St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18
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speeches., Music and Genial
COnviviality.

A black dog, with a stump tail
and a wicked lear in his eye, ran
across the diamond and threw a
shadow over Bill Erwin's vision yes
terday afternoon at Aurora park.
II was in the second inning of the
base ball game between the ST. Paul
and Minneapolis policemen. The
dog was imported from Minneapolis
by an enthusiastic rooter, and his
personal idiosyncrasies were relied
on to hoodoo anything they reflected
on. Consequently Umpire Erwin
became afflicted with a strabismal
trance, it is alleged, when the black
dogs shadow crossed his path. In
that inning the ST. Paul peelers made
eight runs, and went so hopelessIy
ahead that the thief takers and
peace-preservers from up the river
never caught up. They never got
within hailing distance even until
the last inning, when the same black
dog was chased across the diamond
by James Nugenti Austin in motley
garb. AS he lodged from the far
bleachers to the visiting players
bench he ran directly over the ten
der left foot of Officer Sweeney, the
st. Paul pitcher. Right there the
prize twirlers effectiveness ceased,
and before they got tired hitting the
ball the Mill City coppers had
BATTED OUT EIGHT RUNS
and were in danger Of making it
anywhere from nine to twenty until
Hagerty, for st. Paul, made a catch
that caused even Capt. Rouleau to
applaud. In the excitement that en-
sued. the Minneapolis athletes were
hypnotized. They evidently thought
that such a catch ought to retire
any side, and so, in the language of
Sergt. Jerry Sullivan they blew
the game and piped all hands to the
wagons" This move left the score
20 to 2S-and there it stands, two
men out, all out, and the umpire
gone to rest beneath the shady side
of his big bouquet, presented by
Capt. Rouleau at the opening of the
game.
Representations of the most san
guine man of the eighteen were dis
counted by the crowd that assembled
to see the game. Fully 5000 people
were in the stands and scattered
around the diamond No small part
of these had come from Minneapolis,
with tin horns and a high-strung
disposition to root as loud, as long,
young ladies, beauX and babies-the
one admiring, the other rather fear
ful-Were as numerous as the. staid
citizen and the debonnair rounder.
And not a whit less did they enjoy
the picture of a Well-meant effort
run to seed or of proud strength
wasted on air. If all Boston held
it's breath when Casey was at bat
with Blakey safe at second and
Flynn a-huggin third" it was
like condition that prevailed among
the Minneapolis rooters when the
pride of the force began the last half
of the last inning of yesterdays
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eternal within the human breast
they
WATCHED AND WAITED.
Nor did they wait in vain. The
score stood 20 to 20, with st. Paul
holding the heavy end, and Huckle-
berry Jim, the impressed mascot of
the st. Paul coppers, began to gath
er up the bats and other parapher-
MALTA. But Johnson stepped up for
Minneapolis and hit the ball so hard
never would stop. Smith followed
Johnson, and if he didn't knock the
cover off the ball it wasn't for lack
of driving force. Martin, Ollinger,
Cronon, Dugan, Chamberlain, Nous
so, and "the other Smith, emulated
his example so heartily and so we'll
that eight runs were sent over the
Frank Horns face began to assume
the hue of a boiled haggis, and he
beseeched the local rooters, with the
elOquence of a Billy Nuts, to stay
the fusillade. Then it was that a
Minneapolis batter lifted the ball
heavenward, and so far did it soar
upward that all the fielders lost
patience-except Hagerty, who felt
he must redeem an otherwise I'M
eventful day for him. He waited and
watched, while Erwin looked over
the rules relating to where flies go
when out of sight; and presently his
watching was rewarded. He opened
his hands
AND HE HELD THE BALL.
Minneapolis hopes fell into decay,
and when the wondering umpire said
s''all out" it went. Hagerty was car
ried from the field on the shoulders
of his admiring brothers, and pan
Paul partisans Twas 20 to 2S-not
much of a margin, but enough. It
might have been worse, everybody
knew, SO no one kicked.
To attempt to detail the game
would be vain, possibly tiresome. for
it was noticed that several of the
players We're very tired at an early
stage of the proceedings. Undoubt-
eddy the star of the day was Officer
Mousse, of Minneapolis. Erwin was
given a swell bouquet, Sweeney
cabbage and the black mascot
cut of luscious watermelon, but
Mousse deserves a monument. De-
spite his fifty-one years and his $50
pounds Of avoirdupois, he batted
with admirable vim and ran bases
like boy. ''Besta player in two
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