St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-10
COPS PLAY BALIf.
THEY WENT OUT FOR A PRAC-
TICE GAME AND GOT
MIXED UP.
WITH WEEDS AND THISTLES,
SO THEY ARE NOW A SET OF
CRIPPLES BEYOND RE-
PAIR.
MEYERDING,s RED SWEATER
Loses Some of Its Dye, Which Is
Absorbed by the Fly Bob,s
Neck.
WITH WEEDS AND THlSTLES,


force has recovered from Saturdays
game Of constabulary base ball A
fortunate thing it was that the cen
trail station was not inspected yes
terday by any wandering Editor
Stead. any inquisitive Parkhurst, or
even by any of the local municipal
reformers. Had such a delegate been
there he could have related to his
sympathizing hearers in all truth
and honesty another startling rev.
citation" another appalling condi-
ton of affairs" another tale to
bring the blush of shame to the
cheek of self-respecting manhood"
The lame, the hating, the bat
tered, disabled and impotent re-
mains that hobbled UP to the cen
trail station last evening, when the
6 o'clock watch went on duty.
formed gruesome and heartrending
sight. Chief Clark was the only en-
tire man in the assembly. AS he
glanced over the swollen. distorted
features, the bandaged limbs, the
stained and torn uniforms, vainly
striving to recall a familiar feature.
he could scarcely restrain his emo
ton. The official black cat curled
up pensively upon the tab was even
more affected. She made no effort
to hide her grief, and her banshee
wall could not be Quelled.
This was all the result of Weeds-of
vulgar yellow-dock and obscure sun
flowers When the police conbina-
~
Saturday afternoon, under the
skilled direction of Manager RouIeau
two mines were organized. The
Metropolitans were COMPOSED of
doughty champions from the central
staton-bruisers that could hit
harder with q club than two men
with bare knuckles, sprinters that
could run away from any desperado
IN the Northwest. Capt. McGuig-
gan secured command of these
worthless by agreeing to concentrate
his attention upon his own personal
errors.
THE OTHER NINE
the Suburbans-h been gathered
UP from the purlieus of Prior ave
nue. and Margaret street stations
they were a long-limbed, loose-joint-
ed variety of police, with sunb11rnt
faces and cowhide shoes. Each wore
single suspender. Mounted Officer
Gleason, who had corralled these
pleasing specimens out upon the
prairies and the country roads was
commissioned to round them up for
the game He relied almost as much
upon his calico pony as upon his
pushWhacker's whip. Detective New
erd1ng was seduced into becoming
umpire. He was the only man in a
complete base ball uniform. The
others had each a pair of trousers
but their remaining garments were
scarcely worthy of mention. Never
ding, however, was assured that
every umpire worthy of the name
should wear National league
sweater. and he was promptly pro-
Vided with a black jersey.
The jersey seemed abnormaIly
broad about the chest and prefer
naturally narrow around the waist.
Meyerding is a blonde, but the jer-
sey was not we'll adapted to his
style OF beauty. In the first place.
1t was not permanently dyed, and
Meyerding's alabaster throat and
ivory shoulders soon began to take
on a war paint that made all the lit
tie boys execute sympathetic war
whoops. In the next place, the only
blonde that could have worn such A
garment with the slightest show of
a becoming fit would have been prop
er1y addressed as Katie or Marie.
The game began about 2:3O. The
MOST NOTABLE FEATURE
Of the first inning was the unan-
unity with which both sides ran
away from the ball. But the Metro
poiitans secured two home runs. The
Suburbans had counted one run in
the second inning, and the game
was growing interesting, when some
mines from the city commission
houses arrived on the scene. The
commission men had duly hired the
premises. The constabuiary were
therefore ingloriously thrown out
side Of the big fence, and forced to
make an impromptu diamond by
pulling up thu weeds. Here the spe-
cial training OF the Suburbans came
into play. They had been born and
bred among weeds, and fairly reveled
in the thistles and the burdocks.
But the other nine-the asphalt
nine, so to speak-did nothing but
fall down and extract thorns from
each other. During the first inning
in the weeds the Nets were unable
to secure a run. During the second
inning their weedy competitors made
three runs. Just then came up the
cyclone. The funnel-shaped cloud
made a Decline for Meyerding's jer-
sey, there was a cloud of weeds
and dust, and the patrol wagon made
fourteen trips across the bridge be-
fore the several mines We're gathered
in. But the weed chasers won the
first practice game by a score of