St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
FAREWELL TWO HUNDRED.
Men Would Not Win AL.
ways.
Minneapolis, 4; Kansas City, 6.

Minneapolis, 4; Kansas City, 6.
The spell is broken, and the gall and
bitterness of defeat has come upon the
V1cTors OF nine consecutive battles, but
they went down in pretty game 1t
was anybody's game up to the last
inning, and almost to the last minute.
that Oh the Minneapolis grounds. The
visitors merely had the luck that the
locals had in Saturdays game, and
that decided the match
Healy and Hastings were the oppos-
ing pitchers, and well they pitched.
They had the cooperation of the
weather god, who had cloudy skies
above them, but they We're steady
throughout, except that Healy gave
two bases in the, first inning, which re-
suited dfsastrously. It was not as ex-
citing 9, battle as Saturdays, perhaps,
III that there was less OF the filling
bases and pulling up short sort of
thing, but there was some nice, clean
fielding, and some critical periods, so
that the crowd was well pleased.
The first inning was a blank for the
locals, while the two bases on balls
previously referred to, with singles by
hlusman and Bergen, gave the visi-
tors three runs, the same that they
made in the first inning Of SATURDAYS
game. Straus went out, but Hatfield
muffed Wsrrick's S bail as 1t came on the
bound, and Joe went to second
kuehne's grounder to short right ad-
vanced Werrick to third and Wilson'S 6
hit scored him. The Missourians didn't
reach first. Lally's home run made if
a little closer, and when the Missouri
ans again failed to reach first base, it
began to get interesting Manning
dropped Wilson's grounder and Bill
reached first in safety. Fraser sacri-
heed, and Long John hit the ball far
enough for Wilson to reach third.
Huien waited for four, and the bases
We're full. Lally forced Hulen off. hur
he blocked Ccanaughton. and the 9th
ers were all safe. Wilson's run tied
the score.
The visitors led off again, Klusman
going to first on balls, and making the
other three on Hernon's hit to Fraser's 6
region. 1t was pretty close at the plate.
put Cushman gave it to the runner.
Straus' tWo-bagger, a wild pitch and
passed ball made the score a tie
again. Then there was trouble. Hast
lngs hit safely and Werrick fumhIed
Mannlng's grounder. But the next two
dropped the ball in LalIy's hands and
huehne caught a man at third, so that
Joe's error cost nothing. 1t was one
to three with the locals in the sixth
the feature of the inning being a, one
handed catch by Klusman of a. hot
thrown ball by Connaughton. Kansas
C1ty's luck then asserted itself. T<I,1s-
man drove the ball to the netting in
Straus' section and it stuck there while
the big first baseman made the ro,,nd
Ihen Sammy Nichol sent the ball over
the fence, and that was the last run
of the game.
Werden hit safely, but was doubled
out at second, and the seventh was
one, two, three again with the visitors
wilson's base on balls was the onIv
encouragement the locals received in
the eighth. Hernon got one lust like
II, and that was as near as Kansas
Clfy came to another run. HuIen
struck out second time in the ninth
and Lally delayed the game until he
claimed five balls had come his wav
Ihe umpire called two of them strikes
however, and finally Dan hit at q
poor one and it dropped in Nichol.s
paws. Werden, too, thought he was
gettlng the worst Of the umpire's de-
clslons, but finally hit the ball hard
down to Connaughton. The Irishman
was on deck, as usual and the game
was over.