The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-30
BLAME SWEETS FOR 1T.
GOSSIP OF THE GAME.
st. Paul now has ten games to play "
Indianapolis, FIVE in each town.

st. Paul now has ten games to play with
indianapolis. hve in each town.
Careless proofreading made the G 0 say
yesterday that st. Paul had lost seven games
to Indianapolis. st. Paul has won seven and
lost three games to Indianapolis.
The leaders are now only twenty eight points
apart.
That thirteen-inning game at Columbus does
not seem to have brought any very bad luck
to either Minneapolis OF Columbus.
Beginning with Aug.17, st. Paul will play
twenty-slx games on its home grounds, three
RAPIDS and Columbus four with Kansas City
ana hye each with Detroit and Indianapolis.
Manager Watkins protest of the st. PAUL
Indianapolis game Of Tuesday will probably
never be heard of again. The Indianapolis
players claimed Umpire Strouthers had called
had called two balls. The umpfre's decisions
go and that settles it, 5s.,,,z, ., go,
Base ball, like politics, makes strange
fr1ends.-Detroit Free Press.
: f''oh.s Pf6n6ise Me-" is the official song
of the Philadelphia. base ball ,club.orr.,a-
League papers want Umpire Clark since he
won such good battle from Wilson
! Cleveland writer calls the Spiders seTe-
beau's Jailbirds." Eleven other league clubs
have tried many a. time and oft to sprinkle
salt on the feathers of these birds, but they
refused to be famed ;. ssw sag sre
Everetts batting streak continues to ex-
cite envy and admiration. The big fellow
has made just f1fty-four hits in the twenty
seven games played since the club came
.home-exactly two per. gsme.-chicago News.
I President Freedman has been ordered by
the board of arbitration. to return Pitcher
Lampe to the Portsmouth. Va, team, and
also pay Lampe his salary for the time he
has-been absent from Portsmeutfxnc Freed,
break contracts. s0TGaT Ft'fseoS - o-l----O'
7 When the Detroit team plays a poor game
it Is very yellow. All the members 1oiI In
the work. Saturday was the day. and their
playing was terrible to behold. 1t Is seldom
it occurs, however, as the Tigers can play
as good ball any team in the league
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
BALL players should wear their trousers
as short as possible. A player whose trous-
taloon bottoms reach below his knees gets
the worst Of 1t from the umpire on low
balls. for a low ball is gHaged according to
the low-water mark of the batsman's trous-
ers." says Capt. Joyce: ~
Individually, the Philadelphia team is one
Of the best in the league?' says a member
Of the Cincinnati team but they are af-
fected In the same way as a number OF other
teams now playing BALI they are deficient in
team work, which is superinduced by lack
of harmony among the players.
Adonis Terry, the Colts pitcher. has faith
in the firing process for lame arm. He
cites the case of Rudderham, the pitcher
Of the Providence team,-the muscles Of whose
pitching arm were fired by a Providence
surgeon. Firing the pitcher himself is the
remedy that the managers, as rule. apply
to dead arm.
The worshipers at ST.. Xavier's church.
Cincinnati at late mass Sunday morning did
not know that eight members Of the cham
pion Baltimore team were in their midst
The Baltimores are the greatest aggregation