The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-10

Milwaukee at st. Paul
Kansas City at Minneapolis
indianapolis at Buffalo
Oetrolt at Columbus.
81 Paul took first place in the Western
league race by taking a game from MIL
Waukee that, while it was not as long
and exciting as that of Monday. was still
tied as late as the seventh inning. and
was characterized by gingery play on the
part Of both teams.
Chauncey Fisher was in the box for the
Apostles, while the Brewers placed in
their most conspicuous point of attack an
individual named Swain, who looked any,
thing but disciple of Gambrinus. In
oeed he was so thin, he looked "a
though a glass of beer would get stuck
IN MS anatomy. When he and "Elid"
Speer rose from the bench at the onening
OF the game it looked as though the "a
| uonal game had given way to amateur
! theatr1cals, with Jack the Giant LCiIIar,'
as the opening bill. Yet when he got int
the oox and brushed the dust off the
sacks with his long arms 1t was observed
that ne had evidently pitched before. nor
was IL apparent that he had gone to the
Well once too often, either, for, as a mat
Ter OF history, 1t Is not to the well that
they send pitchers In Milwaukee, Swain
pitched good game, but his support vvaa
uDIucky. He was not hit more freouent-
| ~ nor was his fielding support mora
ragged than that accorded to Fisher b,,t
one OF the errors behind him let in two
runs, and another one more.
LIE nome team presented new batting
oioer' Lally being pushed up ahead of Is
DELL while Schwartz, who played short
In Shugart's absence, was stuck in ahead
of the pitcher.
SCHWARTZ seemed to lack confidence a
httle' but threw Waldron out as cleanIv
as any one else could as the game opened
| ana Lally took In NicoFs high drive
| weaver hit good clip to right of center
| winch neither Burke nor Preston couId
quite get to, but 1t was immateriaI. a,
Gray gave the center fielder high ona
and retired the side.
GEIER HIT FOR THREE .5.s
| Then was where the locals startad ont
after the 1899 pennant, although Rur,fe,s
str1ke-out did not seem to bring the team
| much closer to the coveted rag. CzaiA-.
| however, waited until he got a ball that
| ne liked, and then, with the peryersitV Of
human nature. batted it just as far away
1ionl MIN as he could, and that was a
seoo ways back of any place that Buck
weaver ever stands in a real base ball
game. BY the time the ball came where
y eouio Do OF any use to any one in the
western league Geier had reached third
base, and he scored easily when GleaaI-,;-
YIN sent a fly to Nicol. Lally gave p
weaver hard catch, but Buckingham
made this one
STAFFORD nit sky-scraper that was a
puzzler In the high wind, but Schwartz
maze pretty catch after running clear
back around second base for IT C,haup
cey gave Hallman base, but Lally made
a line running catch under Shoch's long
drive down the left foul line. and GeIer
threw Speer out
lsbell and Preston were thrown out on
the infield, and Nicol took Spies fiv but
the locals still had a lead
GienalVln threw Swain out but the
next Two gave fouls to Geier and Spies
Ihen the home crowd climbed q little
tarther up the flag staff. Schwartz droye
nigh one to Waldron, but Fisher got in
clean hit over first base Rurlxa nut
one a little longer and harder into the
same quarter, and Geier put a savage
grounder over short this time, scoring
Flsher. The other two then worked the
oouole steal, and Speer made a kick be-
cause he said Glenalvin stepped in front
OF him as he was about to throw the hall
But the kick had no more effect on sinh
sequent history than an ode sung bv
Rameses II. to the blizzard of Nov. 81
last, because 1T could not be heard by
any one who cared anything about n
Schoch made nice catch under GIen's
high fly, which appeased Speer some
what, but the real draperies were nut
about the Milwaukee mausoIem when
Weaver, the mighty Weaver, reached for
1'ally's long fly, soiled its pretty wings
lnI
dropped the gentle creature to the dirt
Burke, and Geier, too, had crossed the
plate ere yet the suffused hue of blue
had been differentiated from the cir
cumambient atmosphere in the vicinity of
the sorely vexed left fielder. I,alIy. in
deed, had gone to second Weaver did
better with the next one and Isbell did
not have to run far but the score was
4 to 1.
WEAVER WREAKED REVENGE.
Was Weaver wroth when he faced the
Fisher? Who so unjust as to suspect the
noble Buckingham of vengeful thoughts7
Not he. But you ought to have seen him
whale 1t into that ball for three-base
drive over the head Of Lally, well toward
center. 1t was one of these low rakish,
Admiral Dewey shots, rather than tho
Cervera variety, that drop over on the
other side of the boat This one struck
the ground again at such a low angle
that it did not get stopped at all, but
rolled along over the dry field almost as
fast as Lally could run, and Dan did not
go to a gymnasium in Erie, Pa, all one
winter for nothing, either. When Gray
put a grounder over third forthwith, the
visitors had one run, which could not be
taken away from them. And when STAFF
ford put fly In short center just where
Burke couldn't get to 1t, and there was
no one out, and Fisher was in the box,
1t began to look though perhaps his
tory was going to repeat itself, and
something was going to happen that
wouldn't be pleasant for the st. Paul
fans to see-but, Of course. 1t all turned
out all right. Mailman hit grounder to
Isbell, who fumb1ed 1t, but he was lucky
enough to defect it to Glenalvin and get
back to first In time to receive Glen's
throw. 1t was good for the run, never
theless. And then when Fisher gave
Shoch base, too, a home run hit would
tie those visitors up in hard knot, and
hard knots sometimes necessitate sew
entertaining games. But Soper flew to
Burke, and Swain, dear little six feet
and three inches, yclept Hillary the
darling little Western league giant, fam
ed the air as though pushing miniature
breezes through the flowing locks of his
senorita.
The score was to 2. and after Hall
man threw out Preston, and Spies flew
to Waldron, Schwartz came near making
1t worse than that but for a sensational
stop and throw made by Gray over third,
which transformed an apparently irwin