Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-09
IT MADE DAY SMILE.
The Giants Celebrate the Opening of
Their New Grounds by
DEFEATING TIE ALLEGBENIES.
ALI the Visiting Clubs Received Unpleasant
Receptions.
ASSOCIATION VICTORIES YESTERDAY
rsrrc1A1 rxLxanAM no rHr pIsrArcH.i !

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsrArcHl
NEW YORK, July S.-For the first time
in many a long day smile to-day played
about the lips of President Day. His effort
in seeking a new home promised to be sue
cess, and, if the first day is any indication,
then success for this new ball ground is as
sured.
In this game the New Yorks had the Pitts
burgs, lead by Hustling Horace Phillips,
as their opponents. The old Detroit club was
well represented on the Pittsburg team. Rowe
and White made their first appearance with
the team. They. with Dunlap and Hanion,
made quite an impression. Rowe and White
showed up rather rusty, the latter especially
showed a lack of practice, and his misplays
were costly. However, he did not do much
worse than the older players of the visiting
team, for. as a whole. their work was far from
satisfactory.
SOME COSTLY ERRORS.
The New Yorks' secured all of their runs
with the assistance of errors by the visitors,
Notwithstanding they hit the ball at the right
moments. and as a consequence their hits were
rather more valuable. AS for the field work of
the New Yorks 1t can be said to have been
perfect. The only fielding error was by Ward,
who had taken his old place at short held, and
although his error was costly, IL was owing TO
an exceedingly wild bound Of the ball.
1t was expected that either Keefe or Welch
would be in the box for the home team, but Ed
Crane, with his badly famed leg, was sent in,
and he did remarkably well. III there ever had
been any fear of this man having any trouble
with his head after being sunstruck on his trip
around the world, all such fears can now be
thrown aside, for, when the game was over,
Eds uniform was soaked with perspiration,
and he said that he had never felt the heat SO
much as IN this game. At times he was slightly
wild, bul only in one inning did his wildness
cost ANYTHING. and that was in the third: when ;e
the ball. He never showed better speed than
in this game, and he sent the ball to Ewing in
good shape.
EwING's GOOD WORK.
After the work of Captain Ewing in this
game, it can be said of him that he can catch
any man on the ball field. The only error by
our captain was a short passed ball on which
runner stole second. but it did no harm. Gal
vim and Miller was the opponents battery.
Miller was perfect in his work. and for that
matter SO was Calvin. The old man showed
remarkable degree of head work, and gave no
chances for bases on balls. 1t was probably for
this reason that he was hit somewhat harder
than he otherwise would have been, still there
is no telling as to this, for the Champions were
out with their scalping knives in tip-top order
ana were a1tes DlOOO. me new IOrkS WOulu
not have had SO easy time had the visitors
done better work in the fed, still there is not
much doubt but that they would have won just
the same.
The visitors were not in it during the early
part of the game and when the New Yorks
gained the first knock down by scoring four
runs in the third inning, the 10000 spectators
who had been fortunate enough to secure an
entrance to the grounds before the closing of
the gates settled themselves back as comfor-
tably as possible to perspire, get sunburned,
and enjoy the game.
A CHEERFUL CROWD.
The crowd was the same old Polo Ground
gathering that has time and time again gath
cred to see the New Yorks play. 1t was Just
as cheerful as in the days gone by and ever
ready to shower applause on the player that
distinguished himself by a good play, or to
coach any player whenever he secured a "life''
on a misplay by one of the visiting fielders.
They had little cause for murmurs of regret
for poor work by the home team, for they
handled themselves in such way as to put one
in mind of well oiled and regulated machine.
The opening inning saw both teams doing
good work The play by the home team was a
shade the better, being more clean cut and
rapid. But little occurred in the New Yorks
first round. Gore fell an easy victim at first on
a grounder to Dunlap. The next moment there
was a roar and bang as Tiernau sent the ball
skyward. 1t came down near the deep right
under it. and the burst of applause was cut
short by the ball dropping in the little right
felder's hands. The force of the ball and the
run carried Sunday up the ten-foot enbank-
ment Then Ewing came to the bat, and after
his watch had been presented him he hit the
ball to Calvin and went out at first
1t was only by the most clever kind of work |
that the visitors were prevented from scoring
in the first inning. Crane showed slight de- |
gree of unsteadiness in the first inning. Han |
Ion and Carroll both got to the bases on balls. |
while Sunday in the meantime had been called |
out on strikes. With one out and two on bases |
it certainly looked somewhat blue for the |
champions. There was hope. however for no |
one knew how Whites retirement had affected |
his stick work. Everything came out right, |
however, for the Deacon drove a grounder at |
Whitney and he was doubled up with Carroll. |
This ended the first inning.
A LITTLE SURPRISE.
Then came a surprise in safe hit to left field |
by Conner. The big first baseman never nits |
in that direction. and he acknowledged himself |
that the hit was by mere accident. He stayed |
on first base until Richardson had been retired |
on strikes and O'Rourke had popped up f. to |
followed with a sharp ground hit |
which Dunlap let 60 through him, and when |
the ball had been recovered Conner was on |
third and Ward on first. Our big first baseman |
took too much ground, and Miller got him be- |
tween the bases and he was run down. The |
half of this inning. but they failed to |
accept the chance. With Rowe out |
Dunlap got to first on balls. Miller |
bit to O'Rourke, and then Kuehne got a |
Harlem twist on the bal, and cut line through |
the grass of the newly-made diamond toward |
right field. 1t was \ pretty SINGLE so pretty |
that it enabled Dunlap to get to third. While |
Kuehne was satisfied to remain on first for o |
short time. he did not stay there long. how |
ever, for with man on third it Is not much |
trouble 10 steal second, and Kuehne did SO. |
they got out of it by Crane striking out Calvin |
Up TO this point the contest had been quite ex- |
citing, and the enthusiastic spectators cheered |
and perspired. |
THE RUN-GETTING BEGAN
in the third inning. and the errors began to pile
up at the same time. Whitney was first at the |
bat in this inning, but an easy grounder to |
Rowe settled his chances. Crane. in his usual |
easy FORM dragged his bat up to the plate and |
chopped at the first ball that came along The |
ball skipped down the left field foul line, and |
although White got enc hand on it, he could |
not have held it with a crab net Before he |
could recover the ball Crane had hmped to |
first base. Gore followed with pretty drive |
over second base. Then it was Tier !!
a 15n to do wa, sas and he
He hit sharp grounder at Rowe and that |
gentleman fumbled it. With three on bases |
Miller threw the ball to second ,s to catch Gore
came home while the other two men on bases |
moved up base each. This move caused a /
great burst of applause and the trees in the |
distance fairly bowed their heads in delight |
Hanlon then came to the rescue of the \
by: mufing Ewing's fly in deep |
center field which not only enabled the New /
Yorks captain to get to second base but it also /
enabled Gore TO cross the plate.
The ground itself was as hard as could be |
expected for q new ground; the infield had /
been nicely sodded, the outheld was composed /
Of bare turf and was more or less rough. The /
visitors complained somewhat about 1t, but 4
still it was far superior to the Staten Island
grounds. The score: f