St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-04
SWUNG Their STICKS
And Hammered Out a Neat
Little Eighteen to Nine
IS Victory.
Result of the Minneapolis and
st. Joseph's Slugging
Match.
Several Well-COntested ASSO-
citation and League
Games.
Short Horses Take the Money
in Very Slow Time on
Fair Tracks.

Minneapolis won dllotllel Saii0 S0o-
terday land worked up the line to fourth
place. The sun shone brightly all fore
noon. but after dinner the clouds began
to pile up. so that when O'Clock came
around it looked very much like rain.
In consequence the audience at Athletic
park which witnessed the ball game
between the local artists and the maia-
rial gentlemen from st. Joe was rather
small one, in comparison with the pre-
vious ones. Still, the bleacherS were
full, and the grand stand presented
quite respectable appearance. aud
John Barnes, of st. Paul, was heard to
sigh aud whisper: would my crowds
were as large"
Morrison was in the box for Minneap-
oils, and long. lank JantZen stood be-
hind the bat and caught him. Dugdale
was on the score card to catch, but ow-
ing to some misunderstanding he had
gone and had the barber run the clip
pers over the foliage on his face, and
when the game began he showed up in
one of the boxes with his best girl and
her younger sister. Little Knell and
the gentlemanly Frenchman with an
Irish name. Mahaney, and the accent
on the Nah, started the game as st.
Joe'S battery.
Minneapolis proved an easy mark in
the first inning. Mlnnehan flew out to
Kreig, and Miller and West were re-
tired in a pretty double play by Cart
wright and Knell. But St. Joe came to
bat and knocked out two runs, much to
the establishment of the locals, who al
lowed them to do it and aided them in
every possible way by rendering them
three errors. wild pitch and two bases
on balls. The boys had all been out
fishing the day before, and when they
saw the two runs and the many errors
scored against them, they were very
much afraid that Manager Morton
would sit down on any more eXcur-
sions to the lakes. Morton was
sitting up in one of the boxes, and
seemed to read their thoughts, as, after
expectorating freely on his own shoes,
he exploded with: "You betcher life
you won't go fishing again." They all
braced up when they came to bat,
though. Reddy Hanrahan hit an easy
grouhder to McVey on third, but he
monkeyed with it so long that Reddy
got to first. Then he stole second, and
came home on a wild pitch. Hengle
and Foster were allowed to take bases
on bad balls. Turner and Morrison fol-
lowed, and very kindly allowed Knell
to fan them out. But then Jantzen
came to bat, and. after striking wildly
and fercely at two balls, he stopped
long enough to give Hengle and Foster
the wink, and then sent the ball
sailing over the left field fence.
The ovation he received when he
returned from his trip around the dia
mond was caution to weak lungs and
diphtheritic Threats. One gentleman
kindly volunteered to lend him his coat,
while more enthusiastic crank yelled
out Historically: Here, take my shirt;
Eve got another in the wash" To top
off that inning Minnehan made safe
hit. and Joe Miller brought him in with
home run over the left field fence.
Their exultation did not last very long,
however, as the Missouri people when
they came to bat knocked out six more
runs. 1t was going to be smuggling
game, and no doubt about it. Three
singles, home run by Knell and a two
Dagger by "Old Reliable Bill Kreig,
were made Off Morrison that inning,
and it made him look very sick indeed.
When Bill Kreig came to bat every
body was betting that he would strike
out, as they were onto Bill from last
wear, when he made ex-Manager Good
ing's life miserable; but they got left,
as the tWo-base hit testifieS. If they
had bet that Foster. the phenomenon
whom Mutrie, of New York, kept sit
ting on the bench for two years, would
fan out, they would have been almost
sure of winning their money, as there
is no man in the country outside of
lightning-rod agent who can con-
verse so auently with space
as can Foster. He made a
long single. though, yesterday, which
ctort oil nua,, bip,calf Out in tho fold To-
however, he tumbled about just as
artistically as ever, and aided very
materially in fattening up the visitors
score by letting in two runs in the sec
ond inning. But that can all be for
given now. as Minneapolis won the
game. and he broke his record by max
ing hit.
In the fourth inning Knell thought he
was being hit too hard, SO he was re-
placed by Crowell, who pitched the re-
mainder of the game. He might as well
have stayed in, however, as the locals
went at Crowell tooth and nail and
pounded him for thirteen hits and nine
runs. Mahaney took his place. SchelI-
to catch. and Morrison, of course,
had to make his customary
home run and let people know he was
in the game. In the eighth inning, with
two men on bases, his club came in
contact with the sphere. and the conse-
quence was that the sphere went over
the fence, and three men went around
the bases and cut notch in the home
plate. Several gentlemen in the audi
ence threw dollars at Morrison. not
with any intention of injuring him in
any way, but just to show that they
meant well and appreciated what he
had done for his country.
Morrison was very wild in the box
throughout the entire game, giving men
bases on balls Unfortunately and had
not the boys gone in and batted out the
game, it is very probable that he would
have lost it. The score in detail of the