The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-07


Twineham was put out at Milwaukee Mon
cay on play that has been mossgrown
ever since Anson was boy. Old Hoss made
passed to Lewee, who hid 1t beneath his
left arm, and as Twineham stepped off the
base, touched him out. The bitterness of it
is found in the fact that Grand Rapids was
beaten by one run.-Detroit Journal.
Buckley. now with Columbus. says the trou-
Bile with Grand Rapids was not on account of
Milwaukee beer. He made throw to Sec
ond that Glenalvin did not stop, and Glen
called him down for wild throw. Buckley
wouldn't have it that way and Glen fined
rever again play ball while such fellows as
Glenalvin are permitted in the game
Stallngs has made deal with Won der
Abe by which Pitcher Carsey and Catcher
Grady be exchanged for Catcher Nc
Farland. Grady will play the st. Louis
first base. and Mcfarland will take his
turn behind the bat at Philadelphia with
Clements and Boyle. Dowd, for whom Stall
lings traded Hallman and Harley, refuses
to go to Philadelphia without a bonus. Won
der Abe has notified him that his name is
no longer on the st. Louis pay roll. and
Stallings has notified him that he will get
no pay from Philadelphia until he reports
for duty.
Jack Carney. great bali player that he is
must be hoodoo. He played with the Toledo
team when it was last, with the Grand Rapids
team when it was last and with the Kansas
City team when it was last
Tim O'Rourke is playing strong third
base and hitting the ball hard for Kansas
City. He made three hits in Fridays game
at Grand Rapids.
This is going the big league rounds these
days: Two years ago Arson released VIII
mot, young player who went to the West
ern league. Wilmot has a good memory and
retaliated by offering Chicago $500 for An
sons release. This he was able to do. he
is captain and manager of the Minneapolis
team. Anson's wrath knew no bounds, but
he was powerless to reply to the insult.
what college are you from, Fisher"
asked a Minneapolis fan of the clever Colum-
bus catcher. me? Oh: I'm from the Keeley
institute" was the reply.
E. L. Breckenridge who made twenty -four
home runs last season, has been named as
umpire in the New England league. 1t ought
to be easy for him to make a home run in the
event that the crowd does not like his work.
Bergen the Boston catcher, lost a game
in peculiar manner the other day. There
were two men on bases and two out. The
batter dumped the ball in front of the plate,
Bergen tried to remove his mask to make
his throw perfect, but the strap caught in
his mouth. While he trying TO olsen
gage it from his upper teeth a runner came
home, and the chance for put-out was gone.
Shortstop Ball, of Minneapolis, will not go
to Philadelphia for a while, at least. c.. H.
Saulspaugh says negotiations were pending
for trade, but Stallings does not seem will
ing TO come up with the amount of cash that
Minneapolis wants for the infelder
A lady base ball enthusiast writes to the
Wisconsin as follows: 81 noticed an item
in the Wisconsin advocating a ladies day
at Milwaukee ball park. | am positive the
lad oiotn ha faU
would be ever so nice to have ladies in the
stand to cheer the Brewery boys to victory"
Milwaukee is the only town in the circuit
that has no ladies' day.-Milwaukee Wiscon-
sin.
1t has surprised a great many people to
note that Sockaexis the greatest batting
find of this summer, very often strikes out,
and that, too in games where he makes
three or four good hard drives. 1t is for the
very reason that he goes after every ball
he strikes at so everlastingy hard that he
makes the long hits, and that he strikes out
when he doesn't hit it. ''Sox'' swings on the
ball with the same vigor when two strikes
are against him as he does the first time,
and the consequence is that many of his
long drives have come when he had but one
chance left When he does strike out, he
for some reason receives little better treat
ment than his fellow players.
Comiskey must be pattiDg himself on the
back these days to think that he did not send
the season The young man a soft thing
for the Brewers last year, but he has proven
himself one Of the puzzlers in the Western
league this season. These youngsters are LA
bic to turn out phenomS at any time.-Eyen-
ing Wisconsin.
eyes; that was 4 pretty good catch Lange
made today remarked the regular fan as
he settled himself in one Of the cigar store
chairs on the evening following one Of the
New York games last week, but l saw
catch made time that, 1 think, was just
little more remarkable than anything l ever
heard of before since
THAT SOP" said one of hts audience. ''Who
made it?'
;'Tacky Tom Parrott," replied the fan, 'and
I guess it about the most remarkable
thing that old Tacks did in his life.
you know Tom was always a little eccen-
trio, to say the least, and they tell stories
by the yard of his crazy doings the ball
field. Well, one day in st. Louis about three
years ago Tacks was playing right fed for
the Browns against one Of the Eastern clubs,
Philadelphia ] think. Tacks always did have
sort of mania for making phenomenal
catches and having the papers tell all about it
next day, and consequently he tried to get
under every fly that was sent to the out
helders, no matter whose territory the ball
was bound for. 1t was along toward the latter
part of the game that of the Philies
came to bat and swung hard on the first ball
pitched, sending UP a sky-higb foul that
went back and clear over the grand stand,
and that's quite a distance on the st. Louis
grounds you know. l don't know whether
the sun got in Tacks eyes what was the
matter, but he evidently thought that foul
was on its way out to his stamping ground,
for he turned and tore the grass at full
speed In the direction of the fence that
divides the ball grounds from the shoot the
chutes part of Sportsman's park. He never
even looked over his shoulder once while on
his way, and everybody in the stands thought
he had suddenly gone crazy, sure enough.
when Tacks reached the fence he turned
made hVlnP into w IA
do you suppose he grabbed for and brought
down? An English sparrow that he had
scared off the fence, and that was little
| too slow in getting out of his way! He looked
| at the bird and the feathers that were flying
about in the air for a minute, and then threw
| the sparrow at the fence and walked back
| players and everybody else wondered what
| was the matter with him. Tacks wouldn't
speak to anybody for two weeks after that,
| but he did many other crazy things that
/ his sparrow catch was soon forgotten. Tom
was really a wonderful ball player and a
| batter from Battersville but nobody could
| ever tell just what he was going to do next"
AS as the game is out Manassaus
authority over the dirty mouth of Wilmot is
| suspended, but Allen should have police
man in front of the grand stand to escort the
| loafer to his bus, or a hurry-up wagon.
Perhaps Wilmot is not aware that ladies at
tend the games in Detroit. Vugarity and
profanity may not be considered imDroper
in front of the grand stand at Minneapolis.
but they will not be tolerated in this city
| Detroit Journal.
Manassau is umpiring very clever ball. One
| reason why the Millers do not win more
| games is due to the fact that they engage
altogether too much in kicking. Walter vii
mot seems at times to forget that there is
| such word as gentleman in the dictionary
Immediately after the game yesterday he
walked over to the Detroit players bench
and hailing Manassau, hurled a volley OF
abusive oaths at him.-Detroit Tribune.