The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
FIRST DAY OF THE TOURNEY,
PLANNED BE THESE TWO oRGANI-
CATIONS, is A TREMENDOUS
SUCCESS.
While Homer p. Clarke Carried
OF the Other.

was that which was proffered by the
commercial club and the st. Paul
Elks to the people of st. Paul at Lex
lngton park yesterday, and while not
more than 100000 of the best citizens
were able to detach themselves from
pressing business and official cares
long enough to witness the conflict,
there was withal, a goodly attendance,
largely of the fair sex, and these lat
ter sighed sympathetically as Doe
! Whitcomb was put out Of the game
by serious attack Of what the other
physicians, present called laSSitudiniS
banker for henchibus. Likewise, OF.
rather, unlike it, they cheered royalty
when George Lennon, his beautiful
shirt swelling with conscious pride, in
tefcepted a hot drive from the plate
as gracefully and with as much facil-
lty as ever Willie Phyle DISTORTED
| himself ins,the same section of the
arena The fair ones shuddered with
horror, when p. j. Schaub, his 213
pounds mounted on 9S gear, tried in
vain to cut the leg off small boy who
was lnnocently chasing a tip foul
across the unprotected course where
=. T. Slime was interrupting a grand
| Graeco-RomaR hippodrome by divert
easements of Swiss bell ringing
II was 3 O'Clock when the sport be-
gan. Ihe management had provided
beautiful score cards. in which the
Elks' were given first place The score
caro- Is the only place they have first
now. The CONNIE rcialises dubbed
them. The score card was appropriate
10 the place. 1t was wrong But the
! team lined up as follows: Reeves set
| ms mortar and peStle down at first
paEe Charley Samples biscuits were
entlcingIy displayed at second. and the
! DeheIs maintained an lev te.npara tire
Gown the other horn OF the iridescent
olamond. Fred Schiffman preempted
lou acres IN right field. 1t was not
really 100 acres, but you would have
Thought 1T was to see how much bigger
! II was than Sch.ffman. DR. Whitcomb
prayed left field while, but did not
Charley Finehout
Inc commercial club did not have
as pretty uniform as the EllSs In
1act, they did not have any uniform Al
all; They did have however. a cosmo-
pol1te grouping Of shirts from Cornell
Idle ana Williams, Knockers from
Harvard, Bowdoin and Slime onlv
knows where and golf stockings from
all the links in this vicinity, not to
| speak Oh stockings that were not of tho
goH variety. The only styles of toe-
gerry that the@team tabooed were silk
tlteS and tennis, .lrackets.p But they
could play ball a. little. Finley Shany
ard led their batting list and PLAYED
t3ght field like a Trojan The fact
that the Trojans never played base
pan need not be construed into any re-
lection on Pin" Harold Bend was
IN center field. If Harold had had
blind staggers and a leakv shell ba
| tny,
less alacrity. Theodore Griggs plaved
short that would have put Shugart
into long trance. Wally Winter
played second base in neatly trimmed
bangs, and pants that had never been
solieo. Charley Cartwright, who was
Bigelow, was at first base. Carly IS
accustomed to indoor base ball, and
the high sky troubled him somewhat.
but he did not do SO badly.
Horace. Bigelow distinguished him
self at third base, playing a game
his old time cunning. BILLY" Dean. in
LETT, played close second to Bend and
Tan" Langford was gorgeous
packstop, not being run down once by
the speeding cyclists. John jackson
pitched and he pitched the Elks into
Senator Timothy D. Sheehan was
umpire. He wore the usual white
choker and pistol that, though I'M
usual, was not 1nfrequent, being called
into play to quell incipient insurrec-
lions at least four times each fifteen
minutes.
Umpire Sheehan had applied to the
governor for military protection but
Gov. Clough replied that he did not
think 1t would be necessary, as he I'M
derstood all the big guns were going
10 De IN the grand stand. anyway The
senator's umplrlng was not entirely
satisfactory. Each side agreed that he
had been influenced by the other side
They did not beSmirch the senatorial
toga with the intimation of any crimi-
nal compromise, but one side said he
was afraid of DR.. Whitcomb's drugs
ana the othef that he was afraid Of
Horace Bigelows political power. Thew
animated that when Tim had seen
Mayor Doran riding in the street car
beh1nd the band, the First warder's
sleeping ambition was fired as by an
electric conclusion, and now nothing
VIII 40 MN until ne has the appoint
ment of the next chief of police.
1t was $40 when the preparatory gun
was fired, and at 1920, both craft hay
ing Unanswered into position, the start
ing gun was fired. That was all the
ammunition Sheehan had with him, but
the players did not know that. and he
bluffed them with his empty pistol all
the afternoon. Finley Shepard tried to
knock the ball right through Lennon
and disable the enemy at once, but
Lennon only got one hand on if
stopped it with that one, and sat down
and ordered 2, 900 more straw hats and
pair of sleeveless gloves, and then
threw the ball to first base. Shepard
went out behind the stand and tried to
sell himself to small boy. but could
not, and then came back to get even.
Schiffman hit the ball, which was quite
surprise. considering the strong odds
in favor Of the ball hitting Schiffman.
Still. it was a. good bet compared with
the 100 to l shotithat he took next in
trying to steal second, and he stole it.
too. Some of the fans in the stand
said it was all a job, and that Winter
was In with it, but Wallace declared
solemnly that he had never seen Schiff-
man beforeHgoing that fast Tom
King, who was coaching, pulled a.
Howitzer out of his uniform and rat
tied the Commercial club, so that De-
fiel was allowed to walk to second
base. The inning resulted to in
favor of the Elks.
Shepard came back to life in the
second inning and picked out Reeves
for soft mark Reeves killed the
liner and Bigelow evened things up
by a beautiful catch of a foul fly from
Snyder's stick. Dean also made a nice
catch on Reeves drive. The game was
| getting so exciting that the umpire adj
journed it to give the nervous special
lists a rest and let the emergency sur
geons get in On a man-killing bicycle
race. It was a mile race that was first
shown. There were a lot of fellows
| started who never finished but it might