The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-05
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
CANES SCHEDULED FOR TODAY.
Minneapolis at st. Paul. a. m.
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St Paul at Minneapolis p. m.
Milwaukee at Kansas City, a. NJ and p. m.
Columbus at Indianapolis, a. M. and p. m.
Detroit at Grand Rapids, a. and p.
Nearly 1000 people went to Lexington
park yesterday to see the st. Paul and
Minneapolis clubs play base ball. They
were disappointed. The clubs played
horse, mostly. 1t is true there existed
at the time of the game an unusually
clear sky, known in the parlance of the
profession as q high sky" and this
made work on elevated hits very uncer-
tain, especially for the outfielders, who
had no protection from the background
of the. grand stand. The result was
that there We're a number of apparent
misplays on the part of the various
outfielders for which they were hardly
culpable.
Even setting these aside, however,
the exhibition of the game Of base pall
put up was hardly what it should have
been, considering the almost Ideal at
mospheric conditions aside from this
cleaness.
Errors were almost as numerous as
runs. Infielders made them on ground
balls as we'll as outffelders on high
ones. St. Paul got long lead at the
start, and then played with seeming
recklessness; Minneapolis got woefully
behind at the start and then played
raggedly anyway.
There was, however, an element or
satisfaction in it to the greater portion
of the assembled company, and that
was that St. Paul won. Fricken mad
the Dusties spellbound, not one of them
hitting him safely until the fifth IN
ming, by which time the local team
had accumulated Is runs. In the last
three innings he did not keep up this
phenomenal work, and the Millers &C
curnulated job lot of scores which did
them little good and other people lit
tie harm.
Tommy Smith was in the box for the
Millers. The home team liked Tommy.
The nine batted around in the hrst IN
ming. a majority of them hitting MIN
safely. That gave them something OF
q. start but it did not compare with
the havoc that was shortly raised py
the fielding shortcomings OF Iom1ny
pals in gray uniforms.
Aside from the excellent work when
Fricken did in the first few innings, the
redeeming feature Of the game was the
phenomenal work of HollingsWorth at
second base for the locals. The young
s+ar was at his best He went after
everything between first ana secohu
base, spelling apparently safe slneles'
reducing seeming doubles to close de-
cisons at first and in general accepting
every chance offered without an error.
In the opening, after Mcbride had
hit a grounder to Ball ana retlfen.
smith presented Glasscock with -FOUR
George
Nvca pounded the ball hard and we'll
hack Preston, who had taken Par
rott's place in left field, poked the pail
over beyond the short stop, and Shu-
CART hit a fly back of Roat easier than
a number that the eX-Hoosier had ao-
sorbed in the previous games. put inns
time he failed, showing that ne was
now travelling not on his luck but on
his merits.
SDies finished the march of the safe
hitters, four runs having been scored.
Holly flew out to Letcher, and Roat
took In Frickens grounder.
The only MinneapOlitan to soJoufn
at first base was Miller, who was hit
by a pitched ball over the heart be
fore ne knew he was at the bat. He
was flOOred completely, but by pour
Ing water on his face and hands the
players managed to revive 'Doggie" SO
that he was able to get as far as third
base before the side was retired.
Smith hit Mcbride on the upper part
Of his right arm. GlasscOck hit safely
and they worked the double steal sue
cessfulIy, Georges fly to left scored
Mcbride and let GlasscOck go to third.
for WilmOt the proud and naughty
captain and pseudo manager of the
Minneapolis aggregation, lost his head
as completely as though Georges will
low was a fr- oily honed guillotine Wal
ter saw COmiskey sitting on the bench
in a pink shirt and Immediately con-
cluded that as the st Paul players
wore white suits Comiskey must be one
of his men. He threw to Commy as
straight as the traditional die, but IN
this case the die was a deuce as far
as winning anything for the Millers
was concerned. McBride's was the
only run that inning.
Preston muffed fly to open the sec
ond, and the Millers had a few brief
but ecstatic moments of anticipation
which never became realization.
Shugart and Spies tested Letcher
Ind Ball and found their muffing
mits in excellent trim. Holly sacri-
iced prettily, and Fricken forced in
Dne Of the runners. Mcbride waited
Tor four and a second run was scored
Dn Glass0Ock's fly to Letcher.
Smith famed the air, but Spies
dropped the ball. Tommy ran to first.
Spies threw. He threw badly. Glass