The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-23
iDRUBBED SAINTS
ON HOME FIELD
THOMAS HAD ST. PAUL ON THE
CREDIBLE.
But Two of Kelly's Men Could Guess
Where the Ball Was Going Slagle
a Christmas Box for Watkins Men
Scene Shifts to Nicollet Park To-
BY O'Loughlln.

Father, In coaching us In the ethics OF
war, was wont to remark, when speaking
of a, defeat at the hands Of bigger boy:
SEQ after the big ones, son, and remem-
Der that the bigger they are the harder
they fall" Watkins has coached up his
brigade of pirates in the same strain.
Yesterday afternoon they sailed into the
st. Paul main and made Lemons timber
cruisers walk the plank and perform
other pleasing stunts for the edification
of the Minneapolis fans who squeezed
their way into the pillbox diamond of the
sanity city.
The jolly roger flew from the trolley
pole of the Lowry boat which transferred
the crew from Nicollet park to Lemons
landscape Gunner Thomas was told to
aim at the waterline and-aye, aye, SIR
he did. The man from Gasconade coun-
ty, Missouri, thought Of his boyhood days
and volleyed them across the plate in a
style which mysti1ed the Lennonites.
Down In old Missouri Thomas was always
mighty hunter. His father was not in
clined to buy him a rife and the young
huntsman was accustomed to wander
about the Ozark woods with pocket full
of rocks When he spied a fox squirrel
In the top branches Of 'scaly- hickory
hickory" Thomas brought him to the
earth with one cast of stone. Now st.
Paul knows what they were against yes
terday and why Thomas can put the ball
just where he wants to. This is true
story, because Archie Stimmel says it is.
One Slagle was chosen as the sleight Of
hand performer for st. Paul. His illu-
sions broke just before they reached the
pans and the locals pounded him prodi
giously. Denny Sullivan saw where it was
possible to jump into the 300 list and
must have landed we'll inside. He hit
Slagle until the ST. Paul infield had to
come into the diamond and herd Slagle
in the box when Sullivan came to the
plate. Five times UP and five hits con-
stituted the Sullivan score.
The playback of Thomas was of a spec
tacular order and clean thruout the game.
The saints could do nothing with the big
twirler and most Of the time only one
third Of the team was off the. bench in
an inning. Only one st. Paul man had his
eye on the ball and that was Wheeler,
the third baseman. He drew two of the
three hits, one Of them being double.
The other one went to O'Brien, the short
stop.
Minneapolis drew one run in the first
inning. Four hits were necessary to gain
that. Then things quteted down until the
seventh Maloney singled went to Sec
ond on Slagle's wild pitch, to third on
Pierce's error, and scored on Sullivan's
double. O'Brien's error gave Coulter life,
Freeman scored Sullivan with a neat bunt
laid down in front of the plate, and
Weaver brought Coulter in with single.
Freeman doubled In the ninth and
made second on Slagle's wild throw to
head him off, Weaver flew out to Sui
livan but singles by McNichols and Fox
scored Freeman.
The scene shifts back to Nicollet park
this afternoon where Ferry Is slated to
roll the ball around a bit for the locals
Chech will probably be on the rubber for
the saints, altho this has not been def
nitely decided. Back to Lexington park
for tomorrow afternoon and at Nicollet
park Monday afternoon completes the
present at home series of the millers
They then go forth into the byways
seeking whom they may devour for a
time. Following is the cause Of the St.
Paul sadness: