The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-21
By O'LouqhIin.

to send a child to mill. He tried it yesterday
at Lexington park when he put Parkin' an Iowa
league recruit, in the box against heley's MIL.
hands. He lasted about as long as q pint OF
bran mash in front Of a canal mule and Coy
was then offered as a substitute. Mr.. Coy was
q real live wire for a time. but the milers got
on their rubber gloves after a time ana touched
him without danger.
It was a sad day for St. Paul and crepe hangs
ion the front door Of sanity city fandom. 1t
was one Of those typical st. Paul days, cold
and rainy, but 1t did not deter about 5000 Min
tpeapolis fans from going over to Lexington park
ito see the locals put Dick Padden's princes OF
paralysis upon the griddle. There were some
thing like $50 st. Paul fans out to lend their
i1oyal support to the team from the town that
talk made famous, but when 1t came down
ito straight yelling, Minneapolis had the saints
sounding like the chipping of chickens on the
lAuditorium stage.
d There were no fights. The bleacherites refused
ito punish the saints for any of their rude re-
marks. They realized that st. Paul is as sore
as a boil on the end Of the nose over the show
ing Of its world-reQowned collection OF Big
lLeaguers from the Land of Once Was and were
Emerciful. They took the explanations OF rheuma-
dtism. sore finger, bad leg, Group and not wealth
Ter workers. without a bat Of the eye and pre-
tended to believe all of it. They knew that the
apology stage always precedes the booting.
VI Young Mr.. Parkins Of Iowa took his position
upon the slaughter block and Mr.. Lefty Davis
walked up to the plate. GOOD afternoon, Mr..
iParkin," remarked Lefty Mr.. Davis. sit looks
like RAIN
g 'sIf it don't we Will have a long dry: spell, -
REMARKED Mr.. Parkin, with keen and original
wit, whereupon loud outlaws broke from the st.
Paul bunch.
II have no fear Of a dry season and the crop
reports from the Red River valley presage a
tbountiful harvest returned Mr.. Davis, calmly,
lat the same time swinging the %bludgeon against
1.-THE feet Of Mr.. Padden, whose agitation was so
igreat that he failed to strike his lunch fangs
Into the ball before Mr.. Davis was safely on
3Arst.
PLEASED to meet you, Mr.. parkin,' remarked
iMr. Dennis Sullivan, the distinguished yiolin1st
LOT Hollyhocks, s. D., as his turn came at bat.
"Huh," retorted the perturbed Parkins.
Mr.. Sullivan of Hollyhock. took no notice of
the discourtesy, but pinned a blossom In the hit
column with a prairie fire starter that rolled be-
tween the lean shanks of Joe sugden and the
ISatted calves of Richard Mansfield Padden
James Postlewaite Hart. the distinguished home
run masseur from the earthquake country, soaked
another Parkin pitch down to Lillian Marcan,
and Lillian became so fustered that Hart was on
game, Lillian heaved it past Father Joe on
first and Davis and Sullivan executed a cake
walk over the pan.
Mr. Greminger, the impressario from Canton,
Ohio, put 229 Of his go pounds into an infeld
disturbance in the direction Of Lillian and it,
too, was handled like a bunch of unDulled mo-
jlasses candy by the s%hortstop. Mr.. Graham
popDed mp a long out. but of sufficient dimen
s1ons to let MIR. Hart score. Mr.. Oyler gave an
other shoot a love-pat and 1t rolled to the peda
extremities of the now historical Mr.. ,Parkin
~S AocDSU IL WV a otStEI. ~, duu 1 lO11St
into the wild onions. Greminger scored. Mr.
Michael Shannon placed the brand of the BARR
upon another that went over Uncle Dick Pad
den's head and Oyler scored. Fox and Thomas
were executed without further commotion.
: The saints came in and made a bid, but thert
was nothing really serious in them. Geier singlet
and Father Sugden tripled off Frosty's warm-up
Van Zandt singled. There was O short fly
around and only two scores came from Frosty
idaIlying. Mr.. Parkin came back in the secont
inning, and the millers started another ring
around-the-rosey deal. Then did Uncle Richart
arise in his wrath, yank Parkin from the stubbl
and put him into his stall, sending Coy out t
do the deviltry. The millers scored once In tn
second thru their swats upon Mr.. Parkins, lat
of Iowa.
The game progressed as smoothly as til
Eploughed ground would permit until the fit
tnning, when the millers started putting tack
into the Coy boy. The rattle Of hits off hr
squeezed in two more on a little ease-up b
Erosty.
Rain. a drizzle, had been adding to the SO,
rows Of the sanity city satans all Of this time
land when the ninth rolled around without tn
Imiuers marking about twenty more there wa
great JOY among the packinghouse hands, an
the deckhands who had paid car fare out
1.-The rhubarbs to see their pets prodded.
~Today-weather permitting-Cassius Cadwa
Iader is to pitch the mustard plasters at tt
paralytics at Nicollet park. 1t is the millers IL
%|tention to make it three straight and there al
pears to be no great reason why they shou]
mot. It the two rattles against st. Paul, Kelle
bhas ample revenge for his treatment by tt
snal1 city down stream. He is after more t
day.