The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-02
BY BILLY MAC.

The strong arm of young Eugene
Ford, of Minneapolis, Saltwater and
other suburban points, applied
soothing lotion to the aching blubber
of the abused champions yesterday
afternoon and again broke up the
Saints parade to the top of the heap.
Score, to 0. Pride continues the
advance guard of the bump that jars.
With the Saints pulling out five in a
row and nabbing second place with
the assistance Of the up-river Orphans
the painted cheese cloth of honor
looked nailed to the mast. 1t only
looks tackled there this morning.
The success of E. Ford proved a
great disappointment to the fanatics
of the Prison City. E. Ford when he
first left his home in Minneapolis, Sc
cured a position in Saltwater with the
J. Wolf team. Beneath the shadows
of the frowning state Jail house walls
the young men trimmed the best bush
league teams of the country.
His wonderful list of strikeOuts at
tracted the attention of the magnates
of the West and E. Ford was called.
He had two coming outs. He first
debutted with the Minneapolis team
of 1901 and lasted until the Saints of
that season had a chance to make him
look like bunged nickel. E. Ford
was dropped but Mr.. Watkins picked
him up and, if we may be permitted
to chance an opinion, the learned one
will hold him.
With all this making E. Ford first
in the hearts Of the lumber terminal
folks the arrival Of the champions in
st. Paul was hailed with delight by
them. st. Paul is as near as the In
dams will get to Saltwater until Mr..
Hickey decides to expand our league
and the Prison City fanatics planned
to come over and surprise E. Ford.
The young finger missed the recep-
ton, the morning papers announc-
ing that Kellum would oblige for the
champions.
This unfortunate mistake held the
gathering down to S26, which, when
the fact that it was ladies' day is
considered, is doing pretty fine for a
team that is in second place. With all
this gate money waiting in Saltwater
Mr.. Watkins may be induced to put
f. Ford on for a return engagement
Wednesday afternoon. Anxious to get
back toward the top he may bring
him back anyway.
In a desire to compel the Saltwater
fanatics to appreciate what they miss
ed we will say that E. Ford practically
hurled the slack lime solution onto
the Saints without allowing a single
real hit Four scratch bingles are
checked to the Saints credit and two
of the four would not have made an
impression if our bunch had been per-
forming in strange burg.
Nothing but one Of Mr.. Watkins
famous curtain talks could have put
the champions on the edge they show
ed. G. Hogriever, always the faithful
pacemaker of the Indian tribe, scooped
UP a pant leg full Of gravel in attempt
ing to hurdle the bicycle path while
a oh IN
spired by the sight threw himself in
the air and successfully stabbed a
line drive by Jimmie Jackson which
started looking worth two bases. The
other champions disported in a most
peppery manner and even Dummy
Kihm got up on the coach line. Wear
ing his mitt on his left hand Mr. Kihm's
line of talk was badly handicapped
G. Chech worked against E. Ford and
saved his reputation from any deep
dents. With proper assistance c..
Chech would have run the affair up
to the eighteen or twenty rounds or
almost that far. Chech dragged the
champions through for nine rounds
and allowed them to average one bump
to three rounds.
Boots by Middle Schaefer broke up
the contest inside the time limit Mid
die had an off day at grabbing and in
siSting, Upon punching his ill Judged
allowed several runs. P. Geier also
dropped one out of his sofa pillow at
the stat-off, this also costing a tally
GeieEst error gave Hogriever a life
In the 'hFst round and he moved to Sec
ond on Fox's sacrifice. Infield plays
and another error allowed him to score.
The champs owned the only tally
of the game up to the ninth, when they
added three more just to impress the
1oIkS at home and boost the sale of
the baseball extras.
Several times the Saints worked in
hits but only four were collected during
the battle and one quick at figures "a n
see that the biffs could not have been
punched IN any very obese bundles.
In the fourth Kelley singled and with
TWO gone Ge1er raped one in the same
round but Shannon flew out to Jones
and this accounts for two Of the three
Saints left on the paths. Shannon
as the four hits had already been COL
lected this explains the other left on a
base report.
Fox opened the ninth for the cham
pions with a poke that Schaefer bum
gled. Jones flew out to Shannon. Kihm
singled. Fox had stolen second and
scored on drive. Coulter hit to Schae-
fer and again Middle's fingers refused
to spread right. O'Brien hit the same
way but Schaefer was still irving ia
force his fist to open without outside
assistance. With the two on Fam
sett singled and kim and Coulter
came in with the third and fourth tall
lies. Heydon went out, Higgins to
Kelley and Ford. went bad Chech to
Kelley.
In the ninth Geier, Shannon and
Jackson raped ones at Tamsett and
without a break Mr.. Tamsett threw the
drives to Kihm for clean put-outs,
The score:
st. Paul. ABB R II Pr n
SSeier. If ..:........ 1 O i