Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-22
MTHREE.TIME HINNERs.n
The Atlas Defeat the "Pets," and Score
Their Third Undfsputed Victory.

The Atlas Defeat the +" Pets" and Score
Their Third Undisputed Victory.
The attendance at Agricultural Park yes
terday afternoon to witness the game OF
| baseball between the Atlas and the Green
hood & Morans was very large, the seats
being crowded and hundreds of spectators
standing up, while scores of vehicles occu-
pied the field outside the space occupied
by the players. During the first part of the
game the weather was delightful, but the
breeze became uncomfortably cool toward
the close. The Oakland club was strength
ened by the addition of Denny and Cahill,
who recently returned from st. Louis.
Brown, the usual catcher, having crippled
finger, Denny received for Van Haltren,
and while his catching was not remarkably
good, he showed great ability as thrower
to bases, and was expert with the ash
Cahill found the ball three times during
his four opportunities at the bat, but there
was always an Alta beneath it when it
came down. The last time he was up I"
he famed The kids :" recognized
him as soon as he appeared on
the ground, and gave him good
humored greeting of Wait till hit it p
Long, of the Greenhoods, usually reli-
able batter, struck out three times in sue
cession. Van Haltren seemed scarcely up
to his usual form as pitcher, or else the
Atlas have wonderfully improved in bat
ting-or both. They knocked him out to
total of eleven hits. He gave the spec
tators fine idea of neat base-running, Sc
curing two runs to his credit, as did also
Dolan. Gurnett and Flint each made three
base hits, and Meagher and Ahern fine
double play. On the side of the Atlas,
Fishers playing was remarkable, being
free from errors, and enabling him to secure
credit of four runs, including "homer,"
three base hits, including a two-bagger,
three bases stolen and one "put-out"
Borchers, the cratic, pitched a strong
game. causing eight of the visitors to wait
ont. Newbert made magnificent one
handed running catch in the eighth in
ming, which called enthusiastic applause
from all who saw it. ]. NJ. Sullivan UNI
pired the game impartially, but had sew
eral close decisions to make, in which,
whenever there was doubt, he properly
gave the runner the benefit. 1t happened
that two of these were in the cases of
GREENWOOD q Moran men at the home
plate, and in one of them the majority of
the crowd expressed the belief that the
runner was out
The game opened with the visiting nine
at the bat, and when, after two men had
been retired, the side succeeded in making
four runs, the friends of the Atlas felt ex-
ceedingly discouraged, and their chance of
winning certainly did not seem to be worth
ten cents on the dollar. When their turn
came, however, Meagher hit safely to Sec
ond and Fisher got his base on balls. Nc
Laughlin came up and really saved the day
by driving the ball so far down in right
field that Patsy Cahills short legs could
not bring him up with it in season to pre-
vent Williams accomplishing home run.
The shout that went up as the crowd real
lied that the Atlas had already three runs
to their credit-Meagher and Fisher having
tallied-showed an intense state CT excite
ment, and when Mclaughlin crossed the
plate the crowd cheered until it lost its
breath, and then picked the cheer up and
rolled it over, not subsiding until two or
three balls had been pitched for the next
man, the umpire meanwhile making him
self understood by signs. Subsequently
Ahern's base hit to left field brought in
Newbert, and Flint was put out at the
home plate.
The result of the inning changed the APP
pearance of things, and the Atlas "braced
up" wonderfully. In the second inning
Brown scored for the visitors and Fisher
forged ahead, Ahern tallying in the third
inning, and the redoubtable Fisher in the
fourth, while the Oaklanders had to be
content with goose eggs. Neither side
gained anything in the fifth inning, but in
the sixth both added one run to their total,
Van Haltren for the G. & MS and Fisher
for the home club. Another whitewash
for both in the seventh, and in the eighth
Dolan advanced the " Pets " one peg, and
the game closed with their side having
runs to the Atlas 8, the latter with an
inning to spare. 1t was one of the most
exciting contests ever witnessed on the
Sacramento diamond, and its result sent
the friends of the Atlas home in great glee,
while in remembrance of the air played by
the GREENWOOD & Moran's band when they
marched upon the grounds at Stockton re
Gently to meet the Atlas, two or three hun
bred of them, whose lips the cold wind
had not made too stiff to quicker. whistled
with more or less melody lone More
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