St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-25
st. Paul and Minneapolis Play
A Great Game Of Eleven
Innings.
Both Clubs Desperately Con-
test Every Inning--St.
Paul the Winner.
Boston, Chicago, Detroit and
New York the National
Winners.
Cincinnati With Leon Viau
in the Box Beats st.
Louis.

The first of the Twin City games was
played at Minneapolis yesterday, and
after an exciting contest OF eleven inn
nings, st. Paul came out on top. The
largest crowd of the season, well
sprinkled with Sanity City partisans,
went through the throes and joys of
alternate victory and defeat and saw
the game lost and won a half
dozen times. The first seven innings
made up as pretty struggle
as the verieSt crank might wish
to see, but errors began to accumulate
in the latter half and spoiled the cleanli-
ness of the entire work; however, as
first one team and then the other led,
and as two extra innings were necessary
to decide the battle, the game was a
great one. and gives encouraging prom
Use of what may be expected The
teams are very evenly matched, appa
rently, and play together for everything
in sight.
Before the game, Jevne ran into the
fence and disabled himself, and in the
= eighth inning McCullom was caught in
the pit of the stomach by a line drive
from Skaters bat, laying him off. Their
places were filled by Jordan and Graves,
utterly unable to gauge a fly. Graves
ran upon Earles long hit in the eighth
and let it go over his head for home
run. which should have been an out;
while Jordan did the same thing with
hit by Reilly, in the ninth, resulting in
the run that tied the game. Encouraged
by this kind of work, st. Paul got to
''lining 'em out" in the last innings, and
eventually pounded out victory.
Krieg opened the ball with a home
run drive over the right garden wall,
winning the silk umbrella and putting
Minneapolis stock up So to 81. Halves
got base and was caught i'll some
funny work at second. Patton hit
safely, and scored on sacrifice. In the
fourth st. Paul scored the first run.
Carroll was given base, made a fine
exhibition Of base running, and scored
on a sacrifice. In the sixth he made
hit, again brought down great applause
scored on sacrifice, tieing
the score. A base on balls to
McCuullom, in the seventh, a steal and
hit by Brosnan gave Minneapolis an
other lead, but in the eighth Carroll
again hit safely, and with Skaters hit
and some mastery base stealing, added
a ruiz to the st. Paul score. With two
men out and two strikes called, Earle
lined out hit which Graves miSjudged
and sauntered after, while Earle pad
died around the bases, giving the Wis
itors their first lead 1t looked des-
perate for Minneapolis, but Earle, until
then the hero of the day, muffed
Halves third strike. A wild pitch sent
him to third and another passed ball
tied the score. Graves hunted the ball
;,,J J. ifol,
giving him lift to second, passed ball
derS bringing in the second run and
again giving Minneapolis the lead. For
st. Paul, Reilly drove the leather to the
left field fence for two bases. Jordan
wondering what he was there for.
Hawes' tumble of Veach's hit, which
he claimed was foul, allowed the
runner to score and tie the game
once more. The tenth inning was
a double blank. In the eleventh Halves
hit to Reilly and the latter threw high,
bringing the sun in Morrissy's eyes and
sending the ball to the fence, while
HAYES trotted to third. A passed ball
brought him home, the next three bat
terS going out easily. With odds once
more against them, st. Paul went to bat.
Murphy hit safely and stole second,
scoring Oh Reilly's drive to left
center for two bases. Veach's sac
rifice sent him to third. Morrissy
hit too slow, and Reilly started for the
plate. Shaw tielded the ball home, and
Krieg, Reilly and the ball were in a
cloud of dust at the plate. The runner
was safe, and the winning run scored.
1t was a most exciting contest
throughout. and errors and all were
thoroughly enjoyed. CarrolPs base
running was the feature, though many
brilliant plays were made. Jack Ben
nett umpired less satisfactorily than
usual, both sides making frequent pro-
tests. The score follows: