The Saint Paul globe., 1898-06-10
TODAY is AN OFF DAY.

Commy's Hard-Hitting Phenoms Can
Rest Their Batting Eyes.
Today will be an off day for the St Paul
team, but in a different sense from that IN
which the term might have been usei yester-
day.
The schedule committee did not a-s:en sn7
club to play here today
The Detroit club will be here. tomorrow
coming ON a long jump from Kansas City
tonight f.-l4 -. ~ :..s.4- -. - .4..-4 =
Manager Comiskey and President Ban B.
johnson, Of the Western league, lie t last ven
ing fer Lake Sylvia. on the-Soo read.
few miles west of Annandale, for a days
fishing.
The members of the team are divided as to
whether they VIII visit Stanleys place at
Lake Vadnais, or George Harris rlaee at
Smelling.
1t is obvious that the Eastern conting mt
Western. On the recent trip of the West
ern clubs to the East. the Eastern clubs
won about to 1. OF the games SO far play
by the East in the West, the former have
won eleven games and the West Twelve
Early in the season the St Paul .eam
that it has added yellow feeding to is
rocky" batting, it hasn't the ghost of
show for the pennant.
There were sven innings in yeste d,v's
game where the batting of Geo: ge Nyce. Nc
Bride and Isbe!i would have made the Mil
son. There were men on the bases. some
times two of them but nobody could split
the wood" And Tay'or hasn't much more
speed than George Borchers.
Reidy. Rettger and Taylor a-e all 'chea,
skate" pitchers. and yet ST. Pau's hits eff
hits, would the locals get off real good
pitcher?
The Brewers had hardly any infeld p 'ay,ng
to do. St. Paul had plenty of it to do, but
didn't do it.
Philadelphia last year and had a tatting
average of .2s5. He is smashing the ball v ry
hard the past few days. and his fri ends be-
lieve he is about to strike his batting gait.
St. Paul isn't going to play today. It 1,
unlucky to play on Friday anyhow.
The st. Paul papers assert that Sheridan
was too severe on Comiskey's men, ANY
thing TX an even break will not be t,Ierated
in St Paul. The cranks in that City smand
90 per cent the better of it. and ii the UNI
pires do not ccme their way there is ah5--l
lnasmuch as the Saints won three out of the
four games played, there is only srowl
from ST. Paul over this series.-Irdianaroii
News.
Kahoe's s25 will doubtless be paid. es
kahoe is too valuable a man to 20 to the
bench. He will have to stand the loss of the
| money himself, as the Indianapolis club man
agement does not believe in paying rIayers,
ncs.-lndianapolis News.
The people who have been vigorously de-
riding the Milwaukees have had an oppor-
tunlty during the past month to tune up their
anv1ls and hammers, and the smart alecks
who. at the opening of the season, knew
Mack had the poorest team in the league are
beginning hat fxuhor
is bliss 'twere folly to be wise" while the
critics who volubly advised the Brewers
place Weaver and Nicol another first base
man and two pitchers in place of Reidy and
Rettger, have been as dumb oysters and
as stingy with their praise as they were
lavish in their prodigai condemnation
waukee Sentinel.
| Several Western league critics do not seem
| to know that the Brush rule was not adopt
| ed by the Western league In Rule 60, how
| ever describing the duties of umpires 1t Is
| specifically stated that under no circum-
| pute decision by the umpire in which only
an error Of Judgment is involved" This rule
! enforced until this year.
Present indications point to shake-up
| the Cleveland Plain Dealer says Heydler,
Cushman, Wood and Andrews are to be de-
| posed for incompetency.
| Van Derbeck gave Pitcher Underwood three
| days notice of his release last week, and
| then tried to resign him. but Underwood
| was too well pleased to get away from the
| Detroit magnate and joined the Saginaw team.
Now it is reported that "Peck' Sharpe has
| been signed by Detroit to play second base.
HOW THEY DON'T DO 1T.
| The Sanity aggregation amt worth a sim