The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-10
Yesterdays WEATHER FATALLY
AFFECTED SAINTS PEN
NANT ASPIRATIONS
SURE OF SECOND PLACE
Kansas City Now Has "a Practical
''Cinch" ON First Place
Season Too Short for
.'Red Caps"
western League.

Rain interfered with the final game of
the series and the final gSxne of the
season between ST. Paul and Denver
The weather was also responsible for the
loss of a game with the same club at
Denver on the last trip, so that the two
teams have met but sixteen times during
the season. The Saints have made
most creditable showing against the
Denver team, winning ten of the sixteen
games played.
During the fore part of the season,
when both the St Paul and Denver
teams were weak and before the reor>
ganization of both came, twelve games
We're played and resulted seven TO five IN
favor of. then Saints. The result of the
four games played since the reorganiza-
ton demonstrates that the st. Paul team
is the better of the two, for it has. won
three of the four games and that too in
the face of the. fact that 'Old Bill
Everitt is looking after the interests OF
the Denver team.
Up to date the ST. Paul team has fin
ished four of the seven series and has
lost but one and that one to Des Moines,
the tail-end bunch of the lot. Mime
apolis has been beaten eleven to seven
and Omaha ten to eight. The results of
the Denver and Des Moines series have
been mentioned. Three series remain to
be completed, those with Kansas City,
St Joe and Colorado Springs. 1t will be
impossible to lose the series with Colo
-rado Springs as the standing, with but
three games to play, is ten to five in
favor of st. Paul. With the Colorado
Springs team in its present patched up
condition the Saints are apt to take three
straight. 1t will also be impossible to
lose the St. Joe series, as it stands nine
to six in favor of the Saints. If the 10
Jos should take three straight the series
would be a tie, but there is hardly q
question but that the Saints will get at
least two Of the three games that re-
main to be played, as they beat the Mis-
souri, Saints three straights on their own
grounds on the last trip away.
The Kansas City series is the only one
that can go against the st. Paul team
and Tebeau's men must take three
straight to win it, as it now stands eight
to seven in favor of ST. Paul. There
is every chance that the Saints will win
two o. the remaining three games to be
played and will thus win the series ten
to eight.
AT the present time it looks as though
the st. Paul team would wind up the
season with the rather remarkable record
of having beaten every team but one in
the league, some of them by big margins,
and yet will have to be content with
second place
Only a miracle could land the Saints
in first place now. Should st. Paul win
every game from now until the end Of
the season, which is but nine days away,
and Kansas City lose every game but
two, the Missouri men would still win the
rag by several points. So ST. Paul will
have to be contented with second place
in the race this year. The fans have the
consolation, however, Of knowing that
the ST. Paul team is playing the fastest
ball in the league today and that, con-
stituted as the team. is at the present
time it would make some of the best
of the big league teams hustle. There is
absolutely no question but that, had the
Reorganization of the team come
month sooner, the pennant would have
been landed by safe margin. And, had
the present team played the season
through from start to finish, it would
have been as far ahead of Kansas City
at this time as Kansas City is now ahead
of ST. Paul. The race for the penndnt
would simply have been a walkaway for
the st. Paul men had they been together
all through the season.