St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-27
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION,
RANK, BUT EXCITING.
St. Paul Could Not Pound Out a
Victory in Less Than Twelve

st. Paul Could Not P0unQ Out
Victory in Less Than Twelve
Innings.
Special to the Globe
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 26.-The
rankest, the longest and one of the
most exciting games of professional
ball ever played in Kansas City was the
contest to-day between the Kansas City
and st. Paul teams, the latter batting
its way to victory in the twelfth inn
Ing, when their opponent had lead of
two. Besides the rank playing, the
umpiring was bad, FesseDden favoring
Kansas City in every instance. The er-
rors of both teams were mostly ineXcuS
able, and at least half dozen of the
credited hits were so through errors of
Judgment by the players. A tumble by
Shafer, wild pitch and hit gave the
Blues two runs in the second, but in the
third rank muff of Pickett'S fly to left,
base on balls and two hits by Murphy
and Kemmler allowed
THREE OF THE VISITORS
to cross the plate. Pickett muffed an
easy fly from Johnson'S bat in the
fourth, Shafer fumbled a ground ball
from Cartwright, Reilly fumbled an
easy drive by Ardner, and these errors.
with hits by GunSOn and Lange, melted
the blues four runs. st. Paul scored in
the fourth on hits by Shafer and Reilly.
In the fifth Kansas City scored two on a
wild throw by Pickett to first and hits
by Bradley and Cartwright. A rank
tumble Of grounder by Lang, Pat
toms double and Skaters single let two
of the St. Paul's score in the fifth. The
blues did not score in the sixth, but
rank muff by Cartwright, CarrolPs hit
and Murphy's sacrifice gave the visitors
one. In the seventh Reilly
FELL. ALL OVER 4 BALL
and Johnson got first. Lange got his
base on balls. Cartwright was next
at the bat and two strikes were called
Oh him. He struck at the third ball
and Earle, who had taken Reminders
place because the latter became ill,
muffed the ball. Cartwright turned to-
ward first when Earle threw the ball to
MOrrissy. He threw a little wild and
Morrissy stepped off the base and
caught it. Meanwhile Cartwright stood
two or three feet from the plate. Nor
riSsy walked toward the plate as did
the pitcher and third baseman. A dis
pute arose over a technicality and sud-
denly Cartwright lodged away from
MOrriSSy who had not touched him
with the ball and reached first, the
umpire calling him safe. 1t is express
ing it mildly to say that
THE VISITORS KICKED.
They raved about without changing
the result. a hit by Gunzon and the
muff of thrown ball by Earle let i'm
four more runs for the Blues. No more
runs were made until the eighth, when
johnson made complicated juggle of
Reilly'S drive to him. Earle then hit to
left for two bases, Reilly scoring.
Murphy hit a single and MorriSSy was
hit by a pitched ball. Earle scored on
wild pitch, and then Manning muffed
Pickett's long fly to left center, letting
in two runs. Patton hit safely, stole
second, and both he and Pickett came
home on Ardner'S tumble of Skaters
hit, making six runs in all, lead
of one for st. Paul. Kansas City
tied the score in the ninth
and the tenth and eleventh innings
were blanks for both teams. In the
twelfth Bradley got first on Carrolrs
mutf of his fly. Lange hit safely to
right, and both came home on Longs
long single to center. But ST. Paul also
scored. Murphy got first on balls, Nor
rissey hit safely and both came home on
Pickett's double to right, while Pickett
scored the winning run on Patton's
double to deep right center. Score: