St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-22
PICKETTS VICTORIOUS.
The Minneapolis Browns Given q
Drubbing on the Diamond
at Saltwater.
Judge w illiston to Render an I'm
pOrtant DeciSion-PriSon
City General.

SALTWATER, Mimi, Aug. 21.-Thc
Picketts. of st. Paul defeated the
Browns, of Minneapolis, at Athletic
park in this city today by score of 10
| To 6. The afternoon was beautiful, and
a crowd of nearly 800 people witnessed
the game, which was exciting from start
to finish. Swanson was in the box for
| the Picketts, and with the exception of
two hits that netted home runs was in
vincible. Corbett pitched for the
/ Browns and was pounded ali over the
| lot. The Picketts found him i'll nearly
| every inning, and the ball was ham
| mered all over the lot for singles,
| doubles and a home run.
| Neither side scored Iii the first inning,
| but in the last half OF the second. with
| two men out, Ramey. of the Browns.
| reached first on an error. Nash cOrked
| the ball over the left field fence for IL
| home run. The ball went within Il foot
Of the foul line, and many of the spec
tatorS yelled foul, but the umpire called
it a safe hit. and Remey and Nash
scored. The PIckeItS tied the score in
the fourth inning on a tw0-bagger by
Burke and errors. In the fifth inning
Murphy, of the Browns, got a base Oh
balls, and Elmer Foster distinguished
himself by knocking the ball over the
left field fence, making the longest hit
ever made at the park.
This left the score to in fanor of
the Browns. and many conceded them
the game. but IL surprise was in store in
the seventh inning, when the Picketts
made five runs. Bum flew ont at first;
Martin was hit by q pitched ball, and
made the circuit of the bases on home
run hit by Clayton; Keete and Allen
nd
Burke each made singles. Allen at
tempted to steal home and was put out,
and the inning closed by O'Regan fan
ming. The Picketts male three more
| runs IN the ninth, and the Browns made
one i'll each of the sixth and seventh inn
ingS.
A disgrac eful scene occurred III the
last nalt of the seventh inning, which
nearly broke up the game. Bnlke, of
the WIlmots. officiated as umpire an d
called strike on Murphy. An argu-
at Burke, who lodged the blow and the
bat struck the grand staud. He apollo
| gized to Burke and the game proceeded.
The Browns. however, refused to play
with Burke umpiring, aud Charlie NJ.
MILAN was substituted. The score is as
follows:
Picketts... ....-..0 Q o 2 o 0 0 30
Browns. ~ D l 0-6
Batteries, Picketts. Swanson and CLAYTON:
Browns. Corbett and Warner Hits off
| Swanson 3, off Corbelt. 0. Struck out, Swan
| son II, Corbett B. Home runs, CLAYTON, Nash
! Foster. Two-base hits, Burke. Allen. Keefe,
| Clayton and Bum.
The gates at the Nevers dam will be
| lifted this morning and several million
| feet OF logs will be sluiced today. 1t is
| estimated that there are from &C, OJO, 600
| to 0,OO0,000 feet OF logs in the dam, aud
| 1t Will take at least a month longer to
| clean up the seasons work at the boom.
| which has been very successful since
| the high water receded. There is a
large number of logs in the st. Croiy.
and raft boats will be kept busy until
| the river freezes over, some of the boats
having contracts that can not be COM
pleted until that time. The George IL.
| Atwood mill in this city is running
night and day, with crews aggregating
$50 men, and Mr.. Atwood confidently
expects to keep the mill running in full
| blast until the season closes.
Although not officially known. it is
stated OH good authority that Judge
| W!lllSton will file a decision today i'm
| the case of Robert Iron Skiles, refusing
to release him from the state prison as
| prayed for in the haUeaS corpus pro-
| ceedings instituted by his attorney.
| The judges memorandum i'll the matter
| is lengthy document, citing in full all
| the points i'll the case. He had virtually
decided the same question once before,
but no record was then made of it. con-
seGuently it was taken up again, so as
| to prepare the case for an appeal to the
| supreme court.
The Abner Gle left yesterday with a
raft of logs and lumbe for Taper d Co.
keokuk, and the Canton Lumber com
pany, Canton, Mo. The L. c. A. Denck-
mann cleared with a raft of logs for
! Weyerhaeuser & Denckmann, Rock
Island. and the Cyclone left with raft
for the Burlington Qo.) Lumber COM
| pany.