St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-22
RAIN THE FOURTH.
ST. Paul and Minneapolis Fail to
Finish Their Game

ST. Paul and Minneapolis Fail to
Finish Their Game.
The st. Paul and Minneapolis teams
came together yesterday afternoon at
Athletic park in the presence of over
5000 people, more than 1000 of whom
were from the Flour City. The contest
gave promise of being one of the sharp
est-played Of the season. Umpire Clark
started the performance promptly at
$3.50, with Mains and Broughton and
Duke and Dugdale as the batteries.
Halves waited we'll for four bad balls,
but was thrown out at second on Muir
phys grOunder to Miller. A wild pitch
swung Murphy around base, he stole
third and scored On Dugdale's wild
throw to catch him. Reilly and Wer-
rick agtated the atmosphere three
times each without touching anything
solid. For Minneapolis Drlschel drove
hot grOunder to Werrick, which was
neatly pocketed. Minnehan got a bag
as gift and moved down to second on
passed ball. Foster gave Carroll fly
and Werrick neatly took in Hanahan's
pop-up. In the second inning Carroll
was retired by Hengle and Minnehan,
dale's hands and DAILY died on fly to
Hanahan. For Minneapolis Miller
waited well for a sack. but Hen
gle and Turner struck out amid
great applause. Duke then stepped
into the back end of the rubber works
and smashed the leather far over left
field fence, trotting around behind
Miller. and exciting the Minneapolis
contingent to immense lung exertion.
Dugdale ended the inning with
grounder to Werrick. In the third,
after Broughton had struck out. Mains
hit safely to the right garden, and ca b.
baged a couple of bags on wild pitch
and passed ball, but Hawes and Murphy
went out on flies. Drischel and Mime
han made abortiYe attempts to send the
sphere over the right field fence, but
Foster landed it squarely outside. In
the fourth st. Paul went out one, two,
three, without incident, but at
this point the fun began. A
black cloud was seen gathering
!, in the West, and great contest of the
wits began, st. Paul to delay the game
until the shower should arrive and
Minneapolis and the umpire to hasten it
to the end of the fifth inning. Mains
threw the ball to Reilly, who letit skip
off to the bleachers, and when it was re-
turned the same performance was gone
through with with Hawes as the jug
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play ball, and one was pitched over the
plate, when the Fabian policy was re-
newed with great vigor, several shoes
coming united and the ball getting lost
! in the shuttle. Miller finally struck out
and Broughton dropped the ball,
but the runner refused to take
first. Hengle hit a grounder to
short, which was juggled. Mains
( then spent few minutes throwing the
ball to first in an alleged attempt to
catch Hengle Turner's hit to right
sent Hengle to second, he stole third
and scored on the attempt to retire Tur-
ner at second. Turner stole third and
deliberately ran off the base and al
lowed himself to be put out. At this
point it began to rain, and the whole
field ran in to argue with Umpire Clark,
who was making a frantic effort to have
the contestproceed. Two minutes later
they went back to their positions and
Duke put fly in Carroll's hands. After
a further delay of two minutes, the
rain all the time coming faster,
Miller went to the plate and
smashed couple of apertures in the
moist air. Capt. Carroll here ran up to
the umpire and insisted that it was
raining too hard to play LAND before
he could be sent to his seat the shower
increased in violence to such an extent
that the game had to be suspended
thirty minutes and finally called.
ssThat was robbery" said Minneapo-
lis enthusiast, to which a st. Paul sport
replied with a smile, But wasn't it
great headwork?'' This is what the
score sheet looked like when Jupiter
PIuvius ended the contest: