The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-29
GOSSIP OF THE GAME.

GOSSIP OF THE GAME.
Jack Glasscock has joined the Bryan party.
Monday he made 16 put-outs to one assist
Columbus made eight eggs stand on end
in that contest with Minneapolis yesterday.
Bill Wilson's suspension did not last very
long.
The Kansas City World thinks St. Paul will
come home third or fourth.
curious accident happened in Boston
recently. Hughey Duffy drove home run
over the left field fence on the Providence
railroad track. laborer on his way from
work was walking along the track and the
ball from Duffy's bat hit him full in the
face and knocked him fiat on his back and
broke the small bones in his nose
The Providence Journal says a tallying
register was used recently to ascertain how
many balls are pitched in a game. Johnson.
OF the Scrantons, pitched 121 balls in nine
and fouls. Rudderham, although he did not
give a single base on balls, pitched, 1853. TIE
total number of balls pitched by both pitch
ers was 2S4. There were sixty-one base
plays This makes total of 345 times the
umpire was called upon to make decision.
A Boston exchange calls Pete Daniels the
Dad Clarke of the Western league" and
in commenting upon his release by Mr. Man
ming says: Daniels was an original char
acter. He a smile that swept clear
across his Hibernian visage like a rift in
a custard pie and no amount of smuggling
from opposition batsmen would erase Peters
bland grin. Pete was once regarded a
promising young pitcher, and Frank Selee
of Boston. talked of giving him chance
He had remarkable command of the ball
for 1eft-handed pitcher but lacked steam
and couldn't change his pace"
Con Lucid says a minor league player is
like artists model because he makes a
bare living.
Columbus has played and lost more extra
inning games than any other one team in the
country.
Monte Cross has a natty little bantam
cock of swagger, and Chris filed an OBJ
lection to Monte's walk. ''Rotcher," said
Chris to Roger Connor, tell dot Monte Cross
that he walks lige he owned St. Louis. Shust
tell him dot he may own all of the town, but
these pase ball grounts, and that I own the
grounts."
A mad dog got into the Hotel Worth, Chi
cago, where the Colts mostly domiciled
few days ago. There was tremendous
panic, and when help came in the shape of
husky porter with an AK Donahue was stand
ing on table screaming murder. Kittridge
was perched gas fixture and Griffith was
hidden in a closet. The dog was killed
and nobody was bitten.
vi lllc last AFe games WIN INDIANAPOLIS
ST. Paul has won four and tied one.
st. Paul and indianapolis still have eleven
games to play, six In Indianapolis and five
in St. Paul.
OF the nine games played by the leaders st.
Paul has won six and lost seven.
Poor OLD despised Columbus is having a
merry time with the teams of the Twin Cities
this trip, yesterdays victory over Minneap-F
OILS making 1t four straight
The travelling teams in the East have each
won one game. The record is:
milwaukee ~ SlKansas City....1 2
During the month of July ST. Paul has won
eighteen games, lost five and tied one, This
IS much better record than any other team
has made.
The Indians could be pulled out of first
place If some team could be found to help
st. Paul.
Since Delehanty made that great record of
Jour runs and single in five times to bat
IN chicago some one has been looking up the
records with the following results. sdTbe fea+
OF Bottenus of the Buffalos, who in 1885 made
-FOUR nome runs and two-bagger in five
times at the bat. stands unchallenged by
| batsmen Of modern professional base bali
HIS nearest competitor is Lowe of the Bos-
! tons, who, In one of the games of Nav 20
1854 made four home runs and single
Ihls total was once equaled by Larry TWit-
| chell. Lowe also made two home runs in
one inning In 1882 Charley Smith made
eight successive hits. Frank Fennelly once
| Oh cincinnati, has record of six success
/ slye hits, with total Of eighteen bases. Guv
| Hecker, when with Louisville made three
home runs, triple and a double. Jerry
Denny IS credited with seven successive
| hits, while Dave Orr and Larkin beat All
! records for successive and successful hft
| ting by ten hits each in one game George
| ROCKS OF Oshkosh, once made three home
runs IN game against Eau Claire with
which Bobby Lowe was playing. Crooks, of
washington, in 1889 made five safe hits
1 four of which were home runs Fitzperaid
! OF Wiikesbarre. in 1889 made two home runs
! In one inning. Charley Jones' while PLAYING
! with Buffalo, in 1880, made two honers in
! one inning. George Gore, of Chicago, in a
game against Boston, is credited with nine
successive hits. five of which were doubles
and Elmer Smith once secured three home
runs in game Roger Connor last season,
/ out OF six times at bat made three singles
two doubles and triple.
|
An exchange says George Weidman Is
wel-known to patrons of the national game
| Mr. Weidman is an umpire of Uncle NIclr
| Young's staff, but long before this he became
Know to the cranks. Back in the early
. Gus ne was pitcher, and great one at
| that He worked" for the famous Detroits
| In 1882, and it he who pitched against
/ Providence in that year in one of the greatest
games ever seen 1t took eighteen innings
.oNA-NSs
| Providence pitcher won his own game nv
knocking the ball through a hole in the fence
| TOT homer. The score was to o. Wiedman
| Is man on the National league staff. II
| was he whom the Cleveland PLAYERS had
trouble with in Louisville for which Pat
| Tebeau was afterwards fined $500 by the board
! Of directors. Wiedman has resigned hut
President Young has refused to accept the
resignation.
| Columbus was driven to desperation while
the Genoese were away and Salvador the
2:zS1s base ball writer of the DISPATCH ar
tackled the memory Of the late Hamlet in
/ this way: IA
To win, or not to win;
/ That is the question:
| Whether tbs nobler in the "bleaehersf
Minds to stand the gaff" each day
And cough up their piastres,
/ Or to take up an axe-bung-starter
| Or any old thing;
And. by way getting even,
| R-r-r-r-o-o-uce NIT EN-!
| To yell, to kick, to boiler.
And by that boiler
We end the dod-gasted thousand and one
Yangste Kiang plays that oreide
| Baseball has made US heir to.
| It's contamination devoutly
| To be wished.
| To YELL to kick-s'pose It don't rop