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"A Yale College pitcher named Tilden played with the Whites under the name Brown" (Globe Democrat). This is just the first of many odd things in the game reports for this game. The Whites, down to just 10 players on the road trip after Herr joined the Browns, started two unknown players in right field and center field, which gave Staley, Arundel and Dolan a day off. A player called 'Brown' in the box score played centerfield, whom the Globe Democrat identified as Tilden. This seems most likely to have been Fred Tilden, a pitcher formerly of Harvard. The second player, in right field, is identified only as Flynn in most box scores, but Glynn in the box score from the Chicago Tribune. The identity of this player is not clear. There is also a discrepancy in the size of the crowd. The Globe Democrat reports 400 were in attendance. The Tribune reports 4000 people were present. The St. Paul Globe gives the crowd size as 2000, and further comments that "it differed from the week day crowds, too, in that a generous proportion held down seats in the grand stand, putting up therefor a whole half of a simoleon instead of the plebeian, bleeching-board two-bit piece." The game itself seems to have been rather dull. The Whites scored first with two runs in the fifth. Burch walked, and Hines and Cantz singled. Nyce tripled, "bringing in Burch and Cantz. Hines was declared out at the plate, but the crowd did not agree with the decision" (Star-Tribune). Explain how Burch (on third) and Cantz (on first) could score while Hines (on second) didn't score. After that it was the Maroons who took over, scoring three off of Nyce in the sixth and three more in the ninth. Chicago got nine hits off Nyce - four singles, four doubles and a triple - and the Whites made five errors, such that only two of the six runs were earned. The Whites scored one more run in the ninth, and the Tribune (and pretty much every other paper I could find a score in) reported a final score of 6-3. The Globe Democrat credits the Whites with an additional run in the seventh, and gives the final score as 6-4. Just one last weird thing about the game. The box scores didn't list who struck out, but the St. Paul Globe called out Brown specifically as having "an average of 1.000 in strikeouts. Three times at bat and nine holes in the air is his record."
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