The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-14

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GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TODAY.
ST. Paul at Minneapolis.
IF L had the four best pitchers in
the business said Manager .comiskey
last night. they could not win games
with a lot of cutters laying down be-
hind them
OF course Mr. Comiskey had no rel
erence to the st. Paul club, Tor that
aggregation has now won :wo games in
succession, one at Milwaukee ana ole
a Winona.
Then ne continued, 81 thought l
was a pretty good jolli 81 with a eaSe
ball club, but 1 could lose my voice
tryiu' to jolly this crowd oe quarter
horses. They're good runners, rney
are, on a street car They're all light
when they're on the home grounds,
and twenty-five or thirty rooters be-
hind 'em yell and stamp their feet as
they come to bat. Why, they knock
the cover off the ball, but get 'em
away from home where the other man
has to pay for the balls, and they
handle EN- as though they We're afraid
a home run d knock him in the hands
of a receiver Why, that outfeld CT
mine was good for eight and zen hits
a game when they were home. This
trip they haven'e been good for that
many hits in three weeks. Get the
worst of the umpiring? Up mere they
beat all these suckers, some of en- by
five runs, some of 'em by ten, some
of EN- by fifteen, some Of 'enI by
twenty, and Minneapolis now and then
by thirty. They go down the lire .alld
get beat 10 to 1, and the like OF that.
Umpiring? Why don't they bat the
ball like they do when they ce home?
They don't need any umpires to beat
'em. That's what 1 told Snyder in
Milwaukee yesterday. He would rot
let either O'Rourke or Stratton walk
to first when the ball hit them in the
back, but of course that did cut no
ice with him. What do you want us
to play says 1, 'pinoonle, CT bean
bag? We know the rules of this game,
even if we can't play it very we'll
You've got no license to come out here
and stick it up our back Why this
team could not win from a high school
class in an institute for the shelter of
cripples'
There's that Minneapolis crowd.
We took them here, and we beat 'em
four games out of five, the fifth they
got from us on a fuke, by the UNI
pire, that morning game the fourth
The afternoon affair was no ball game
anyway, and we won't count that but
even if it was, see what we did to
them, and then see how they made
monkeys of US on the trip.
Now they told me Stratton was a
better man than Mertes. Get STRAIT
ton they were all bowling at me.
Well, | got them Stratton, and he did
not hit the ball out of the infieId on
the trip. He struck out three times in
one game, and, finally, l thought I'd
let him sit on the bench and watch
some one else strike out.
'Twitchell can run faster and cover
more ground in the field than Stratton.
and when it comes to throwing. he is
right in it with any man in this league
or any other. He can bat with any
of them, too, and this team will be all
right YETI
IF it's new pitcher they want, I've
sent for fellow named Ham, who's
been doing some good work in the
Southern league, and it looks to me as
though he would be all right They
say I'm not in it for the pennant. but
ii show EN- yet. Well be in first
place when we leave here and if these
people play any sort of ball on the
trip, Wen finish there or mighty close
to 1t. If they don't play ball on the
trip, then l guess We'll have to look
for some one than can play That's
i about the size of it. There are plenty
of good ball players looking for Jobs.
but it's pretty late in the season for a
whole lot of jobs to go around looking
Tor players. They know it, too
Talk about pitching. Why the other
day the papers had it that they got 20
hits off Fricken. I've scored every
game they've played on the trip. and
they got just nine hits off him that
day. There were IL errors. / guess
the scorers there wanted to fatten a
few favorites' batting average. Possibly
sell a few good men into the big league.
Ell? Well, no matter Frick goes in in
, indianapolis and shuts them out OF
course, 1t s no trick to beat q team if
the pitcher don't let 'em get to first
base, but when they get a good stiff
ball, and make an error on it. they
begin to get scared and their hearts
and lungs get up in their necks and
they can't breathe, and then when a
ball is batted their way they run away
from it as though they thought it was
an anarchists bomb with quart of
Eitroglycerine and two pounds of nails
in ii. Why, it's not one error, or two
that's been beatin us, but it's these
people that lose their nerve when they
don't have a lot of fellows behind 'em
TO yell emselves hoarse, or a few
women folks back there to wave their
fans and say:
"Oh! 1 do so hope he'll put 1t over
the fence. That's a home run amt 1t?
Who'll pitch today? Denzer.'
And there was nothing more to be
said.
The fate of Minneapolis is plain If
the team behind Roger plays ball.
Why continued the "Comanche,"
i've got right now the best pitching
force of any club in the league, barring
none, but what's the use? And the old
man shuddered as he thought of the
1t Does Not Count.
Sporting Editor Globe.
With man ON frSf base and man on