The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-05
LASIGAMES AT HOME
Millers Will Be Back Next Week
for Final Series of the
Season.
Team Must Fight Hard to Keep Out
of Last Position--Toledo
Bracing.

wen, the N1llerS dropped three StralSnC
to Indianapolis, but they got the first one
from Louisville at least. They also broke
even with Toledo This isn't much to
be grateful for, but crumbs are feast
to the starving.
Next week the millers are home again,
and will be here or in st. Paul until Sept.
l6, when the final game on the hons
grounds will be played. The team finishes
at Milwaukee Sept. 81, or two weeks from
Sunday.
All that can be expected Of the milers
now is to keep out of last place. They
the mud hens have shown signs Of bra
cling recently, it is nip and tuck between
the two for last honors.
st. Paul has been having her bumps
recently, dropping the odd game to Louis
Vile. The saints have comfortable lead,
however, and their only formidable COM
petttor Is Louisville. The colonies are
playing a sensational game, and are safe
for second place at least. Indianapolis
is too far behind to catch Tebeau's men,
and Milwaukee is badly crippled. Dona->
hue's loss at a critical time in the season
has hurt the brewers badly, and they
have got the worst Of 1t even from the
weaker teams. Indianapolis has a very
good chance to beat Cantillon's men out
for third place.
In the two big leagues Pittsburg and
Boston have cinched the penants. With
about twenty-five games to be played In
each league. the teams named have :,
lead Of about eight games each on their
nearest competitors Cleveland Is COM
ing strong In the American, but Is too far
away to overhaul Collins men. Both lead
ers are playing just about their natural
gait. and only need to win about half
their games from now on to take down the
bunting. ...-
There have been few upsets to pre-sea-
! son calculations in the big leagues this
season. At the start Pittsburg and Gin
cinnati We're picked as the strongest teams
| In the National. While the reds will fin
ish fourth. they have done well enough
to justify their adherents. New York and
| Chicago were regarded as likely Compel
itors, and both are in the hunt The
| three tall lenders were recognized as such
before play began. g.. 80 ......
picked as pennant-contenders-B
Cleveland. st. Louis, Philadelphia and
New York. Four of these are in the first
division, ST.. Louis being the only one to
fall down. New York has not done as
well as was expected, but may yet finish
third. = ajam&r a..
Klondike is baseball mad The American
national game has SO enraptured the great
Canadian camp under the red flag of
Britain that gold is for the time relegated
to second place in the heart Of the Yu-
koner. iFfaF -- 'r-a ''}.~ ~. s. "a
Four swift teams, composing the Daw-
son league, the most northerly on the con-
t1ent. have created the great local interest.
Dawson has been in delirium Of excite
| ment recently over contests on the dia-
| mond.
The four teams of the Dawson baseball
league have battle with White Horse for
| the supremacy Of the north. b
The capital Of the Klondike has finished
| with the greatest number Of games won
to its credit, but the White Horse team
has proved itself valiant opponent. Daw-
son teams won five out of six games
The White Horse team played close ca CHI
game and was defeated only after splendid
efforts and largely thru luck 3.
Aside from the Dawson White Horse
matches, the regular league games be-
tween the Dawson teams attract the
greatest interest.
AS an offset to an All-American football
team, which Is picked yearly, the follow
| Ing Is suggested for an all-star baseball
team: Pitchers. Young, Donovan, Wad-
dell, Bernhard and Mathewson: catchers.
Criger Killing, Kittridge and Sullivan first
base, Tenney; second base, Lajoie; third
! base. Collins; shortstop, Wagner; left field.
Clarke; center field, Stahl right field Kee-
Ter. Such a combination ought to win a
few games. =.
Clarke Griffith predicts that Cleveland
will simply swamp the reds in the inter-
state games at the close Of the season.
Manager Barrow of the Detroit club is
reported as having signed Charles O'Leary
, Of Des Moines, to play shortstop next sea-
son.
Manager Collins Of the Boston Ameri-
cans has declined the challenge issued by
the Hub National League team for a. post
season series Of games.
| McG1nnity was Kissed in New York re-
GENTLY when Cincinnati hit him. Such is
, gratitude. The giants would now be
trailing along in the second division but
| for the work that the Iron Man and Mat
thewson have done.
Secretary Fred Knowles of the New
Yorks, points with pride to the fact that
: the club has not signed or released a mar
1 and still has on its pay roll all the six.
teen men who went south in the spring
That Is remarkable, considering the con-
3 slant procession of coming and going
| players during the Freedman regime
Bob Ewing performed the best pitching
feat of his carer when he shut out New
York with one lonesome single. The Gin.
cinnati players all aver that Ewing re
tired the New Yorks without a hit. The
: : only ball that was given as hit was one
\ that went to Corcoran, and Beckley haC
plenty Of time to retire Dunn, but it i:
claimed the former did not have his foo
= on the base.