The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-07


inappropriate that the Omaha base ball
team should play in a ball game the
score of which was 16 to 1, nor was it
inappropriate, along the same line, that
the Nebraskans should get the little
end of the thing.
Under the matchess delivery Of Hon
Fricken the Nebraskans stood SPELL
bound. The boy pitcher of Pilot Knob
had no cross of gold nor crown of
thornS with which to enrapture those
- around him, but he made his influence
felt without stage settings of dramatic
artifice in a way that depressed the
spirits of the new boys from the wild
Southwest to the utmost limit.
In five Of their nine innings the Ne
braskans failed TO pass first base, and
in four of these they failed to reach it.
-Four hits were all they could get off
Fricken throughout, but luckily for
them, they punched two of these, a
triple and a single, in the ninth inning
and saved a shut-out
st. Paul, on the other hand, took
things easy with the young man named
Hagerman who was pitching for the
Westerners, A total OF twenty-five hits
should have won the game, even had
the visitors not accumulated nine field
ing errors.
That bad beginning makes a good
ending, sometimes at least, was illus
trated, for Fricken's opening overture
was the worst number on his pro-
gramme. He gave Eustace a base, and
then Griffin hit a safe one. Roat famed,
and after Lyons grounder to Shugart
had advanced the two runners Hon
gave Burnett four wide ones and filed
the sacks. But he braced up then,
struck McCauley out and was saved
McCauley was much eXasperated at the
strikes called on him, and his fielding
record for the day shows traces of his
evident sulkiness. Hagerman struck
out Preston, but evened things UP by
hitting Burke. Miller drove a savage
= ball into right field, and Burke went
TO third. Doggie pilfered one side of
the lozenge, Griffin muffed Glenalvin's
fly and Burke scored. Glasscock's Wig
orous rap, rendering the ball too hot
for Eustace to throw out, scored two
more, but Roat had a hand in the next
two plays, and the side retired
Then for three innings the visitors
did not get to first base or send the
ball out of the infield. Meantime, a
base on balls stolen base, an infield
grounder and Burke's single scored the
Saints one in the second. Shugarts
home run, following two singles, made
three more, and stirred the fair adj
mlrerS OF the game to heights of en-
thusiasm. Then two went out, and af-
ter single and two bases on balls had
TILED the sacks again, the side was re-
tired without further runs on Miiler's
light tap to Eustace.
TWO We're out in the fourth before
Shugart, with a two-bagger, started
a series of four straight hits. involving
the whole down stairs end of the bat
ing order and scoring two runs before
preston short-circuited the batting
streak with haphazard grounder to
Hollingsworth.
Coming in fresh from his proud throw
10 hrst base, Holly walked to first on
-FOUR wide ones. No girlish treble from
. nd h.
ure to hit the ball, but after Fishers
fly to Miller, Hagerman came danger
ously close to scoring the Omahogs one
with menacing two-bagger to deep
center. Holly, however, did not pass
third, and after Eustace walked obn
four; filling the bases. Griffin gave
Fricken an easy one and Holly was
thrown out at the plate Fricken held
the ball little while to see how fast
Hollingsworth could run or q double
play might have been completed Roat's
grounder to Glasscock ended the inn
ing.
Roats tumble on Burke, with Miller's
single to left, would have helped the
locals lot, but for Burke being thrown
p out trying to get to third on the hit.
Miller stole second base and went to
third on the overthrow. Glena1vin's hit
scored Doggie and then he stole second
and went to third on the throw even
dIlSi lilC pISCeQsHl dDllSQeU Dy his
predecessor. After the ball hit Glass
cock, they stole one more each in
collision. Hagerman gave Shugart
and Gillen bases. With three on the
pillows, Spies hit to Rcat and went out,
but the score was 10 to 0 anyway.
Lyons fly to Burke, Burnett's thrice
exhibited tanning of the atmosphere,
and McCauley's weak hit to Fricken.
were Cmaha's sixth Fricken's three
Dagger was transmitted into a run by
Preston's infield hit to Roat. Burke
and Miller each hit safely, but We're
caught mapping on the bases and sent
back to their field places. Hollings-
worth was thrown out by Fricken. Mil
Ter muffed Fishers fly, a "sun ball"
Hagerman hit to Glenalvin and a sharp
double did the business.
Glenalvin's hit, Glasscock's base on
balls, Shugarts sacrifice and Gillen's
base on balls filled the corners ahead of
Spies single. Frickens single and
Lyons error let two more in before the
side was retired
With two out, Gillen's tumble gave
Roat a life in the eighth, but Lyons
hit to Shugart and it awaited nothing
Successive singles by G1enalvin, Glass
cock and Shugart only scored one for
the locals, thanks to Eustace's lucky
stop of Gillen's grounder, where he
could step to the base and throw for
a double play.
Burnett, smarting under the indignity
that he suffered on his last appearance
at bat hammered a three-base drive
into the inner ring of the cycle track,
and waited at third for McCauley's OPP