The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-15
BASEBALL
BUNCH THEIR HITS
Millers Bat Out Three Runs in the
Fourth Inning at Lexing.
ton Park.
Stimmel Pitches in Great Form,
Holding Saints to Two Runs
and Six Hits.
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Like LEFTY Sporer of MINI ca polls, Twir-s
Ter Charles Chech Of st. Paul has the
reputation Of pitching eight good innings
and one bad one In each game. Chech
was not guilty Of any innovation yester-
day. During eight rounds Of the combat
at Lexington park he had the millers
guessing. but in the other inning things
happened. Departing from the precedent
set by Sporer in Thursdays contest, Chech
failed to stop his opponents before they
had scored ennough runs to win. Hence
the wailing and crashing of teeth heard
last night in st. Paul.
Archibald Stimmel, the first local slab
artist to break into the winning column
this season. did few stunts yesterday
and chalked up his third consecutive vic
tory. He whom the ST. Paul fans call
Pelican" was in great form for seven
innings. In the first, jackson got a single
but was nabbed at second by Yeager's
throw. In the second, third, fifth and sixth
the heavy hitting saints went out one,
two three. In the fourth two men got
on the sacks, but stayed there to the
finish Of the round In the seventh Geier
opened with a two sacker and Oyler's bad
throw permitted him to score.
| With the millers two runs to the good
as the result of Chech's moment of weak
ness in the fourth, it looked like easy
money after two saints had been retired
in the eighth. At this juncture. however,
the Stirnrnel salary arm showed signs OF
giving out, and the saints came within
an ace of tieing the score.
The sanity city fans refuse to give the
millers credit for winning either yester-'
days or Wednesdays game. Wednes-
days game, they insist, was handed to
Minneapolis by Wheeler. while Umpire
Cunningham is held to have given Yea
gers men the game yesterday. This hap
/ pened in the eighth. With two gone,
Chech walked to first, and shannon sent
/ eH,o ~ 1nft xJ1oin
speared by a sensational one-hand stop.
The little short fielder, however. could not
recover in time to catch Chech at second
and Jackson followed with single to
right.
1 Chech fastened around the paths home
i ward, with Shannon hurrying close be-
hind. Elmer Smith sent the sphere back
to Yeager, who caught it just as Shan
non slid for the plate. Spike was safe by
| ten feet or out by mile according to the
place Of residence Of the observer UNI
pire Cunningham took the view which
favored the millers, and a strenuous Ave
| minute talkfest between the judge of
/ plays and the st. Paul hired men followed
while the down the-river fans besought
the players to "cut it out and play the
game" Emerging from the melee slight
Ily disfgured but still game. Cunningham
waved his arm, and Manager Kelly and
Shannon occupied seats on the bench dur
ing the remainder of the contest. Pierce
held Down first @in the next round, and
/ Corbett, whose right name is Cha pleski,
posed In center garden.
The end Of this eighth round left the
saints still one run shy Of the millers'
total In the ninth Geier walked. but
Marcan, who covered short after Schafer
retired with a wrenched knee, struck out.
Wheeler singled, and the two runners oc-
cupied second and third on Higgins out
to Spooner. It was UP to Pierce, but he
sent a grounder to Oyler, and the stuff
was off.
The millers accumulated their runs in
the fourth, on five clean singles Lally
opened the festivities by a hit to left, and
McCreery beat out well placed bunt.
istered at the plate. Mcintyre retired
. after bunting three fouls, but Oyler made
his second hit scoring McCreery and
sending Yeager to third. Yeager could
, have scored had he waited, but he tried
a double steal with Oyler, and was tagged.
Martin scored Oyler with a single, and
SpoOner finished the round by striking out
Except for Oyler's error in the seventh
: the millers played a clean fielding game
; and their hits, while not numerous. were
punched at an opportune time. Yeager
should not try to break the stolen base
: record In the last two games he has
!. been tagged at home three times while
l trying to score on a long chance. In al
least two of these instances hit followed
n that would have scored the catcher. -
n A real new first baseman made his
debut in a miller uniform yesterday. The
! recruits name is not Hanlon there reall,
is such a man, fhowever,) but Spooner
:, He played last year with Haverhili in the
!. New England league. His batting aver
" age was .s42 and his fielding percentage
1858. He was secured by the miller man
agement from st. Paul yesterday. Spoon
!, err played his position well, but failed tt
y get hit.
I The millers played again at Lexingto,
:, park to-day. Tomorrow and Saturda,
: also the locals will meet st. Paul on tn,
! latter's play groun Yesterdays score:
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