St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-20
BATTED LIKE FIENDS.
MilIers Play Horse With Detroit
on the Home Grounds,


Minneapolis, 20; Detroit, 5.
Inc restraining order secured by
John Barnes evidently does not re-
strain the gang from hitting the ball,
early, often and hard on the home
grounds. Two Detroit pitchers had
troubles to tell the policeman last
night.
Pears, the soap man, once beat the
locals so badly that they couldn't find
the free lunch counters on their way
home. Yesterday it was different BY
the time nine runs had been made in
three innings and a half, COMFY
Strouthers concluded that Pears wasn't
putting soap enough on the ball and
put into the interior of the diamond
a young man named Johnson, who puts
in his time between taking tickets at
the gate and applying the latest prin-
cipleS of Horticulture to an incipient
mustache. Mr.. Johnson, during the
game, went the way of Pears and all
other hapless mortals who collide with
the Minneapolis base ball team when
it has it's war paint on.
The home team, on the other hand,
was in the game a good deal of the
time, and nearly always at bat. Perry
Werden hadn't become acclimated
when the game opened and dropped an
easy fly in the first inning, but the man
went out at second and eleven bets
were declared off on the error The
outfield was in working shape play
ing the garden without a tumble while
the new right fielder, Wilson, twined
his bat around among the Detroit
curves twice with wonderful success.
Jim Burns began late, but pounded
out a, couple, and Dan Lally only got
one, but that one cost the prospective
receiver a dollar and twenty-five cents,
as the ball has not come back. Joe
Werrick had ice cream in his hair as
usual, and the visiting pitchers thought
his bat was as big as a barrel. Joe
Straus had another telegraph pole, and
after he had made four safe hits COMFY
StroutherT5 tried to borrow the stick
and break it, but the catcher wouldn't
have it.
Hulen's stick work was harder to
get away from than porous plaster,
although he did make a tumble at
short just to keep Perry company in
the sixth column. Kuehne's bat pro-
duced a double and a single, but the
visitors did not come to bat often
enough to give hSl a chance at the
ball. Fraser had more fielding chances
than any one in the team but Werden,
and accepted them all successfully.
1t would take too long to tell how
all the runs were made. Suffice it to
say that Detroit did not get anything
worth putting down until the fifth inn
ing, when Raymond drove the ball
over the fence. A quarter of an hour
later Fraser took pity on the orphans
from down in Michigan, after two of
them had tried in vain to get the ball
away from the local aggregation, and
deliberately filled the bases, with Sam
my DUNCAN coming up. Now, Sammy
! led both leagues for a little while last
| year, and he's some shucks with the
| stick even yet, so what did he do but
| swat the ball even as Raymond had
| done to it before. It was mighty
| lucky he did, too, for 20 to would have
| looked bad.
| AS for the locals they scored just
| about as they pleased after the first
two innings. The five in the third were
| given them by ragged fielding, but
| after that it was mostly case of
| slug, with an occasional base on balls
! thrown in to give a relish to the blood
pudding with which they were regal
| ing themselves.
Detroit will return on Sunday and en-
| deavor to show what excuse they have
| for being on earth. They will have
| plenty of room, as the game will be
| played at Minnehaha driving park
| The score: