St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-14
PLAY BALL TODAY.
Comiskey's Team Will Face
Buck Ewing's Lads at
Cincinnati.
AND WILL PLAY THREE DAYS
Following With a Professional
Tour in Illinois and
Iowa,
AND WILL PLAY THREE DAYS
RETURNING HOME SUNDAY
When the Season Will Be
Opened Here--Sketehes
Of the Players.

KEYS Western league players, VINO
will make their '95 debut on the dla-
mond today with the Cincinnat1s,
will be watched with intense inter-
est in this city. The st. Paul club
will undoubtedly labor under many
disadvantages. The men are new
to Comiskey, and besides they have
not only not played together, but
not one of the nine has had uni
form on this season. Yet all nave
done more or less practicing, and
number have had the advantage OF
earnest gymnasium work for sew
eraI months. 1t will be crucial test
| for the st. Paul boys, as the team
! they will play against has been on
| the diamond for at least a month.
| During that interval Capt. Buck
| Ewing's men have not once sus-
| tanned defeat, a rather remarkable
record. 1t is more than probable
that Comiskey's men will suffer the
| experience of other teams which
have fallen before Ewing's crowd
of huStlers.
Such a result, however, should in
no manner reflect upon the ability
of Western leaguers. Capt. Comis-
key will make a bold bid for this
afternoons game, and the Red
Stockings will be called upon to
face a twirler who has travelled in
league company himself-Pepper, of
last seasons "Colonels." He will
be assisted by Johnson, the young
pitcher who made. such a wonder
full record with Peoria last summer.
Young Boyle will catch the pair.
After playing in Cincinnati Mon
day and Tuesday, Comiskey will
take his team ON little professional
jaunt, which will terminate with
their arrival in st. Paul one week
from today.
En- route, the Western league rep
resentatives will enjoy preliminary
practice with Rockford, ILL.,, and Du-
buque teams. Their active work
will begin at the ST. Paul base ball
park on the afternoon of Sunday,
When the professionals
WILL CLEAN OUT
a picked nine, comprising the very
choicest amateur talent in the city.
From then until the big fellows start
for Kansas City for their battle wfth
Jimmy Manning's pets, the park
3 VIII present a scene of activity.
I.here will be a ta11 game every
day. Bud" Fowler's colored con
tlngent, the Page Fence Giants. will
be the attraction for ait least two
days. Later in the week John
BARNES will run his MINNEAPOLIS
wonders UP against "Commy's"
stars.
rms game will certainly attract o
p1g crowd from the Twin Cities Tbe
OLD rivalry is intense, and will exist
until the Western league season of
1888 is a "Reminiscences.
with the games outlined the ST
Pauls will be enabled to get into FIRST
class condition and be ready to NAV
the game of their lives when on Nav !
the umpire's cry, play balIv' re-
SOUNDS from the banks of the Kaw
MATTERS at the new ball park are not
progressing as rapidly as the root
ers mad anticipated. 1t will require
herculean efforts by Contractor Da1v
10 place the grand stand in a condition
10 accommodate the throng which will
9 ct the pennant winners of 'o5 a
week from today. At presen. litt1 :.
mas been accomplished at the mark
me diamond has been laid out. bur
much finishing is necessary before it
VIII accommodate the players. But
one side of the park-on Aurora ave
1ue-has baen fenced. Capt. Comisk w
mas changed the original site of the
grand stand. 1t will be located at the
corner of ST. Adams street and An
rora avenue. Thus far not stick has
been erected, and yesterday the work
men mad not completed preparations for
the foundation.
WILLIAM H. PEPPER.
William H. Pepper, a. twirIer Cant
Comlskey regards very highly, is an
athletic young fellow of TWENTY-FIVE
lie IS comparatively young on the dia-