The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-15
EIlkS EASILY 0UTClASSED
JUNIOR PIONEERS GAVE THEM a
BASE BALL DRUBBENG TO
BE REMEMBERED
o'Regan's Pitching Was the Feature
OF the Game, Although Arnstad
and NJ. DefeI Did Some Good
Tvyirling.

The Junior Pioneers and the Elks had a
base ball game at Lexington park yester-
day afternoon. The Junior Pioneers had
most OF it, as the score, q to &c. weakly
indicates, but it was nevertheless a spirit
ed contest and provoked more interest
excitement and amusement than any
game Of base ball, real or pseudo, at
tempted at Lexington park in a long
time.
From the start 1t seemed as 1t proved,
a victory for the j. P.'s Mike Defiel
went in to pitch for the Elks and he
had speed to burn. 1t came very nearly
burning hands, clothes and hair off Arm
stad, who tried to catch him, and after
the Pioneers had scored five runs in the
first inning, the Elks' battery turned
around and Arnstad pitched to De6el.
The cyclist is a pretty good pitcher, too,
and if he had generally been supported
in the field by such q game as Snyder
played at second, and Lennon at short,
the results might have been far different.
Tom O'Regan pitched for the Pioneers
and DR.. Whitccmb gently famed the air.
Snyder and Lennon finished the first
inning with beautiful infield grounders
which were felded to Big Bill Reilly at
first with neatness and dispatch and the
inning closed five-love in favor OF the
Pioneers.
before he found the plate in the second,
and two runs resulted, helped out by
inficld errors. With the exception that
there were new men coming to bat the
third inning was much like the second,
the J. P.'s getting two in each, making
nine In all. The Elks did not get to first
base until the third inning. when one
Of O'RegGn'S spirals cut a hole in Dr..
Bryants arm and he watched the Whit
DR.. Van S1yka was presented with base
on balls to open the fourth, but lost it
when Lennon folded Zsehau's hot ground
CT beautifully Frank Robert struck out,
but Allen put a hot one at Lennon which
he could not get 20 first iii time. One
run scored, and O'Regan hit a hot one to
Whitcomb. who got thu ball and held it
plucktly although the tall pitcher ran
into him end knocked aim down.
The Ell<s' half made the game look as
though the men in red has! been playing
for handicap Snyder got base on
balls and two errors by Bigelow at short
put three on the sacks and the public
prosecutor on probation. Mike Detel
drove a hot one at jerry Strapp. who
made a fine stop, but Reilly let the bah
get away. Tubbesing made & bad throw
on Arnstad's hot drive 70 the northwest
corner of the diamond, and rot until
DR.. Kelly famed tie air ard VIII
Guthunz followed suit did tie haggard
face of O'Regan again assume the smile
that once had rested there. Even then
his troubles were net dCne. for StraDp
made a bad throw on Bryant's grounder,
and even If Dr.. Whttcomb's third strike
cut did save the existence Of the Junior
Pioneers as an organized body, the t2llls
had six runs in.
Then Lennon throw out Tubpesing, and
Arnstad struck out Bigelow, and Tony
Snyder, too, lobbed Jerry Strqpp out at
first. It was the first Hank the ]. P.'s
had drawn, and the Elks were encCur-
aged. Snyder and Lennon, the in6eld
Dromios, famed, but Lam Defiel hit
hot one at Strapp and his brother Mike
gained first base IN a canter. Arnstad
wanted to save his own game or Mike $,
or which ever it was, and he just smash
ed the ball away down to the left field
fence If it did not hit the fence 1t was
far enough, for the bases Were all clear
when it came back, and the ElkS were
only one behind. Kelly famed again.
the medics not seeming to be able to
diagnose the O'Regan pitching with any
accuracy. To make a long story short.
that was as close as the IIlks got at any
stage. II it had not been for that five in
the first-but no matter.
There was a lot Of miscellaneous play
INDUCED in on both sides until nearly
dark when expert arithmeticians figured
out that eight innings had been played
Some of the players were ready to go
home and call 1t nine. but there were
number who insisted that nine innings
be played. even IL candles had to be
strung along the base lines. The J. P.
stretched their score to o. and then gave
the Ell<s one last chance al the leather
They needed eight runs to tie and nine
to win. Bigelow threw out Guthunz, Just
saving his fielding record for the day
Strapp made a fine catch under Brya ut S
fly, and it looked like soft money for the
Juniors but the Elks had Harry Hardicl1
in Whitcomb's place and he was Just
primed for a hot drive It YVES 81 liner
that nearly put Biselow into a cline
where prosecutions are either unneces-
sary or not filabie. Tony Snyder fol-
lowed it with a stiff drive over third base
Lennon allowed as how if Snyder could
hit it for a base, he could hit it for two,
and he did. O'Regan went in the air
Billy Reilly was taken sick and Billy
Johnson, alias the county auditor, was
drafted as taleSm2D from, tha crowd