The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-15

short life. double play with Preston re-
sulting almost Immediately. Shugart flew
to Davis, and the Rowdies had a lead of
one, but their hoodlum battalion in the
trenches back of the players benches
yelled as though 1t was eight or ten.
1t was the chief rowdy's turn at bat,
When the third inning for, Minneapolis
came to bat. and If there Is anything the
chief rowdy does pride himself upon, it
is his batting average. He usually stands
well, although perhaps If the scores
showed the ''two-base hits that his
home town scorers gave him on muffed
flies 1t would decrease his apparent per-
centage materially. However, on this
occasion, he did impart some little speed
to the ball, and as it tore down the base
line toward third. the chief of the row.
dies thought sure 1T was a safe hit. But
Geier made a phenomenal stop near the
bag. little back of it, and when Will
mot reached first base he found the ball
there ahead of him. This was a sur
prise that rather soured the chief rowdy
on the existing conditions and after that
he was plainly in bad humor all the aft
ernoon. Andrews fouled to Spies, and
Werden sent a fly to his old pal. Lally.
Spies was hit by a pitched ball, and
Roger hunted. Burke's grounder to Alb
batichio advanced Heine to third, but he
was left when Geier flew to Nance.
Geier threw out Abbatichio, but Smith
clipped the ball over second base for
single. Dixon forced Germany out, but
Roger presented Parker with a sack, and
it devolved on Burke to save the rowdies
from getting two runs, when Davis hit
the ball hard. as usual.
ST. PAUL TIED IT.
Smith threw Glenalvin out, but Lally
hit safely and stole second. Isbell hit to
right field and as WTilmot's throwing arm
hos A.ao1 P0, = he loo
Lally had no trouble in scoring from
second, although Isbell's hit was short
one. That tied the score. Preston forced
Isben out. Out beat double play, and
stole second himself only to be caught
mapping there moment later by Parker.
Miss Nancy fouled a long drive to Lally.
but Burke muffed fly from the stick of
the chief rowdy. Andrews hit light one
to Denzer, and Werden gave Geier high
foul, so the chief rowdy, stranded again,
was still further exasperated.
The Saints went out in one, two, three
order.
Denzer threw out Abbatichio, and Geier
went close into the crowd for beautiful
catch of wide foul from the club Of
Smith. He also made a pretty stop of
Dixons drive, but Isbell muffed the
throw. Denzer, however, threw Parker
cut, so the error cost nothing.
Burke hunted and beat the ball to first
base stealing second little later. Geier
drove hard grounder over first base,
and that gave the locals the lead, for
Burke scored from second. Glenalvin
sacrificed. Lally batted the ball at
Smith, who tried to catch Geier at third.
1t was close play, but the umpire gave
the decision to the base runner, and this
exasperated the rowdieS still more. Is
bell flew to Smith, but Preston met the
ball full in the front, and drove it clear
down into the crowd which lined the
cycle track in right field. The chief
rowdy pursued 1t till ne saw that there
was no chance to catch Preston, when
he showed his temper by giving the ball
a vicious kick, and sending 1t away over
the path. Preston went clear around,
and the locals had lead of four runs.
Smith threw Shugart out.
Davis struck out, but Nance got base
on balls only to be forced out by the
chief rowdy, who in turn was forced by
Andrews
After Spies and Denzer had gone out.
Burke reached first on another tumble
and bad throw by Smith, and Geier was
given a base? The fourth ball split
Catcher DiXons second finger on his
right hand and he was succeeded by
Newt Fisher, who let a pitched ball pass
him, advancing both base runners. Glen
alvins second safe hit for the day scored
two more runs, before Smith threw Ially
out.
HAD AGREED TO A RULE.
5Werden opened the Rowdies' eighth with
a safe hit his first, a good grounder over
second Shugart made beautiful stop
on Abbatichio's hard drive and put Wer-
den out at second, but made a bad throw
to first which spoiled possible double
play. Isbell, =. however, made another
beautiful stop and prevented damage sbe-
ing done by the misplay. Smith flew to
Shugart, but Fisher hit light one which
Geier got and lobbed to Glenalvin, but
too high for Glen to reach and hold the
base Parker hit safely again. this time
Fisher going to third, Davis hit to Geier,
who threw the ball to the right field
bleacher, but as the captains had agreed
upon ground rule that the runner
should only go two bases on an over
throw Davis and Parker were ordered
back, after crossing the plate in their ex-
element. This action eXasperated the
Minneapolis rooters, who did not under
stand the fact that Wilmot's own rule
was to blame.
So when Nance flew to Lally, it made
an apparent difference of two runs to
Minneapolis on what large part of the
crowd supposed was an unfair decision
by the umpire.
st. Paul was retired in one, two, three
order again, and the chief rowdy was pre-
scented with a base on balls by Denzer to
open the ninth and last inning for the
Mill City aggregation Then wild pitch
gave the rowdy chief another sack, and
Andrews. batting a fly to Shugart, started
the trouble which broke up the game, as
already related. The score: