The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-24

Indianapolis at Milwaukee.
Columbus at Kansas City.
Yesterdays st. Paul-Grand Rapids
game was protested-by st. Paul.
! The score as Umpire Haskell declared
it, ran this way:
Grand Rapids '. 100 / / II
The way the runners came across
the plate, and the way Manager Com
iskey insists they should have been
counted, would make it look this way:
Grand Rapids, .....,O 0 0 0 5 l ~
Which would have necessitated fur
Their play.
The difficulty arose in this way. In
the eighth inning, with one out, Nc
Bride on third and George on first.
Glasscock hit what looked like sure
safe hit well to Slagle's left The
thing was so sure, seemingly, that
George ran away beyond second, and
when Slagle, by a phenomenal catch,
secured the ball, he was able to throw
it back to first base, with Griff1n's as
sistance before Georges return. Mean
while however, Mcbride had run in
from third. crossing the plate before
Camel held the ball at first base. UNI
pire Haskell held that the run did not
score, ''as it was on a double play"
Just where he got his authority for
the decision is not known, as it is in
direct contradiction of Rule So, which
is as follows:
One run shall be scored every time a base
runner after having legally touched the first
three bases, shall touch the home base be-
fore three men are out. (EXception-If the
third man is forced out, or is put out before
reaching first base, run shall not be scored)
Now in the case at issue Glasscock
was put out, in the meaning Of the
rule, before reaching first base, but
George, who was the third man out,
had already reached first base legally,
and does not come within the excep-
ton. On this point Manager Comis-
key has filed notice of protest of the
game.
So the Bobolinks won yesterday on a
scratch.
But the dissatisfaction, which grew
out of the umpire's plainly illegal rul-
ing on the play, should not be per-
mitted for moment to detract from
the glory of Slagle's catch, the play
which made the complication possible
in the first place. 1t was as sensa-
tional an effort as has ever graced
Lexington park. Glasscock had the
ball going well toward the farther end
of the cycle track, perhaps midway be-
tween the stations of Slagle and Cam
pau. The little center fielder made a
hard run after it and finally got it by
long but exact reach, and quickly re-
f11r hn haH tn GriA
ready to touch George as he passed
second base on his return. George,
however. started to chase across the
diamond, and Griffin threw to Camel,
who held the ball in plenty of time.
but not until after Mcbride had
scored.
Next to Slagle, perhaps coequal with
him, the honOrs of the game belong
to the recently discarded Jack Barnett,
who was bargained by Manager Comis-
key to the Bobolinks. Jack had evi.
IDENTIFY found out the weak points of
the Apostles during his residence here,
and eight hits in nine innings, a good
part of these scratches, was the, total
against him. Then he raped out a.
pair of nice hits himself, one of them
for three bases, with two runners in
front of him, which helped his own
game not a little.
1t was sort of nondescript aggre-
cation that confronted the locals at the
opening Only Slagle, Twineham
Campau and Griffin remained of the
team that has been playing the sea-
son, but big John Camel, who was out
for time, was again at first, and no
mistake about it either. In Glenalvin's
| place at second was a young man
named DriScoll with a broad-collared
sweater and an uncertain fielding pres
ence. On third was a rather inert ap-
| pearing individual scheduled on the
score cards as Mckinney. He is not
quite as ponderous as Kuehne, but al
| most as elephantine in his movements
| McKibbin, from the disbanded West
| ern association, was in left field
For five innings it was a very list
less game The Bobs' long course of
| defeats has given them the heart bowed
| down so that they have to be galvan-
| lied now before they begin to get good
| They did not find any electrical dis
| charge yesterday until Barnett made
his three-Sacker with two on bases In
minute they were prancing around
| like a hen on a hot brick to use a
somewhat trite expression.
The start was dreary Mcbride gave
the unknown at second base a ground
err and the unknown ''trun it out"
Glenalvin gave Slagle a fly, and Bar
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cock swung hard and McKibbin caught
it, Glen threw Slagle out to break
even, and Twineham sent Mcbride a
fly, Spies took Campaus foul, and it
was horse and horse.
Gillen opened the second with a
three-bagger behind McKibbin that
hurt Barnett not little. Isbell could
not find the curves of his rival, how
ever except for pop-up to Griffin.
Jack hit Spies, and Holly gave Nc
Kibben a fly, on which Gillen finally
scored. Spies went to third on the
play, having stolen second, and scored
when Driscoll fumbled Fricken's
grounder Mcbride struck out. Bar
nett was pitching with excessive de-
liberation and the impatient bleachers
tried to hurry him, but in vain
The visitors did not get the ball out
of the infield, although Fricken did
present Griffin with four bad ones.
Glenalvin popped an easy one to Dris-
coll, and again Barnett walked George.
A wild pitch sent Billy one sack far
Their. Glasscock was thrown out by
Griffin Gillen walked by grace of Bar
nett. Isbell wanted to bring both the
runners in, but McKibben caught the
ball. Hollingsworth fielded Driscoli's
grounder perfectly, and Spies took Bar
nett's foul. Slagle's two-bagger, the
| first hit off Fricken, was a beauty, but