The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-18


The Saints waylaid and sandbagged the
somnambulists from Toledo yesterday aft
ernoon at Lexington Park in a soporific
engagement that remotely resembled a
baseball game. 1t wasn't the fault of the
Saints that the affair was of the ennui
order to the superlative degree, but there
weren't enough ball players on the field
to make two teams. Toledo played with
about four and the rest of the ossified
bunch should be pinched for forgery for
signing their names to the baseball con-
tracts. However it was nice and cool in
the grand stand and the score was St.
Paul 4, Toledo 2.
Under normal conditions ST Paul would
have been pushed to get away with yes
terdays game as Weinig pitched ball that
would have been hard to beat had he
been fortunate enough to incriminate
himself with some real. ball players The
Saints were able to get but six hits and
two of these would have been handled in
game between cigar store Indians with
out exciting any comment, but the Web
footed Mud Hens never touched them and
they have to be called hits for lack or
any other name.
The visitors brought off another of
those general alarm plays in the first
inning that looks like a cross between
chamber of deputies riot and a D. A. R.
election. For a few moments tall was
excitement" Alleged players dashed
hither and thither each madly intent on
doing the wrong thing and each woefuliy
successful until finally everybody did the
wrong thing at once and then it is all
over It's a game by itself and the par
Elephants make a mistake IN mixing 1t
with baseball Given a stage carpenter
and a master of the ballet and it would
go fine on a roof garden.
1t was almost an exact duplicatlon OF
Saturdays episode and it was the sole re-
IL inn faa T1lTa of no a
fans were about as noisy as 1unerai
cortege until the seventh inning, When
O'Hara in left field. pried his way into
the sensational class by his catch OF
The visitors started off in brilliant
fashion by scoring twice In the first Inn.
ing the tallieS coming about by reason or
three singles, a sacrifice and an. error, and
then Slagle settled down to work and
Clingman's protegeS returned TO their
natural gait of masterful inefficiency. In
the Saints half of the first inning Jones
singled and Jackson walked wheeler
sacrificed and Flournoy struck out. Kelley
sent it to first in time. but Reading drop
ped the ball. Jones scored and jackson
started to steal home. Reading threw the
ball to Brown and Jackson started back
to third and the entire infield Swarmed
into the third base line Jackson lodged
back and forth weaving in and out among
the Mud Hens. the ball close behind him
all the time until he finally slid to the
plate and scored. It's wonder Deininger
and Brouthers didn't jump to Labrador
instead of Michigan.
Although the score was tied from the
start there vast any wild bursts of APP
pIause about Lexington. although the
breezeS brought echoes from a game at
Kittsondale. Slagle Immediately re-
trenched on his hits and sprinkled four
over eight innings.
The Saints scored run in the fourth
On two iimsy hits; O'Brien walked to
first and Marcan hit pop fly to right
field in the immediate vicinity of one
Wyatt Lee. The, sun got in between the
ball and Lee and the big pitcher turned
his back on the whole AFFAIR and Marcan
went to second; Then Peirce popped a
second Frisbie. in center. insisted that
the ball belonged to him and warned all
corners to keep their hands off. The
result was that Frisbie got one finger on
the ball about the time it hit the ground
and OBrien scored.
The Saints got the only run they were
entitled to in the eighth when Flournoy
hit a three Dagger to left and Kelley fol,
lowed him with a double. Let us all
ioin in forgetting it. The score: