St. Paul daily globe., 1890-07-13

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mond and attempt to disentangle the
spirals and shoots of opposing pitchers!
A charitable public has turned out in
fair numbers the past week to witness
the painful antics of the pigmies apos-
tolic, but five straight defeats have
about killed the interest of even the
most confirmed fans" Truly, the
local team cannot play ball. 1t is hope
lessly last in the race. and it richly de-
serves to be. 1t is entirely outclassed
and has no more license to win games
from the Kansas City Blues, for in
stance, than have the st. Paul Picketts.
The GLOBE took occasion at the sea-
sons opening to sound the alarm to the
management. Its attention was called
to the weakness of the team-the anna
teurish work of Abbey at right field
and Cantillon's inability to hit the ball
but both these players were retained
for many weeks, and one of them is
weak spots were developed, but
practically nothing was done until late
in June, when Mr.. Watkins was chosen
to manage the team. He Immediately
made a conscientious effort to weed out
the palpably poor timber, and put in its
place sound stuff. His intentions have
been of the best, and the GLOBE has
very high opinion of him as manager,
but the selections made have practically
all proved disappointing. O'Brien was
a tiat failure from the outset. lie fields
his position quickly, accurately, grace
fully, but the story of his failure is told
in the fact that he has made but four
hits in thirteen games. Sweeney is a
good-natured, working fielder, but
he is extremely erratic in his work, and
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not HaWeS' equal in any respect. He
plays his base in an extremely ragged
and headless manner, is decidedly weak
at the bat and cannot run bases many
points ahead of the fat man at the
museum. Shreve is the only one of the
new men who comes anywhere near
being a success. His pitching is fairly
effective, he hits the ball hard and often
safely, and fields his position in superb
form. This is not intended as roast
for the management. 1t is merely an
ye-opencr-preciselyi in cold type what
is being said about the streets of the
city every day and everywhere. st.
Paul likes base ball, and would regret
to see the city without a team, but 10y
atty to home interests makes it impOSSi-
bic for it to love a loser.
The Latest Defeat.
The game yesterday with Kansas City
was a repetition of all the Others of the
week. For seven innings the Apostles
hit the ball gingerly and scored but one,
while the Kansas City men intertwined
their hits with local blunders in proper
proportions 10 get around the bases
seven times. The crowd had largely
disappeared, and the remainder had set
tied into Semi-cOmatOSe condition
when the eighth inning was opened.
O'Brien opened the inning with a good
hit to left, and BurkS sent one to right.
Shreve got a life on Manning's
tumble, and the first two runners
got home on sacrifices by Muir
ply and DAILY. The ninth proved
quite exciting. Hartnett popped up a
high foul fly. which was neatly taken
by Conway. Sweeney then hit safely
and Farmer drove the bill to Hickory"
Carpenter, who tumbled it long enough
to permit both men to reach bases
safely. Sweeney, however, wasn't
watching his p's and qs and overran
second being touched out. Burks and
Shreve each made clean hit, sending
two men home. Murphy could have
tied the score with long hit, but he
wasn't equal to the emergency. He
popped up fly over second, which
Burns, who was playing well in, cap
tured. The Blues Mon the game in the
first inning on a life to Manning on
Sweeney's error, single by Burns and
home run by Hoover. The fielding
feature was the work of Manning at
second. The score: