St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-22
AFlNE LOT OF men
Is the General Verdict onCapt.
Comiskey's New League
Team.
TEN THOUSAND PERSONS
Witness the inaugural Game
of the Year at the New
Park.
SLAUGHTER THE PlCKETTS.
The Saints Show Up Well. but
They All Need Prac-
tiee.
SLAUGHTER THE PICKETTS

That base ball is the popular sport
with the people of st. Paul was dem
onstrated by the crowd that wit
messed the first appearance of the
league team on the home grounds
yesterday. The grand stand and
bleachers were packed, and along
the fence on each side of the dia-
mond men and boys were cuddled
up on the ground ten deep. 1t
was estimated that there were from
5000 to 10000 people pres AS
for the exhibition game-or games,
if the Red Caps insist that theirs
must be called a game-played yes
terday, it cannot be said that there
was much brilliant playing on either
side The feature of the game was
the heavy stick work by both teams,
especially the league club. Only five
and a half innings were played, the
Picketts not taking their turn at bat
in the sixth, and the score stood
% to in favor of the league club.
The Picketts put up a very good am
ateur game, and had it not been for
a good deal of wild throwing at crit
ical points they would have made a
good showing against the profess
SIGNALS. On the other hand, the lat
ter. realizing that they had a cinch,
played more recklessly than they
would had they been pitted against
a team more nearly their equal. On
the whole, the team shows up to good
advantage, and it was the general
verdict that Comiskey has a strong
aggregation of players who will put
up fine ball after they play few
more games.
THE GAME.
The game was not one of which
a detailed account would be of par
ticular interest The league team
was the first at bat. and led off by
scoring five runs Then the PickettS
were retired one, two, three, and 1t
looked as though things were going
to be so one-sided that all interest
would be lost.
In the second inning the leaguers
made five runs, and when the Pick
etts scored two in the second half
the crowd went wild with enthusi-
asm. The league team added live
more to their side of the sheet in
the third, and Clayton scored for the
Picketts.
In the fourth inning the league
team was whitewashed. which tic
killed. the crowd immensely, but the
leaguers retaliated by giving
goose egg to. their. opponents. SO,
In the fifth inning both sides bat
ted terrifieally.a, The league team
batted heavy all the way through,
as stated, but in this inning the
Picketts seemed to find Peppers
delivery every time, and pounded
it for a couple of singles and two
two-baggers, adding three marks
to their side Of the score sheet. The
league team made five runs in this
inning.
After the league team made four
more runs in the sixth, the crowd
sent up a howl for the Red Caps.
The Picketts were willing to re-
tire, $50 the Red Caps scattered
themselves over the field fresh and
vigorous to demolish the half-tired
leaguers. Jim Ahern looked formid-
able in the box, and M. Berkman
pulled on the big nit and donned the
mask behind the bat with the same
degree of assurance as though it
were his daily custom. But the
first ball Jim sent across the plate
no, not across the plate, but some
where in the vicinity-sent man to
first base limping. After three men
had scored and one struck out, a
neat double play by F. Berkman
on second retired the side.
The crowd had had enough base
ball for one day now, and began
throwing cushions and indulging in
a general jolification. When order
was restored the Red Caps took
their turn at the bat and made two
runs-so somebody said, and the re-
porter credited them up to Jim
Ahern and George Allen, and then
the crowd "blowed" The score of
the first game was: