The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-18
BASE BALL MENTION.

Batteries, Thomas and frost; Barnes and
Speer.
BASE BALL MENTION.
In view of the predictions of base ball crit
les les that Boston WI win out in the National
league race from Baltimore it is interesting
10 note the records which have been made by
Dotn teams In their home series. The record
OF the Bostons since May 81, when they COM
ulehceQ the present home series, is fourteen
straight games. the club playing against such
strong teams as the CincnnaIis and Cleve-
lands. In the same period while also p.aying
at home. the champion Baltimores have won
nine out OF ten games Played, dropping one
TO cleveland by a close margin. Taking the
records from May 20, when the Boston team
appears TO have struck its gait, there is con-
siderable difference. Since that da e. the POS
tons have played twenty-five games winning
twenty Of these. the two losses being at Louis
vile, May 70, by score of to t. and Cincin-
natl' May ~, to l. During the same period
the BaltlmOres have Played nineteen games
winning thirteen Of them. The percentage of
the teams Tor the games Played since May 20
Is Boston, $40; Baltimore. .6S5.
Pitcher McGill and Charley Nyce came home
ahead of the team to work off some extra
aVoirdupois.
1t is said that Manning of Kansas Ci+v
mas snow of securing Hemming the Louis
vile pitcher. who released by Balti-
more.
II seems to be the unanimous verdict of
Breitensteins old associates on the Browns
that Brit's wing has at last played him false.
Bug Holiday continues to adorn tho baDob
In Cincinnati. though there are teams In
the major league whose outfeid would he
strengthened by so hard and timely batsman
as Bug.
Jack carney was able to practice some
Yesterday. He did no running combining his
work TO batting practice. The captain will
probably be able to get into the game soon
AFTER the Blues return.-Kansas City Times,
Our old friend Jack Barnett of the fune
reat pnyslognomy of1ciated at the burial
OF the Bobolinks yesterday as the chief
SAINT OF the occasion. Jack allowed Glen
S SiS gurgiers eight safe plunks and won
mas gang OF hitters behind him he will 90
f IA. ana snow people that wing of his is far
from deceased--Kansas City Times.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has the follow
ing: The Cleveland club has secured 9.Bron
co Jones, the great southpaw twrIer, who
MAS HTS, peen pitching such marvellous ball for the
llIWaukee team. but the latest find will moi
De seen IN Cleveland uniform this wear.
MlIWaukee thinks too well of Jones to allow
M 70 leave, but as some club was sure
70 snap Jones up as as the drafting
DeglnS, an arrangement has been made where
arrives. ~
The st. Paul team has won six games and
lost seven on the trip-not so bad.
When the Milwaukee team returns bona
tomorrow it will be accompanied by two new
players, Harry Blake, an outfielder secured
from the Cleveland club, and Pitcher Reidy.
Whom Manager Mack signed when he was
released by Grand Rapids last Sunday while
two familiar faces will be missed when the
brewers line up on Saturday against the st.
Pauls, Arthur Clarkson having been re-
leased last night at Detroit and Joe Wright
RELOCATED to the bench because he is unable
to hit the ball regularly Sentinel.
Glenalvin says the report that Gil Hatfield
has been released is unfounded. He says the
blonde third baseman will continue a member
of the Grand Rapids team.
Roger Conner, the we'll known first baseman
mas signed to play first base and captain the
Fall River team, of the New England league
according to Eastern advices.
Win, and you go up to glory,
Wearing the golden crown;
Lose-it's different story
They kick a man when he's down
Quincy Herald.
Letcher, the outfelder purchased from Des
Moines by Minneapolis has been dubbed
"Fitzsimmons" by the bleachers, and the
name is an apt one. He looks for the world
like 'Lanky Bob" and he shows some of
the champions hitting qualities. too.-Detroit
Free Press.
Manager Stallings, of Philadelphia. is still
interested in the Western league. Speaking
Minneapolis, he said: ''Shortstop Ball is
nice fielder, but not much of a hitter, and
is not better man than Monte Cross. LalIy
is fast, but the best man out West is Frank
Gen1ns. l think as an outfelder he can show
up any man l ever saw"
The New York outfield is made up entirely
of ex-pitchers Ternan went to New York
as pitcher, but was not fast enough for the
company. AS a last resort he was tried
in the field and met with instant success. Van
White Stockings in their halcyon days
'Ducky'' Holmes dealt out curves in a minor
league and managed to pitch several winning
games for Louisville when the CoIonels were
on the ragged edge.
81 won a game of ball in Columbus in
1891 with the assistance of Bob Ferguson the
umpire remarked Jim Mcclure. t'Kid Car
sey was pitching and l was behind the bat
We were in the lead by a score of 2 to until
the eighth inning, when the Buckeye team
who had their first turn at the bat raped
out enough hits to give them a lead of three
runs. The score was to 2 and two men
were on bases, when the game was suddenly
interrupted by an accident to Ferguson. Car
sey pitched high, speedy ball that shot past
my nit and connected with Ferguson a Fitz-
simmons wollop in the stomach. Bob fell
the dressing room. Darkness was falling fast.
and before Bob recovered we were in the
cleaning. Gus Schmelz, who was managing
the Columbus team insisted on playing out
the inning but Bob wouldn't stand for it.
SO the game called back to the seventh
inning, and we won by a score of to 0. The
Columbus players and fans suspected that I
had purposey ducked Carsey's speedy ball so
that Ferguson would receive the full benefit of
it"
$50
Brownie" Foreman went to Reeds Lake
Friday, got partially intoxicated and Incl
dentaly into a fight, was hit over the nose
with an oar. left Saturday to report at De-
troit, and yesterday pitched a winning game
against the Tigers.-Grand Rapids Press.
During one of the Columbus games Shugart,
| OF st. Paul, was guilty of making one Of the
| nest unique home runs recorded this season.
| The left fed fence had been boarded up on
| the inside to afford a smooth surface for the
! sign painters. Shugart's hit went on top
| or the fence rolled down between the two
partitions and stayed there while the lucky
! SAINT made the circuit.-Miwaukee Wisconsin,
| Any kind Of an old club can beat the St
| PaulS II they are not afraid.-Detroit Journal
| Detroit must be afraid the Saints beat the
Wolverines six straight.
st. Paul has played just fifty games win.
| ming thirty-three and losing seventeen a1mnst
| two victories to every defeat. The team bas
| forty-four games to pay at home. and fortv-
| six away. 1t has one postponed game in each
| of the following towns: Detroit Grand Rapids
| Milwaukee and Kansas Citv Tho taor, M; an