The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-09
one INNING WAS ENOUGH.
DIILLERS TROUNCED HAATM'S TEAM
AT LEXINGTON PARK YES
TERDAY AFTERNOON
PUNCHED TEN IN THE FIRST
After That There Was Little Occa-
sion for Either Side to
Do Any Play
ing.

Three hundred people attended the first
ball game of the season at Lexington
park yesterday afternoon and the crowd
in the bleachers yelled itself black in the
face while the Hamms Brewery COM
pany team went down to a bloody defeat
before the Minneapolis league team. The
game for six innings presented a close
succession of good work, on one side.
fumbles and errors on the other Then a
cold west wind cooled down the hot
young blood of the Minneapolis aggrega
ton and the finish was of the Flooding
type.
The local team went against strong
odds in tackltng a crowd such as came
from up the river. The locals played
good ball for the first game of the season.
and under more favorable weather con-
diulons undoubtedly would have appeared
to better advantage on the score sheet.
The wind was so strong that the matter
of judging high flies and pop-ups was
reduced to a fine art, and the gang on
the side lines had plenty of opportunity
to shout: THAT isn't what Spies used
to do"
The brewers went TO bat. F'laherty
opened with a base on balls and Preston
lifted liner into left. putting Flaherty
on second. but he failed trying % reach
third. Preston got to second safely ON
grounder from Thompson, who went
out on first. Frary managed to get the
bag on a bunt. and Preston scored one
to Egans grounder to short Then Nc
Ginnis struck out with two men on bases.
The brewers lost ground in the second
half of the first which they were unable
60 regain. 1t all occurred because Cook
fumbled and Thompson on first followed
the lead. SchralI went to bat for the
suburbans and got base on balls. Nance
struck hot one to Cook, the pitcher
Cook lost his nerve and sought In the
air for the little round thing. He found
1t on the ground after q few minutes
and sent 1t down to first with all his
shoulder muscles behind It, THOMPSON
saw it coming and in trying to find soft
place Tor 1t to land, missed his cue and
scored the second error. Nance followed
Schrall, and while Thompson on third.
made another error, giving Schrall two
bases. got to first safely. Then the out
siders began to throw It into the brewers
and the game became interesting Grim
Abbatcchio, Dixon, Burrell and Hastings
scored. and when the brewers finally
succeeded in getting the third man out
the SuDurbanS had ten runs to their
credit. Harvey scored for the locals In
the second. and the Minneapolis men
went into the third inning with nothing
new on the sheet. The tables were then
reversed and while the visitors got one,
the brewers sought in vain for an OPEN
ing. In the fifth inning Preston, for the
locals. got first on a fine hit into left
Held and Frary brought him home with
a maghlicent drive into center. Egan got
to lirst safely and McGinnis won the hon
ors of the day with a three-base htt
which scored two more men Thompson
went out on fly into center field and
Cook scored. Minneapolis got nothing.
After the fifth inning there were no
features The Minneapolis men were will
ing to call seven innings a game, but for
the sake OF the crowd which came TO
see game, stayed to the last hand, with
out either side scoring again. The game
In detail was as follows: