The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-20
GOSSIP OF THE GAME.


HI IN the open date in the schedule.
Twitchell gave his batting average another
nIt IL IS now .259. Fricken also lifted his
from 1888 to .347.
1t was very close play when Caruthers
declared Shugart out at first in the fourth
inning, for the little short stop made a
good slide and was entitled to the benefit
OF the existing doubt. 1t did him no good,
however, to scrap with Caruthers for ave
1t is some consolation to know that, while
ST. Paul is one notch lower on the ladder,
the team is closer the leaders in actual per-
centage this morning than it was yesterday.
St. Paul will shortly become as famous
Ior double plays as was Minneapolis short
time ago.
Indianapolis goes to Columbus today and
Grand Rapids to Detroit
Detroit did good job yesterday Now if
Columbus can hold the Hoosiers down for
one game out of three even, that will be
some satisfaction.
Barnes will be pitched against Minneapolis
today The best wishes of the st. Paul fans
go with him.
McHale made some fine stops in his baili-
wick yesterday. Wilmot might have had a
second guess if he had seen yesterdays game.
The bunch at the top is getting close enough
together for very pretty finish.
Minneapolis had an ambition to equal ST.
Paufs record of sixteen straight victories,
but Kansas City took reef In it. The
M1llers count Milwaukee, Grand Rapids and
Columbus as sure things, but they may
have trouble cashing in their tickets yet.
Dahlen, the Chicago short STOP now leads
the big league in batting.
Columbus has signed Pitcher Smith, late
of Dubuque.
Detroit has released Pop McCauley.
White, Milwaukee's right fielder came from
the Burlington club.
Jack Crooks has a wrenched knee.
The Detroit Free Press thinks o'Day lacks
sand
Detroit now has Hunky Hines playing
short.
Indianapolis has offered Bill Hassamaer a
place.
The Detroit Free Press thinks that Sammy
Gillen can play all around Arlie Latham.
Sammy is pretty good.
Kansas Citys only consolation now is that
the Manning's men shut out Minneapolis
five to nothing year ago today
Wheeloek, Columbus short stop, is out of
the game with bad ankle.
The best batting team according to the
league averages made up to date. would
be Stivetts Boston pitcher; Clements, Phil
adelphia, catcher; Arson. Chicago, first base;
Childs, Cleveland, second base; Everitt, Chi
cago, third case: Jennings, Baltimore short
stop; Burkett Cleveland. left field; Lange,
Chicago, center field: and Herman. New
York, right field. The best fielding team
no. catcher
Clarke. New York, first base; McPhee, Gin
cinnati, second base; Cross. Philadelphia.
Cooley. Philadelphia, left field, and Thomp-
son, Philadelphia, right field.
The Brewers left for st. Paul last night,
where they will open a series of three games.
1t will be lucky if the Milwaukee men get
one of the three games, as it is like pulling
teeth for them to get game in that city.
The boys are in good condition and should
play good ball. Since the change in man
agement there has not been so much lush
ing and the result has been better all
around.-Evening Wisconsin
The race between Indianapolis Minneapo-
lis, Detroit and st. Paul is pretty one.
There is no certainty as to where the pen
nant will land yet--Evening Wisconsin.
Manager Comiskey has given it out that
McGiH will pitch today.
Do you see that hump? There are now but
four games between Minneapolis in first
place and st. Paul in fourth
There will be no double games between ST.
Paul and Kansas City. The regular schedule
calls for games on Thursday. SATURDAY and
on Friday.
Four series of Western league games were
completed yesterday. The winners are st.
Paul Minneapolis, Detroit and Columbus.
They stand: St. Paul Il. Milwaukee s; Min
neapolis II, Kansas City Z; Detroit H. Indian
apolis g.; Columbus 10, Grand Rapids T. Min
neapolis and Kansas City have one postponed
game. which they will not have an opportun-
ity to play.
The Indianapolis-Gran Rapids series re-
suited: indianapolis IA, Grand Rapids 6. The
Detroit Columbus series resulted: Detroit is.
Columbus 4.
Both Indianapolis and Detroit ought to pull
toward the front somewhat in the next few
days. The former has Columbus for five
games and the latter Grand Rapids for six.
After that, however, it looks as if events
would so shape themselves that both would
move downward somewhat.
The ST. Paul team is again playing a great
game and has by no means given up its fight
for the pennant.
Minneapolis has only three games to play
with Milwaukee.
Kansas City has only won one game from
Indianapolis this season. The two teams
still have ten games to play, and if Kansas
City does better in the rest the Hoosfers
may land the flag right over the shoulders
of the Blues.
Indications are good that all the fans in
Minneapolis will come over to st. Paul next
Monday.
The st. Paul teams record for August Ia
eight games won and twelve lost.
ON AMATEUR DIAMONDS.