The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-27
GOSSIP OF THE GAME.
IsbeII VIII Meet the Hoosier Cruc,xs
This Afternnnn


The Indianapolis an and =. St; Paul clubs will
ington park this afternQQpggame beine oa1,ed
at S:45 as usual. !sbell. the North Branch
Saints while Phillips or Goar will be in the
box for the leaders.
The loss of yesteTdsEIf makes it alb
in first place before starting on thar trin
which was until last night a possible con-
tingency.
Yesterdays game showed that the st. Paul
batting order was disposed of as adyanfa-
geousiy as 1t could be.
If Nyce plays such ball as he did Yesterday
there will be little more trouble at the third
sack. He and Spies hadTSthe heart bowed
down" last night badly, for they had to stand
the responsibility for the defeat.
The Denzer hoodoo is out at last. 1t is a
base on balls Any tinfe Roger walks bats
man, the chances seems,tp lbe largely in favor
of the individual completing the circuit.
Pitcher Taylor. of Milwaukee, met with a.
day when he had his right shoulder dislo-
Gated in a collision with Frank at the plate
Barnes succeeded him in the box.
Stewards game at second was a reminder NJ
the way he played ball in 1894 when he was
drafted from Sioux City by Arson. He had
more chances tnan MoII.
For a sudden warming up. Fricken ac-
quilted himself with great credit.
Preston's effort to reach third was Inflated
but hardly unwise He could hardly foresee
that Nyce was going to smash the ball as
hard as Mcbride, and certainly st. Paul
needed the run he was trying to get.
Hollingsworth's batting eye is off watch.
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in the extra innings were worth the price of
admission in themselves.
Kahoe's catch on Hollingsworth in the
eleventh was another especially creditable
performance. Mike is jollier, but ball
player betimes.
There has been a newspaper fiction to the
effect that Watkins fined any of his men who
kicked at the umpire except the captain. If
that is true the 1898 team will be the same
as this year, or the fines of yesterday will
not be worked out. 49,
Will some one please pick a rabbits foot
in rural graveyard for Mr.. Denzer. He is
almost as unpopular with the tickle goddess
of fortune as w. Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska.
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Wilmot's dead arm would never have made
that throw to the plate which shut Gray off
in the eighth Walter threw into the bleachers
twice in one game In Minneapolis trying to
cut off runners under similar circumstances.
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Fourteen innings was y a. pretty hard trial
for Spies after four days. siege with a bad
stomach trouble ,-,.,..... .s...
Foreman was fresh enough in the thirteenth
inning to do a few skirt dances, sans the
ruf1es. This is the first; year he has ever
been with team that could give him sup
port. and it is making a wonderful difference
in his work. 81
There was some talk when the Hoosiers
were here last of Flynn being released. Not a
whmper was heard ofit yesterday.
Charley Mccarthy does not have to wear
his green goggles in Lexington park. Left
field there does not face the same way it did
in Aurora -.s.... .s@.
Gray had Denzer's puzzle all figured out.
but he could not measure. Fricken successful
ly. The sharp-visaged third-baseman is some
thing of slugger with the stick.
Glasscock has so far forgiven the drubbing
the ''kids" gave the veterans Friday that he
actually gave Fricken a put out at first base
in the thirteenth inning. That benefit game
pretty nearly broke the old mans heart,
though, they say. .s.. &, s.. .,.,. ..-,
There are few Scotchmen playing ball in
the Western league. but the Grand Rapids
club has one in McKibben.
President johnson might do much worse
than to offer Pfeffer a birth in the West
ern league for the rest of the season. This
would enable the great second baseman to
try himself out, and if he proved a success
he would have little difficulty in breaking
into the big league next ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
News E.1e- .-t-..,u --s-.:sE no.
DeDzer pitched and lost his first game with
st. Paul yesterday. There was no disgrace
in the defeat, however. With any kind of
batting behind him he would have won in a
walk The game shows that the Minnesota
boy is still "a great minor. league pitcher.
George Cross got his revenge on Comiskey's
men. He pitched a fast game, and kept the
few hits wei scattered indianapolis News.
Manager Cantillon of the Dubuque team,
had two ribs broken by base runner VINO
jumped into him while he was trying to field
ball. A minute later Cantillon was put
out of the game for kicking because the UNI
pire refused to declare the runner out for in
reference.