Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
NO DREAM ABOUT IT.
The Home Talent at Last Scores a
Fine Victory.
STALEY PUZZLES THE GIANTS.
Chicago and the Senators Play an Eleven
Inning Game.
OTHER GAMES IN THE EAST AND WEST
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NEW YORK, May 1s.-Stupidity cost the
New York club game to-day. 1t was the
second contest between the New York and
Pittsburg clubs, and 4, 500 spectators were
on hand expecting to see good game, but
instead they saw one full of very ''rocky"
PLAYS. At the beginning of the game a
heavy fog blew in from the sea, and during
the whole game it was more or less dense.
Sheets of it dashed into the spectators faces
and made them shiver. At times the out
felders looked like shadows through
the fog and q ball hit to them was
caught with much difficulty. 1t was proba-
bIv this that caused Gore to turn Sundays
single into three-bsse hit in the sixth in
ming. The visitors made no such plays as this,
however, probably because they are used to
PLAYING in smoke. They did fine work, these
visiting outfelders, and they cut of many
hits that looked safe.
SMILING MICKEY WEIGH,
although not well as yet, went in to pitch.
Ewing was to have caught him. but his back
was still lame from his pitching, SO he sent
Brown behind the bat in his stead. The in
field, too, was changed. Richardson's injury to
his finger in Fridays game prevented him from
playing and Ward moved around to the second
base corner of the diamond, while Hatfield
played short stop. The contest was one in
which the pitchers did all the hard work.
The display of pitching skill by Welch and
Staley was very pretty. Both were very eff.
fective and only four hits were MADE of either.
The shoytstops on either side came in for lively
work as is usual in these pitchers games.
Smith did well at times. but his errors were
very costly. Hatfield never played more
cool-headed game. His six chances were ac-
cepted with the skill of am old timer.
sTALEY SETTLED DOWN.
The New Yorks hit very hard at times, but
the ball in nearly every case dropped into the
waiting hands of an outfelder, or went into the
pocket of one of the infielders. Staley was
steady when his side were in close place, and
more than once he prevented runs. He was
somewhat wild at the start, but settled down
after the third inning.
At the beginning of the game Staley gave
Tiernan and Hatfield their bases on balls. Yet
with only one man out the New Yorks failed to
score. The visitors did better than that.
Sunday waited until the crowd had finished
cheering Welch, and then he sent the ball
safely down the left foul line for one base. A
base on balls to Hanlon and two passed balls
gave the Smoky City lads, with the
Princeton College collars, run. No
one feared that the New Yorks might
not overcome this slight lead, but as it turned
out they would never have done so had not the
tisitors come to their assistance. The New
Yorks' second inning was a very peculiar one,
and it is not often that club can go through
an inning like it and not score at least one run.
A base on balls to Ward, hit to center by
o'Rourke and base on balls to Whitney filed
the bases with no one out. Welch came to
the bat and was doubled up with Ward. Gore
got first on balls and Herman went out at first
THE GIANTS SCORED.
The New Yorks took turn 1t scoring in the
third inning, and two runs gave them a lead
for short time. The first tally was brought
in by Hatfield, who, after hitting safe to left
field, made one of the prettiest plays of the
season in base running. Brown hit slow
grounder to Smith, and Hatfield started to
take two bases on the play: He had no
bluff to catch him, and threw so wild
that Hatfield walked home. Smith then
came in for his share of the bad plays. After
fumbling Wards grounder he threw the ball
over Beckley's head and tie runner took third
From this point he scored on wild pitch. 1t
was then one two three on either side until the
sixth inning, when Welch caused a burst of
cheers by hitting safe to center field
for one base. He did not better it.
Sunday in this inning drove the ball into
the fog at center feld, and although Gore was
out there somewhere the ball dropped safe and
danced about until the lively center fielder
had brushed the fog away enough to see it.
Sunday was on third base by this time. and a
hit to right field by Hanlon allowed him to
cross The plate. wild pitch and sacrifice hit
let Hanlon score. However, the latter run
should not have come in.
A FEW DIFFICULTIES.
1t was bad ball to handle and bad ground
to handle ii on and when it got to Ward he
juggled it long enough to let Hanlon get home,
but still had time to get his man out at first.
Then the machine work began again and con-
tinued until the ninth inning, when the New
York club failed to take advantage of their last
chance of victory. When the inning opened
not one among the large number of spectators
could have said that the New Yorks had
chance to win. The outlook was no better
when Ward attempted to bunt the ball and
beat it to first and failed. Then there was a
change. Smith fumbled O'Rourke's grounder
and James got to third, when Whitney
dropped the ball safely into center field for one
base. Whitney stole second and the New
Yorks seemed sure of a run. They did not get
it because of stupid base running on the part
of both Whitney and O'Rourke. Whitney
played too far off second and Staley caught
him off the base. O'Rourke should have seen
that either he or Whitney was sure to go out
and should have attempted to get home, but
sequence was that Whitney was put out. Then
Welch hit to Hanlon and the game ended.
Score: