The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-02
NATIONAL LEAGUE REMNANT.
CAYLOR THINKS 1T WILL AGAIN
BE WON BY THE BALTI-
MORES.
> cINcINNATI's LEAD.
DESPITE
League Magnates Are Now Out ON
u Hunt for Young Bali
Players.

remarkable records are being made
these midsummer days. Probably the
most remarkable of all were the five
shut outs in the National league on
July Il. Only seven games were
played, but in five of them one of the
opposing teams failed to score. The
Washingtons on that day got double
dose at Cleveland, playing eighteen in
nings without crossing the plate be-
heve this never before occurred to a
National league club in one afternoon.
On the same day the Baltimores shut
out the Pittsburg club, and the latter
Immediately turned the tables, there
being double header between the two
teams. The fifth victim was found in
the New York Giants, who failed to
score in their first game at Cincinnati.
Wilson, Wallace, Hoffer, Killen and
DWyer were the pitchers who accom-
pl1shed the quintuple whitewash. Wet,
slippery grounds and soggy balls were
largely responsible for the results.
On the following day three of the six
National league games were of extra
innings At Cincinnati ten innings
were required, at Chicago eleven, and
at Louisville thirteen. In each instance
the home team won, and in two of the
games the visiting team tied the score
in the ninth inning with three runs.
This Is a notable occurrence, because
extra inning games this year have been
much less frequent than last season.
Another novelty of the base ball sea-
son was the st. Paul clubs feat Of
duplicating the winning record made
by the Philadelphias in 1892-sixteen
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ties. as they are called, did on July %.
Ever since the Quakers made that rec
ord four years ago under the late Harry
Wright's management other clubs have
been trying to reach it. The Buffalos.
Of the Eastern league, beat it, I be-
lieve, last season. The big league rec
ord in straight defeats for 1896 is held
by the st. Louis Browns, which made
1t fifteen.
Finally we have the Cincinnati's
record of fourteen victories out of six
teen games played with the New
Yorks, Philadelphia, Brooklyns, Wash
ingtons and Baltimores on their home
ground.
The National league pennant race
this year has already settled down to
contest among three of the twelve
clubs. Barring unheard Of accident,
none Of the other nine has a possible
chance in the two remaining months
of the season. Though the Cincinantis
have made such a splendid fight It is
the general opinion that the Baltimores
will again win handily. Even the root
ers for the Reds are inclined to con-
cede the pennant to the Baltimores and
are concentrating their hopes upon
beating the Clevelands out of second
place, and thereby getting chance to
contend for the. Temple cup. They will
have hard task to do even that
The Baltimores, as team, outclass
everything else in the National league.
No one will for one hour doubt it
after watching them play against their
competitors. They use science where
other teams employ physical strength
They work together as a whole where
other teams look to personal perform
ances.
Whatever credit there may be in the
Cincinnati's remarkable and unexpect-
ed position in the league race, much Of
it belongs to Captain Manager Ewing.
Buck is not the king Of players which
he was ten years ago, but he always
knew every point of the game, and he
is base ball tactician who never fails
to see an advantage or to put it to his
clubs credit. With q very ordinary lot
of players he has welded together
team for Cincinnati whose work has
not only aroused intense enthusiasm In
the Queen City of the West, but has
also developed rooters all over the state
of Ohio. When the Baltimores played
on the Cincinnati grounds Sunday, July
10, excursions were run into the city
on nearly all the centering railroads,
and the Baltimore club was paid for
nearly 10000 spectators. That is is a
tremendous crowd of people and com
pared to the size of the city is pro-
portionately the largest gathering of
rooters ever seen at a base ball match. |
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and
Brooklyn have at numerous times turn
ed out larger crowds, but they have
greater populations to draw from.
For most of the rest Of the season the |
battle for the league pennant will be
transferred to the East. This is where
the Ba1timores will get a winning adj
vantage. Beginning with the 1st of Au-
gust, they will play thirty-five games
on their own ground and only twelve /
abroad, while In the same time the Gin
cinnatis will have thirty-three road |
games and the Clevelands thirty All
who know what a decided advantage /
a. club has at home over it's visitors
will readily see why the Baltimores are
by far the most probable winners of the
pennant.
Excepting the champions, the late
Western trip of the Eastern clubs has
been a great disappointment. This is
particularly true Of Boston, Brooklyn, |
Philadelphia and Washington clubs. |
which were expected to make a good |
showing and which marked their prog
ress through the Western cities by al
most constant defeats. The New Yorks.
from whom little was expected, did bet
ter and created surprise by beating the
Clevelands twice. In this intersectional |
series Ansons Colts made their annual
squirt and pulled up into fourth place.
where they promise to land when the
season has ended.
The New York teams long and in
effectual attempt to win three successive
games Is one of the curiosities of the
present year. This rather strange fatal
ity caused almost a spirit Of supersti-
ton to come over the New York play
ers In every game after two straight
victories.
There is some attempt made to be-
little Delehanty's recent feat Of four
home runs to five times at bat by re-
calling the circumstances of loves
four home runs several years ago. The
latter made his record on the Congress
street ground, in Boston, with its short
left field, and every one Of the four hits
was a fly over that fence. l presume
several Of the balls could have been
caught had there been an open field
The. De1ehanty feat cannot be matched
bv any performance with the bat since
the present style of the game has been