The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-23
KRAUs' BENEFIT TODAY.
Veterans VIII Play the Youngsters
This Afternoon.

Veterans VIII Play the Youngsters
This Afternoon.
Perhaps not the most scientific game of the
season, but one of the most interesting, at
any rate will be played at Lexington park
this afternoon, as a benefit exhibition tor
Frank Kraus the exist. Paul catcher. who is
now dying of consumption at his home In
Brooklyn. The teams viii be made up large
ly of the members of the home team, helped
out by Twineham and Campau. of the Grand
Rapids club. The teams will be dubbed the
veterans and the youngsters, although why
Jack Barnett should be known as a veteran
or Count" Campau as youngster, is not
The veterans " team will be headed by
"Old Comanche' Comiskey, who will play
first base himself. Glasscock will play in
his old position at short. ''Tacks" Parrot
will play second base and Tony Muliane
third. George and Preston will play right
and left respectively, while Twineham, the
catcher with Kraus in Sioux City in 1894, will
appear in the veterans center garden. Spies
will catch and Barnett pitch.
The youngsters will have Isbell on first
base; Hollfngsworth Shugart and Nyce in
their regular positions, and Mcbride in cen
ter. Willie McG:ll will caper around in right,
while Campau will gather in the flies in left.
Fricken will pitch and Kline catch.
Yesterdays was a remarkable game in
more ways than one. The side that made the
most hits and least errors lost.
Glasscock had only four fielding chances.
This is probably the smallest number on rec
present pitching distance was established.
In the days when pitchers struck out sixteen
or eighteen in game it would not have
been phenomenal.
Shugart did not have a single fielding
chance, which for a full game is another
strange incident. His prototype in the Grand
Rapids team had ten in the same time. The
only ball that fell in Shugarts territory Pres
ton ran in and took.
well. I guess I am a JONAH" drawled
Denzer, as he Invested himself of his toy
gerry in the club house after the game.
1t was a bad day for batting averages on
both sides of the line. Denzer was the only
one who pulled out any great honors in this
line
1t was the fastest game that has been
played in Lexington park.
Klines work behind the bat removes all
speculation as to what would happen in the
event of an accident to Spies, query that
was frequent following Blanford's mishap of
two weeks ago.
]. NJ. A.-Catcher Bill Wilson played with
Columbus last year,
The scores in the last three games in which
Detroit has taken part have been to 7. De-
troit won the one in St. Paul and Milwaukee
took the other two.
When Connie Mack heard Yesterday that
Wilmot had slid down the toboggan he i'm
medlately wired to President Johnson claim
ing his services for the Milwaukee club. He
declined to state, however, in what position
he would play Wilmot if he secured the ex-
Miller. but it is likely that he would make
a change in the outfield trio. Wilmot is one
OF the best players in the Western league
and his batting would greatly strengthen the
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
Pitcher Reidy will leave for the East today.
where a. member of his family is ill. With
Jones laid up, Terry at the bedside of his
sick boy and Reidy away, the pitching staff
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Manager Mack. of Milwaukee, has put in
claim for Frank Houseman who was re-
leased Monday by St. Louis Houseman is a
fair inf1elder and batter. and if secured will
be kept for utility purposes.
Manager Comiskey, who returned yesterday
from Chicago, confirmed the truth of the
recent rumor that the Philadelphia club had
offered him Sammy Gillen and $500 for Shu-
CART. Said he yesterday:
The Philadelphia people want Shugart
and are willing to trade Gillen for him. Gil
len is good third baseman. He has been
batting .320 in the National league. and was
about on even terms with Shugart while in
the Western league last year. l wanted two
men for Shugart. but the PhiIadelphians
II III
let 'Shug' go. 1 am then weak at short, so
you see my position. But Philadelphia can
take Shugart at the end of the season on pay
ment OF $500. and then will lose him and get
no player. Capt. Glasscock advises me to
make the deal and take G.llen. l have not
1ulIy dec-ded upon the matter. but will likely
make the deal, unless can do better. 1 was
rather pleased with young Ge:er, who plays
second for the Phiies. and would like to get
him, but the management would not let him
go.
assigned to short. which is his regular posi-
ton. There is no man who can do better at
short than Holly This means that l must
get new second baseman."
Manager Comiskey said he would not LET
Mcbride go to Philadelphia, although he ex-
pected that he would be drafted at the close
of the season.
1t is possible that Newell may shortly be
seen On third in st. Paul uniform.
If ball team cannot bat hard enough be-
hind the superb pitching of Roger DenZer
to win a game, what is to be said of it's
chances to win the Western league pennant?
Preston's work in the ninth was superb
He made two bases on ball ordinarily good
only for base, and stole third and vet right
behind hd, this is. Tacks" Parrot struck out, when
grounder toward right field would have Ger
tainly scored the runner.
H., H.
Vtous that he is not '.sticker.'
Denzer tried to win his own game by max
ing two nice two-base drives.
The first man UP for st. Paul in every inn
ing went out. This a great weakener
and had deadly effect in preventing scores in
the first, fifth and seventh innings.
Milwaukee will have to make but one more
move to get into third place. St Paul seems
n ms or
last year-No. T.
st. Paul's, five hits were good for eight
bases; Grand Rapids three were good for five
st. Paul made one error and Grand Rapids
three. 1t looks as If Manager Comiskey was
right when he said eve are UP against it,
In six innings of the game the visitors were
out one, two, three.
Preston has made two two-base hits this
season, April % and July %.
Phyle was at yesterdays game on crutches.
The Minneapolis Journal, last night printed
story to the effect that Walter Wilmot had
an ambition to freeze out the men he was
working for in Minneapolis and establish
owners of the Minneapolis franchise Such
wastes of money the fabulous prices paid
| for Fred Roat and the other glass arm, -
| Elmer Smith. were referred to as showing
| the wasteful extravaganza whose inevitable
| result must have been to convince the owners
that losing team was an extravagant luz
| ury ON arriving at which decision they would
be ready to sell out quick to Arson and his
| friends. 1t also cited in behalf of the plaus-
| Utility of the story the falling off in Wfimots
| play, both in batting, fielding and base run
| ming, which, it says, can only be explained
| on the ground that he was not trying to
| play
Baker who within the week had held st.
| Paul down to eight safe hits, was released.
| while Herman was kept. Eustace, lame and
unfit for play was kept at third base when