The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-25

Two Thousand pair of eyes watered,
1000 throats ran hoarse, 1000 hearts
palpitated with intense excitement
through a ninth inning that seemed TO
last an age yesterday.
1t was at Lexington park.
The contestants were tie ST. Paul
and Columbus teams.
The victor was the home team.
Sc the parched tn: oats were nearly a ]
washed later
While the Saints We're not playing
against Spaniards, they had TO use
Spies to win.
The long geareG catcher was the real
thing yesterday afternoon.
Ia the Vernacular Of the Appian way
he was functus functoris, which being
duly translated by Judge Willis means
that he was the right thing in the right
place.
This was in the ninth inning. Every
one was in a fever, whether he was
pitching or catching. George Tebeaus
spinal colum was twisted by alternate
expansion and contraction until it
locked like the plan for new pipe line
through MORO castle to supply any
small CClumbians that might be fam
ishing.
In the seventh inning Tebeau was
swelling around like a full sea with a
strong tide on; in the eighth he was
listening to the woeful melody of the
sad sea waves; in the ninth he was
singing TIE Deums, and in the closing
rites he was not, for the Apostles had
uSurped all the anthems and were sing
Ing them TO the rhythmic measure Of:
Nine to eight, we won it late"
There may be closer finishes some
time, but if there are the fans who go
will do we'll to insulate their passions
from their heart and insure their phys
ical welfare against the sudden jolt
which must result to the entire nervous
system.
game. 1t had errors to build bonfires
with.
And Tebeau thought he had the
matches until the eighth.
1t vas a bitter disappointment.
Innings had come and gone in regu-
lar succession, neither side seeming to
know what a perfect game was, I'm.
til, when the Columbians. waits that
they are, had finished their half of the
eighth, the score was six to two in
their favor, as it had been since the
end of the sixth.
Wolters was in the box for the Wis
itors, and he seemed so good that the
orphans were prancing around as
though they lived in castles on the
sod house on the Scioto. The lead
ing hitters of the Saints, too, were not
carded to bat that inning. Preston
LED the last five up to the battle field.
The year that Preston batted over 300
he broke all the mirrors in DeS Moines
looking at himself. but the way he
landed on the first ball Wolters pitch
ed gave the homeless pitcher a chill
that is still more or less icy. 1t was
line drive straight out over second base.
Shugart was next on the list. Shugart
had not seen first base all day. AS a
matter of fact, he was rated little
below zero. for his error had made pos
sible the fourth inning where the Wis
itors scored three. Shugart looked at
the whirling sphere as it rotated from
the catapult mitt of the self-satisfied
Columbian. When Frank and Knoll
picked up several pieces of that
same ball in the Lexington avenue end
of the cycle track, Shugart had al
ready danced a Jig on the home plate
and sung a reverie on the bench, while
the fans in the bleachers had opened
a new lot of paeanS, and were passing
them out with the lavishness of the
fair goddess who originally designed
cornucopias. Gillen came to bat. Gill
len had been UP but three times and
had made two hits, beside walking
once. 1t was hardly to be thought
that Sammy would make another sim
gle. He did not. He made a double
Hulen muffed the throw-in, and Gill
len went to third. VOTERS face look
ed like a map Of Switzerland with all
the watchmakers' shops marked in
blue. Tebeau detected the azure cast.
He ordered Jones to be trump. Casting
his memory back to twenty four hours
before when ignominy was his only
throne, "Bumpus" cast upon his man
ager and captain and the cruel bleach
vi, ,1,ot
alchemy of time shown that his blood