St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07

Lou vine aI Baltimore. columbus at Phila.
After the st. Paul and Kansas City
teams had been playing five minutes
yesterday afternoon 1t looked very
much as if the Apostles would have
picnic. When the teams had played
half an hour it looked quite as much as
though the Cowboys were to have bar
becue with the Saints for meat. In the
next half hour a regular tug of war de-
Veloped, and for the next hour there
was a magnificent marshaling of forces
and as grand an exhibition of base ball
skill as was ever seen upon diamond
1t is true that Kansas City won, and
that, too, upon a wild pitch, but this
was merely the swapping of the cord
which ended the wonderful struggle.
The crowd was not so large as that of
Tuesday, but it was more enthusiastic,
and was kept in a perspration by the
close and pretty work for the last five
innings. Outside of the erratic work of
Meekin in the box the team did itself
proud. Three very quick double plays
were made. and the almost impossible
ny-catches of Baldwin and Goodenough
called forth wild applause.
A Funny Incident
occurred in the fifth inning, when Pick
EFT popped up fly over short. The ball
went we'll out, and Ely was Just able to
get under 1t. The leather bounded out
of his hands, but quick as a flash Ham
burg darted forward and caught it.
ORourke opened the game by pasting
one OF JohnsOn's twisterS out to center
for base. Abbey bunted the ball
straight at the pitcher, and O'ROurke
was nipped atSecOnd. Baldwin popped
up fly to first, but O'Brien earned
sack by waiting. Conley connected with
the sphere for two sacks, scoring Abbey
and OBrien, and coming in himself
on Ely's great triple to left. Manning
opened for Kansas City by dropping a
fly into Baldwin's hands. Hoover took
base OH balls and Smith hit grounder
toward right, which bounded up and
struck Conley in the eye. Stearns fol-
lowed with clean single to right, and
Hoover scored. In the next inning
Hickory" Carpenter planted a sock
dolager out to center for two sacks, took
third on Hogriever's sacrifice and scored
on Wilson's drive at short too fast to
field. st. Paul did not tally in the sec
ond or third, but in the last half OF the
latter inning the Cowboys piled up runs
in scandalOus fashion. Manning pushed
the ball out to left for sack, and
base on balls. Meekin then fumbled
Smiths easy grounder, and the bases
were full. Stearns struck out, but
Pickett
Smashed the Ball
to right for a sack, both Manning and
Hoover crossing the plate. Abbey
threw the ball in to Baldwin, and
Hoover was touched out, but Collins re
fused to allow the play. Carpenter
then hit for two bags, and scored Smith
and Pickett. In the fourth inning Ely's
fly was not held by Pickett, and the
runner was sacrificed around by Ham,
burg and Goodenough. In the same
inning Johnson hit safely to right, Man
ning was hit by pitcher, and johnson
scored while Hoover and Manning were
being doubled on a grounder to second.
The fifth was unproductiYe for both
teams. In the sixth the local team had
an opportunity to win the game, but
failed to seize 1t. Conley started the
inning by lining the ball out to left for
a sack, but the leather got by Smith. and
the runner landed on third. Ely took
base on balls, and Conley scored and
Ely went to second on a passed ball.
Hamburg popped up fly to first.
Goodenough followed with a hit, and
Meekn had chance TO distinguish
himself. He struck out, and O'Rourke
landed fly In Manning's paws. The
MissourianS did not score in this inning.
In the seventh st. Paul tied the score.
Abbey led off with hit, but Baldwin's
sharp grounder to short enabled the op-
position to engineer a double play.
O'Brien was hit by pitcher, Conley got
base for waiting, Ely hit one to Pickett
Too Fast 10 Field
and Hamburg placed the ball safely at
center, the result being two runs. Kan
sas City, however, Immediately forged
ahead again. Hoover secured his third
base on balls and was forced out on
Smiths grounder to short. Stearns hit
the ball to right center for three sacks
and,scored himself onPickett's hit to left.
st. Paul swung right into line again in
the eighth. After Meekin had struck
out O'Rourke was awarded a base for
waiting and Abbey got one on Man
ning's tumble. Baldwin then hit safely
to right and O'Brien to center, two
runs crossing the plate. Baldwin made
Iather foolhardy attempt to steal
third, but failed. The Cowboys didn't
tally, and the ninth was begun with
each team having nine runs to it's
credit. Ely was retired, but Hamburg
got base on balls, was sacrificed to
second by Goodenough and scored on
Meekin's hit to center. Hoover opened
with hit for the visitors and went to
third on Smiths hit, scoring on ball
pitched clear over Baldwin's head. In
the tenth the locals went out one, two,
three. For Kansas City Hogrieyer
failed to reach first. Wilson hit to
right for two sacks, was sacrificed to
third by Johnson and crossed the plate