The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-29

1t was Hon against Hahn at Lexing-
ton park yesterday, and Hon won.
Some of the papers around the cir
cult, notably Kansas City sheets. have
been referring contemptuously to Com
iskey's Fricken, the boy with the de-
livery that resembles a windmill try
ing to do a serpentine dance, as a
warm weather gold-brick and glass
arm"
1t looked yesterday as though the
gold brick had Mobile stamped on it
and a shipping tag marked &c. A.
Vanderbeck, Detroit, Mich, from N.
E. Young, jobber in base ball sprouts"
Still, Hahn did not get a fair show
yesterday. He was surrounded in an
open field by number of young men,
eight to be exact, half Of whom played
as though they had lost all their hands
in some terrible wreck, and were
handicapped by the stumps being
shoulder bound. They could not catch
a fly with sheet Of paper, nor hit
the ball with a cricket bat. They threw
like the unknown angle traps at a gun
club field day, and if they had ever
bases. there is no telling what troubles
they would have found there.
Can Fricken pitch? Comiskey says
he can. That is he can when he gets
into a game. It looks now as though
ST. Paul, instead of being weak in
the box, as was intimated by envious
rivals at the opening Of the season,
has pitchers as good as Hutchison to
throw at the birds instead of having
to trade off heavy batters for National
league cast-offs.
Fricken certainly had the Tigers
guessing whether their stripes were
transverse of longitudinal yesterday,
for up to the sixth inning it looked as
though they would be skunked. The
benign Lally, however, gave the visi-
tors a close decision at first that lift
ed them out of the slough of despond
ID and put them in a position to make.
as many runs as Minneapolis did yes
terday, so there is a chance for a tie
game over there this morning. !et'
Four hits off Fricken in nine inn
ings. No gold brick about that.
But the other boy. Mcbride opened
up on him in the first for fear the
fat-faced cherub from Dixie would get
stuck on himself and delay the game
by his living picture Specialties. Nyce
popped one up. Hines muffed it, but
in the meantime Mcbride had been
hanging between earth and heaven,
and the die was cast away from him.
Hines gathered the ball out of the
lawn and Allen received it at second In
good condition before McBride's ar
rival. DUNCAN caught a fly from
Georges bat, but there was evidently
some mistake about that, for when
Glasscock hit to Thomas, in left field
Tommy had so many fingers around
the ball that no one has been able to
figure out yet why he did not catch
it in at least five places. Glasscock
went around to third Nyce had d
pretty close race with the ball, which
Thomas threw to Allen and Allen to
frost. 1t looked as though the ball
won the dash, but frost dropped the
sphere and it did not seriously affect
Nyce's run making propensity. Egan
nearly died laughing at Thomas ex-
hibition, because Tommy had been
wondering why Egan was dropping
them the day before during Tommy'S
turn in the box. Parrot struck out
in order to prevent any more Of the
Detroit fielders from making show OF
themselves.
F'ricken gave Hines base on balls,
but struck out Deadly, who would
swing at them, and two outf1eld flies
cheered the enthusiastic spectators ere
Hines was left far from the plate.
Shugart opened the second by bat
ting a straight one to Steinfeldt. The
Michigan collegiate threw it to Whist
Ter as straight as die, but Lew drop
ped the ball, and Shugart was glad he
had run it out. Hollingsworth !sacri-
feed Spies flew out to DUNCAN, who
had no muff. Shugart stole third, but
slid too far and Steinfeldt pushed him
with the ball.
Whistler walked to first and was
thrown out at second. frost famed
and Aliens foul fly went to Spies.
Mcbride was struck out by the
Swanee river twirler, but Nyce sur
veyed the paths Of four wild ones:
George picked Thomas out for good
thing and batted one into left field,
about five feet from the foul line,
which was good for three bases. with
put a bicycle. Nyce scored, and
George came in on Glasscock's fly to
Deadly. Parrott hit to center but ex-
pired trying to make two bags out of
Dne burlap.
Thomas and Hahn famed In turn
and Shugart took care Of Hines
grounder.
Shugart hit to DUNCAN. whose ne