Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-19
ON THE DIAMOND.
The Haverlys Give the Atlas Bad
Beating.


Thankful for the return of pleasant
weather, a large assemblage of ladies and
gentlemen came together at Agricultural
Park yesterday afternoon to witness the
baseball contest between the Haverlys, of
San Francisco, and the Atlas, of this city.
Both clubs appeared in new and handsome
uniforms, that of the Haverlys being
white, with dark-brown belts and stockings
while the Atlas was of white, trimmed
with red, ana red belts and stockings. The
Haverlys brought their full nine OF expert
enced and effective players, including Han
ley, who was warmly received by his Sac
ramento friends when he took his turn at
the bat. Much interest was manifested
relative to the men who were to form the
battery for the Altas-Eames, pitcher, and
Burke. catcher, recent arrivals from Atchi-
son, Kansas. They are quiet, good-natured
young men, and from their size were soon
named the PONY team" Another
Eastern man, Woodbury., also appeared in
thenine experimentally, playing right field,
but, probably in consequence of his being
out of practice, he did not show up TO good
advantage. The game was called promptly
at the time set, 2:30, with the Atlas at the
bat, and John Johnson acting as umpire.
During the first two innings neither side
scored, and the crowd applauded the bat
terry of the home nine, which seemed very
effective. In the third inning the Hayerlys
made two runs, and when the inning was
over, Hayes, the Alta Captain, demanded
change of umpire, s ating that Mr.. John
son, in the case of DoDahue twice called
balls. when the pitcher was entitled to
have had them called strikes" and in
consequence Donahue was given a base on
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Donahue and his side would have been out,
and the two runs would not have been
made. Several minutes were spent in dis
cussing he matter, the umpire holding to
his action as being correct, and Hayes in
sisting upon his demand for a change.
while the spectators became impatient and
yelled "Gamew Finally, J. NJ. Sullivan
was prevailed upon 10 fill the thankless
position of umpire and did so salts
factorily, barring a little " kick E"
now and again from the Haverlys.
The changing of umpires did not i'm
prove the fortunes of the Atlas, as the
Haverlys managed to add little to their
score each successive inning, except the
eighth, and finally won by 10 to 3, with an
inning to spare. In the seventh inning
Barry was put in the box for the local club,
the Bay nine having learned Eames' style,
and in the next two innings showed how
much improvement he has made over last
year, striking out six of the Haverlys,
though Inceil managed, after three strikes,
to reach first base on passed ball Burke
proved TO be very plucl1y little catcher.
aid, though tired when Barry commenced,
stuck to his work heroically, though he
proved to be almost too light to stop for
such strong pitcher as Barry. The spec
tators were much pleased with his courage
and good nature. Incell and Hardie PLAYED
a splendid game, the former striking out
80, and assisting in 81 put-outs, but allow
ing men to take bases ON balls; while
Hardie batted and ran bases well, put out
IA and had 8 assists. The result of the
game showed that the Atlas were still short
a first-class catcher, and very deficient in
batting ability. However, some engage
ments have been made, or are in contem-
plation, which will enable them to do much
better next time. In fact, they cannot be
said to be in practice yet. Following is the
score OF Yesterdays game: