St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-02
PAPA" WEST DID 1T.
His HOme.Kun Hit Defeats St.
,JOSeDh.

Papa" West won the game for Min
neapOlis yesterday. His home-run hit
in the seventh seemed to give the
MillerS little ginger as we'll as lead
of one run, and they added one to that
lead in each of the following innings.
1t was anybody's game up to the ninth
inning, however, and but for Dukes
wonderful pitching the Bald Knobbers
would have had the cash balance OH
their side of the account. Duke pitched
ball that was bound to win. with even
the most ordinary support, and that is
very near what he got. He held the
Jesse James gang. with their blOod-red
jackets and wagOn-tOngue bats, down to
four hits, two of which were made by
Mahaney, and one, two Dagger, in the
ninth by Klopf, which didn't count, as
goose egg was given to st. Joseph in
that inning. KlOpf was batted freely,
the home team stacking up nine singles
and one home run. He was hit time
after time in the early part of the
game, but every fly Sc emed to have
been predestined for the hands of some
outs will show. The errors of the two
is hard to decide which aggregation
made the most costly ones, as Miller's
bad one in the sixth, which, coupled
with Hughes bad throw to Minnehan,
let in two runs, while Curtis error
in the seventh paved the way for
the three runs that West brought in.
Up to the end of the fifth inning the
score stood one to one. and the excite
ment was growing mOmentarily. Min
neapolis failed to score in it's half of
the sixth, and then hit, Bill Kreig's
sacrifice and errors by Miller and
Hengle, put men on second and third.
Mahaney, the big right fielder, picked
out home run lat and pounded the
ball over the left field fence, making
the score four to one in favor
of the Outlaws. 1t made Duke hot
under the collar, and tine next man
could no more have hit the balls that
came smoking over the plate than he
Dukes muscle took another turn and
he gave a man base on balls. He
didn't like that either, and walked
around the box couple of
times to kill the hoodoo that
he and Reddy Hanrahan had
been feeling coming on ever since a
small black dog and a larger oliver and
white" pup, believed to have been i'm
ported by Charlie Lord for the purpose,
ran all over the field, barking in the
first inning. Klopf was the next man
to bat, and he slit the atmosphere thrice
and went back to the box to pitch.
That was the last time that Mis-
souri, man was seen beyond third
base, although Duke had to invoke
the aid of all the gods in the ninth in
order to strike out Kreig and prevent
Cartwright from coming home. The
gods were propitious, however, and Old
Reliable Bill famed the air viciOusly
three times and then went into the
dressing room.
When Minneapolis came to bat in the
seventh, Tom Turner. the first man to
bat, famed out, then Duke knocked out
good single, Dugdale sent a little fly
to Cartwright, who lives on just such
things, and it began to look as If Mime
apolis would get no chance to overcome
the lead the visitors had gained, but
Curtis kindly muffed Minnehan's staI
disturber in deep left, and base on
balls to ''old side boss" Miller
filled the bags. 'Papa" West
came to bat with the bases
full and two men out. 1t looked very
much as if the game was in his hands,
and it was. The big fellow realized
that he must kill the ball or himself
Kl0pf realized it too, and two of his