The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
IRWIN PUT BADGE
ON BRER WATKINS
BLooz TRIUMPH OVER MILLERs
IN FIRST GAME.
gtovall Was Over-Anxious and Made
an Ascension in the First Inning
Replaced by Hynes, Who Pitched
Clever Game-Morgan Had the Mill
ers Guessing-How It Happened.
BY O'LoughiIn.

Minneapolis went to the baseball stables last
night wearing Kansas City blankets and blink
ers. They were put on and adjusted at Nlcollet
park in the first game Of the year in the Hour
city. The score was 49, but the cold figures
do not tell anything of the heart-burnlns'
blasted hope, transient joy and deep despair
of the 5000 fans who sat on the bleachers ana
yelled until the grass smoked 1t was ball
game that sent everybody to the cars telling
just how it happened, and one that goes Tar 10
make forget bills due and payable anu go
to the grounds to see the game.
Stovan picked to do the fat-frying 1or
Minneapolis: The young man was plainly 100
nervous and too anxious to win to pitch In an
amateur game. He passed his first man, allowed
the second to sacrifice and right there the run
began. Twins team, gathered from tne oaa
gentlemen's homes Of half dozen states, was
mot annoyed by the yelling Of the fans, anu
had their eye Mr.. Stovalrs slants.
stoyall could not get out of 1t oefore hon ene
and wrlggled like fshworm on a bass nook.
the fans sat and slowly petrihed while Father
Ball Massey, Wooster" Rickert' Herr Donanue,
Cassie Castro and Uncle Frank Bonner laced
out singles and doubles and the blooz chassayed
around the bases like wooden elephants on
merry -go-rounds at the state fair They We're
old wheezy and rheumatic, but they hit the
bali so hard and far that five Of them
tottered across the pan before the miller 1nheld
could trip them up. Stovall was all In the
air and they hit them matter where he
threw. 1t began to look as tho they would pelt
1t if he Iobbed it anywhere in the direction OF
the grandstand.
Hope for StoVall.
The fans were charitable to Stovall. realizing
that the boy nervous and in his anxiety 10
make a good showing before the home crowd
lad gone to pieces. He has speed, but could
not get his curves to breaking right. On his
next trial ne will doubtless make better
showing.
Minneapolis came to bat and could not get the
ball out of the diamond. Morgan, the throwing
youth of the booz, held them to three men up.
In the second inning Nance started on win =, a
yyh0 had u,
and second later Peaches Graham, who
had taken Buck Freemans place at first, snagged
Nance and Downey on clever double play
The third man up was given the gaf on ny
to center.
Then the millers started the doings. Coulter
scratched out at first and Graham punched one OF
Mr. Morgan's saliva siZzlers for two bases. Mar
shall used little osteOpathy on another OF the
Morgan movements and scored Graham Gre
minger was downed and Andrew Jackson oyler
looked childlike that Morgan threw MIN up
nice wide breaking out. Just it sailed square
over the plate Andrew Jackson wriggled his spine
like an intoxicated snake and the smash went
to the fence. allowing Marshall to come home
with the speed Of Colonial Dame in new hat
going down the center aisle at church.
Downey Chased to Bench.
The game progressed uneventfully until the
eighth Hynes was pumping them up with the
speed and break of a gasolene engine. Kansas
City was clawing at them and when they did
reach them Gren.inger, Fox and Oyler were gath
ering them with S1n1ul reSular1ty. III Tue ueftA
time Downey had been sassing Umpire King, who
1elegated him to place beside the manager or
the Kansas City bench and Grandpa Sutor Sull1
van had gone in at short. Sutor. however, went
very fast around his territory and did much t.
upset the chloroform theory.
In the eighth Stovall drew balls, Fox singled
and Sullivan and Jones each took single whir
at Morgan. Coulter drew a pass and Marshal
singled. This left the a tie and Minneap
oils to its feet and sung like a baby will
the whooping cough. The joy was shortlived
however, Castro came up drew>>a pass ant
went to second a single by Bonner. Thel
Little Benjamin Butler, who had been regarded a
inoSfensive, strolled up to the pan and souse'
the ball 10 the green paint the bacl
fence. This brought Castro and Bonner in of
the damp ground and Nance's long foul fyout
which Denny Sullivan forgot himself and caught
allowed Butler to wiggle his stubby legs acros
the plate. Minneapolis came in to tie the score
but Morgan put on steam and the trio Of miller
came up and went back with a handful of Mi
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