The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-09


Truly the ever constant fans who
went to Aurora park to see the last
two games of professional ball to be
played on the home grounds this sea-
son were we'll rewarded for they saw
two fine contests, clearly played, close
and interesting. Chauncey Fisher, up
TO ten days ago the unbeaten wonder
OF the Western league, pitched the first
game for indianapolis, which is a guar
antee that ST. Paul had hard game
to beat, but they beat it. Chauncey
made a fatal error of judgment, or
acted on one, whether it was original
with him or not. The play came
about in this way. The score was
three to one in favor of the Hoosiers
in the eighth inning, the locals having
two men on bases and only one out,
with Burns coming to bat. Fisher and
Stewart held a few moments consul
tation, after which the former deliber-
ately pitched four bad ones to the
Apostolic center fielder That made
the bases as full as they could COM
fortably be, with Kraus next on the
list. The little fellow smote the next
ball pitched with the end of his bat,
and when it struck the right field fence
top, it fell between the boards Those
runs were enough to win the game, but
Hollingsworth's two-bagger, followed
by Spies single, made the lead a run
stronger.
The second game also had distinctive
features of no little interest. Phyle
essayed to pitch for st. Paul, but out
of thirteen balls pitched, only one was
what the umpire adjudged a strike,
and the result was that three of the
Hoosiers walked to first base without
tremor of nervousness. Denzer then
went in with the bases full and no one
out-but not Hoosier scored. Motz
was the first to try to bring them in
He hit the ball hard, and it went on
a line toward the Fuller street fence
until it struck the uplifted hands of a
young man named Kraus, who had al
ready saved one game that day. This
promising young fellow pulled the ball
down and threw it to Hollingsworth.
who was on second, getting Mccarthy
out, and Hollingsworth threw to Null
lane on first in plenty of time to get
Hogriever out, completing a perfect
triple 'play-but Mullane dropped the
ball. The only chance st. Paul has had
to make a play Of the kind this year
was spoiled by a muff
Fishers advent in the opening game
was not at all startling. He did not
strike out the first nine men at bat.
but instead O'Rourke, who sometimes
leads the locals batting list, hunted
and beat the ball to first base. He also
gave Mullane base on balls, but a
double play prevented any scores.
Hrinkpn who went IN he l..
did not see an opponent on first until
the second inning, when Stewart hit
safely, but got no further.
The HoosierS scored the first run of
the game in the third, when Hogan and
Fisher hit safely in succession. Shan
non sacrificed, and Hogan scored when
Mccarthy hit to HOllingSworth, who
tried to catch him at the plate, but
did not do it. The score was tied
forthwith, hits by Mullane and George
being used to open the inning auspi-
ciously. Burns forced George out, but
Kraus scored Mullane with a safe hit.
1t remained a tie until the seventh.
some brilliant catches by Hogan and
Kellum being the most noteworthy
features of the game during that
period.
Then, after Motz had sent a fly to
Burns, Hollingsworth gave Scheibeck
a base. This was inopportune, for
Stewart hit for three bases. When the
ball was thrown in it went to the
stand near the visitors bench. and
they claimed that it struck an out
slider and that Stewart was entitled
to come home but the umpire would
not allow it. Stewart was then caught
at the plate when Wood hit to Hol-
lingsworth, but the latter went to third
by way of a passed ball and a wild
pitch, and scored when O'Rourke's
error gave Hogan his base The
eighth, however, saved the game for
the locals, as already mentioned Score: