St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-03
ALTHOUGH THE GAME ALMOST
CONSTANTLY TIED IN THE
LATER INNINGS.
fERRE HAUTE BEATS HoosIER.
Minneapolis Defeats Milwaukee
HandiIy-The Race for the
Pennant Il Hot One.

That game yesterday-the one be-
tween Comiskey's Saints and jim
my Manning's Cowboys-was the
most exciting thing that ever came
off at Aurora park, and hundreds
of those who saw it will wake up
this morning with a rasping sensa-
ton around the larynX. For, while it
was not the most brilliant exhibit
ton of base ball ever seen here, still
1t was never equaled for excitement
and enthusiasm. Nearly three hours
Of stamping and yelling and jump
Ing sent the fans home exhausted,
but there wasn't one who didn't
keenly enjoy the afternoon or who
wouldn't be glad to see the thing
repeated today. Five times during
the game the score was tied. AS
many times were the Saints in the
lead, and the excitement was at
Fever heat when the Cowboys, by
3int of hard hitting, raised us one
Ghe bases seldom seemed empty of
runners. The rapid crack-crack of
Ehe base hit was followed by the
most terrific screening on the part
Of the crowd, which, by the way,
was a record breaker for week days.
Ii was a counterpart of that on the
morning Of the glorious Fourth, and
throughout the afternoon it was al
ternately frantic with delight and
consumed with despair. For scarcely
three minutes during any part of
the afternoon We're the people on
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see where the ball was going, for
both teams butchered pitchers re-
lentlessly and cobwebbed the atmos-
phere with long lines of emptiness
gouged out by the flying ball. Our
man Alex Jones came in for such a.
terrific wollOping that Johnston had
TO step in and save the game, and
nobly he did it, too. Never has such
hard-fought battle been witnessed
On the home grounds. 1t was a close
and exciting struggle from the call
Of time till a neat double play re-
tired the last two men who get their
salaries from Jimmy Manning, the
owner OF the umpires. And those two
men went out so quickly and died
with such unmistakable neatness
ana dispatch that they were dazed
and didn't know what had happened
Ill the great crowd poured from the
stands and
CHOKED THE DIAMOND
Whlle hoWiing a requiem for J. Man.
ming ana his aggrega ton of Blues
hnng faced the Saints with glowing
hut
through with King he couldn't see
from Where he stood just where he
came in. He was thumped all over the
!ot ana out OF the lot, and if the ground
hadn't BEN SO hard he would have
been hammered under the lot. Those
batting clothes with which the Saints
started in the present home series had
been newly patched yesterday and thew
fitted the boys to perfection. They ali
hit the ball. They jes' natchallv
swiped it for keeps, and the crack ot
The base hits when our side was in
pounded like a volley of musketry. sc
that people living near by thought
Company D had camped out in the
park. Jones was hit hard, but not sc
hard as Killing. Still it was hare
enough to cause worry, so he resigned
his job at the beginning of the seventh
and old boy Johnston strobe onto tn;
diamond with a mitt full of curve.
which the Cowboys couldn't see. Hal
he been properly supported the Cow
boys wouldn't have had as many run,
by two. Still we won the game, S,
what's the use of kicking about VIVA
might have been. The game didn'
start in briskly, because both pitcher
consumed time in the box before de
hVering the hall, and the gam,
"agged slow. Tim O'Rourke started
m the very first thing by workin.
King for base on balls, but the mex
!hree men died away in one, two, thre,
rder and Tim was left on second. II
the same inning one Blue got hi.
base, but the others died so easiIy tina.
he stuck to the initial bag. The Saint,
scored TWO in the -econd while tb,
crowd went wild with enthusia SIN
rhe people knew every run was needet
Ind they yelled as they never yelle,
before. Camp led off by flying out t,
hort, then Mullane singled sharply t,
hort and the ball bounded over Con
,aughton's head, giving Toni his base
Burns raped a hot one past secont
nd wild throw from center to sec
nd sent Mullane to third and Burns