The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-06
FIVE THOUSAND FANS
SEE FIRST CONTEST
Minneapolis Loses Thru Let Up Of
g. Gehring in the Seventh
Inning.
Bv O'Joudhltn.

Minneapolis started out to pluck Jed
Grillo's s mudhens at Nicollet park
Yesterday afternoon in the opening
game Of the season. For a time 1T
looked as tho the millers would get the
feathers but the mudhens rebelled,
pecked Hank Gehring grievously and
won by a score of to 1. cr2<
1t was great afternoon. FIRST tnefe
was grand free street parade with the
band. the players and the fierce
Numidian sporting editors-some OF
'em-sitting in their carriages and at
tempting to look as tho they had rid
den in them all their lives. The fan
dom of the mill city crowded out to the
park in gangs and focks, and by. the
time the first cloud came up at least
$500 followers of the millers were in
and and When iltn Arbitrator William Mordecai
Sullivan called play at least 5000 OF
the lusty lungs were present.
Rev. Morrill, preached tabloid ser"
mon to the teams and was thru before
some of the hens could get their caps
off. E. J. Westlake came up in front
of the stand and prophesied snow and
a pennant Johnny Van Nest, who in
1872 pitched the record 33-hit game
for the Slabtown Stars, walked into the
box and took the ball in his hand.
Yaeger steered Him.
"Throw it this way,' argued
Catcher Yaeger, in the same tone Of
voice he would use to coax the escaped
canary into the cage.
Van hunched his shoulder, squinted
along the box line and tipped in 4
high and wide one.
Cannell, the Toledo batter, was not to
be outdone in courtesy and to keep
from showing up Johnny, as shine
pitcher, swung at it.
''Wan strike,' remarked sullivan
until after Gehring had lobbed him in
two which he missed.
"Batter out,' remarked William
Mordecai Sullivan.
s'But that bum winged ROSTERS one
don't count!' yelled Cannell, in hi
7'To the raspberry patch for yours ,
retorted Arbitrator Mordecai. II
you'd a knocked it over the fence II
a had to thump the whole Toledo team
if it didn It count. Now, you William
Gladstone Clark and Bill Buster Brow
Nance, just sit down on that bench o o
IN chase you up into the bleachers
Batter up!n ..u.-:.
So started the season of 1906 in Min
neapolis. The millers should have wo
had not "Hank'' Gehring been seize
with a streak of iberality which mad
Carnegie's philanthrophy look like tai
ing money out of the charity box in
church hallway "Hank" had h
game we'll in hand until the sevent
inning, when he passed three men an
allowed Knabe, Clark and Abbott I
swat the ball. It was the only innin
in which Toledo scored, but the he1
got enough then to do.
Play Was Fast. \
The game started off with whoe
after the Cannell-Van Nest inciden
It fquired three innings for the he1
to hat around and Gehring did not 8
low clout in that time. The hel
walked up. and out like the Salvatit
Army circling around the big ba
drum. Minneapolis had a chance
had been struck out by Sutbof, Ha
Il tew the first hit Of the year on t
% cal field, and Greminger and Graha
crew bases on balls. r
George Yaeger came up to plaster t
hall all over the back, fence. He M
calculated the distance, his smash f
ten feet short and the Nance nuisan
nailed it before our boys'' cou
score: Nance proved a further pub
ulsance later IN the game by cate
-hat looked to be a finely placed |
while sliding in toward the diamo
On that part of his anatomy which t
surgeons HIP open when, they seek t
appendicitis microbe.
In the second inning Oyler got a b;
on balls and Fox sent him on his W
With sacrifice. Gehring went out
foul Ay and Lefty Davis-his r;
cit s fobt at home--struck out aga
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