Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

An old-time sport, whose hair has become
silvered in the cause Of earning an honest
livelihood and watching ball games for
many generations, remarked. on q street
car coming from Yesterdays game:
"That's the leather for me. Now we've
got down to real sound ball playing. Lots
of runs without the science is what want,
and that's the way baseball playing was
established in this country"
The veterans remarks were loud enough
to be heard by everybody on the car. and
young and old Endorsed the notion, and the
general chorus was: Hes the right kind Of a
gay old sport"
1t is now a matter of history that yesterdays
game for fun and excitement will rank with the
best of those of long ago. Why. everybody was
wild, and just jumped about as If on piece of
hot iron. Those who delight in seeing base run
ming saw Is men cross the plate, and the ad-
mirers of hitting saw the ball knocked safely
away 80 times.
THERE WERE PLENTY OF ERRORS,
l3 of them, and they helped to sustain the fun.
And there was any amount of kicking. So that
altogether the 2.500 spectators had about two
hours and half of lively fun.
1t was the third time in succession that the
home team showed the Giants where they were
wrong. 1t took some very great effort to do it
but the score and summary will reveal the fact
that the home players won the game fairly on
its merits. Banging the ball away at times
when needed is always conducive Of run
getting. That was done by the home repre-
sentatives yesterday. and they. without doub:,
give the Commonwealth to understand that
they ''were the people" and not the great folk
of New York.
Mickey Welch, with his perennial SMILE
commenced to pitch for the visitors, ana al
though the impossible feat of knocking his
smile out of existence couldn't be accom-
thumped out of the box. This was an unex-
pected turn Of affairs, as the little father of o
big family certainly started in bread
winner. However, he
WAS FAIRLY KNOCKED OUT,
and O'Day was on the card as extra man.
succeeded in convincing Powers that Keefe
had a right to pitch the balance of the game.
Beside, 1t was claimed that UDay was not in
condition. The result was Keefe took
Welch's place in the sixth inning. and Sir
Timothy was not much of an Improvement.
The home talent were out on . sandy, and it
was matterless who came across their path.
They were out for victims, and Giants OF the
best quality had to 60 down.
The game was in many respects curious
one. As Gore, who sat in the directors box
the very start the visitors took lead that
made victory look a certainty to them. Why,
Mutrie smiled broader smile than ever Welch
dare smile at the end of the second inning.
"wE ARE THE PEOPLE TO-DAY"
said James, after his famous aggregation had
made five runs. The score then stood 6to l. in
favor of the visitors, and everybody was salts
fied that the only fun there was to see then
would be that of the big people knocking
Calvin about. However, matters changed
fore she hrs DsfOrf INNING long and n.bsd s
all the sympathy there was for the Giants van.
ished because of an act of Buck Ewing's. He,
when men were run bases laid his mask on
the home plate, and Miller ran on to it injur-
ing himself so much that he had to retire, and
Sunday took his place. Ewing was hooted
extremely for this, and he foolishly enough re-
turned the compliment to the people who had
no more sense than to do 1t. As a result
there were yells sufficient to turn the hairs of a
young man gray during the balance of the
game.
EwING'S MEAN TRICK.
In the sixth inning Ewing repeated the act
when Beckley was running home and again
there was pandemonium. The noise and the
din no doubt had much to do with the wild
pitching of both Keefe and Welch, and also a
very fragrant error made by Ewing However,
the latter had only himself to blame for any
The fielding was bad on both sides; but the
visitors had Gore and Richardson absent
which weakened them considerably. However
the great fault was IN the pitchers box. Had
the pitchers on both sides done better, of
course there might not have been the errors
made.
To tell the story of how the runs were made
in detail would be very wearisome affair.
The most notable innings were the second and
the fifth. In the second the visitors netred five
unearned runs on the rankest errors that any
body ever saw. Fields, Beckley, Carroll,
Kuehne-all made some of
THE MOST RIDICULOUS MISTAKES.
However, the visitors soon more than evened
matters up in the way of making mistakes
Hatfield was again short of a success and
Ward was somewhat shaky.
In the fifth inning. when Welch was knocked
out, five singles and triple was made of his
delivery, Fields knocking out the triple to right
sixth inning two singles. and tumble by Keefe,
sent in run. In the seventh, after Hanlon
was out Dunlap and Calvin each made a sim
gle and Sunday got base on balls filling the
bases. Carroll then got his base on balls, fore
ing in a run. Rowe then brought two runs in
on single to middle. In the ninth inning
Keefe was touched up for four singles, and
these with a base on balls and an error by Tier
nan, sent in three runs.
In the seventh inning it looked as if the visi-
tors had found Galvin's measure. After Tier
nan was out Ewing. Connor and Ward each
made corking singles, which earned two runs.
In the eighth, after Whitney was out, Keefe
made a three-bagger and scored on Tiernan's
single. Following is the score:
PIrTsBURG R A zNEw YoRKs. RBP AK
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