St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-15
GORGEOUS GEORGE.
9vO Inopportune Mu1fs Cost a

We'll, we'll. well! The Millers took
q large tumble to themselves yester-
day, quit their kicking and played
base ball. AS a result they took one
of the two games played with the
Saints in one afternoon. They should
have Won the first game and the
Saints should have won the second.
But il was twisted around and each
Won the game it should have lost
and lost the one it should have COB
bled. Some pretty rank ball was
played on both sides, but St. Paul
eXcelled in errors, for they made
them at critical points in the games,
and every error was costly Sad to
relate, it was muffed fly by Left
Fielder George that gave Minneap-
oils the second game. The MilIers
had a cinch on the first game in
three different stages, but lost it in
the ninth finally by some very wild
pitching by Blackburn and Fraser.
Neither game was actually won on
its merits. Each contained a choice
collection Of rank errors, and Black
burn, for Minneapolis, was so wild
runs. That served to take the sap
out of the Aiillers, and put new life
into St. Paul. After all, it was Tim
O'ROuTke who changed the complex
ion of affairs when it was a sure
thing that Minneapolis had the game
won. When they stood three ahead
Of the Saints Tim raped out a home
run and sent a score in ahead of
him. Then Fraser turned to and
helped things out, and st. Paul won
the game by a single score The
Millers in their half Of the ninth
made a strong rally. but it wasn't
strong enough, and the vast crowd
of spectators breathed a sigh of re-
lief when the last man was out The
second game was a listless affair.
yet it abounded in pretty plays. The
men were all tired out, for the first
game was exciting and long drawn
out, and the second game progressed
quietly and in a prosaic fashion and
aroused no particular enthusiasm.
The Saints had reason to congratu-
late themselves on the series with
Minneapolis, for they quit with a
majority Of the games played, and
there are many people in St. Paul
who regard this as better fun than
winning the pennant owing to the
bitter feeling that exists between
the two teams. And when the day
closed Old Comanche Comiskey. al
though regretting that he had lost
even one of the games, admitted
Io /,
ord by winning twenty-one out of
the twenty-five games played at
home this last time. It certainly is
a creditable record. and the St. Paul
public has no reason to object or
find fault. Billy George is the sor-
riest man in the city on account of
muffing that fly, but Billy is a good
ball player, and it is very seldom
that & fly or anything else gets away
from him. He is easily forgiven,
for the best men are prone to err.
and Billy is only human. The Saints
We're outbatted in both games. for
- the Millers had on their hitting
clothes and went against Pepper and
Mullane quite freely. The hitting
OF Hulen, of Minneapolis, was nota-
bly, good. he securing four two-bag-
gers in the first game and three in
the second, with a total Of fourteen
bases. Tanning. whom nearly every
body thought would be hammered
10 death, proved a sickening puzzle
to the Saints. and they only got him
for seven hits in the second game.
And it is a singular fact that in no
one inning of that game did the
Saints get more than one safe hit.
This speaks volumes for Tanning
work considering the way the Saints
have been hitting the ball of late.
THE FIRST GAME.
It was full of excitement and abound
ed in pretty fielding and bad errors.