The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-17

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Stage fright again.
Not less than $500 people bought
tickets to Lexington park yesterday to
see a game of base ball between the
ST. Paul and Minneapolis clubs.
1t was the largest crowd since July
4, 1896 1t was a pretty poor game
they played that afternoon. The game
that was played yesterday did not have
any blue ribbons on it.
If the playing of base ball on Sunday
were capital crime, the St. Paul base
ball club could still put full nine in
the field, as only four of them played
ball yesterday.
Count Antonio Mullane who has
hitherto been unbeaten this summer,
went down before the unfaltering le-
gions of the sister city, like a Budd-
hist priest before a homely idol. For
one inning Tony had more fun with
his old antagonists than a kitten with
a ball of yarn. After that the Millers
toyed with the Count Antonio, even as
1t were a carnival and he the offer
ing.
And support The support he got
would have been a starvation allow
ance for a protoplasmic spermatozoid,
let alone being any basis of strength
to hard and heady pitcher like the
count.
There were exceptions to the rule.
Now and then a face in the old team
that two nights ago led the league ap-
peared that was not clouded by a con-
vulsion of idiocy or a spasm of sor-
n ,iv,;e D,,{ oFx
Seven hits and eleven errors. Mystic
combination, sacred to the spertive son
Of Ethiopia! Truly thy rhythmic Sc
quence doth portend deep sorrow, bit
ter obloquy, to the once admiring fans
OF the Sanity City.
Minneapolis not only won the game,
but they won it so far as to leave no
chance to lay it to the umpire, or to
anything else but the locals play.
Their only error was made by their
self-satisfied captain, and that, luckily
for him, cost but one run. Figgemeierg
was In the box again, the Minnies
wanting the game so bad as to pitch.
a man two full games in forty-nine
hours. It: was a desperate chance. but
1t won.
McBride's single, which opened the
game, lent assurance to the view that
the new man might be knocked out Of
the box to soothe his ambition. Then
he stole second. Tim O'Reurke was
given an ovation when he stepped to
the plate tc bat in the place allotted
to Preston on the card. But he only
hit grounder to first base, advancing
Mcbride while going out himself. Nc
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Ball, and George retired the side with
e pop-up to Pickett .
Minneapolis also got a man tc first
with none out, Ball. on four non-con-
formists, as they appeared to Umpire
Lally but he did not get around, ow-
Ing to Mullane's control of the ball
during the next few minutes.
Two Saints were out in turn when
Shugart hit long fly to center, which
Wilmot first misjudged and then muff-
ed, amid the jeers of 5000 threats. Shu-
CART went to third en- it and scored the
second run Of the game on Spies sin
gle to left field. Mullane's fly to center
shut off the run-getting there
= Pickett opened for MINNEAPOLIS with
clean three-bagger, on which he
came home when Nyce threw the ball
where O'Rourke could not stop it, and
it went tos the stand. Cassidy poked
stiff grounder through Shugart's bail
iwick, an6 Kuehne gave George a high
fly. Boyle hit a cosy one to Shugart and
Cassidy scored. F1ggemeier's fly to right
fell through Georges fingers, and Ball
gave Parrot fly. Two safe hits scor-
ed two more runs, and two were left
on bases when Miller gave Parrot an
other chance. That made it 4 to 2.
Mcbride again hit safely, and the
locals were treasured but O'Rourke
lined one into the air to Pickett, and
Mcbride could not return to the bag.
Nyce hit a high one, and the Saints
were out again.
Parrot made pretty catch on Pick
ett's fly, but Cassidy hit the ball about
six feet over Shugart's head for one Of
the longest hits that could be made
In the grounds, the ball rolling to the
Lexington avenue fence not far from
the corner. Boyle scratched in e hit on
q fly that dropped safe, but it was
wasted, and the score was five to two
George then waited while Figgemeier
let down and pitched four bad ones.
Glasscock hit the ball hard for two
bases, and PARROTS grounder was good
For a safe single. That scored two runs
and the visitors were only one ahead