The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-10


For an event that was forecast as a
BAH game, the entertainment afforded
600 spectators at Lexington park yes
terday was as unlike the usual form of
that diversion as could be.
II was really more like a battalion
drill of all the ball players who ever
drew pay in Minneapolis. or had distant
relatives living in the Twin Sister.
Fourteen separate and distinct hu-
man organisms, clad in Minneapolis
uniforms, faced Hon Fricken. 1t would
be unfair TO call them all ball players.
Count Campau, who used to be the
butt of the bleachers for his foreign
lineage until his birthright became
distinction from the hated Spaniard.
was one exception to the list of colts.
Letcher, who broke into the Western
league from Des Moines last year is
also entitled to rank with the old
crowd, while Charley Reilly, who play
ed third base for st. Paul when John
Barnes was manager, decade or more
ago. was still playing the familiar sack
near the left bleacher. Tacks PARROT
who took postgraduate course In
Com1Skey university in 1897; Dixon, a
.middleweight relic of old Northwestern
league days, and Philippe were the
only other members of the team who
behaved as though they had ever
seen a base ball field before, and they
showed about as much appreciation of
its fine points as Queen Liliuokalani did
for Billy Earle's hypnotic specialties
and AL. Spaldings tourist guide.
The other members of the Minneapo-
lis organization who were paraded be-
fore the GazZled eyes of a small coter.e
of high rank fans ranged from Ritter
Mauch Chunk pickup, and Hickey
who came, it is said, from Luzerne
county, to Corbett, once st. Thomas
aol1 ;,.lo
ing promiser, and Norton a slender,
clipper built craft who looked as though
he would last about five innings, but
did hang on seven. In the eighth he
dragged anchor and sent off a mine
which left nothing in sight but splint-
ers. AT neither one end nor the other
of this carefully selected bouquet of
youth and beauty was a young man
named Rice, who is playing short in
the absence of the regular short STOP
Rice bats we'll, beside the rest of them
and fields his position nicely, and he
acts like a woodsman who might stick
his heel-calks into the caravan of the
goddess Of fortune and compel her to
give up ultimately. He has marked
virtues when compared with the indi-
vidual he is understanding, Artie Ball
who was dug out from under the bench
yesterday to go to second when Second
Baseman Smith broke his arm, or his
heart, or something, tanning viciously
at three of Fricken's curves.
The Millers were beaten before they
went into the game; they were only
sure of the figures at the close. With
a manager never closer than the box
office, and captain far away in right
field, the youngsters cavorted around
the diamond in a pathetic someone
please come and-tell-me Wherein
papa-lives style that made 1t seem al
most shame for the st. Paul profess
SIGNALS to go into the ring with them
at ALL
When Fricken retired three of the old
guard, the stars of the team, without
even a telescope vision of first base,
M the first inning, the colts SHE'D and
it was with difficulty that they could
be kept in the enclosure at all. But
the gates were all watched, and after
Reilly had caught Geier's foul, ~d
Burke did not make a home run off
the four bad ones that Norton pitched
him, the bangtails got down to a little
harness work and Burke stole second,
but Rice threw Miller out and St Paul
would have been BANKED had Corbett
held Reilly's good throw on Glenalvin.
AS it was Burke scored. Glasscock got
a base from Norton, but Shugart flew
out to Campau.
Fricken gave Dixon a base, and Par
rot advanced him with grounder to
Glenalvin. Smith. however, famed.
and after base was presented to Cor
= bett, Spies took Rices foul
Gillen's drive to right field was luck
Ter than Spies which Campau caught.
Norton walked Fricken, and Geier gave
Campau another out. Rice's bad throw
gave Burke two bases, when he should
have been out, scoring Gillen. Miller
foul to Dixon ended the second of a
pair of innings in neither of which
should st. Paul have scored.
- Norton went out on a foul, but Cam