St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-19
CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, PITTS
BURG AND BROOKLYN WON
THEIR FIRST SERIES,
AND ST. PAUL is AT THE FLAG,
GAIT AT MILWAUKEE, ON
WEDNESDAY.
SOME STORIES FROM THE FIELD.
CantilliOn, COmiskey and GIassscOck
Figure I'm Some More or Less
Truthful Narratives.

The base ball season of 1886 is well
under way. The big league has start
ed, and as the clubs rounded into the
turn, the first series showed Pittsburg,
Chicago, Washington and Brooklyn
well on In front. If 1t keeps up this
gait, Washington will for the first time
in number of years have made any,
thing like good showing in the cir
cult. The other three were reasonably
certain to go into the first half Balti-
more's loss of the first series is an in
auspfcious opening for the pennant
winners of last year, but it does not
signify anything serious yet
The home league will begin to be of
real interest Wednesday, when the ST.
Paul team opens at Milwaukee, the
Minneapolis team at Kansas City. the
Eastern clubs mixing up on their own
grounds.
The final outcome of the anti Sun
day base ball fight in Indianapolis has
been the withdrawal of Watkins from
the Sunday field, with possible re-
arrangement of the Western league
schedule on that end to some extent.
to fix all the clubs alike on the Sun
day games.
The st. Paul club has called off the
exhibition game with the colIegians at
Madison, Wis, which was scheduled
for Tuesday, and will remain here in
practice until Tuesday night, reach
ing Milwaukee Wednesday morning
for the opening game
Wilmot's pennant winners 90 are in
Des Moines, where they will try to re-
their lOSSac hn
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When Jack Crooks, Jack Glasscock
and Perry Werden were all on the
st. Louis team, the nine were all ar
rested after Sunday game and taken
to the nearest police station to be
put under bond. The players were re-
quired to give their correct ages when
they had lined up in front of the griz-
zled sergeant of police in charge of
the station. A team of ball players will
act like parcel Of antiquated maidens
at pink tea when the age question
is broached. Werden answered the
several questions promptly and cor.
rectly until the sergeant blurted out:
What is your age?" Werden hemmed
and hawed until the sergeant had twice
repeated the question, and then hesi-
tatingly answered: ''Twenty-four.
This answer caused a litter from all
the ball players in the line except
Crooks. He likewise pleaded to being
twenty-four years old. Then came
Glasscock's turn. What did those
two tell you their ages were? Twenty
four! Either one of them is old enough
to be my father; but 1 won't lie about
my age. The same figures will do for
me, only reverse them. Instead of
twenty-four, make it forty-two"
Joe Cantillion tells a good one at
the expense of Manager Watkins. of
the Indianapolis team. 1t happened at
the league meeting last fall in Mil
waukee. Watkins was logging hard
for the admission of Omaha as the
eighth city. AS is well known, that
city was turned down and Watkins
correspondingly discounted. Cantil-
lion, who had been umpiring a few
games during the season, had been
the objective butt of much roasting
from Watkins through the medium of
the indianapolis scribes. He, too, was
present at the league meeting. and
after the magnates came down stairs.
Watkins began to bewaiI his lot. Lof-
tus' turned to him and said: You'll
have h of time squaring YOUR
self with Brush, won't you, Wat?"
"Oh, that's all right" said Watkins.
L only went according to my orders.'
We'll" chimed in Comiskey, you can
lay 1t to the umpire; that'll let you
down easier" The smile" was on
the clothier.