The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17

Milwaukee .1O5 4s Sc .467
Columbus .1O5 50 70 1913
GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TODAY.
Milwaukee at st. Paul.
Kansas City at Minneapolis.
Columbus at Grand Rapids
Indianapolis at Detroit.
ST. Paul lost another game yester-
day, but the Apostles had the Millers
guessing during the last three innings.
The Saints have recovered their bat
ting eyes, and outbatted the Millers,
yet they lost. Why?
For several reasons.
In the first place the Wilmot outfit
whipsawed the ground rule on them
so that after two of the Millers had
made three base hits into the crowd,
through gaps made by the spectators
in the field, the rule was fixed so that
a ball that went through was only for
two bases, whether it struck the crowd
CT went away over its head.
Shugart's three errors cost a run
each
Then Caruthers presented the home
team with a run in the third inning.
Kirtley Baker hit a ball down the left
foul line, which struck nearly foot
inside the chalk line, and bounded
into O'Rourke's hands. Tim was
standing on foul ground, but he got the
hall to first in time to cut Baker off.
Caruthers called him back on a foul,
and a moment later he went to first
on balls. Two singles scored him that
would have been wasted otherwise.
Then Fricken was wild, giving nine
men bases, four of whom scored.
But worst of ALL in the fifth inning,
with two out and the bases full, Larry
Twitchell came to bat, and did not hit
his old townsman, Silver Baker.
The fair-haired boy from Beerville
did not fare as badly yesterday as he
did the last game he pitched against
the Apostles on the West side but the
first three of Comiskey's men to face
him all met the ball squarely, and
they punched three more in the sew
enth, after which Kirtley was glad to
rest on the grass and let Varney An
derSon come in.
Anderson has never been q terror to
the locals, and he escaped yesterday
by the very skin of hs teeth, Ball
pulling him out Of a bad hole in the
eighth by starting handsome double,
and again in the ninth by a fine stop
with two on bases.
The Millers really won the game in
the first inning, Fricken being entirely
ineffective, and Shugart's pair of mis-
plays helping a little. However, four
of the runs made would have come in,
probably, regardless of Shugart, and
that the inning was as short
as 1t was was due largely to
the sharp double play which
ORourke started after the sixth
DO CIR ont
and ended Fricken's troubles. Tim
then started st. PauPs half with
double, and was followed by Holly and
Glasscock with safe singles, scoring
one run. GIasscock was caught trying
to get to second on his hit, but Hol-
lingsworth scored. ConnOrs gave George
life, but Twitchell forced him out.
Burns gave the second baseman pop
UP.
Fricken opened the second badly, CIV
Ing Connors a base, and Lally made
hree-bagger. Wilmot hit a. short one
to Glasscock, who held Lally at third,
but Schriver'S single scored him. Shu-
CART got a base on balls, but went out
on a double play trying to steal on
Kraus' third strike.
With one out in the third Fricken
gave Baker his base after he should
have been out but for bad decision
by Caruthers, as related above. Sim
giles by Ball and Connors scored him,
and the total score was nine. Glass
cock wasted a hit after two were out,
for the veteran had Baker on his bat,
hguratively speaking, and could do
nearly what he wanted to.
F'ricken opened the fourth with a
base for Wilmot, and the captain-man-
ager stole second. Schriver flew out
to George Werden hit to O'Rourke who
caught Wilmot off second. Perry stole
balls Shugart'S third error scored
Werden. Kuehne and Preston were to
work the double steal, but Preston did
not get away from third fast enough,
and was caught at the plate. Twitchell
struck cut, but Burns made a safe
hit to the right garden. Shugart hit
the same way, but Preston gathered
it in, and Kuehne took Kraus foul fly
Fricken struck out Baker, but he
gave Ball a base. Connors gave Hol-
lingsworth a hot stop, but he stopped
1t. Lally hit safely and Ball scored.
Twitchell muffed WiImot's fly, and Lal-
ly scored, making Minneapolis twelfth
and last run. Fricken popped one up
TO Werden, but O'Rourke was hit by
a pitched ball. Holilingsworth gave
Connors a pop-up, but Glasscock made
his inevitable single, and Tim went to
third. Glasscock stole second, and Ba-
ker filled the bases by pitching errat-
ically to William George Twitchell
had chance to bring the locals up
nicely, but he merely forced George
and the side out.
Preston made two-bagger in the
sixth, but no one else reached first base
till Shugart duplicated the perform
aDce. Kraus hit Ball hot one, but the
little fellow stopped it. Werden, how
ever, dropped the ball and the catcher
was safe, while Shugart scored. The
next two failed to get the ball out of
the diamond, but it was now IL to g.
In the seventh only one Miller
reached first, and he was the seventh
who got there that way-by Fmcken's
erratic pitching. He did not score