The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-27
STANDING OF THE CLUES.
GAMES .SrHFnI-LFn EOR rOnAY


Al S. Paul-St. Paul VS. Detroit
~ mime polis-MinncapOis VS.. Columbus.
~ 81. Joseph-St Joseph VS.. Milwaukee.
Al Kansas City-kansas City VS.. Indanapo is
1t is as unluc1v according to the
Samps4nian philosophy to be in a fight
and not Of it, as was the case of the
Massachusetts and New York, as it is
To lee of fight and not in it, as was the
case with Jim Co~bett when he met
Fit2siEmons.
But the cruiser Detroit. of Rear Ad-
nIral Van Derbtcks fl set. Capt. George
Sta!lnSs commanding, can double dis
count either of these varieties of mis-
fCrtune.
The unfortunates attempted a block
&ce at Lexington park yesterday after
noon, but when the fight came the De-
tIolt was neither in il nor of H.
The foreigners armament. TOO.
Was TAR superior. They bore
down on the Denzer with
four FOUNDER, three threc-pounder and
several rapid fire single barrels, while
the St. Paul fleet had only light-weight
weapons.
sum- they were in their own dog
house, to change She metaphor from
sea dogs TO land dogs.
Van Derbeck's bouquet Of strange
faces was something OF revelation to
Roger Denzer. Even in the pristine
glCries of his calloW rurality, he was
ran ely batted as hard as yesterday. A
map Of the long hits would look like a
model for an autograph fan. They went
everywhere from first base to third
bass, and farther.
Hut the Tigers could not win. They
dId net get these hits at the right times.
The st. Paul SCORES came pretty easy.
1t must not be understood that the at
tenu3ted Thomas who pitched for De-
L oft was anything in the order of an
AlaGdir's lamp for the locals, but a
number of fielding errors on the part OF
the visitors served as beacons for the
sue cesstul harbOring of runs enough to
Y in for St. Paul
Roth pitchers Were in fine form. ONLY
one base on balls vas given, and Den
Zer presented that TO Sharrott, when
tic centerfeider cpared The first inning.
DUNCAN Kit long one to right field
ana Sharrott went 10 third, scoring
when Miller caught billiards. fly Miller
InuIfed the next one, but it looked so
easy that DUNCAN had not dared to run
and he was caught at second base.
Then Hines struck out, and that is a
fair sample Of the luck in which the
visitors played.
With the langu0rOus yet entrancine
Wiles Of an Oriental houri, Thomas
Actl4AiEQ NUuItt AdIlDQu. Out ElDETIAld
DetrOits new third baseman, who was
Playing short yesterday, threw badly
on Geier's groUnder. and the recent
acquisition from the Quaker City found
a vantage point at first from which to
steal Second. Miller hit another to e..
berfeld, and the young man tried to cut
Geier off at third, but the ball went
through billiard to the St Paul play
ers' bench and bounded over it. Whila
The AIFhi0N hON-s
the end. Geier gained thirty yards
More, and Miller reached second in
safety. Miller subsequently stole third.
ana grourder to Hines scored
him. Shugart repeated this effort of
GlasscOck's.
A pop-up to Glasscock. a long drive
to Campau, and Stallings' hot foul tin
retired the Tigers in order.
Gillen opened st. Paul's half with a
hot liner, that started for Thomas like
fake watch CRATER after a verdant
granger. But when it got that far
Thomas had moved. He did not want
any Of those. He could almost see the.
smoke coming off the ball, which Was
being rapidly moderated by the frjc-
ton of the circumambient atmosphere.
And Thomas Couid have reached the
ball easy, too. Still, he might have had
10 sign his W9r-t4X stamps with his left
hand forever after. He was so elatet.
at getting out of the way of the cannon
bali that he misplaced the home plate,
and on the wild pitch Gilen went to
third, scoring on Prestons grounder to
Hines. Spies and Denzer poked the
ball lightly around the infield, and no
further scores resulted
Thomas pat a nice, safe hit to short
to open the third with proper ceremo-
NAL, and went to second on a wild
pitch. ShaIrott gave Campau a hard
ball to catch, and DUNCAN passed an
easy one to ShUgart, but billiard, who,
according to the veracious chronicler
Of the Sunny South broke up the
Southern league by batting all the
hills iltn he Cl1lf Of NInvicn Triad lAn,,li