The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-29
AFTER A WEEK OR TEN DAYS,
BE LOWER THAN FIRST
p PLACE.
PLAYING FINE aANB FAST BALL.
That Is the SeGretQOf Their Sue
cess ON the Trip, the Vet
eran Declares.

ter we get home, and We will never be
headed" said Manager Comiskey Of
the st. Paul base ball club, last even
ing. "Of course were not home yet,
really, as We have some games to play
| in Minneapolis this week. We have
done pretty well. 1 figured we'd be all
right if we came home within six or
seven games of the leaders. We came
home within three. If Indianapolis had
lost today, we would have been in
second place now.
The veteran who took four success
sfve pennants in the old twelve-club
league lay back in his chair with a
reminiscent smile, as he thought how
pretty the 1897 pennant would look in
one corner of Lexington park.
"HOw can they beat us?" he in
quired, and, without waiting for an
answer, he continued: Where are we
weak? On first 1 have GlasscOek 1
don't have to tell You any troubles
about him, do I? On second 1 have
Hollingsworth Nicholson quit in Kan
sas City, and Holly goes back in the
game tomorrow in Minneapolis. Shu-
CARTS playing the greatest game he
ever played. Why we wouldn't a stood
than a two-cent piece in broken bank
in those games in Grand Rapids, II
it hadn't been for Shugart and Hol-
lingsworth. They. played sensational
ball 1 never saw such plays" and
the captain has been playing several
years. fas those fellows made down
there. I tell you those Grand Rapids
fellows are playing the fastest ball IN
the league today. Jimmy Connofs!
Why, confound it, Hollingsworth can
work a double play, get the ball back,
and hand it Connors as quick as he'd
ordinarily get it, I'm going to put
Nyce on third tomorrow. They tell me
he has trained off fifteen or twenty
pounds since he left the team. He's
been working the baths and the BIZ
cycle, and he's all right. He can field
as we'll as any one I've been able to
find. And hit! Where will you show
me a third baseman who can bat any
where near him.
why did 1 let Nicholson go? I did
not need him. Nick's a good man, but
he isn't fast enough for the pennant
winners of the Western league, and
that's my team. Of course, 1 know 1
think pretty we'll Of my gang always,
but these are the real thing. There
isn't show in the world to beat US,
is there? Where was I?
George, Mcbride, Parrot. Where
can you beat that? That man PARROT
has been playing the greatest outfield
you ever saw. What do you think?
He got down there in Kansas City
where the hot spell boiled his arm out.
and L had to put him in a straight
jacket to keep him from going into
pitch. He wanted to pitch the worst
way. He had speed to throw at the
birds, and I was almost tempted to put
him in. If I'd been in any kind of
pinch would have, but had pitch
ers to burn, don't you know, and
didn't really need Tom Now there's
Mullane and Phyle and Fricken. You
ought to have seen Fricken pitch when
he got down there in that warm
weather. The ball went like a shot
whether he was pitching it or fielding
1t. Barnett is good fielding pitcher
too. He turned his ankle in Kansas
City and lost the game in the ninth
inning, after he was hurt 1 said he
lost it. l am not sure he would not
have won it but for the errors that
were made. But I don't lay that game
UP against him at ALL Now, here's Is
bell. He didn't do a thing to 'em in
Kansas City, I suppose. tell you that
fellow can't pitch a lick on earth. No!
He is fast on his feet, and he fields
his position probably as we'll or better
than Phyle, but he can't pitch. I don't
see how it is, but he can't throw the
ball anywhere but over the plate.
You'd died to have seen Connaughton.
He broke his back reaching for Is
bells curves when they were coming,
as a simple matter of fact, as straight
across the plate as they could have
been shot out of a gun. Oh, no! He
can't pitch. Denzer was a good pitcher
while he was pitching, but he was too
slow fielding. This boys got him beat
both ways. What better pitchers do
you want than those? / can't see But
I'm not through yet Here I've got
McGill at home playing with a lot of
country teams just because I can't play
him. He isn't a fast enough fielder.
Willie will be all right when we get
home. The team will get to batting
better when we get back. The loss of
the regular morning practice has caus-
ed a falling off in the hitting, and it
will take them perhaps a week to get
back into form. But we will start in
the morning.
"Who will pitch today? Phyle. He
hurt himself down the trip. But he's
all right now. 1t will be Mullane
Wednesday, and I'll leave Isbell for the
home game Friday. 1 want the st.
Paul folks to see him work. They'll
have a chance then.
"Now I've gone up and down the
line. Where's the team weak. Oh,
yes, didn't say anything about Spies.
I suppose there are Z about 1900, COZ
catchers better than Hank in the bust
ness, are there?4 Not in this league.
Rain or shine, that boy is always in
behind the bat and always in the game.
Can't swing a bat, either. Only for a
twO-base or three, perhaps, but then
those count, you know, when fellows
are on bases. Beat st. Paul? Who's
going to do it? Not Columbus. They
have been playing home. They've been
playing Western clubs. What have
the Western clubs done on the trip?
ST Paul has won twelve games, more
than the other three all put together.
Wait till they get away. They go to
Detroit. There's a pretty fast base.
ball club, too. They'll hold LOTUS and
his team pretty near even, and that'll
help some. Watkins won't be in 1t at
the finish at all. Manning. feel kind
of sorry for Jim. He has a good team,
but they're in a rut The papers
are knocking them at home and that
don't help much. Minneapolis ought to
do better, but they can't brace. Any
time thew get anywhere near a. starr