The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-30
CHAMPIONS LOSE
TO WFRDFN'S MEN
Northern League Teams Get
Line on Each Other i'm
ST. Paul.

The 21S loyal baseball fans who paid
their way into the down town park yes
terday afternoon and ruined their trousers
by wiping up the dirt which had accu-
mulated on the seats since last season,
We're fully repaid for their misfortune
by sharing Perry Werden's joy, when
the veteran hit the ball over the right
field fence for a home run in the seventh
inning of the contest between Fargo and
Winnipeg.
Perry saw the hOrsehide clear the wire
netting which is used to stop base hits,
he settled down into a dissatisfied trot
and carried his 200 odd pounds of avofr-
dupOis around the circuit with the grace
of relay runner. Fargo had the game
in its pocket before the big ex-1eaguer
hit for the four sacks. but that did not
lessen the enthusiasm of the rooters, with
whom the Fargo manager has always been
a favOFite.
Aside from the enthusiasm displayed
when the redoubtable Werden was at the
bat, the crowd divided it's attention be-
tween a fairly well played game and the
dirty seats in the grand stand Every
| seat in the stand was covered with a
coating Of granulated mixture Of coal
| dust, SCOT and dust. and the third COM
mandment was broken by 213 fans so
many times that interest in the game
Waned.
The game itself was not so much of a
swatfest as it was an effort upon the
part Of the players TO see how many err
rOrS could be crowded into it. Fargo &C
cumulated ten errors, which outnumbered
their hits by four, and Winnipeg made
it an even break on errors and hits, hav-
ing eight Of each.
Fargo Played in Luck.
On paper the champs should have won
the game, as the men FROM the land of
after supper baseball had two more hits
and two less errors than the North Da-
kOta aggregation but Fargo'S hits came
at OppOrtune times and their mispIays
We're less costly, and the victory went to
Werden,s men by score Of 10 to 7.
For Winnipeg, BemiS pitched five in
nings and Converse did the work in the
last four, each player being touched up
for three hits each. Nelson, a yoUngster
in whom Werden has much confidence,
held the Winnipeggers down to eight
hits.
Right in the first inning Fargo started
things by scoring two runs The first
man up flew out to center, but Treager
walked and Rose connected with Mr.
Nelson for two bases, scoring Treager.
Werden got a base on balls, and Lynch
hit safe, scoring Rose. Werden reached
third, where he fingered until Lynch
brought the round to close by striking
out.
A base on balls, stolen base and a
hit gave the Fargos another run in the
third, after which BemiS settled down and
sent over a few that the North Dakotans
were unable to solve. There was nothing
more doing in the score getting line until
the sixth, but what Fargo did in this
inning, the first pitched by Converse, was
anything but discouraging to Manager
Lamb, who watched his Winnipeg young
SterS from the stand
Errors Are Costly.
Rose was up first and he hit a safe
one, going to second on an error. Werden
down n AnnlS little
shortstop, in his efforts to stop Rose at
third, made a bad throw, and both men
were safe. Werden stole second, and
Rose went home on a passed ball, which
assisted Perry in getting to third. Lynch
hit one to Kelley, which the second
baseman fumbled, and Werden scored.
LIE Roy went to first on an error by How
ard and Burrows got there when Kelley
made his second error OF the inning, on
which Lynch and lie Roy scored. Ed
wards got down on telders choice, and
Nelson hit one down to Clayton and went
out Spellicey hit a long fly to Dalquist,
who caught it and cut Edwards off at sec
ond before the catcher had time to get
back thus ending the agony.
Fargo made two more runs, both in the
seventh, when Perry Werden hit the ball
over the fence. With one down, Rose
went down on an error by AnniS and was
on first when Werden came to bat When
Perry started the horsehide over to-
wards Wabasha street both scored and
Fargos ten runs had been made: Ihey
Converse striking out three of the seven
men up.
Winnipegs seven runs We're pretty well
scattered throughout the nine innings,
one in the second, another in the third,
two in the seventh and two more in the
eighth. followed by another in the ninth,
going to show that the champs had to
work for all they got.
Both teams will require a little more
practice before they are able to play in
first class form. but the contest yesterday
was enough to show that they are pretty
evenly matched. Two more games will
be played before the teams leave st. Paul,
one this afternoon at the downtown park
and another Sunday afternoon at LeXing
ton. The score: -