The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-08
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TODAY. =
Kansas City at st. Paul.
milwaukee, at Minneapolis.
Columbus at Detroit.
Indianapolis at Grand RAPIDS.

GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY
Kansas City at st. Paul. .l-
Milwaukee at Minneapolis.
Columbus at Detroit.
Indianapolis at Grand Rapids.
When the locals used to make 20, so
or even 40 runs on the old park, or
on the West side grounds, the knowing
fans of other towns We're wont to tip
a wink and say, short fence"
st. Paul now has a park 500 feet
square, and it can pile up 20 in one
afternoon with reasonable freedom
When the team goes to Kansas City
and plays in an open race track it gets
30; if ii could get lease on grounds
in the desert of Sahara, where, by the
way, there are neither fences or liquid
refreshments, there is no way of tell
ing how many runs they could make.
There was some smuggling done yes
terday, but that was not the full story
of the game. 1t isn't smuggling in this
town until a player makes more than
two safe hits in a game, and Billy
George was the only one of the locals
who did that yesterday. 1t helped not
a little to see the old-time league lead
er getting his eye on the ball again, but
even at that he was diStanced by that
Damon, Jay, from Kansas City, who
made six safe hits in seven times at
bat, probably as good record as the
new park will see for some time to
come
However, all but one or two of the
locals, and there were thirteen men in
st. Paul uniforms in play at one time
or another, and quartette of the Kan
sas City aggregation hit the ball safe
ly at least once, so that it is. safe to
grant that it was hard hitting
game.
1t was also a hard fielding game
hard to understand why it was so
poorly tielded. If the lions, Venuses,
Dianas and gladiators that the infant
Mike Angelo was wont to model from
the family butter stock were not as
stable as number of the young men
in yesterdays game, then the butter
was not as strong in those days as ira
ditiOn has represented the work of the
childish sculptor to be- Hold the ball!
There were five or six men in the field
who couldn't have held a pretty girl
without making a misplay somewhere.
But charity covers a multitude Of
sins, and surely a home run that
drives in a batch of runs before it is
at least a half sister to the benevolent
locking miss who adorns the title
pages of the typical philanthropic pub
lication. So much for Nyce. Shugart
did not make any home runs-yester-
day-nor were there any pretty girls in
the field, but he variously fumbled,
muffed or threw away as luncheon for
the dickey birds five golden opportuni
ties that the song writers say will
never come again. There were others
who were not observed to win any
medals for their field work. and, luckily
for the temper of the St. Paul patron
age, consisting of S27 cash fares, 1,500
fair ones who were enjoying the hos
pitality Of the club, and the usual com
PIGMENT of ever present, but not al
ways faithful, comps not all of these
1nuffers were in St. Paul suits. Jimmy
Damon and Connaughton had chances
that will never be accepted, and they
were not alone either
1t was a blood-thirsty battle toward
the last When the score began to
close in toward the end of the regular
allotment of innings, and the cratic
play of the early game did not cease,
errors and home runs alike passed
quickly into history and men were
honored or hung on their current ac-
ticns, not what happened before they
came West. This Carson City way of
doing business was a little wide open