The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-24
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Comiskey's Saints gave Tom LOTUS


wanderers sought to rest their home
less heads for two short hours
4 The Columbians had "Bumpus" Jones
in the box, and the cratic Charles was
In one of his most erratic moods
In contradiStinctiOn, Willie Phyle Of
the ComiSkeyan fleet, was as precise
as patent range finder, and the bats
men supporting him pounded out a
glorious victory, not to mention the
errorless game that was played by ST.
Paul in the field.
g A decline of popular interest in the
team was shown by the fact that bare
~ LOO people attended the game, In
spite of the fact that it was SATURDAY.
and these were largely in the bleachers.
Most conspicuous as the character
istic of the game was the way in which
the bats of the local team seemed to
meet the ball in the nose. Spies was
the only member of the team who did
not drive it out safe and some of the
drives were of the low rakish liner sort
that threatened to saw the hand of any
fielder daring enough to attempt in
PREVENTION, had such there been.
After the locals had batted out thir-
teen runs off Jones, and "Bumpus" was
getting wilder every minute, Tebeau
ordered him out of the game. Bumpus
threw the ball at his captain with a
mutinous volley, and the display OF
temper gave the bleachers a chance to
guy the twirler that was not over
looked
The Apostolic ag. r cation had chang
ed cor siderably since its last appear
ance at home. Count Campau was in
left garden. and Doggie Miller was
back in right, in spite of the report
that ne had been released. Eddie Burke
with two clutches and a slippered foot
sat on the bench, and Glenalvin was
laid up with a sore arm. Geier was at
second base and Preston was again in
center field
Columbus went to bat first, but a
pair of pop-ups to Gillen and a long
drive by Genins to Campau ended a
short inning.
HUlen let Campau's grounder go
through him like a shell from the
Brooklyn through a Spanish fleet.
Geier, formerly the despised Of all
small batters, but now hoisted next to
the top of the list, applied the end Cf
his bat to the front of the ball, and
when Dan Lally got close look at the
leather again it was resting in the sand
of the cycle path away beyond the
north foul flag. Butch as the play
ers call the former Phillie, came all
the way around. Wolverton made a
sensational catch of Miller's low liner,
and then threw out Glasscock, so that
when Preston flew out to Knoll no
further runs were scored. Frank flew
to Campau and Lally to Preston. Geier
threw Tebeau out, and Columbus WIS
again banked
Jones gave Shugart the sack Gillen
had some narrow escapes on bunt fouls,
but at last poked stiff grounder out
just off second base. Spies popped up
foul to Buckley on bunt, but Phyle
drove out a safe one and scored two
runs. There was a close decision at
second when Willie tried to get there
on the play, but Umpire Mannassau
declared him safe, and he had a chance
to brush several ounces of thick black
dirt out of his white suit. Campau's
grounders seemed to be fitted with
error fuses, and the Columbus infieId
could not resist them at all. Genins felt
his fingers sting as one of them went
through his hands like a creased pig
through a policemen's picnic. Phyle
scored. The multitude cheered as Geier
came to bat again, and the ratified
Jones prevented a repetition of the
home run performance by presenting
the sub-infelder with a base. Miller
drove a lucky one past second base
safe, and Campau scored Glasscock
flew to Wolverton, but Preston hit a
clean one to right field, and Geier came
in again. Preston tried to go to Sec
ond on throw to the plate but was
nabbed. Any way the locals had a
lead of seven runs.
Knoll opened the third with a hit,
and Phyle gave Buckley a base, but
pulled himself out of the hole in fine
style, striking out Jones and Genins,
while Hulen only forced out Buckley.
Knoll was left at third.
Jones was equally lucky. He gave
three bases in one inning, but Shugart
was caught trying a steal, Spies forced
Gillen, and Phyle was left when Cam
pau gave Tebeau a pop foul.
Franks base on balls ahead Of Lal-
ly's home-run drive, which went away
to the bicycle track on the Lexington
avenue side, gave the visitors their
single pair of runs in the fourth. The
other three men failed to get the ball
back of the base lines
Geier began reprisals for this sortie
by trying to cut Jones' left ear off
to Wolverton, but a fine stop caught
the runner at first. Glasscock hit to-
ward short. Hulen claimed that Geier.
who was running to third, interfered
with him, but Mannassau did not al
low the claim. While Hulen was
standing around like cigar store In
dian in full war cry, Glasscock was
quietly ambling to second base. Pres
ton gave Hulen pop-up, but two runs
came in when Shugart sent a warm
liner through the pitchers coming
tower. Huien caught Gillen. and the
score was 90
Buckley got base on balls to open
the fifth, but the next three were un
equal to the occasion, and no run re-
suited.