The Minneapolis Journal

MUDHENS CHASED INTO THE MARSH

Kelley's Colts Win a Fine Race on the Minnehaha Course.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

GAMES TODAY,
Toledo at Minneapolis.
Louisville at St. Paul.
Indianapolis at Kansas City.
Columbus at Milwaukee.

STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Corrected today for The Journal by President O'Brien.

By O'Loughlin.

A large crowd, probably 5,000 fans in all, crowded the grandstands, paddock and quarter-stretch at the Minnehaha race course yesterday afternoon for the running of the Suburban handicap. (Suburban because it was run off in the suburbs.) The Grillo selling-plater, Toledo, was an even favorite with Mike Kelley's colts, but youth will tell and youth will be served. The colts won the game in a rattling finish and came under the wire by a nose, but going easy.

Score 4-3.

When Starter Longley dropped the flag the Toledo team jumped into the lead, beating the colts away from the barrier. At the quarter-stretch the colts caught their stride and began to make up lost ground. A quick sprint at the head of the backstretch put them in the lead down the straight, but at the three-quarters and turning the home the Toledo team came up and challenged. They worked up to nose and nose with the colts, but in the last eighth the colts gingered up and bolted under the wire a winner. Lefty Davis first, with Greminger, the jockey, applying the lash of a corking two-bagger that lifted him under the wire.

"Get away from that hoss' head!"

Winning baseball games is getting to be as easy for the millers as falling off the water-wagon when you have your week's wages and meet old friends. The colts are getting so full of pep that Kelley never enters the den at the clubhouse without a club or a pitchfork. Some of these days one of them is going to crawl into the grandstand and bite someone.

The town is just as baseball crazy as the team and 'first place' is the slogan.

Record Sunday Crowd,

Yesterday afternoon the crowd filled the big Minnehaha stands and bleachers and then spread out behind the ropes all around the out-field. It was a cloudy, rainy looking afternoon, but that did not keep the record Sunday crowd of the year from attending.

Kilroy was to pitch, but yesterday morning he developed symptoms alarmingly like appendicitis and was under a physician's care all day.

Gehring was sent in to pluck the mudhens and succeeded admirably. Piatt started in to do the diverting for the hens, but was as wild as a St. Paul censustaker when the graveyards have given out and the count is still behind Minneapolis. Sutthoff was substituted in the fifth inning, but the millers were locoed on the hit proposition and he was as helpless as a crawfish trying to swim the Atlantic ocean.

The hens scored first. In the first inning Joshua Clark led off with a two-bagger and came home when William Percy Nance binged out a single that hit the outfield with the sound of a raw egg dropping on an asphalt pavement. Krueger followed with a single, but the hens were shooed off the roost before they scored again.

In the second Knabe lobsterized a clout by Greminger and Hart drew a base on balls. Oyler sacrificed and Graham singled. Greminger scored on the single and Hart came home on Yeager's out.

Scored Again.

In the fourth the millers picked up another when "Busher" Greminger rapped out a single and James Pestlewaite Hart extracted a two-bagger from the assortment of Herr Sutthoff. Greminger scored.

In the sixth the hens started cackling when Joshua Clarke singled and stole second. Nance brought him home with a single. In the eighth Clingman singled and a series of outs let him to third. Nance drove one down to Andrew J. Oyler, who became vexed at the effrontery and threw the boots into it. Clingman scored.

Then the millers went out as fast as possible and in the ninth the hens followed suit. The millers came to bat with the score tied 3 to 3. Davis drew a base on balls and Sullivan sacrificed. Freeman flew out and Sutthoff had three balls and two strikes on Greminger. The next one up curved over the plate as gently as an artist working in the clay and Sculptor Greminger put the chisel into it for keeps. The ball sailed away over behind the bleacher in left field and Davis streaked across the plate like a rat terrier after a Maltese kitten.

The crowd yelled its way out of the stands, yelled its way to the cars and kept yelling all of the way down town until the conductors requested silence so the spotters could hear the fare registers ringing.

The statistics:

Totals 9 1

Totals 13

Two out when winning run was made.

Minneapolis
Toledo

Bases on balls, off Piatt 5, off Sutthoff 1; two-base hits, Yeager, Hart, Greminger, J. Clarke; double plays, Clingman (unassisted), Krueger to W. Clarke; struck out, by Gehring 7, by Sutthoff 2; hits, off Piatt 4 in four innings, off Sutthoff 4 in five innings; sacrifice hits, Sullivan 2, Oyler; stolen bases, Hart, Graham, Freeman, Sullivan, J. Clarke; left on bases, Minneapolis 10, Toledo 4. Time, 2:05. Umpire, Longley. Attendance, 5,000.