The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-22

The Hoosier base ball champions
have not as yet been loaded upon the
packing house accommodation, so to
speak, but they are being entertained
with some very characteristic tobog-
gaming by the hospitable denizens Of
st. Paul.
st. Paul has won fifteen straight.
Indianapolis has lost three straight.
st. Paul intends to at least make it
seventeen; Indianapolis means to stop
1t at three.
This afternoon at $50 the Hoosiers
will endeavor to put a stop to the mad
rush of the Apostles toward the restful
shadow of the pennant There will be
but one game.
indianapolis can drop fast enough
losing one game day, thank you, and
there are towns where Watkins would
rather play two games than in St
Paul
Yesterday it was Mullane against
Phillips.
Mullane was outpitched, but he won
his game. Phillips had to look at the
score card after every inning to make
sure that it was the Indianapolis team
behind him, and not some sand-lot
crowd Of barefooted urchins who had
never seen league ball In their lives
He mad sorrows to throw at the
birds. St Paul earned one run on
his pitching ST. Paul scored six. In
annapolis secured three runs off Null
lane and had to earn them ALL That
was the difference. The ST. Paul
crowd played ragged game in spots.
but they put the errors where they on
1y delayed the game, without increas-
Ing the score. Indianapolis, on the
other hand, made the errors where the
bicycle girl tore her boomers. at the
most inconvenient times and places. st.
Paul made six runs off seven hits: In
dianapolis three runs off ten hits.
Did the Hoosiers play in hard luck :?
You should have seen them. They
could not have drawn a turkey in a
Thanksgiving rattle if they had shaken
dice all night. Buckley, thoroughbred
old Dick, came to bat with three men
on bases, and struck out In the last
dash down the stretch, too, Hogrieyer
came up with two men on bases when
home run would have tied, and
popped up a fly, a hard one though it
was, to George.
And st. Paul is now but SO points be-
hind the leaders of the league
1t will take the visitors four games
to get back to the position they had
when they struck st. Paul, even if they
win every game.
And st. Paul is not through yet
1t was nice game, in spite of the
very apparent favors bestowed by the
tickle goddess of fortune.
Phillips gave O'Rourke a ball that
looked easy, but it slid off the bat into
the huge glove of the benton backstop
Buckley. Glasscock tried to saw
Phillips hand off with the ball. but
the hand lasted longer than the ball,
and Glasscock was thrown out at first.
kraus sent a ball skating into right
field and Hogriever had the thing back
to the initial cushion before you could
say Scat" Then Hogriever came in
and watched four ball pass the plate
without mixing up with any of them.
buckley hit to Burns, and it was a
fly. Mccarthy sent another fly to
Burns, and when Hogriever saw how
the thing was going, he figured he
might as well make a break for second.
Burns threw to Pickett, a little wild
but not so bad but that Pickett caught It
Jumped across the bag and met
George with the ball. George refused
to recognize it and tried to make the
umpire believe that he was not out
but the umpire was skeptical and
turned very inefficient ear to Mr.
Hogriever's plant. The thing was be-
ginning to get good
Pickett's base on balls was an oasis
in desert of high flies in the second.
Motz gave Burns his third successive
fly catch, and then Stewart made the
first safe hit Of the game, a grounder
that united a knot in Shugart's shoe
string. Scheibeck followed this with a
drive over the fence similar to Stewards
of the day before, which gave Indian
apolis two indisputable runs. Shannon