The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

fielder next season. but will get in condition
himself and If any of the regular outfield-
ers are hurt may take their places.
When Manager Mannings bubbling Blues
even lock at Mr.. Thomas their ankle bones
rautle against their shoe tops. No green-eyed
monster could strike more terror to their
hearts than does this same Thomas. and each
OF them breathes sigh of relief when he
has safely struck out popped up a con-
venient fy.-Kansas City Times.
Last spring the Cincinnatis were advertised
as having the greatest pitching corps in the
league. Now, what has become of it? Brett
enstein Is laid up with indigestion, Dwyer
is nome with sore heel, Ehret has bad
arm, Dammann is weak from his attack of
typhoid fever, and Billy Rhines is the only
one OF the grand staff in pitching condition.
Some interesting facts to be CLEANED from
the National league records Dick Cooley,
OF Phllaqelphla, has been to bat oftenest;
cross, OF st. Louis, has played in the most
games; Mike Herman, of New York, has
made the greatest number of base hits. Nc
Creery, of Louisville, leads in sacrifice hit
ting and Lange in stolen bases.
Tebeau gave Butler curtain lecture for
not running on pop-up, and the right field
oleacher at once adopted the subfielder. Te-
Deau made himself disiked when he assaulted
GlasScock.
Glasscock was out of the game yesterday
with bad thumb. Spies hand is better
than it was.
Hollingsworth took every chance at short,
even the chance of collision with Glenalyin
on VOTERS pop-up in the fifth.
One of the funny things of yesterdays
game was Comiskey yelling to Mcbride on
the coach line to make little more noise
Mcbride handnt said word, and didn't say
ward after Comiskey had called to him.
The persons who abuse umpires the most
are generally the ones who know nothing
about the fine points of the game. Yester-
day when Lynch called strike on a foul
tip which the Philadelphia catcher held while
standing within the prescribed circle, and
Joyce stole second on it, couple of men
IN the grand stand began to abuse Lynch
by saying he didn't know chow to umpire"
The men were promptly souelched by those
who sat near them.-New York Sun.
The Cncinnatis and Chicagos are the first
league teams to complete a series. Ewing's
players won seven of the twelve games win
ming five by one run. one by two runs, and
one by three runs. The Chicagos had an ad-
vantage of one run in two games, two runs
in one game. All told, the Cncinnatis made
90 tallies, while Anson's players got 81.
st. Paul has not won less than seven nor
more than twelve games from any Western
league team.
he will lead the Western league handily.
The Columbans were pretty lucky with
their dozen after all. Twenty-one hits
are generally good for at least fifteen runs.
In the three games ST. Paul scored 81 runs
to the Columbians' IL.
G. Detroit bt won three straight games from
have to play very fast ball to come any
where near that record this trip.
There wasn't any fight, though Mullane and
last half of the ninth. Mullane claimed
Mertes tried to spike him in running to first.
Tebeau did everything by threes. He had
three put-outs three assists and three errors.
The error charged to Cross is question
able one. From the reporters seats it was
hard to tell whether it was bad throw or
bad stop by Mullane;.
st. Paul plays four games with Grand
Rapids next week. one of them having been
postponed when the Bobolinks were here last.
Columbus and Milwaukee have four games
to play today, tomorrow and Sunday.
There is going tc be pretty fight the next
few days among Kansas City, Minneapolis
and Grand Rapids for last place The last
named club ought to get it.
The Columbus and Indianapolis series with
ST. Paul now each stand nine to seven in
favor of the Eastern clubs. ST. Paul has still
four games to play with each of these teams.
The other fifteen games scheduled in St.
Paul are four with Grand Rapids, three each
with Detroit. Milwaukee and Kansas City
and two with Minneapolis. The nineteen
games to be played away from home are
four each at Indianapolis, Columbus and De-
Detroit, three at Milwaukee and two each
at Kansas City and Grand Rapids.
The Minneanolis team saw vastardav,c oon
test between st. Paul and Columbus.
Tebeau had better not try his methods on
Stafford as he did poor old Jack Glass
cock, or Lotus will have to look for another
first baSeman. Thomas is not anxious to scour
the country for first baseman, so he will
probably take George Tebeau upon his lap
and read the riot act to him.-Evening Wis
consin.
Minneapolis wants Joe Wright. but will
not pay him enough.
Burnett play again. His suspension has
Comiskey has been trying to sign Denny
Lyons, the recently released Pirate who
played well at first base this season before
he was put out Of the game by a broken
finger-Milwaukee Journal.
IsbelPs stick work yesterday brought him
G .8ss. 70 900 eisnaiV'h pushed himself up to
OF course. the ladies will not forget that
this is ladies' day. They will be admitted
free, and the management doesn't care if
they come 5000 strong.
Hpays to advertise in the ,ca,st columns of
the Sunday Globe Try 1t and see.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.