The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-28
M,GILL VS.. CRONIN.
They VIII Be the Opposing Pitchers
in TOday's Game.

They VIII Be the Opposing Pitchers
In TOday's Game.
The st. Paul and Dtroit clubs will play
the third and last game of the present Sc
ries at Lexington park this afternoon,
play beginning at $3.50. McGill will be in
the box for the locals, and Sunday Is
Willies lucky day. He has pitched mag
nificent ball in both his Sunday games,
whether it be attributed to the inspiration
of the attendance or merely to accident.
Detroit will pitch Cronin, who has only
lost one game this year.
The Indianapolis team comes tomorrow,
and will close the present stay at home
of the Apostles with two games Tuesday,
Memorial day, rain of course being
barred.
Detroit has won nine games and lost
eight on the trip. That is pretty good
travelling.
Hofmeister's opening appearance was
creditable.
Sixteen hits off Denzer ought to win al
most any game.
There has been disposition on the part
of the Minneapolis papers to criticise the
G O b e for it's comments on the dis
graceful conduct of the Minneapolis cap
tain, Wilmot, on the occasion of his re-
cent visit to this city-a criticism which
is as venomouS as it Is biased Wilmots
record is an open book, and If the Min
neapolis admirers of the chief rowdy of
the Western league desire to know what
their idols record is 1t might be well to
give them one or two facts that tend to
show his character. Wilmot came into
this league in the spring of 1896. What
was his initial adventure? April %, 1896,
he appeared with his team on the field at
Kansas City, where 5000 fans had as
sembled to see the opening game. VIII
mot insisted on playing Connors at sec
ond base, man whom he knew he had
no right to play, under the rues of the
league until Connors' base ball location
was passed upon by the Western league.
Yet Wilmot compelled Manager Manning,
of Kansas City, to do one of two things.
Submit for a day to this imposition of
discarded player from the big league, or
win the game by forfeit and send his
local patrons home disappointed at not
seeing q gentlemanly contest. Manning
played and won, and Wilmot never stuck
Connors in another game until his fate
was decided, because a second ofHnse
might have put him out of the league in
short order. Perhaps Wallie thinks,
when he is trying to get Ban Johnson
City admirers of the game? Not Wallie.
He knows and his friends know, or ought
to know that his presence in the national
game for years has tended to lower its
level as a manly sport. 1t has encour-
aged rowdyism. His adventure Of two
weeks ago in this city was one of the
most despicable incidents in the history
of professional base ball. His obscenity
has befouled every diamond IN the West
ern league. Yet the Minneapolis sport
ing writer's CD would try to impress ore
with the belief that it Is leso majestic to
expose the misdeeds of this rowdy.
If the ST. Paul team had about three
D1cIe Lally and about six lallas It might
play quite a game.
The fourth inning of the Detroits was q
most remarkable one. Five good hits
were made and yet only one run resulted.
OF the twenty-six hits made yesterday
not one was for more than a single bag.