The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-07
St. Paul lost a game to Minneapoli

st. Paul lost a game to Minneapolis
at Nicollet park yesterday.
In years gone by that would have
been sufficient provocation for the male
portion of Minneapolis to stay down
town all night and exult.
But yesterday it did not cause q
rifle.
Barely 200 denizens of the Mill City
cared enough about it to go out to
the park, and it was so easy they
could not eXult.
Those who don't go to the game don't
care enough to exult if Minneapolis
won all the games from now to the
end of the season.
Mcdonald, a vagabond youngSter,
who has been carded and then discard
ed until he can't tell what sign is on
his shirt front without carrying a hand
mirror was given a trial by the Mil
lers. In the two first innings the Apos
ties had more fun with him than kit
ten with a yellow yarn bali, but after
that he was master of the situation.
The Saints could not bat him any
harder than they did in the few in
nings he pitched at Lexington park for
Milwaukee a few days ago, and that
was not hitting enough to wear out
20 cent bat in 1900 years.
Cross was IN the box for the Comis-
keyan aggregation. He was in there
good deal of the time, too, for while
the Saints usually went out one, two,
three, the Millers had a bad habit Of
hanging around and waiting for their
grist or something, and during these
delays the ball several times got swat
ted.
The Millers had a very precise bat
ting eye yesterday. They might not
have been able to meet mustard seed
fired from a Krupp gun, but they
could decipher any prehistoric codes
that Cross had with the deft intuition
of blind girl sorting out nickels from
pennies.
Campau started off the game with a
long two base drive to deep center.
Letcher reached for the ball in vain.
for it cut two fingers off his glove and
burned the palm of the mitten till it
looked like an Esquimau boot heel.
The st. Paul fans who had gone at an
expense of 70 cents to witness the con-
test became SO hilarious that the ex-
cited sparrow cops at Lake Harriet
thought the Spanish had taken Wash
ington.
1t was lucky that Campau did this
just when he did. If he waited until
next time he might have been in the
position of the gentleman who did not
after he had been run over by train.
He found the insurance companies
rather coy, and the St. Paul players
found the Minneapolis outfit distinct
ly indefinite thereafter. But Geier hit
for a single and scored the count, and
Gienalvin sacrificed. Glasscock put a
likely grounder to Rice and went out,
but Geier scored before Shugart flew to
Davis.
Davis gave Spies a pop-foul, AMI
Shugart threw out Burke. Andrews
flew to Geier, and the ST. Paul rooters
were in the transcendent ecstacy that
is only simulated when one beats q
street car conductor out of a five-cant
fare.
Gillen put a clean single over Burke's
head to open the second, and when
Preston beat a bunt to first the ST.
Paul fans had to get elastic caps, while
the Minneapolis faithful seventeen call
ed the umpire all the names they knew
that could by any reasonable interpre-
tatiOn pass muster in such a polyglot
crowd. But Spies gave Burke a pop
UP and Cross forced Preston out, being
doubled himself on the play.
Minneapolis prodigal son had batted
a fly to center before the real heavy
hitters Of the team, headed by Carey,
who was next to bat, began an on
slaught on the house of Cross. Lethch-
er followed suit with a clean liner over
second, and Rice advanced Carey, al
though forcing Letcher out at second
Curly stole second, and two runs came
in when Newt Fisher, who caught for
Mobile before that town began to
bristle with bayonets, drove two runs
in with a two-base hit, tying the score
and endearing himself not a little to
the box office Of the tail-enders. Cross
gave Mcdonald a base, but 1t was in
CT Aav 70
The Apostles had a chance to get the
lead again in the third. Mcdonald
gave Campau a base, and Geier's
grounder to Andrews advanced the
count. Glenalvin gave Fisher a high
foul, but Campau was caught trying
to score on Glasscock's single to short
left
Burke hit safely over second, and An
drews was lucky enough to watch
high fly drop just back of Shugart and
just ahead of Geier Burke stole third
and scored on an easy single before
Carey's hunt fly to Glasscock cost the
Miilers two out. The Millers cited the
infield fly rule and alleged that only
one at a time could be called out there
under, but Umpire Mannassau had
evidently read the rule, and the decision
went. Letcher was thrown out by Shu-
CART, but the Nicollet parkers were one
ahead.
After Shugart's long drive to Davis,
Gillen beat bunt, but Preston hit a
light one to Carey and Spies struck
cut
Rice was thrown out by Shugart, but
Fisher nit good single to right. Cross
again walked Mcdonald, and Just then
Davis lined the ball to the right field
fence, about three inches inside the foul
line, for one Of the luckiest two-base
hits that ever was made on any ground.
Burke hit to center, and by this time
three runs were in, Andrews and an
other went out on flies.
Three of the four Saints who faced
Mcdonald sent flies to the outfield.
Geier getting a base on balls.
The MilleIs went one, two, three.
The Saints went one, two, three In the
sixth, failing to get the ball out of the
diamond, although there was a moment
that portended heart disease for a. num-
Der, when Shugart hit a liner to An
drews, who muffed It, The new boy,
however, picked the ball up in time to
throw the runner out at first.
Again the Millers went one. two.
three.
Preston, Spies and Cross went out on
outfield flies in equally accelerated sue
cession. Singles by Burke and Andrews
and a two-bagger by Letcher, gave the
home team another run in the seventh.
their last, as it turned out.
The Saints had two innings remain.
Ing and needed five to tie.
Andrews slow throw on Campau's
gccunder inspired little hope, but
Geier forced him out and, was in turn
held at second on Glenalvin's fine line
drive to left field, the Saints first safe
hit since the fourth inning. Glasscock
flew out to right field, and still the run