The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
SOME BASE BALL pERsIFLAGE.

Tommy inland has very nearly climbed the
ladder downwards. He has been released by
newark, and when player gets below the
Jersey size it is about time for him to COM
mence driving delivery wagon or soaring
crows out OF the corn.
They are giving Jack Glasseock flowers in
st. Paul Does Pebble Jack" really know
an an orchid from an o,eander?-Kansas City
Times.
1t must be hard for Jack Barnett to know
that ne pitched the better ball yesterday and
yet Willie McGill beat him out. And in Kan
sas City McGill was peach pie and plum pud-
ding for the Blues, too. Oh, WELL "there'll
come time for Barnett, and that time
isn't more than 10000 leagues away, either
Kansas City Times
Patruccio McCauley, the ex-senator, and
Vanderbeck, Of Detroit, are not of the same
point OF view as to the value of Macs services
as backstop. Van offered Mac $1,000, and
Mac, being Hibernian, and naturally fond Of
repartee, responded: 81 received your con-
tract, which calls for 1000. I'm a pretty
good fellow, and belong to the retoucher's
lodge, and can borrow more money than you
can offer me. If you say SO, l will send the
contract to Dad Clarke He is stuck on good
gags" =
Now that the championship. season has
opened and is well under way, predictions are
in order. Here is the way the various man
ayers OF the big league teams say the cubs
will finish:
Arson. Chtcago-Chicago, Baltimore, Bos-
ton, Cleveland.
Hanlon, Observation-Disclosures to win nom
communicative as to other places at the finish.
Ewing Cincinnatf-Boston, Baltimore,
Cleveland or Cincinnati to win and for first
four places.
Joyce, New York-Non- communicative
Tebeau, Cleve,and-Cleveland,C Chicago, Bal
timore, Cincinnati.
seelee, Boston-Boston, New York, Clev-
Gland Chicago.
Donovan, Pittsburg-Pittsburg to be among
the first three.
Stallings, Philadelphia toss up among
Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland
and Cincinnati.
Dowd St Lous-Baltimore, Chicago, Cleve-
land, st. Louis.
:, schmelz;; Washington Boston,
Rogers, Louisville-Chicago, Baltimore,
Boston Cleveland, Cincinnati
Barnie, Brooklyn Non communicative.
When the New York Giants marched across
the field at the opening game in the metropol-
is the immense crowd went wild at the sight
of Amos Rusie, as the players approached the
stand. 1t inspired the following from o. P.
Caylor in New York paper:
So while the people shout acclaim and martial
airs are spelled,
Full twenty Whitehead base bail men come
marching cross the field.
There's Capt. Joyce, whose stride bespeaks a
soul which knows no fear,
And Jouett Meekin, tall and straight as
British grenadier:
The "Giddy Kid" and eagle Eye the pride
of all Cohoes, 80
Van Haltren and 1.-The Silent Man," all 4oint-
ing out their toes.
But who is he whose forms so wide, whose
breadth of loin is great?
Goliath great! The Hoosier boy! Our Annie,
sure as fate!
With Rusie in the team again, you'll hear the
rooterS talk
About the double lead pipe cinch and winning
in a walk.
If the weather doesn't get warmer Tom
Lotus will put plate glass windows in the
grand stand and set up oil stoves for the
400. columbus Dispatch.
There are so many broken wings in the
New York aggregation that it reminds you Of
a live bird shoot when the pigeons fall be-
yond bounds remarked Earl Wagner.
The Philadelphia Press says that whoever
got up the new uniforms of the Bostons
should get thirty days in a Kelley cure hos
pital. And it's no idle chatter.-Boston Her.
aid.
Arson has sprung the latest innovation in
base ball wearing apparel, in garment for
his men which looks more like a bath robe
than anything else. 1t is called ball play
er's overcoat.