The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-03
1T HAD TO CONE.
MEMPHIS ALWAYS LOSES THE
THIRD GAME OF THE SERIES.
A Very Poorly Played Game on the
Part Of the Home Nine-The Wis
itOrs DO Good Work.

"HoW did Memphis happen TO lose
the game to-day2" was the question
passed from mouth 10 mouth yester'
dav. How indeed? Read the answer
in the error column; that tells the
tale very succinctly. Eleven errors
there's a record for you to be proud OF,
especiallv when one bears in mind
that the pitcher was not being hit
very hard, fither. Hits and errors
generally follow each otter IN direct
ratio to their number, but we believe
that Yesterday was the first time that
anv club in the Southern League made
nearly double as many errors as the
. opposing side made lists. In the cele-
brated game Wuen Savannah beat
Memphis Is to 4, there were only y
errors to IS hits; in game played by
Nashville with Char eston, only hits
were made by Charleston Off Nash.
yille's pitcher, yet Nashville made 8
errors. but these cases are exceptional
and rare, and Memphis distanced all
previous records yesterday in the error
line, except in game where Phila'
delphia was charged with Is errors on
6 hits, tut 9 Of them were errors made
bv pitc ers in giving base on balls,
and hence only technically errors.
But be that as it may, the
home nine did not play ball
YESTERDAY. We don't know wh't to
cal it, but it wasn't baseball. O'Le'ry
pitched a game t5at ought to have
won, and probably might have won
but for an incident that ccured in
the fourth inning, and which had the
effect of rafting TIE boys bad y.
The score was to l against Mem
phis One man was out when Kreh-
meyer was hit by pitched ball and
allowed first base Black struck out.
Flu sslbach hit safely to center field
for three bags, end Krehmeyer
crossed the home-plate, but the UNI
pire decided Fusselbach out for run
ming more than three feet outside the
foul line. This was new racket on
the crowd, and they guyed the UNI
pire numerically, shouting RATS !!
and u.ing other ffectual methods OF
annoyance. The umpire was right,
however, and could not have decided
otherwise. Rule AZ, section 6, page
147 Of r ach's Official Guide, says;
Section 6, Rule AZ. II, in running to
first b Sc, he runs inside the foul line,
or more than three feet outside of it
except that he must do so, if neces'
sary to avoid a fielder attempting to
fed q batted ball, and in such case
shall not be declared out
The decision, though undoubto dly
correcs, bros e the boys al up end IN
the next inning they went to pieces
like card-hluse blown down by 6
breath. Listen to the thrilling de
tails: Arundel struck out Peak struck
out, but Krehmeyer dropped the bal
and Peak got to first on it; Graham
sent a fly to shortstop, which wa'
muffed, advancing Peak to second
Dickerson hit safely to right field fol
two b'gs, Peak and Graham scoring
Dickersou got to third on another
passed ball Cross sent grounder t
third and started for first; Whitehead
fielded the ball home to Krehmeyer'
feet, and before the latter could pre-
vent it, Cross scored; Kent hit t
right field for one bag and Cross 60
to third; Heinzman then cam
to the bat and Kent started t.
to second. Krehmeyer got the ball 4
Phelan in time, but to latter fun
bled and Kent was safe on second
Gross scoring KAUFMAN hit safely t
left field one bag but was declare
out fer the same fault that Fu'selba
had committed in running outside tn
line, Kent scoring. Hart struck ou
but Krehmever allowed the.ball topas
again and Hart was safe on frs
Lewis went out on fly to Sneed, an
the inning was over; score 7 to
against Memphis. That is how W
lost Yesterdays game.