The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-17
SAINTS At HONE AGAIN
FIRST GAME OF SEASON TO BE
PLAYED THIS ATT
ERNOON
GO AGAINST MILLIoNA1REs
Local Team Has Made CredifabIe
Showing While En-. Tour
Batting and Fielding
Averages.

Batting and Fielding
Averages.
Manager Ryan and the st. Paul base
ball team will arrive home at 7:45 tbs
morning over the Great Western.
quite little delegation of fans, headed
by President Lennon, OF the local club.
have made arrangements to meet the
club at the Union station and give
them right hearty welcome.
The opening game on the home
grounds will be played this afternoon.
and will be called promptly at 3:3J
o'clock, and no doubt a large crowd will
be on hand when the umpire calls time
for the first St Paul game of the sea-
son. The team is due to receive the
glad hand from everyone, for their first
trip away has been all and more than
the most enthusiastic fan could have
hoped for. The men went away after
very short season of practice, and
under circumstances that did not augu'
We'll for their success i'll the unknown
lands. Many of them hardly knew each
other by name, and had never played i
professional game of ball together. Sew
eral of the men were unknown quaint
titles, and it was not until after the first
series had been played at st. Joe that
Manager Ryan had succeeded in weed
ing out the weak members and replacing
dhem with tried timber.
in all, four series, making total Of
thirteen games have been played on the
opening trip. and the St Paul team
has won two of the series, split even on
dhe third, lost one, and has won seven
of the thirteen games. The only series
lost was the first one played with ST
Joe. and it was in this that players
were included who were found to be too
slow for the company. Their services
We're dispensed with Immediately. their
places filed with new men, and from
that time on the team has been playing
in clover. 1t is not idle talk TO say thar
if the team, in its first three games. had
been the same in makeup as it now
stands. that the scalp of st. Joe, as we'll
as Denver and Colorado Springs. would
now be hanging from Manager Ryans
belt.
DENVER PANTS FOR REVENGE.
In the game at Lexington park this
afternoon the st. Paul team will oppose
Denver who will come in with the locals
this morning. In the series at Denver,
Ryan's men took two of the three games
and the Denverites are a trifle Eighty
when the matter is mentioned. They are
looking for revenge and have promised
themselves that they will reverse the
order of things here and let the Saints
down hard. Ryan does not look at the
matter through the same kind of specs
Anyhow, good fast bali may be looked
for through the entire series. NcGin
will be in the box for the Saints and
Holmes behind the bat. The rest OF
the team VIII line up as follows: First,
Nerden; second, Crooks short, Hug
gins; third, Brain; left field, Ryan; cen
ter field, Dillard; right field, Parker. or
the men that will make up the field
Do
the only men that left with the team
Crooks billiard ad Brain have been add
ed. OF Ryan so much has been saio that
he is already well known to the fans.
but he viii be seen for the first time
Werden is the friend of every baseball
enthusiast in ST. Paul Parker and Hug
gins are new. Everyone knows king
Crooks, and billiard has also played the
Lexington park grounds enough to know
where the mole hills are. Brian is a
new man, but his work on the trip will
insure him a hearty welcome
A special invitation has been extended
TO Mayor Smith, the council and the
police commissioners to attend the Upen-
ing game and Mayor Smith will pitch
tho first bail against the Denver team
Preceding the game the Minnesota
State band will escort the two teams
through the principal down town
streets of the city.
SAINTS PLAY GOOD BALL.
After a careful examination of the
Western league percentage table 1t is
found that the st. Paul team has been
playing just as good ball as any of the
three teams leading it. Kansas City
heads the list. This team had the adj
vantage Of southern practice and mas
been playing at home and yet has man.
aged to land but three more games than
ao into
has won just the same number of games
that are credited to Mr.. Ryans men. We
also break even with Minneapolis on the
number OF games won, but we have lost
one more than the Millers due no doubt
TO the fact that we have played one mo~e
TIE playing Of the Omaha team has been
The cause of some surprise 1t was the
general belief that this team was fast
but it only ranks with Denver and CoIo-
RADIO Springs. To these last two teams
ii has been demonstrated that the West
ern league of 1900 and the Western league
of 1901 are two very different propositions
Denver won the pennant last season, bur
the Colorado capital has been losing right
and left thus far this year Des Moines
was touted as a weak sister before the
season opened and the fact that it is in
last place is evidence that the fans We're
not mistaken in their estimate of the
Iowa team.
Below viii be found the batting and
fielding averages of the St Paul team
as it now stands and the record of the
pitchers for the games played on the
trip. Thomas leads in the batting with
the somewhat remarkable average of 800
for pitcher billiard, however is the
real batting star for he quits the first
ten games he has played with an average
of 3S5. Perry Werden proves that he is
still ball player and a good sticker with
a percentage Of 1908. Crooks Ryan and
Brian come next in the order named.
They have done nothing wonderful, but
may still be classed as good hitters A
careful study Of the games show that
they have been improving as the season
progresses and it is safe to say that they
viii all be crowding 300 pretty close at