The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-06
TEAM OF PLUG UGLIEs.
A Few Words About Those Who PLAY ssDir
Ball.

Few Words About Those Who Play DIRTY
Ball."
Dirty ball playing has been rather rare
article this year in the Western league and
out rev players now resort to the bull-doZlng
tactics which once so frequent in the
minor leagues throughout the country. Most
OF the managers and directors of the clubs
nave disseminated against the bulys and pro-
fessional base ball mouth scrappers and re-
fused to sign them at ALL But there is one
team in the Western league which was always
and, from present appearances will always be
constituted of the dirtiest set Of Chimney Fad
dens which could possibly be collected in the
United States The team is the st. Paul ag-
glass-arms who long ago. have seen better
Gays, and who, In order to win the few games
they 90 win, resort to all the vicious and
uespIlca6ie tricks known In the history OF the
national game. The team is composed of the
past masters at dirty ball playing A clean
ball player dropped into the St. Paul team
would be an object of pity, but it has been
several years since reputable player has had
the misfortune to be connected with that team
The st. Paul papers have criticised the Kan
sas City players on several occasions and have
referred to them as "the most disreputabIe
lot OF insists that ever played in st. Paul. "
rake their team as constituted at present and
the ldol OF the press and public there is-An-
TONIC MullaHe-the dirtiest and most disreput-
able ball player who ever trod the diamond
mere is no city in the country in which this
Fellow has played that he has not disgraced
both himself and the game also. In fact. he is
the inventor of all the dirty tactics which
are now so scarce and appear to be confine6
strictly to the St. Paul has beens." On one
occasion recently while playing at the local
grounds this Spaghetti bruiser came very
near being escorted off the grounds on a rail
by members of the local team for acting in
MS ms natural way OF insulting patrons in the
stand. Then there Is Jack Pickett whom ali
rans here will remember as the dirtiest hail
player ever belonging to the local team His
u llh" attack on Shortstop schiebeck,
VINO was then playing in the Western league
was enc OF the most cowardly acts ever wit
messed here and the contract hummer PicIef$
was roandly Kissed. Jack GIasscock the leg,
breaker and habtual spiker, is another mem
per OF this illustrious team of dead ones Nv
MS dirty tactics this fellow who should have
De pensioned and left to die Of old age, has put
more clean and good ball players out of the
game than all the rest of the toughs who were
ever unfortunately employed. That picture Of
nard luck, Mertes, is another worthy compan
ION OF the trio already mentioned and all
tnough not very we'll known in the present
league circuit, his reputation as dirty PLAYER
preceded MIN and during his short term in the
western league has sustained his record estah
lished elsewhere of being a would he scrannar
ana shoulder worker. There are others in tha
team, but the ones mentioned are the worst
IN the business and when the st. Paul papers
start roar about dirty ball PLAYING thew Evil
IDENTIFY don't look down the line of their team
ana see the names OF Mullane Pickett, Mertes
and Glasscock. This four should heat env rovaI
flush Of disreputables ever held at one time
The article is so malicious that II
petrays its venom and discounts its
sincerity. That it writer is not a lover
OF base ball as a clean game ia an
parent from his billingsgate. while his
knowledge of current events is poorly
displayed by his reference to Mertes as
picture Of hard luck If Mertes, lust
drafted into the Philadelphia club.
what must be the condition of Man
ning's glass arm phenom, Bevis. who
lost his curves before he had pitched
ten games; that blasphemous Nyce
the loud mouthed Sammy Nichon. or
Campau, who went down in the North
Westerns league smash I'D.