The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-06


their little junbet and are doing well up
70 date, with the exception OF the Kansas
City incidents. The Missoprians played
but one game in st. Paul which became
a burlesque after st. Paul had it won,
and this was the only line the local fans
were able to get on the Blues. They Il Ok
two games from the Saints and the worst
of it all is that Chech lost one of them
He had one bad inning and that was all
that was necessary. Kelley'S men ap-
peared to round into shape for the final
game and left Louisville with one of the
series.
Louisville is one of the queerest propo-
Sltlons on the circuit. At the opening
of the season the Saints took four straight
games in Louisville, and when the Colonels
visited st. PAU they returned the compli-
ment partially by taking three out of four.
1hen everybody was wondering what
license the Saints had for winning in
Louisville.
Now the Saints are back in the city
of booze and up to date have taken two
games from the Colonies on their own
grounds. 1t Is simply reversal, in this
instance. of the old idea that a team is
bound to lose away from home.
Milwaukee is fulfilling the predictions
of the paper dope fiends. and is clinching
itself onto first place a little stronger
every day In spite of the. good ball tha
team is playing the team receives no
support at home. and the Cream City fans
are searching for ways and means OF
creating enthusiasm. The plan Of getting
a large number of stockholders financially
being given serious consideration. This
was tried in Columbus with success. and
may bring Milwaukee out Of the slough
OF indifference.
Minneapolis is stiH going down the line
with regularity, having left Milwaukee
considerably to the bad. Toledo and
Kansas City are having plenty of ex
citement regarding the bottom of the
heap, and daily shifts are the rule. Co
lumbus has dropped to third place, allow
ing the Saints to get up a step nearer
their old place, but otherwise there is
no race to speak of.
The races in the big leagues are the
closest for years past and the leading
clubs certainly should be drawing in many
ShekelS at the box Office if there is any
baseball fanaticiSm left.
In the National Chicago New York and
Cincinnati are fighting it out every day.
one leads today and another tomorrow,
and no one of the trio apparently is able
to get any decisive lead. Chicago at
present has a shade the best of the pro-
ceedings, but two bad days will drop the
Windy City whirlwinds quite distance
down the line. Three teams struggling
for first places between .675 and .T05 do
not leave any room for forecasts
The American league presents pretty
much the same spectacle, except that the
fight is for second place, the champions
of last year having the top position
staked out for themselves. New York.
Chicago and Philadelphia are shifting
every day.
Thus it is that Chicago and New York
each have two winning teams in the base
ball field, and no wonder record breaking
crowds are the. regular thing.
Washington is still boring downward.
and the Philadelphia National is a few
inches deeper. Washington has won seven
out of thirty eight games, and Philadel
phia has won six out of twenty mine.
When the American and National leaders
play their peSt-SeaS0n games il might be
well to arrange a series between Wash
ington and Philadelphia just to determine
which is the worst.
Michigan university is certainly becom-
ing the foremost athletic institution in
the West, as the past year has been one
Of uninterrupted triumph for the Wolver
ines. Their great achievement this spring
was the carrying off of the Western meet
at Chicago Saturday. How different has
it been with Minnesota? Minnesota
raises a champion football team and rests
there. In the long list of events at Chi
cago yesterday Minnesota was mentioned
just once, and that in trial heat.
There is one difference between football.
over which there is much enthusiasm az
the university, and all other sports, and
that is, football is always a financial sue
cess.
Football pays handsomely. while col
1ege baseball and track athletics pay
nothing. in fact they generally result in
a deficit in the athletic treasury. The
question then arises whether or not the
receipts tIOuA Inc lOOlodA SdAAtOo eiC AiOI
sufficient to pay the expenses of one or
two other branches of sport
q
Prize fight dopesters have discovered
that Munroe has "a punch and the
fact is being heralded far and wide as
something wonderful to hear. There can
be no gainsaying the fact that the Butte
quartz worker has a punch. A punchless
prize fighter would be almost as great a
curiosity as a silent one
FsVpFVb06V Wiling to admit that
Munroe can hit, the only question being
can he hit Jeffries hard enough and often
enough. If he has these qualifications
there may be a fight, but judging from
the amount of interest that is being ex-
hibited in the coming contest there are