Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-06
A BASEBALL WATERLOO.
Goose Eggs. Goose Eggs, Nine Of Them'
All of a Size!

All of Size!
The REcoPD-UNIoN during the earlier
summer months expressed the opinion that
all the Atlas needed to place them at the
head of the baseball clubs of the State was
a good pitcher, their brilliant fielding max
ing up for anything they might lack in
other respects. In the engagement OF
Charlie Sweeney to occupy the box they
put the right man in the right place,
and their victories over the Pio-
neers and Haverlys substantiated what
we had said concerning them. Yesterday
they met the remaining club OF the League,
the GREENWOOD Il Morans, of Oakland, and
= did them up " IN an astonishing manner,
winning by a score o. S to o, with an inn
ing to spare. In fact the Pets did not
get man 10 third base during the game.
The attendance was nearly IS large as at
any time during the season, and, while the
spectators were enthusiastic in favor of the
local club, they cheerfully recognized good
playing by the visitors. J. NJ. Sullivan
acted as umpire, and both clubs were
pleased with the manner in which he filed
the position. The game was played
promptly and with spirit, but without any
thing of an unpleasant character. Sweeney
and Van Haltren, the pitchers, are not of
the iumping.jack order, but deliver the
ball without moving from their positions,
consequently the disagreeable cry OF keep
him in the box, Mr.. Umpire!' was not
heard From the start it was evident that
the Oaklanders were having an off day."
and their opponents were playing better
than probably they were ever known to do,
the score showing but one error on their
side, and ii was of such trifling character
as 10 be scarcely worth mentioning. They
made II base hits, while their opponents
were held down to three.
The Greenwood tG MOrans went to the
bat first, and made about the best showing
they did during the game-the first and
last innings being their best. When the
Atlas took their turn, Sweeney and Robert
son were given bases on balls. McLaugh-
lin following them, hit to center field. not
very sharply, but enough to bring in the
others, and he himself tailed on an over
throw. Flint struck to the pitcher and
was thrown out at first. Ahern's foul was
looked after by Brown, the catcher.
BOrchers hit safely to right field, and the
inning finished by Fishers " tanning" In
the fifth inning Robertson sent the ball into
left field, ard was brought home by Nc
Laughlin's three-bagger, which would
probably have been home-run but for the
ball rolling into the ring left by the circus,
on the east side OF the Enclosure. Flint
knocked a good one into center field, where
it was caught, but Mclaughlin tailed
Ahern waited. Borchers and Fisher each
hit safely to second base, and NeWbert to
right field, but Borchers was put out while
trying to get TO third. The next runs
were made by the Atlas in the eighth in
ming. Hilbert moved the ball toward the
pitcher, who suppressed him. Sweeney
and Robertson both raised it to left
field. McLaughlin's foul was takenin
charge by Brown. Flint followed the ex-
ample OF Sweeney and Robertson, and
Sweeney tailed. Ahern found the ball at
the third trial, and sent it TO second base,
but Gurnctt, who was guarding that posi-
ton, had finger badly hurt last week, and
the little sphere struck squarely on the end
of the injured digit, and he not only made
a mutf," but fumbled the ball afterwards
and finally gave up trying to capture it,
Robertson and Sweeney having succeeded
in crossing the home plate. Borchers
had q big hole in his bat, and
closed the inning by striking out
The annexed score shows who did the
good work One of the finest incidents of
the game was Browns catching a foul
from Sweeney's bat, which travelled swiftly
backward toward the club stand, and
seemed almost high enough to go over the
latter. Brown is very tall, and when he
to stretch himself the specta- |
tors watched the result eagerly. He tow
cred in the air, up went his hands, appar-
emily as a process of letting out another |
Joint, and it seemed as if ne never would |
quit growing. Still the ball was above
him, but with an agile spring upward he
his object, and as his feet
struck the ground again everybody cheered
or otherwise complimented him. Tommy
Meagher was missed from the Alta nine,
having recently hurt himself so that he
Gould not do duty. When the game closed, |
md the Atlas had succeeded in giving their
opponents a whitewashing, hats were
brown in the air, and the cheers Of the
spectators could have been heard many
blocks away