The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-16

Unless the Tigers lose today, and the
police will probably not permit them to
play. st. PauPs team will come home
in fourth place after going on the trip
in second, and winning first for
time by phenomenal work abroad.
Just now they are on the fourth
round of the ladder, the result of a
second unsuccessful effort to bat the
ball around the Minneapolis grounds.
The erstwhile batting champions Of
the Western league seem now unable
to hit anything from a popular chord,
up to the facade of the Auditorium.
And if they had been throwing
twenty dollar gold pieces at Jack Glass
cock in the early part of the game
yesterday, the chances are that he
would have missed sixteen of them to
every one that he caught.
Comiskey had tried to shake the hoo
doc, and had switched the batting
back stop. But it did not seem to make
any particular difference.
The only consolation is that the To-
Gals are gradually increasing their
run getting capacity, while they are
holding the adversaries down tighter.
Friday, it was IL to o.; yesterday it
was to 3; today at the same ratio, it
should be to 6 in favor of st. Paul,
but then do not risk anything that re-
sembles sound money on the result.
Willie Bill' Hutchison, as he is
erdearingly entitled by the fans of
the Mill city, was determined to do
or die, for he read in the G o b that
he was due to get some kind of a tro-
ply before the game started, and when
the thing did not appear as he went
iTto the box, he figured that there had
not been enough nickels in the stand
to buy him anything more than
clay pipe or pair of carpet slippers.
However, he went in and pitched, and
after he had shown the Apostles a
touch of the old time Chicago pitch
ing, a modest young man who owns
a share or two of stock in a cooper
ative paper, beckoned Caruthers, who is
the umpire, to the stand, and handed
him a neat little silver service to be
presented to old Hutch.
A deep blush suffused the face of
Hhe veteran player, even to the root
of his bristling mustache, as he doffed
his cap in response to the plaudits
of the multitude.
That sort of thing would have turned
the head of some pitchers, but not so
with Willie, for he proceeded to send a
lot of sinuous things over that plate
that wriggied away from the bats of
the Saints though endowed with eyes
and other protective appliances in
themselves.
When, by any chance, and that
seemed to be about all there was to it,
any member of the visiting delegation
did apply his willow to the horsehide
effectively, Willie just rubbed his hand
on he ball an extra rub, and gave it
an extra twist, and the inning closed
with a shut out six times out of nine.
Mullane started out with a promise
of wonderful efficiency, and there were
two men out in the first inning before
the people who had only allowed thirty
minutes to get from down town to the
grounds in the cars had reached the
stand. Wilmot, however, then pro
ceeded to delay the finish by driving
the ball over the right field fence and
nothing more could be done until he
had made the entire circuit of the
bases. Schriver then sent another
almost to the fence in Georges neigh
borhood, and went to second base in
canter. Werden hit to center field
and Schriver scored. Twitchell let the
ball go by, and Werden went to third
but Preston could not get the ball out
of the diamond and the first inning
netted the Goodnow outfit two runs.
O'Rourke opened st. Paul's work with
safe hit and Hollingsworth sacrificed.
but Glasscock gave Kuehne a fly and
George gave him a grounder.
Kuehne hit a hot one low, and 1t
bounded into Glasscock's face. The
German reached first base in safety.
Hutchison caught a slow one on the
end of his bat and it bounded between
second and first. Hollingsworth got it
and threw to first, but Glasscock did
not get it cleanly and Hutch, too was
safe Ball struck out, but Glasscock
muffed thrown ball, and Kuehne
went around to third, scoring on Con-
nor's fly to Burns Lally hit safely but
Hutch was forced out by Wilmot.
Twitchell and Shugart struck out. and
Burns gave Ball a chance.
Schriver gave Glasscock a foul fy
in the third, but Werden waited for
four wide. ones, and walked. A wild
pitch gave him second, but Preston
struck out. Kuehne popped high one
to Hollingsworth, who muffed it. Wer-
den scored. Kraus gave Kuehne a
chance which was accepted, and Null
lane gave him one which was not
O'Rourke's grounder to Ball advanced
Tony, as it was too slow to admit of
safe play, and Ho1lingsworth's hit
scored the pitcher, preventing a shut