The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-21

Detroit ............7S So 81 .493
Grand Rapids ....76 % As 1858
Columbus ..........79 q Sc .291
GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY.
Indianapolis at st. Paul.
Columbus at Minneapolis.
Detroit at Kansas City.
Grand Rapids at Milwaukee.
The gap is closing up, and no one is
closing it up but st. Paul.
The Hoosiers are now but fifty points
ahead of the Apostles in the percentage
table
The cyclists from Injianny were I'M
able to break the record of victories
which the Saints have been making
ever since the Fourth of July, and 1t
brought them down hard. Fourteen
now.
Once they had the score tied, and
kept it so as much as a minute, but
they never were ahead and they never
had any right to be.
They were outbatted, outpitched and
outfelded.
George Cross, the wonder of two
years ago, was in the box for the cham
pions, and he had troubles enough to
tell eight policemen. The outf1elders
dropped high flies and said there were
no angels in the clear sky. the catch
er failed to hold foul tips, the umpire,
he said, gave him the worst of it on
balls and strikes, and then the locals
would insist on batting his daintily
curved balls all over the lot
The Hoosiers have struck the tobog-
inc fro, fIa
yesterday. If they do not play better
ball than they played yesterday, they
will go down the slide at a constantly
accelerating speed that will put to rout
all the records of Michael Hemmest-
vedt, Torger Torgerson, or any other
old ski jumper that ever tipped his
sliders on an icy crust.
Easy? Why St Paul had to play
fourteen innings to win a game from
columbus. Indianapolis was beaten
In seven, but they played nine to com
ply with the league rules. An inning
more nor less did not count In five
of those nine innings the Hoosiers did
not get to first base. q ~
Denzer pitched, He was wild at FIRST
or the game would have been too one.
slded to be interesting. He settled
down after the first inning, however.
and it was almost as hard for one OF
watkins men to get to first base as
Tor camel to go through a needles
eye, which standard authorities con-
cede is extremely difficult.
Ii. some one, or two or three or more
on the Indianapolis team do not take
unto themselves a decided brace there
WI, WIN pc no pennant flying from Wat
kln's grand stand next year.
Every seat in the stand and neorlv
every one in the bleachers had its oc-
cupant when the game was started a,
o:9O' and within few minutes, it was
apparent that old How can we losa9'.
mas no license to lose
" Rourke walked to first base with
the same artless insouciance which
cnaracterizes his play with tail-enders
ne, at least, cared not for the tran
silent glories of pennant chasing egot-
lists. He tried to steal second. however
and there the Holsters showed their
speed, FOR he was out at second almost
Defore ne started. Glasscock. however
refused to shake in his boots as he
raced the wabash outfit, and when he
nit the ball, it scared Mccarthy so he
ihlsJudged 1T six feet. Jack made two
bases. kraus met the ball at the wida
end of his bat, and when it dropned ont
side the fence; st. Paul had a credit
or Two runs. George hit the hall inst
as hard, but in another direction. Marty
Hogan, however, made a bad tumble
ana then looked up at the sky to see
III II mad moved while he was locating
the pail 1t was good bluff, but the
crowd discovered Martyrs weakness he
fore the end of the game. Burns hit a
hot one that singed Cross trousers as
1t passed the pitchers box and Pickett
sent fly to Hogriever, who also look
ed at the sky moment later to see
what mad become Of the ball that he
mad thought he was going to catch
Shugart hit a safe one, and Spies drop
ped the ball over the fence for two
bases. so that by hook or crook the
Saints had accumulated five runs In
one inning. and that was more than
Columbus had allowed them.
Hogrever waited for his base. but
Buckley gave Spies q hard foul fly
Hogr1ever, had gone to second on it
and was hurrying back when Spies
threw the ball to Glasscock 1t was q
close decision, and Umpire O,Day gave
Hogriever the benefit of the Coubt
Mccarthy got his base, and then Motz
gave Burns fly. The runners stole on
Burns throw. Denzer filled the emptv
base with Stewart, and Scheibeck sent
good single to left and scored two of
the fence and scored two more, but he
was caught trying to steal third. The
score for the first inning was five to
four
Glasscoek hit a second time safely.
but went out on an effort to steal
just as had O'Rourke before Buckley's
throws after that were respected. Kraus
struck out, but George waited for four
bad balls. and Burns hit q two Dagger
Into center, which he beat out by hard
running. Pickett had a chance to
1engthen the locals lead but he struck
out ..,4.
Two Hoosiers had gone when Hog
riever hit safely. but Buckley gave
George fly, and the score remained
as before.
In the third. Spies hit safely, but ran
on a fly to Mccarthy and was put out