St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-10
SALTED BY UNSALTED.
The Zenith City Twirlers of the Sphere
Take the st. Paul Team Into
Camp.
A Game in Which Bad Blunders in the
Field Are the Most Conspicuous
Feature.
The Eau Claire Team Teaches the
Cream City Lads Another Lesson
in Base Ball.
Jack Dempsey to Reach st. Paul on
Wednesday-The Mitchell-Burke
Mill in Chicago.
A Bad Knockout.

The st. Paul Base Ball club appeared in
their first game of the season against the
Duluth nine on the West Seventh street
club grounds. About 1000 people sat
around the diamond and shivered through a
game interesting only as a comedy of
errors. The grounds were in horrible con-
dltlon, rendered so by a cold, drilling rain
that sifted down from sky heavy with
lowering clouds. 1t was cold, because
there was no sunshine to temper the strong
northeast wind that swept across the open
field. The game started few minutes past
3 o'clock. 1t opened with the Capital City
club at the bat. But little betting was in
obliged in. but what was done
gave the St. Paul club the benefit
and it looked as though they had good
show to win since they were playing on
their own ground and the men seemed
much the heaviest and gave promise of out
batting their opponents. The Duluth's put
Watson in the box and he was held by Dill
Ion behind the bat. Watson is a swift
pitcher and a sure thrOwer, and the ST.
Paul boys batted him freely, but were I'M
able to hold bases, so sharply was the ball
covered in the field. The first inning they
went out without making score. The
crowd was
CONSIDERABLY SURPRISED
when the Duluth's went to bat and rolled
up three runs before they were sent to the
field again. Wilmot was in the box and
Cleveland stood behind the bat. Wilmot
has swift and puzzling delivery, but
is a wild thrower and several
runs were let in on his
errors. He has faculty of
worrying catcher to death and tirlng him
out. In the second inning neither side
scored. In the third each rolled up three
runs. and in the fourth the ST. Pauls won
two runs and gave the Duluths white
wash. The score now stood six to FIVE in
favor of the Duluths, and st. Paul stock
took slight rise, but dropped on the fifth
inning, when they were shut out and the
Duluths' score ran up to ten, leaving it two
to one in their favor. AT this point the
st. Paul boys got badly ratified, and the
entire nine succeeded in rolling up errors.
second inning and remained there through
out the game, but he failed to hold Wilmot
down any better than Cleveland had done.
Wilmot struck two men with the
ball during the game, and gave
several others bases on balls.
Blackstock in, the left field dropped two
easy flies, and Jacobs and Adams both tried
to capture pop-up and mutfed it. Adams,
however, redeemed himself in the eiAeth
inning, when he caught fly in the right
field after a long backward run. In the
sixth inning, through ineXcusable errors,
the DuluthS added four more to their score,
while the Capital CitYs got but one. In
the next two innings both clubs were given
goose eggs, and the St. Paul boys went to
bat on the first half of the ninth with
score of IA to 6 staring them in the face.
Thes succeeded
IN ADDING ONE
to their string before they went out. The
game closed with a score of Il to z in favor
of the Zenith city club. 1t cannot be de-
MED that of the two clubs the Duluth shows
up in the better shape. While
til cir pitcher is not so effective as Wilmot,
the field is splendidly cared for, and Jones,
in the left field, made running catch that
set the audience wild. AS base runners
they greatly Outplayed the st. Paul club.
Every man is a swift runner and always on
the alert. They..are hard workers and play
well together, never losing their head, and
are gentlemen. The catching of Dillon
was one of the most interesting features of
the game. He caught through the game
without an error and put out eleven men.
Raycraft could have done much better had
he faced a pitcher whom he could have de-
pended upon. AS it was he put out thir-
teen men. VanZant, on first base for Du-
luth, put out ten men, and Duryea, holding
the same bag for St. Paul, put out six. The
base hits made by st. Paul were z, with
total of ten; by Duluth, ten. with total of
eleven. In reviewing the game it should
be remembered that yesterday was the first
time the st. Paul club had played game
together, and it is probable that in the game
Tuesday, they will make be ter showing.
Jacobs and Adams each made a two-base hit.
Wilmot served three-bae ger. Dillon, Du-
luth's catcher. made three-bagger. The
next game here will be played tomorrow
by the same clubs, commencing at o'clock
sharp. Tomorrow Duryea and Raycraft
will be the local battery