Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-10
OH WHAT A ROAST!
Tim Keefe Makes a Mark of
Our Home Talent.
THEY DIDN'T GET ONE RUN.
Local Teams Make a Match to Play
for Money.
BOSTON DOWNS THE BABIES.
The Phillies Win Lucky Contest by Heavy
Hitting.
GENERAL BASEBALL NEWS OF THE DAY

NEW YORK, July 9.-The second round
in the present series of games between the
New York and Pittsburg clubs at the New
Polo Grounds, played yesterday, resulted in
another victory for the champions. The
visitors were not in in at all. In fact, the
home team took the lead at the start, and
increased it as they went along until. at the
home stretch, the visitors were out of sight.
Toward the wind-up the Smoky City men
worked with a will to prevent a clean shut
out, bat the great Keefe was in the box, and
that settled it. Only three hits were made
BY the visitors, and they were squeezed IN
between outs in differents parts of the con-
test, so they were of no use. The work of
the New Yorks in the field wasn't so well
done as on the day before, but the errors
counted for no more than the visitors hits.
Keefe showed good head-work, and it was
through his good Judgment that the visitors
were shut-out
srALEY WAS IN THE BOX
for the visitors, but he was hit freely in the
opening inning, New Yorks earning three of
their four runs in the first off him. They kept
up their hitting in the second inning and
earned two of the three runs scored IN their
second trial with the willow. Staley's field
support was not as fine as it could have been,
but it did not lose the game, for the home team
were out with their gilt-edged tomahawks, and
the exhibition of science that they gave at the
opening of the game could not be duplicated
very well Owing TO the fact that the roof was
not on the grand stand, the great crowd of
cranks at the game on Monday was not there
yesterday. They had had enough of sitting
out in the hot sun and roasting The aceual at
tendance at the game for this reason was ,S97.
This does not represent the number of persons
who saw the game, by any means, for the bluffs
on the south side of One Hundred and Fifty
NTH street were crowded with spectators, who
saw the game without cost. After the game
the great crowd on the bluff rushed down to
the street in body, and for a time it looked as
though the whole face of the bluff was rolling
down into the street.
FEW PRETTY PLAYS.
There were several pretty plays during the
game, but the one-sidedness of the contest
caused these rne plays to be lost sight of. Sun
day made one or two clever catches and so did
O'Rourke, but the great work of the day was
by Keefe and Ewing. The latter stopped every
thing that fell behind the bat. as his record of
seven foul catches can testify.
The home team took the last turn at the bat.
When they did get a chance at Staley they be-
gan a series of short hits that were there not SO
many of them together, one would call them
lucky scratches. They were telling. however.
Gore began the bombardment by trying to
knock Dunlap to pieces. 1t was q remarkably
hot hit ball, and the visiting second baseman
did well to stop it, let alone throw the runner
out at first. Tiernan followed with q pretty
drive to left Then Ewing got IN a hit, but
what hit it was. Buck touched the ball and
it bowled slowly down to the left foul line to-
ward third base. Before White could get the
ball Ewing had got to first, and the bases were
full. Everybody took plenty of ground, SO that
when Ward hit a slow grounder to Dunlap Gore
scored on the sacrifice. Connor hit to first base
and was put out by Kuehne and Dunlap. Tier
nan crossed the plate. Richardson hunted the
ball toward third and Ewing scored. Richard
son stole second, assisted by an overthrow by
Miller. and scored on a hit by O'Rourke.
KEPT UP THE FUN.
The New Yorks kept up the fun In the second
inning, and even the small boy on the bluff
cheered at the lively way in which the worlds
champions were going around the bases. Keefe
opened the inning with q clean hit to left CEN
ter and went to second on a sacrifice by Gore.
After Miller had muffed a foul fly from Tier
nan Dat, nlke sent tue Ddll INTO leIL uelQ IOr
safe hit and stole second. Ewing hit safe
and Keefe scored, and as the ball was felded
in wildly by Fields. Tiernan got to third and
Ewing to second. Dunlap had a chance to do
something when Ward sent a lively grounder
down his way. and he did it. He missed the
ball and let Tiernan and Ewing both score. A
three-base hit in the left 1eld crowd by
O'Rourke and a sacrifice to Sunday by
Whitney gave New York the eighth
run. After this Staley settled down
and his field support improved so that had the
score not been so one-sided the game would
have been interesting. Connor got in a two
base hit in the fifth inning when only one man
was out, but he did not get beyond second.
Fields had worse luck than this in the fourth
inning. He began operations with two-base
drive 90 left field and although the next three
men did their utmost to help him around, the
en- n1ing of the inning saw him still at second
base. From this point up to the eighth inning
il was all machine work, with clever play
thrown in now and again. In eighth Connor
got to first on balls and was forced out by
Richardson. O'Rourke hit to center field and
Sunday muffed Whitney's long fiy Keefe
forced. Richardson out at the plate With
bases full, Staley gave Gore his base On balls
and O'Rourke walked home. This ended the
run-getting and a moment after the game came