The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-21
BROKE EVEN WITH
THE TAIL.ENDERS
BASEBALL AT
NICOLLET PARK.
Toledo Won the First Game Thru
Inability of Locals to Hit Reisling
Second Act Lasted Twelve Inn
ings and Was Won by Minneapolis
by q Scratch.
Nv o,LouuhlIn.

Minneapolis and Toledo broke even yes
terday afternoon in one of the most spec
tacular doubleheaders ever played upon
any diamond. The fellow who paid his
cash to see baseball got all that was COM
ing to him and a lot more. 1t was also
one of the funniest matinees that ever
masqueraded in the guise Of professional
baseball.
to serve up canned blood to the mud hens.
Ee was as mysterious as a city detective
On a petit larceny case and as wild as
D bookrnaker with Western Union service
cut off. He dawdled thru the first inning
without incident, but the chimney pots
began to tumble about his head In the
second Donegal Moriarity singled, and
Brown sacrificed. Burns drew ticket to
the quarter stretch; Reading went out on
foul fly; Reisling made single; Ma
loney rnuffed Frisbie's fly; O'fIara sin
gled; Clingrnan reached first on a Woody
throw by Ford; Lee singled; Moriarity
forced him at secondhand that's about
ali. That was enough. Six Of the mud
hens had Owed across the plate and the
cacklfng from their nest under the stand
was ecstatic
Thru nine innings the locals came In
from the pastures green and became mon
keys on a stick for the rabid Reisllng.
He twisted the ball until the millers
lodged every time a sparrow few across
the diamond. They could not have hit
RefSnng with lacrosse racquets shad he
been pitching a football. :,
Ferry patched. up his differences with
Manager Watkins and succeeded Ford in
the fifth inning. The Clingmanites scored
In the fifth and again in the seventh.
Minneapolis took turns at bat, but moth
ing more. They were wriggling on the
point Of the harpoon which Mr. Resisting
had eased into them and were Topping
about the plate like a vexed eel on
bass hook.
The curtain Is drawn on the first game
right hare. It's better to talk Of the
second round. which went for twelve
Innings.
The game started fast, with Stimmel
and Wenig opposing each other on the
points Each side was BANKED until the
sixth inning, when both scored one run
Lee knocked the ball over the fence for
Toledo and the locals reached on Starna-
gle's pass, McNichols' sacrifice, Fox's sin
gle and an error by Reading on StimrnePs
offering. Toledo jumped into the lead in
the seventh with two runs made thru
base on balls. a single, a sacrifice, an
error by Starnagle and another base on
balls. Stimmel forced one of these runs
across the plate. That was the last time
q mudhen got near home. In the last
half of the ninth Minneapolis tied the
score. Maloney drew a base, Sullivan
singled and Coulter and Freeman followed
suit Maloney and Sullivan scored Both
teams were downed in the tenth and
eleventh innings and Toledo bit the sod
In the twelfth. Starnagle led off for the
locals and reached first on an error by
Reading. An error Of Burns allowed him
safe at second. McNichos sent him TO
third and Fox reached first on a second
error by Reading. Oyler forced Starnagle
at the plate and McNichols reached third
He scored on an error by Burns on Slim
mefs drive. Following are the dement's: