St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-27
AGAIN THE UNDER DOG.
One Member of the st, Paul Team Does
Sufficient Bad Playing to Give
Oshkosh the Game.
In the Prettiest Contest of the Season
Eau Claire Beats Minneapolis by
One Score.
Duluth Gives Milwaukee a Dose of
the Medicine Given st. Paul
and Minneapolis.
Osmond Wins the Derby at EPSON
1.-The Minneapolis Gun Club
Tournament.
Ciarkpeseats 81. Paul.

The st. Paul Base Ball club went out to
the league grounds yesterday afternoon.
and allowed its country Cousins from Osh-
kosh to beat it. O'Brien was in the box
and Tray behind the bat. Tray long ago
demonstrated the fact that he can't play
ball, and he did great deal Yesterday to
strengthen the impression. 1t was mp0s
sible for him to get a ball to second base in
time to catch a man, and he has faculty
OF throwing the ball either too high or low,
and 1t not iDfrequentiy occurs that Il man gets
to third OH his error. He is about us fast
as cord of wood, and the ball has to be
thrown straight into his hands before lie
can catch it. He had two splendid foul
balls yesterday in easy reach. and lie
was so slow in getting under them
that they didn't even touch his hands in
coming down. He did. however make
two base hit in the eighth inning. Clark,
who was put on first base yesterday, man
aged to drop nearly every ball that was
thrown to him, and several runs were made
through his errors His playing was 50 bad
that he was put at short and Blackstock
sent to first. AS q batter he is also very
weak. He strikes at the ball as though he
was afraid he would soil the cover. The
three strong men i'll the team yesterday
'
yesterday did some
HEAVY BATTING.
but seems to lack practice in fielding. Will
mot distinguished himself rs a base runner
by making two pretty Sneaks from second
to third almost under the pitchers eyes.
O'Brien pitched fair game no very heavy
batting being done against him until he
became tired in the seventh inning. and he
made a clean left hand stop and shut out
man on first that was the best play in the
game. In the eighth inning his arm gave out
and WilmOt was brought in from left field
to finish the game. He was hit harder than
O'BTien, but the ball was sent into the field
and fell into the hands Of the tielderS. In
the first inning that he pitched he threw
but four balls before the side went out. In
the field he did some excellent work, cap
turing several long flies and making several
assists. He made q wonderful line throw
from the left field fence to Douthett on sec
ond which would have laid Il man off had
not Douthett dropped it. 1t was the worst
played game of the season and Hunter, the
umpire, helped to make it so. His decisions
were so extremely rank that the auditors
gave expression to their disgust frequently
and in terms more forcible than graceful.
His decisions were mainly against the home
club, but the visitors were also sufferers at
his hands, He lost his head completely
and acted as though he never read the rules
governing the game. But one thing must
be said to his credit, and that is, when he
rendered decision he had the good taste
to stand by it and not waver. The Oshkosh
club has several fine, base runners. and
some good fieIders. In Van Dyke they
| have good catcher, but their pitcher was
| had1v hit He iS wild and Snpoapua1 in
| pitching the ball into two batSmen dur
ing the the game. They are
THE WORST KICKER5
that have have played in this city. The
leader in this popularity is Pope, the sec
| bit. but makes up by trying to bulldoze the
umpire. At the ninth inning the score
stood II to 10 in favor of Oshkosh and the
prospect of disagreeable defeat stared the
home team in the face. The visitors went
to bat in the ninth and succeeded in getting
in two runs, raising their score to 10. The
st. PaulS came in and the hardest batting
of the day was done. Cleveland made a
two-bagger and Tray sent the ball into
center field for two bags. In this inning
Cleveland, FraZee. Wilmot and Blackstock
each made an earned run before Clark got
out and ended the game, the home team got
in six runs. If it had not been for Clark S
horrible playing on first base, the st. Paul
| team would have come out with an easy
victory. To-day the home team meets the
| Milwaukee club on the West Seventh street
diamond. The game will be called at $3.50
sharp. Duryea will pitch and Sage catch.
With this battery good game is looked
| for. Following is the score of yesterdays S
| game: