The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-11

St. Paul at home may get into the fight
again for short time, but 1t is not hkeiy
race when It nears the close.-Indianapohs
News.
Tim Hurst, the National league umpire, is
a. genius of original expressions. Speaking of
Joyce Tim exclaimed: He good third base
man! Why he don't cover enough ground TO
plant a geranium on"
The Dayton manager has had card print
ed for the entrance gate on Sundays: 1t
reads mo Ministers Admitted" He claims
a movement among the clergy to witness
Sunday game and then make complaint un-
der the Ohio law against Sunday amusemehtS
Hollingsworth's homer Of Thursday was his
first this season.
Milwaukee is the only club that has beaten
Fricken this season: i
Tim O'Rourke made a pretty hit in the
first inning, just after being presented with
an umbrella but was caught mapping at
first In the fourth he made a three-bagger
and scored on wild pitch.
PARROTS one-handed catch of Burke's fly
in the fifth was the prettiest ever seen on the
grounds.
Nicholson's muff in the ninth could scarcely
have been more costly.
This one evens up with Kansas City for the
eight runs made by the Cowboys in a game
at Kansas City a short time ago.
Had Hollingsworth been permitted to use
his own judgment in the fifth he would no
doubt have brought in another pair of runs,
St. Paul literally took the lead in the
Western league yesterday on a wild pitch.
The game was really on Prestons
great base running, the utility man taking
no
Tony Mullane played third base in the last
half of the ninth and did it well.
st. Paul did Its rocky fielding in the
first and second and Kansas City punched
errors in the fourth and ninth.
The loss of the game by Kansas City was
largely due to Blanford's injury. Burke was
unable to throw to second.
The hitting of the St. Paul team the past
three four days has not been suffi-
GENTLY sequential.
The Kansas City outfeld at least played
ball.
But for the toughest kind of luck the Cow
boys would have scored in the seventh. Get
finger and Bannon led off with hits. Pickett
then went out a bunt third strike Men,
efee was hit by pitcher; Burke drove
Spies sending the ball along to first, getting
pretty double play.
Sam Thompson, the big outlelder is am
bilious to shine as minor league magnate
a la Comiskey and Manning. 1t is said that
Big Sam has $4,000 that he wants to invest
in the Detroit club. He will buy the club
if he can get Van der Beck out
A report is out that Chauncey Fisher win
soon be turned adrift BY. the Brooklyn club.
Indianapolis bleachers are roasting Third
Baseman Gray.
Chicago base ball historian says: "ODon-
ovan Rosa Donahue is the oiliest young man
in the league. He has blarney that any son
of the old sod would envy, and gets away
with more incendiary repartee with umpires
than any catcher in the circuit, but occa-
sionally he meets his match. Timmy's
stronghold is to make quiet roar to the
judge. few days ago he went up against
Tim Hurst and it was of Greek and
Turk. Hurst called strike and Donahue
said: You lannel-mouthed Indian, who told
you that you could umpire?' The same guy
that said you could catch, you Kerry Patch
Turk retorted Hurst, and the Irish agitator
beat retreat to the backstop.
The appointment of little Tommy Dele
hanty Detroit's captain, If true, is one
Of the best jokes of the season.
Lake was lust the man the Bostons lacked
and there is a suspicion that he didn't get
overpoweringiy mad because Manning made
him double up with another player in a
sleeping car, but may have heard something
from Boston that interested him. 1t is re-
ported that Manning has received a check
for 81 900 from Selee. Lake is catching great
ball for the Bean chaps, and he and Stiv-
etts are making a formidable batterS.-De-
troit Journal.
Mertes is dirty ball player, and needs
calling down. He Is a husky fellow, and is
as rank as he is strong. He played miser-
able game in left yesterday, and evidently
was elected from the base ball school just
soon as he had learned all that is vicious
in the game. He thrown out at first
in the fifth, but kept on running, and de-
liberate,y spiked billiard. Previous to this
Hahn had caught him mapping at first, and
the big loafer vented his spleen upon Gro
gan The umpire had ample cause tor calling
a policeman and sending him out of the
grounds. but paid no attention to his abuse.
Detroit Journal
The average age of the ST. Paul team is
a wear more than that of the Chicagos.
Glasscock and Arson are about a stand-off,
and Mullane helps little.
MILE RECORD SHADED.