St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-09
Mr., CIRCUIT CROOKS.
A st. Paul Boy Makes Four
Home Runs in an Omaha
Uniform.
Mains Loses His First Game
of the Season to the Ne
braska Team.
Minneapolis Beats Denver In
a Long and Tedious
Game.
Cleveland Pulls Into Second
Place in the National
League.

A native of st. Paul of considerable
prominence in base ball circles re-
turned home Yesterday morning. He
carried in his right hand bundle IN
which was carefully rolled up uni
form labeled Omaha" in his left hand
a bat bag labeled .'Sure thing" and on
his countenance one broad smile, un-
classified. The gentleman was
John Crooks. He played ball
with st. Paul few years
ago. but the management thought HIM
a trife too slow, so he wandered away
to st. Louis. and thence to Omaha. Yes
terday he came back to the home of his
childhood, and in the afternoon he went
out to Athletic PARK and played the
game of his life. The credit of the vic
tory is given to the Omaha team, but to
Crooks alone is the triumph due. In
the first inning he lifted the sphere
over the right field lattice work,
bringing Strauss to the rubber
ahead of him. I'm the third he hit for a
single. and. with four others, scored.
Again. in the fourth, with the bases
all full, he landed the ball over the ell
closure. The crowd thought it was
foul, but Umpire Cusick thought other
wise, and it counted as home run.
With Strauss on first he welded the
wagon tongue for the fourth time i'll the
sixth, and the ball sailed over the
fence for the third time amid
tremendous applause. In the seventh
inning. with Cleveland on second and
two out. Crooks again went to the plate.
He struck viciously at the ball twice
without touching it, and then hit il late,
and it slid off the end of his bat like
shot and landed twenty feet
OVER THE FENCE.
He had been to bat five times, had
made four home runs and
single, and had acored five times:
The st. Paul team had several
times got in the lead or tied the score,
but every time Crooks came to the res
cue and put the NebraSkans in the lead
again. In spite of the fact that the
score was ridiculously large, the contest
was so close and the batting so heavy
that the spectators were kept almost
continuously cheering for two hours.
Cusick's umpiring was not satisfactory
to the crowd, and he was severely
roasted after the third inning. The
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and that of Reilly were apparently foul
balls, and Cusick's Judgment on balls
and strikes was questioned right along.
Mains was seldom hit except by Crooks
and Nagle. but their drives were nearly
all long ones and brought in fourteen of
the nineteen runs. The local team
pasted Clark's twlsters all over the dia-
mond for six innings, at which point
Nichols was put in, and he put stop
to the hitting. Cleveland, the old st.
Paul player, made two safe hits
and accepted nine of eleven chances.
Two of his catches were neat and
pretty. In the outtield Willis took the
honors. His catch of Days apparent
three-base hit in the seventh inning
was a remarkably fine piece of
work, and his catch of Carroll's fly
in the ninth just before it reached
the ground was wildly applauded.
For the local team the fielding of Car
roll was best. He took in five flies and
assisted twice. once on ground ball.
The work of Farmer and DAILY was er-
rattle The former had three chances, ac-
cepting none of them. BrOughton's
catching and throwing to bases were
superb. The score is appended: