The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-14

Indianapolis at Milwaukee.
Will Mr.. James Manning, of Kansas
City, call at the G o office and re-
ceive an apology?
Kansas City has not the dirtiest ball
players in the Western league.
Detroit may f1aunt that distinction in
lieu of the pennant, Free Press cup and
other trophies that the whilom leaders
fully expected to corral during the dog
days.
Manager Vanderbeck ought to take
his pets out to the town pump and
wash their uniforms. Then while they
are waiting for the clothes to dry, he
might whisper it to them that dirty ball
does not pay.
Nicholson, the Tigers second base
man, is foremost of the team-iri the
batting order. He also has a cute lit
tie trick of blocking men off second
base and then trying to force their ribs
apart with the ball. Mr.. Nicholson
tried this yesterday afternoon, and
when he subsequently devoted himself
to the mastication of his supper, two of
his teeth had left their accustomed
haunts ard were being carried in his
trousers pocket to remind him that he
is less handsome but more experienced
than he was yesterday morning.
Burnett, who plays center field, right
field or any old place, is another who
is deserving of special mention. He
knocked Bert Inks off first base Into
the sand, face down, as a sort Of play
full way of reminding him that the
tigers come from the jungle and could
eat him up when it came to pugilism,
even if they could not hit his curves
1t was south-paw against south-paw
In yesterdays game and the man that
came from the farthest south won
His lame is Inks. He has not always
lived South. At one time he prodded
the lethargic burro on the plains of the
Little Missouri, cultivating under the
North Dakota sun a most luxuriant
crop of curly hair, fit either for foot
ball or piano playing. But he became a
pitcher. He is a pitcher In six of
their nine innings yesterday the Tig-
ers were without that most necessary
part of a ball game known as a safe
hit. In the three innings excepted,
they accumulated but eight, and ore Of
these came on bad decision Of the
umpire, when the side should have
been out.
Bobby Gayle was Detroit's twirler.
Bobby had two of the local team out
In the first inning almost before the
crowd knew the game was on, but
Kraus, who reappeared in the game
very opportunity, hit nice two Dagger
and George and Burns found him for
singles That scored Kraus, ard George
might have scored had he not been
blocked off second base by Nicholson
and put out. This did not tend to
make Nicholson very popular, and was
but the preparation for the hostlities
later.
Nicholson led off for Detroit with
tWo-bagger to right Stallings hit the
ball hard. but George caught it. Dun
gan hit to Glasscock, but advanced
Nicholson, who then scored on Gillen's
single. Whistler made a safe hit too.
but two ofthem died. The score was a
tie, and that made hostilities ever so
much more ready.
Neither side got a man to first base
In the second and the crowd began
to warm up. Two were out in the
third when Gayle hit Glasscock. and
Kraus got a base on balls. George.
however, forced Kraus out, and 1t was
still a tie. Nicholson gave Pickett a
fly. but. Stallings hit hot one to
ORourke. Tim threw the ball to first.
but Stallings slid in. 1t was a close
decision, but Umpire O'Day called the
Detroit captain out, and there was
some talk over that Then DUNCAN hit
another hot one to O'Rourke and
reached first safely, only to be caught
between first and second on what
Sailing claimed was a balk by Inks.
The umpire, however, did not allow it.
Burns hit safely in the fourth but that
was as far as any Apostle got In the
inning, and one base farther than De-
troft could get 1t was still a tie. by
the way.
Inks went out on a foul fly to frost.
but Gayle gave ORourke a base,
Nicholson gave Glasscock a life, and
Kraus bit safely, filing the bases.
George drove the ball toward Nichol-
son, and-it reached him about the same
time that Kraus did on his way .fo,
second. There was a mix-up in which,
Nicholson lost two teeth and the ball
bounded almost across the diamond. !
Nicholson claimed that it was Kraus,,
nrst. and not the ball that was the
cause OF his teeth becoming detached
from their previous location. O'Dav
allowed as how that was right. and
called Kraus out for interference. put
ting O'Rourke back on third and Glass
cock on second. That gave an oppor-
tunity for another wrangle and made
everybody on each side a little madden
than he had been before There were
three on bases when Burns sent a fly
to Burnett and all were dead to the
world, with the score tie
frost then found Inks for O. nice
single, and inland lined the ball over
the fence away beyond the advertis-