The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-27
s%Ix-TNNING TIE.
Ball Game Between First
and Fourth

A nine composed of the newspaper men of
ST Paul and a team from the state house
prayed a game OF base ball at Kittsondale
Yesterday afternoon, resulting in O tie of Is
10 IL in six innings. There were no bro
1essionals in the game, and there were some
VINO chased home runs and turned their
LACKS on grounders that would perhaps not
even rank with amateurs, but for all that
tnere was plenty of sport gotten out of the
SIX innings. which, as a matter of fact. last
ed as long as ordinarily would nine in. q
lesulaton game. But the contest of yester-
cay was not of the regulation order. In the
hrst place the losers were to liguidate for a
supper Tor both aggregations and the, nm
pire, and in the second place the umnire
apIy lnpersonated by Ramsey county's pom
nlar coroner, DR.. E. H. Whitcomb. was fnal-
Jy recruited by the scribes to do the twiri-
ing and TO hold down first base while each
OF the other eight men tried their hand at
tne spiral work. Then lastly the final score
wnen darkness ended the game nut TO fioht
all hopes OF a spread, as each aggregation
still volubly maintained it's superiority and
IL was nnally agreed that each man should
purchase mis- own meals for the remainder
OF this year, and that the tie should he
played OFF at 2:30 next year.
when Charley Fairchild, who had heen
preVaileu upon to act as umpire. had marked
9ut a six-foot square in the sand. which he
declared was the regulation size Of tho bonne
plate, the newspaper men scattered over .
porCon or the pasture and watched 0oc
Wnltcomb threw the sphere. An occasiona1
snool tdNeieQ along the outside line but
they were too far away for the batsman IN
reach, and after two men. who had heen
gwen bases on balls had scored. the tr.di-
uonaI three straight brought their hats
INTO violent contact with several lunches ~
atmospheric globules. VI
Inc newspaper men got two runs in their
nan ny heavy batting and clever base RIM
hlng, ana then the Capitol nine took a sec
ono whirl at the stick. Cochran was nitch-
ing 1or the pencil. pushers this inning and
poor support gave the ''offcials' Ave Rms
just TO show that they were not exactlv a
push-over' the scribes went to bat and
pounded out six scores. giving them one to
the good. The capitol nine scored one in the
tnlro. and the phenomenal fielding of Iver-
son, who captured three long drives. gave
out. o"9 Shut-
1t was "hoss and boss" however. and the
next inning the young men who will re-
move their quarters to Park and Aurora ave
nues within the next ten wears were nre-
sented With one large gose egg.
Inc game stood IL to IL at the end of the
n1tn inning, with night fast spreading her
SABLE wing over the pasture. In order for
either club to eat at the expense of the other
IT was necessary to win out in the sixth. and
the capitol aggregation scored six runs on
thirteen errors by the newspaper men and
then asked for menu cards. It looked de-
cidedly like defeat for the gatherers Of news.
but Williams, Cochran, Cronin and Smalley
sprang into the breach with swinging bats
and when the third man had been declared
out for cutting across from first to third
base, while he thought the umpire was re-
neEing the lines of his home square six
men made the circuit of the bases and thf
game was a tie.