St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-26
LOT OF TRASH CIRCULATED
ABOUT THE MINNEAPOLIS
TEAM.
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WIN
A LOT OF SCANDAL MoNGERs SAY
THAT 1T rs THROWING
GAMES.
TT is ALL SILLY NONSENSE
The Team Plainly Playing as
Good BAH as 1t Knows
How To.

There is a lot of silly talk going
the rounds in St: Paul and Mime
apolis to the effect that Minneapolis
games, in the first place, to prevent
st. Paul from landing first, and, in
the second place, to enable Kansas
City to finish second. The whole
thing is so ridiculous as TO be hard
ly worth comment, but local paper
has taken the question so seriously
as to give it a, half column of space.
The Minneapolis team could gain
nothing for itself by throwing games
and there is no feeling among the
Minneapolis people or the Minneapo-
lis team that would go so far aS to
descend to the disreputable tactics of
throwing games simply to deprive
st. Paul of the honor of flying the
pennant. The loss of four games by
Minneapolis at Kansas City does not
indicate anything extraordinary.
The playing of the Minneapolis team
has been cratic all the season. 1t
has lost large numbers of games in
beaten with ease and then turned
about and played dozen brilliant
games. Lit is composed of many
hard hitters, but spends much time
in disputing decisions of umpires
and goes to pieces easily when the
rival team gets a slight lead. The
outfield Of the team is bad at judging
~ 4 e.
ing in the sardine box at Minneapolis
and the team fails away from home
at the bat because the flies which
at home are home runs are easy outs
on almost any other grounds. The
Minneapolis-Kansas City games are
not more extraordinary than a cou-
pie of dozen others that have been
played in the Western league this
year. If it can be said that Mime
apolis threw the four games to Kan
sas City, it can be said that Kansas
City threw a game to Grand Rap
ids on Saturday. In this game, it
will be remembered, Kansas City
made but three hits off "Bumpus'
Jones, and did not score. Following
the whole ridiculous subject a lit
tie further, it can be said that St
Paul threw the games of Satur-
day and Sunday to Terre Haute in
order to help the junior Hoosiers to
beat out Detroit
Remarkable things and combinations
of remarkable things are happening in
base ball all the time In this much
OF its interest centers. One some
times sees a couple of singles fol-
| lowed by a base on balls. With no
| body out it is a good five-to-one bet
that scores will be made. There is a
| sharp crack of a bat A line ball
| strikes the hands of the first baseman.
| He turns like a flash, touches first
base and hurls the ball to second be-
| fore the runner can get back. A
| triple play has been worked Nobody
| could or did foresee this, but it re-
suited, and it would be the height of
| the absurd to charge that anybody was
guilty of throwing the game.
| To return to the question of Gin
stances" most Of the fans" of St.
| Paul probably remember the second
of the Grand Rapids-St. Paul games in
St Paul on the Grand Rapids teams
| first trip. The Apostles made only
! two hits in this game, yet scored
t four times. Yet this was one of the
most prettily played games ever seen
here and won entirely on it's merits.
Just at this season of the year this
game would be under suspicion among
those who are on the lookout for a
| mares nest
The G / O b e does not believe any of
| these stories about the throwing of
games. There is nothing in the sport
ing world that is conducted with so
great and uniform a degree of hon.
esty as base ball There is now and
has been for several years so little
OF the faint of corruption about base
ball that the lovers of pure sport are
hooking to the. national game in I'M
numbered thousands. The GIob e
must have evidence, and a good deal
of 1t, before it will believe that Min
neapolls is playing anything but the
best ball it knows how to.