The Saint Paul globe., 1897-07-02
The hoodoo has been broken.

The hoodoo has been broken.
Minneapolis has won a game.
A negro boy-one of these real coal
black youngsters, who cast a shadow
of gloom over the assemblage every
time he ran out to pick up a bat
tended to the janltor work for the Con-
sulars yesterday.
Some of the Minneapolis people who
were present were so disappointed at
not seeing st. Paul win that they laid
IL to the umpire. Mr. Heard did give
the Saints a shade the worst of it
at times critical times, too, or at least
the crowd thought so. 1t may be
said. however, that Mr.. Heard's treat
ment by GlasscOck as early as the Sec
ond inning, when Glasscock mauled
him around the field like a love-sick
maiden caressing a sofa pillow, was
not of nature to make an umpire give
st. Paul any the best of it.
The Millers got a run in the first
inning and the Saints did not get any.
The transformation was remarkable.
The hang-dog look that has come over
them since they started their string of
sixteen straight defeats vanished at
once, and they were all Leonidases in
a minute. ready to do or die in the
last ditch. There were other valorous
warriors there, and from then to the
finish it was as scrappy a game as
used to adorn the pages of the score
books when the Millers were pennant
winners and really cut a little ice i'll
the base ball pond.
They bulldozed the umpire, held
each other on the bases, and generally
resorted to all tricks and bluffs that
base ball players fall heir to.
To what extent the umpire partici-
pated in fixing the determination of
the game there is a difference of opir-
ion. 1t was, however, apparent that
he wanted to be fair and reasonably
lenient, or he would have put Jack
Glasscock out of the game in the Sec
ond inning, and Wilmot some time pre-
vious to the fifth.
The Millers decided that breaking in
the new ball did not necessarily break
the hoodoo, so they went to bat first.
First thing Letcher did was to knock
a ball down to HOllingSWorth, and
Holly fumbled it. A single and in-
field grounder scored him. Mcbride
opened for st. Paul with a sharp sin
gle down left field, but Roat took in
two flies with an accuracy never sus-
pected of him, and Nyce gave Willie
Hutchison a hard one to field, which
was fielded.
Parrott took two flies and Spies one.
Eustace, who waited for four, was
the only Miller to reach first in the
second. Parrott went out on
grounder to Ball. Shugart and Spies
in turn hit safely, but with Shugart on
third and Spies on first, the latter tried
to steal second. The umpire said he
was out. Shugart started home be-
times, and he was put out, too. There
was little question about Shugart,
but there was a large element OF doubt
about Spies at second. 1t was at this
point that Capt. Glasscock came III
from first base and tried to persuade
Umpire Heard that he was not too
old to fight. In minute the pitcher S
box looked like a summer football
game, but Willie Bill managed to get
out of the heap, and finally the game
went on again.
It was Hutchs first time at bat and
he received an ovation. The team was
always was warm spot there FOR
Willie Bill. He hit a single. too, a
nice one to right field. 1t struck
Georges shoe top and Willie went TO
second on it. Letcher famed the
superheated atmospheric molecules, but
Miller was granted a dispensatio1 to
visit first base leisurely. Spies did not
stop the ball, and Doggie went to sec
ond, and Willie Bill went to third
Parrott ate up Roat's fly and Pickett
said Nyce held Hutch at third base.
HearA could not hear him and the
be.:igerent spirit was nipped quickly.
A single, followed by Cartwright's
homer, a magnificent drive over the
5 Lake street fence, in left field, gave
the home team a total of four runs for
the inning.
Hollingsworth hit single to left.
MUllane was given his base. Mcbride
singled, and likewise Glasscock. One
run was in and the bases full, with
no one out. The luck had turned and
the home team had all Of it. George
hit to Hutch, but forced in a run.