The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

When Mr.. Shakespeare wrote his
lines about the tide in the affairs of
men which taken at the flood led on to
fortune, he ANTICIPATED with marvellous
accuracy a large element in the sue
cess of an exceedingly intricate game
invented since his time, that of base
ball.
And the st. Paul base ball club seems
to have caught it yesterday when it
was distinctly on the ebb.
Pitted against motley company of
despised, and hardly self-respecting
raised to the pinnacle of bliss by some
early hypodermic injections of bull
headed luck, the Minnea polls young
sters yesterday led the veterans Of
Comiskey's team a busy, but fruitless
nine innings chase, and all because the
Apostolic batsmen, the peer of any
team of hitters in the league, made
two base hits when they were as use
less as a vermiform appendix, and
struck out when good hits were as
necessary as sunlight to the world it
blesses.
OF eight hits made by the st. Paul
team, five were tWo-baSe drives Yet
this unhappy base ball bunch scored
but three runs in all, and had ten men
left on bases, eager to come in with
half a chance.
They lacked the essential aid of op-
portunity. The Millers. on the other
hand, made runs on sfngle-base hits,
profited by the errors of st. Paul wights
end at no time were they in any sense
pushed.
Mullane gave two bases on balls in
the first inning, but both these men
were thrown out at first. Letcher gave
Glasscock foul fly, and no one scored.
Geier hunted and was thrown out by
Norton. Burke hit for two bases, al
most to the right field fence, and scor-
ed on Glenalvin's good grounder over
short, after Rice had thrown out Mil
Ter Dixon threw out Glasscock.
Rice was thrown out by Shugart and
Parrot flew out to Miller, yet after
these two were out, the Millers won the
game, practically, in that inning Null
lane gave Ball a base, and then came
Carey, the new first baseman. Carey
stood sixth in the batting list of the
Atlantic league last year, when he
played with Reading, and Gus Schmelz
stole him from the town which has been
made known to fame chiefly by railroad
strikes. But George did not get here
until yesterday. He looked a little
heavier than in 1894, when he was fami-
liar to Mill City fans as the Brewers
first baseman, but he turned out to be
light enough on his feet to make a
hcme run with the ball inside the fence
and 1t was the first ball that Mullane
pitched him at that.
Nectar of olympus could not have
been sweeter to the dry threats Of the
disheartened Minneapolitans than this
one draught from the fountain of I'M
dying hope, that springs in every base
ball lovers breast as 1t Is reputed to
in the heaving bosom Of the oldest
Bpinster.
From congested bleacher and from
sparsely ballasted grand stand alike
came exultant shouts. Carey was king
of all that minute, and Mullane sot
only deriSion. Dixon, who caught, Rit-
ter having been spiked Friday hit to
Shugart, and the shortstop failed 20
get into the game with the unfailine
accuracy which is expected of the mon
arch of the critical sand lot. Norton
stuck the ball into the left field fence
for two bases, and Dixon scored. Cam
pau hit a short one to left field, but il
was fast. Burke let 1t go through him
after running up on it, and it hit the
fence hard enough to jar the knots
out. Campau got clear around before
the ball got back into play. Geier
however, caught Letcher's fly, and the
Millers had to be content with five
runs.
Two inf1eld grounders and a foul to
REILLY, put the Saints out of it in the
second, one, two, three. The Millers
were not more lucky in the third, and
indeed, the Saints got a dose of the
same medicine in the third
Ball flew out to Geier, and Carey's
single his second time up was killed by
Ghugart's double play off Dixons
grounder.
Miller fouled to Reilly, who was talk
Ing hard ones with apparent ease
Glenalvin got base, and Glasscock's
single advanced him, but he was caught
trying to steal third Glasscock did
get to second, but Shugart hit a
grounder TO Carey and retired the c;da
Norton hit a line fly that looked lilo
sure safe one, but Burke ate it up.
Glenalvin threw Campau out, and Gil
len took Letchers fly.
Gillen famed. but Spies hit to the
right field fence for two bases. Norton
hit Mullane and gave Geier base. Yet.
with three on bases and only one out,