The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-16
GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TODAY.
st. Paul at Minneapolis.
Buffalo at Grand Rapids.
Detroit at Indianapolis.


There may have been one or a dozen
hoodoos lowering about Lexington park
yesterday afternoon, but they cut little or
no figure in the outcome of the second
tilt with the AIillers. The Saints lost the
game through an excellent exhibition Of
ragged fielding and the stupidest kind OF
base running.
KatoT had been selected to pitch, but
he has been under a physicians care for
some time, and as a result of his exer-
tons in last Saturdays game against the
Cowboys he was not in condition yester-
day and Isbeu was substituted. Isbell has
pitched two good games Of ball at Lex
ington since he has been transferred To
the center Of the diamond. and yesterday
The outpitched Menefee so far as The num-
Der Of hits off him were concerned, but
he gave no less than five bases on balls,
while NIenefee gave none, and he made
Woeful exhibition of himself in fielding
his position. Had Isben pitched a steady
game it IS more than possible the score
would have been at least a tie AT the end
of the ninth inning, for three of the free
tickets TO the AIillers resulted i'll runs.
One of the most peculiar things in the
game was the lucky manner in which
Isbell escaped the consequences Of three
errors made by him in one inning. il was
In the seEenth inning, and AbbaticchiO
was the first man uD. Abby hunted 20
- IsbeI and the ex-frst baseman threw
wild to Vaughn. Fisher sacrificed and
reached the initial bag in the selfsame
manner and then came Menefee with
sacrifice to Vaughn. IsbeU covered first
and dropped the ball when 1t reached him
from Vaughn's hands. Then there was a
man on every bag through ISbells errors.
Davis was next up and he planted a line
drive squarely in Shugarts hands and n
double play resulted, fer Fisher was of
the bag ana could not set back. But for
Brennan Shugart would have had triple,
for he put the ball down to first like a
cannon shot before Menefee could get
back, but Brennan refused to allow it.
While Nance was at bat Menefee and
Abby tried 10 work double steal and the
latter was caught at the plate.
CASE OF RATTLES
Hart, who has been playing third base
for the Su2,ii or team. was at second for
the Saints, and, while he put up a fairly
good game both in the field and at bat
two Of the runs made by the Millers were
due to stupidity and a bad case of rattles
on his part. The only reason that he does
not figure il the error column is because
there are no rules covering the bad play
that ne made. In the seventh inning
Smith had been given base on wide ones
and Abby sent an easy one to Hart, who
threw it slow to second only to see it
dropped by ShUgart Fisher sacrificed in
Geter's direction, going out at first base.
Then came Menefee and the bad play by
Hart Menefee hit an easy one to Hart,
and lie had a world Of time to cut Smith
off at the plate, but instead he hesitated
moment and threw the ball to second,
and before Shugart could field it any
where Smith had crossed the. plate and
everyone else was safe. 1t turned out
that Perry Werden, who was on the
coaching line, was the direct cause Of the
play, IS lie had called out to Hart to
throw the ball TO second Had the play
been carried through a double would have
resulted and no runs would have been
scored, bat moment later Abby crossed
the plate on Davis hit.
The entire team mixed up errors with
brilliant plays in such a manner that,
while praise is due for the good work,
no amount Of censure could make up for
the badness. Shugart had thirteen
chances at short, and marred his play
with two errors, and Geier at third also
let three balls set away from him. And
there was plenty of bad judgment in
running bases. Several times runs would
have resulted but for this. Heine Spies
made two hits, and both were wasted
in trying to make them go too far.
ONE IN THIRTEEN
A detailed account of how the runs
were made would fill small book, for
there Were errors and rnisplays galore.
This is plainly shown from the fact that
of the thirteen runs scored but one was
the thirteen runs scored but one was
earned. The one bright and particular
feature Of the home teams play was
Lally's home run in the fourth inning.
He pounded the bail far out into the
field between left and center and logged
across the plate. Houtz and Vaughn
also showed up well with the stick for
the first time on the home grounds, but
their energy was put into play at the