Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-10
TWICE IN ONE Day.
THE sACRAMENTos CONVINCED THAT
THEY CAN'T PLAY BALL.
San Franciscos Soundly Thrashed by the
Oakland Aggregation of Swal-
low-tailed Sluggers.

Downed again 1t was the same old
story, and the Sacramentos went in the
hole again. The game, however, was a
beautiful one, and the defeat of the tail
enders was not such terrible one as thev
have been in the habit of receiving of late
If they were always defeated in the man.
ner they were yesterday they could attrib-
nte their loss more to i'll luck than to want
of energy; but those "19 and IA to 0 {"
games are what make the public disgusted
1t was almost mot quite though) pleasure
to see Sacramento beaten yesterday. They
worked hard to win, but the Banner Island
Club had the luck on their side and, after
an exciting contest, won by the trim score
of to 3. One could sit for hours and
watch such playing, and the fact that a
really good game has not been seen here for
some time made the contest yesterday un-
usually interesting.
Burke and Fudger both pitched good
ball. Seven hits were made from the de-
livery of each, but Fudger did his best
work when it was most needed, and to this
fact is due the Stockton victory. Then,
again, Hayes made two very poor and in
eXcusable fumbles at short, Goodenough
put one hand at CahilFs high roller" on
which he made the circuit of the bases,
and again the agile centerfield muffed
fly which ought to have been captured
All of these misplays summed up, turned
into runs in the end and added three runs
to the Stocktons' score
Lohman is just the man Sacramento has
been hunting for for some time past. If
he plays as well behind the bat all the
time, as he did yesterday, he can stay with
the club till it disbands. He isn't a bit
afraid of Burke's delivery, and stands up
behind the bat as though he had the ut
most confidence in himself. He is stout
and well-built, quite young, and, best of
all, quiet, unassuming player. Burke
could hardly want better back stop, and
his throwing it was pleasure to
witness it; no dead arm twist in the swing
of the arm. During the whole season Sac
rsmento has never had near as good a
thrower. If pitcher will Just watch a
base in ordinary good shape, and then a
runner attempts to steal, he'll find the bali
waiting for him more times than he thinks
for. The new man did not get hit yester-
day, but he had his eye on the ball, sure.
Not strike was called on him, but when
ever the ball came over the plate the bat al
ways met it. In the eighth inning he did
some excellent work, for which the spec
tators cheered him loud and long A ball
was knocked to O'Day, who threw to first
about ten feet too high. Lohman. seeing
that the ball was too elevated to be caught
rushed to back up first base, and, jumping
over the fence in front of the grand stand
he picked up the ball and lined it over to
McSorley in time to put the runner out.
1t was such quick work that the people
could not help but cheer. keep up the
good work, Lohman, and you'll be big
favorite here"
1t was notable day for batters being hit
by pitched balls. None of them were
badly hurt however. Howard got rap
on the shoulder, Stickney got low ball in
the leg and Mclaughlin was taken square
in the back. The ball came like bullet.
struck the batter sauarelY and dropned on