two runs and
Comiskey's base hit scored another. The
Chicagos Immediately tied the score on
singles by Burns and Clarkson and Dali
rymple's three-bagger. In the last half Of
the same inning ST. Louis made three more
after one man was out. Robinson got his
base ON balls. Bushong hit safely and
Latham by hitting off all the good balls
that Clarkson pitched finally secured his
base on balls,
FILLING THE BASES.
Caruthers popped up a fly to Pfefer. who
purposely dropped it in order to make
double play. He succeeded in forcing
Latham out, but Burns dropped his throw
at second. Bushong was safe at that base
while Robinson crossed the plate. O'Neill,
the long hitter, once more stepped to the
bat and once more did Clarkson refuse to
give him chance to hit the ball. O'Neilps
base ON balls filled the bases and brought
Gleason to the bat under precisely the
same circumstances as in the preceding
inning. Once more Gleason lined the ball
into center and two runs came in. making
the Browns score s. After the Chicagos
had failed to score in the seventh, the
game was called on account of darkness.
THE SCORE