St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-03
CoMMY Is CONFIDENT.
Other Clubs VIII just De Meat This
Year.

Capt. Comiskey was In high feather
yesterday over the failure of the ants
to get the league meeting away from
st. Paul, and pointed with great glee
to the bare ground as an evidence that
the closing of the season Oct. l was a
tradition that might as we'll be aban-
doned in this league at least. There
was no evident reason why base ball
could not be played in this section from
Easter Sunday to Ash Wednesday at
least, although he would not favor in
vading the Lenten period. The pitchers
deserved some rest.
'St. Paul can't lose this year. I
can't see how we can lose a single
game, although of course we may. 1
do not see how these other people can
expect to get the penant though, as 1
have been busy all winter picking up
good things, and the st. Paul team
this season will be a corker from bot
tleville, and don't you forget it. Now,
just look in the box. There's Tony
Mullane and Johnson. No team in the
league can knock 'em both out of the
box, even when they are sick, and they
won't be sick this year. With the new
cathode rays, which we will have right
in the dressing room, we will inspect
their arms and bodies at the close of
each inning, and see that they are in
proper shape. In order to give these
two an occasional day off, we have a
young man named DenZer, who can
pitch standard ball through pile of
hides, and he won't do thing to these
kid players the rest of the league are
picking up. Why they won't hardly
comes to the plate, we have little
Kraus and Henry Spies. There's the
long and short of it. We can't miss
a thing there. Kraus will take the low
ones and Spies the high ones, and that
pair can catch anybody, not barring
Martin Duke or Fisher when he's rat
tied. Glasscock will be the proper
people at first base, and he will be
there, too. See? There are a lot of
these guys that want him, but they're
not in it.. See? At second, if any of
these visitors playing get around
there, they will find Jack Pickett. Mr..
Pickett has played in some pretty fair
clubs, and 1 think st. Paul people will
like his play.
Tim ORourke will be at third, and
will dig anything out of the sand that
the transformers from away can hit
out there, but if they ever get him at
the bat himself I'll have to get that
fence insured. Now, at short, there are
Shugart and Hollingsworth. Shugart
used to play in Minneapolis, and he
got everything that the fence did not,
eAcepl the @o,Uoo tiSy Solu min lOI.
guess that infield will keep these del
egates from the back country roofing,
even without any outfield but rather
than take any chances I have gone to
the expense of hiring a few high-sala-
ried men just to look pleasant and pull
down occasional flies. Billy George
will be around, and Jim Burns will be
given a chance to come to bat three or
four times a game. Stratton will be
there, SandoW Mertes and Lew Camp.
"Now, between you and me, where
are these people going to get a game?
1 don't see, do you?
"Of course when it comes to billiards,
we may not be in it, and we have no
race track to help get the crowds, but
if you want to see the real old base
ball played in this league, you want to
spend the summer in this town, and
don't you forget it,"