The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-23
Thomas Allows Three Hits
While S!agie Is Pounded
All Over the Field
Stan ding of the clubs
Yesterdays Results
st. Paul 0, Minneapolis 5.
Milwaukee l, Kansas City 0.

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tvs first division aspirants made merry
in st. Paul yesterday afternoon and
Judged a little closer to the promised
land where good ball teams are found.
Having cleared the 500 hurdle the Mil
lerS deserted Nicollet park with bum
per crop expectations and they assur-
eddy reaped a rich harvest yesterday
when they smashed young Mr.. Slagle
into seventeen smithereens. Score, ST.
Paul O, Minneapolis 5.
Mr.. Thomas, who teaches the young
Missourian idea how to shoot during
the alternating season, was predomi-
nant at all times and the swatting
solons of the Sanity tribe We're always
IN the holloWS of his cunning hands.
Mr.. Thomas may or may not hold a
first grade certificate, but as a singer
of erratic balls he is certainly entitled
to the highest office in Mr.. Watkins
baseball night school. Three hits and
one of them so-called by courtesy is
the phenomenal record of the. Saints
yesterday. Thomas has all the acces-
series of a pitcher and he simply
showed off. Try as they would the
Saints couldn't hit the ball to spot
on duty.
Thus it was that in the fullness of
the afternoon the story of the Saints
was told with nine ciphers decorously
expressive of the towering ability of
Pitcher Thomas and the glittering in
efficiency of the resident stick artists
While the Saints were making futile
assaults on the sedate twirler from the
hpr1a(lZ'S RnSt SI1l1 \,
and sundry of his ilk were gorging
themselves off Slagle to the point of
torpidity. Single and double, to right,
left and center, all the long hot after
noon, and to make matters worse Sla-
giles reinforcements mangied many a
ball in the most eXcruciating fashion.
Four errors are officially charged, but
this number could be doubled without
doing any great injustice, as the veil
OF charity has been drawn over a
quartette of gauche exhibitions.
MiIIers Earn Victory
The sad event cannot be laid to err
rors, however, as the Millers paid for
three of their runs in lawful hits and
the Saints were even as nothing against
Thomas, whose speed, control and ex-
quiSite breaks were sufficient to win
anywhere.
Slagle had speed and control, but he
lacked that tantaliZing something
which impels the batsman to hit the
ball to covered territory. Denny Sulli-
van, who is the center reed bird of the
Millers' team. appeared before Slagle
five times and each time his appear
ance was coincident with a hit, one of
which was good and plenty for two
bases. Slagle didn't have a thing in
his deck that Sullivan didn't appreciate
and he landed on every type of slant
with cheerful impartiality. 1t didn't
matter as long as the ball was within
reaching distance. Andrew Jackson
Oyler was the only invader who didn't
take hit back to Minneapolis, and he
managed to get a sacrifice, a thump on
the ribs and a pass out of five times up.
Umpire Hart made his appearance
yesterday and was called upon for a
new decision. With Maloney on first,
Slagle pitched wild and the ball slam
med against the back stop. According
to the ground rules it was a passed
ball and the base runner entitled to
take a base. The ball bounced from
the back stop into Peirces hands and
he threw it to second, probably be-
cause he didn't have any immediate
use for it. There wasn't any reason for
the throw and neither O'Brien nor Mar
can were present to receive it, SO the
ball was not halted until Jones en-
countered it in center field. Maloney
went to third and came close to get
ting home.
The locals contended that Maleney
was not entitled to go to third, but
Hart could not see it that way. There
is room for a fair-sized argument on
both sides of the question, but it didn't
have any direct bearing on the result
as a two-bagger followed the argu-
ment which would have scored Malo-
ney in any event.
Visitors Start With Hits
The moth millers in the parlance of
the street, were wise" to SlagIe from
the gateway, probably having learned
something of his methods on Fourth
of July morn, when he let them down
with two hits, while his confreres saw
Thomas for a dozen or so. Anyway
they started the first inning with four
singles, which netted one run. Malo-
ney singled to center, but it looked
twice as big to him and Jones threw
him out at second. Sullivan bored the
ball to Slagle and nearly capsized him
Freeman flew out and Weaver singled
to right. Sullivan scored and Jackson
let the hit get by him. Coulter and
Weaver tried double stealing and
Coulter was "at rest at the plate
Wheeler got a two-bagger in the
Saints opening round and expired OF
enIzul OH second, ana there wasn't an
other hit until O'Brien's, which came to
life in the fifth. Wheeler hit the bal
to McNichols in the sixth and would
have been easy out but for an unfor-
seen bound which took the ball out oi
Macs reach That's all the hitting the
Saints did.
They did some fast fielding in the
early stages of the game, however, and
the visitors were compelled to squan-
der several hits. Denny Sullivan go1
a single in the fifth with none out an6
Coulter followed him with double
but Slagle and the team pulled them
selves out without any scores being
made.
Seventh Is Sad
The seventh is a sad chapter Ma
loney started with roller by frs
which Sullivan couldn't reach and ther
came the wild pitch and Peirce's un-
movable throw. Denny Sullivan
varied his string of singles with &
double and Maloney scored. Coulter
hit one to O'Brien, which O'Brier
romped with and Freeman sacrificed
Sullivan coming home on Peirce's
throw to first. Weaver jostled the bal
down to Wheeler and it sped by, while
Coulter registered. McNichols flew oai