The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-22


Two joyous announcements were
made at Lexington park yesterday, one
being that st. Paul had won from
Grand Rapids, 10 to 4, and the other
that Roger Denzer would pitch today
for the Apostles in the game with the
Eobolinks, which will begin at 3:45 p. m
When the Saints came home from
their Eastern trip it was given out by
the managerial magnate of the Saints
that Grand Rapids was playing the
fastest ball in the bunch. That Comis-
key always was rare satirist. They
do play fast ball. They made errors
faster yesterday than the track record,
and there have been some fast clips
struck out there lately, at that.
But fourteen of the wrong things in
one game! Not by st. Paul By Grand
Rapids. There is still hope.
1t took the Bobolinks twenty min
Utes yesterday to find out if they were
coming to bat. Meantime the locals
had piled up seven runs.
The bright particular stars Of the err
ror-making aggregation were two
young men named Griffin and Egan,
both of whom are Irish enough to be
ball players. Griffin is about the size
of a minute and a half. with "she
may have seen better days" set about
his mouth. Egan is bigger than Nyce,
and has even more trouble with it.
He played yesterday like a piano.
fortist, whose fingers were all thumbs
and had a bad ear anyway, to boot.
Mcbride hit a low liner into Griffins
free lunch procurers, but the ball not
being edible, was quickly elected.
Then Mcbride stole second, Griffin
again muffed the ball and Mcbride
who was as penetrable as a saucer
of muSh, and the ball went right
through. George slammed one out for
two bases and the run getting began
to get warm. GlasscOck bowled one
down to Egan again, and again it
went astray. Shugart hit to right field,
and when the ball came into the dia-
mond again, Egan again muffed it.
GlasscOck came around home and Shu-
CART dashed to third. Parrot rolled one
light. Campau reached for it with one
hand and Glenalvin with another. The
ball however, continued it's meander-
ings in the freshly sprinkled sod Big
Kline, who was Isbells North Branch
backstOp, batted next, Spies being ILL
Kline dropped a safe hit back of Cam
pau, just inside the foul line, and st.
Paul stock was climbing again. Straus
caught Holly's fly, and the surprise
was startling. IsbeN put out another
safe hit, and Straus caught McBride's
ny, too. lSbelI and Kline worked the
double steal and seven runs were in
when Nyce sent a long fly to Slagle.
Slagel drove a high one to PARROT
who ran in back of Shugart, Nyce
threw Griffin out. and George caught
Campau's dew drop.
A catch and a stop by Glenalvin, and
Shugarts fly to Straus retired st. Paul
with equal promptness. Two ground
ers to Shugart and a strike out for
GlenalYin completed Grand Rapids
portion of the second.
Egan gave Parrot a life on an easy
one, but Kline forced Parrot, and Holly
forced Kline. Isbell's fly to Slagle end,
ed the third with a blank. TWineham
was struck out, much to his dissatis-
faction, and HollingswOrth cared for
Egan and Pappalau, one in the air
and one on the ground.
Mcbride was presented with a base
by the eX-Clevelander with the Holy
Cross college pedigree, and Griffin
again went to pieces, Nyce being the
beneficiary this TING. George and
Glasscock watched high ones caught
but Shugart's single drove in one run
before Slagle got under PARROTS high
one. HOllingsWorth made a beautiful
stop OF Slagle's grounder, and Nyce
threw Griffin out second time. Cam
pau famed the air, and the visitors had
not yet seen first.
Griffin threw Kline out, to every
ones surprise, but Egan was just
starting on a new line. Having used
up all his fumbles he made fine stop
but then threw badly to first. Hol-
lingsworth was safe. Isbell hit to the
seemingly omni-present Slagle and
went out, but McBride's two-bagger
and a single by Nyce over second base
we're good for two runs, making it ten
above zero. Holly threw Straus out,
but Glenalvin at last broke the pleas
ant monotony by a clean hit over
Shugart's head. McKibben followed
with nice one on the ground at
Shugarts right. Twineham, however,
flew out to center field, and Egan to
left, SO still the visitors had not
scored.
Glasscock hit for one base, and Shu-
CART for two. 1t was a long drive, but
1t was in Slagle's territory and Glass
cock hesitated about running on it at
first. else a run might have resulted
right there. AS it was, Parrot popped
an easy one to Campau, and then
when Kline hit to Pappalau, the latter
picked GlasscOck off between third and
home. Kline and Shugart tried the
double steal, and Shugart was nipped
at the plate. Pappalau opened Grand