The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-20

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Never at Nicollet park, which has seen
seven seasons of baseball, was such a
hammerfest recorded as the millers perpe-
trated yesterday afternoon. There is an
old tradition. dating back to 1896, of a
game in which st. Paul made forty runs
against Minneapolis, but 1t is doubtful il
anywhere In the country since the foul
strike rule was put into effect any pitchers
have been so lambasted as were German
and Allemang yesterday.
Twenty eight hits, including twelve sin
giles, twelve doubtless three triplets and a
home run, or forty-nine bases in all, was
the record for the day. Lally led with a
single, three doubles and a home run, or
eleven bases in all. Yeager got three
doubles and a triple; McCreery two sin
giles. double and triple; Spooner three
singles and a double; Smith two singles
and a double Thomas three singles; Mar
tin a double and a triple; Oyler double
and a single. Mcintyre, who has been one
of the most regular hitters in the bunch
lately, was the only man who had trouble
In gauging the slants dished up by Reis-
lings slab artists. Mcintyre got only one
double.
In addition to hitting freely, the millers
ran bases at will. Seven were recorded
in all. Sixteen Of the twenty-four runs
We're earned. 1t was a CORY day, conse-
quently an extremely satisfactory one to
the 100 in the stands.
Thomas Pitches In Great Form.
In the face Of such hitting by his team
mates, big Thomas does not deserve so
much credit for the mere fact of winning
his game He does deserve credit, how
ever for holding the nudhens down to
five hits and two runs one Of which would
have been shut off had not McCreery
dropped an easy fly. In one round, the
third, it looked as if the mudhens had cut
the big tWirler's weights but Thomas
managed to get thru the inning without
much damage and in all the other eight
goods.
Manager Yeager switched his batting
order yesterday, putting McCreery at the
head of the list. The change looks like a
wise one, for McCreery has been hitting
consistently and is the fastest runner on
the team. Mac opened the ball by beating
out m intield hit yesterday, but let Klein
oW catch him between first and second.
Lally flied to Cristall, and two were gone.
At this point it may be mentioned that
Messrs. German and Allemang would have
done very well yesterday had they been
required to retire only two men an inning
instead Of three. Usually the first two
outs were accomplished without difficulty.
but then there would be a succession Of
subdued nauseating conclusions, and an
other troupe of nillers would go trailing
around the sacks.
HbuC TO return TO our HuLLOnS. Win Two
down, Smith singled, and Yeager drew a
base. Scotchy Mcintyre furnished the
first straw in the load which was to frac-
ture the dromedary's spine by swatting
one to the left fence for two sacks. Smith
and Yeager scored and Mcintyre came in
on Spooner's single, but Oyler furnished
the third out. The 1nilers were BANKED
in the next two rounds, and in the second
Toledo chalked up one, Smith doubling,
going to third on Martins tumble Of AL
Tiers grounder, and scoring when Nc
Creery dropped Kleinow's fly.
Mudhens' Only Chance.
In the third the mudhens promised to
send Thomas to the stable, but the effort
ended in promise. Bernard singled and
scored on Blankenshp's double, but the
latter spoiled his teams chance for more
scores by trying to stretch the hit, and
getting tagged at third. Cristall singled
and Owens doubled but Crista1l was held
at third. and the next two were easy outs.
After that the mudhens didn't get any
thing remotely resembling a safe hit.
# It still looked like a close game, but in
the fourth German busted his gasolene
tank, and from that time the Toledo ship
was hopeless dereict. German opened
the round by trying to fracture Martins
y skull with a pitched ball. Thomas forced
the second baseman, but McCreery hit for
4 three bases, and Lally also drove the
sphere to the woods. At this juncture
Reisling waved German to the bench and
" sent a hurry-up call to Allemang. After
that it was a dizzy cycle Of base hits, and
base hits. and more base hits. About the
e seventh round Jim Johnson, the telegraph
& operator at the grounds, remarked that
& he had been doing baseball games for ten
years and had never seen anything like it.
It was hard to tell which felt more ex.
& hausted. Allemang, the Toledo outfelders
or the millers' base runners.
The eighth round opened with the millers
fifteen runs to the good, but still they
We're not satisfied. Every time Allemane
81 sent the spheroid over the plate it went
sailing out to the fence. After seven runs
4 had been driven in by clean swats the
press delegation sent word to Manager
Yeager that all the space allotted in the
score books for extra base hits was filed
and requested that the carnage cease
Yeager refused to heed the appeal, bu
Smith and Mcintyre took pity and retired
The list of casualties:
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