St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
ONE WEEK MORE
Is All the Base Ball Cranks
Will Have to Remain in
Suspense
BEFORE SEEING A GAME.
Well-Selected Amateur Club
Is to Play the Profess
SIGNALS.
COMISKEY WANTS REMNANT
And His Team Gives Promise
That He Will Get
It.

I am not afraid of anything We'll
run up against, either" This ex-
preston was used by Capt. Comis-
key in speaking of the aggregation
of talent which will represent ST.
Paul this year in the world of base
ball. 1t was rather happy assur-
ance that the WearerS of the gray
and the black are a strictly up-to-
date lot of hustlers, with not a
back number among them. Capt.
Comiskey's confidence in his club
cannot but be pleasing to the local
admirers of the most popular of all
athletics. ST. Paul yearns for win
ming ball club more ardently than
Minneapolis covetS the state cap
itol. If the ex-side partner of Chris
Won Ger Abe can trot out a club that
will make monkeys of the various
aspiring pennant-seekers, Comiskey
will be a sort of masculine Trilby
in this city. Thus far he has been
rather reticent concerning the abil-
tiles of his team, but the cat is out of
the bag-"Charley' has his eye on
the pennant, and all the "rooters"
and ''cranks'' are with him to a man.
While the ST. Paul crowd may be
trifie backward in getting into line,
when the boys arrive here they will
be in good shape for the diamond
after very little practice. They will
not bring any glass arms or rheu-
matte joints along, and cases of
Charley horse" will be rarer than
Zulu chiefs in Minneapolis. Reports
received from the various mem
bers of the club are flattering. None
are idle, and all are getting in first
class condition. Jack Pickett, the
sturdy second baseman, is reducing
his avoirdupois by playing hand
ball. Lefty MARI and Catcher
Boyle are practicing daily on the
Cincinnati grounds. Berger, the big
backstop, and Jones, the left-handed
twirler, are working together in Pitts
burg.
AS HEAVY BATTERS
the gentlemen from st. Paul are
strictly in the swim. Comiskey will
present a contingent of "StickerS"
which will shatter the ambitions of
many aspirants for base ball fame
in the pitchers box. The "old ian"
from Chicago will be in the list, and
will keep company with the follow
ing, all of whom can line out a base
hit as easily as a Boston maiden
can digest a diet of daintily Drowned
beans: O'Rourke, Mari, Pickett,
Smith, Berger, Camp, Pepper, Kraus
and Jones. These are all reliable
with the wagon tongue, and will
pull many a game out of the hole.
ST. Paul will be particularly strong
in the pitching department, too.
Comiskey already has five twirlers
under contract: Jones, Killeen, Pep
per, Masserlie and Johnson. Yet he
wants more. He will sign another
pair when he can secure two who
will suit him. This will be easily
accomplished. By the 18th of April
the National league teams will have
decided who will do and who will
not. The latter will be cut loose,
and much excellent material can be
picked up. Comiskey will give seven
men trial in the box, and the quar-
tette which are the most expert will
wear the st. Paul uniform this sea-
son.
One week from today fair women
will revel in the delights of dainty
Easter bonnets, but st. Paul's mas
Mill hai do
practically the opening of the base
ball season. On that occasion Co
miskey's stars will make their debut
in the City of Saints. Hundreds are
impatient for an opportunity to size
up the big fellows. The game is an
ticipated with as much pleasure as if
it would be championship contest
Jim Ahern has suffered from insomnia
for week, and his appetite is wan
ing. Jim is managing the amateur club
that is to play the first game with the
professionals. He is selecting his
talent as carefully as Ed Corrigan
would choose his Derby candidates.
With the assistance of Capt. Henry
Martin, the well-known insurance
agent, he has corralled the flower of
st. Pauls base ball talent They have
been named the Picketts, in honor of
Genial Jack" who is more popular.
with the cranks here than a French
count among the summer girls at
Newport. The star of the Picketts
is undoubtedly Tommy Larkin,
pitcher with great promise of a splen-
did career. He pitches ball that
looks like a marble as it glides across
the plate while agile batters perform
gymnastic feats, but don't connect.
The Picketts include the following
players; Larkin, pitcher; Clayton,
catcher; Capt. Martin, first base; EN-
merson, second base; Burke, third;
Murphy, short stop; Mattocks, Miller
and Burke, out-felders, and Lambert.
change pitcher.