Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-03
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as il was among other folk, and the New
York and Pittsburg clubs played two games
of ball on the new Polo grounds. There
were ,759 spectators at the morning game
and 9, 131 at the afternoon game. The first
game was hard hitting contest, in which
the New Yorks had the best of it. The
champions batted Morris almost at will and
made things lively. o'Day pitched for the
New Yorks and did remarkable work. The
visitors started in on O'Day as though they
were going to bat him out OF the box, but
they seemed to lose sight of the ball after
the first inning, and it was not until the
wlndup of the game that they were able to
do anything with his curves. Even then they
did not hit him to any great extent. The field
ing especially by Wood and Richardson was
very sharp. Grounders were stopped by the
last named players that at other times would
count for hits.
STARTED THE RUN GETTING.
The New Yorks started in with the run get
ting and tailed two singles right off the reel
Gore got a base on balls, and Miller muffed
long fly by Tiernau. Ewing filled the bases by
bunting the ball toward Kuehne. and beat 1t
to first Hanlon pulled down fly from Con-
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double play by throwing Ewing out at first,
Gore scoring on the play. Ward scored Tier
nan with a two-base drive to left field. and
Richardson retired the side on grounder to
White. The visitors did just as well as the
New Yorks in their half of the inning in point
of runs. Hanlon hit for three bases against
the right center field fence, and scored on
Rowe's sacrifice fly to Gore. Beckley hit to
Connor and was out Carroll hit to center for
two bases, and Fields brought him home with
double to left field. White hit toward third
for one base. Fields tried to move up on the
play, but went out at third. This left the score
a tie.
The second inning was blank althou gh
both sides got men on the bases. Tier nan
opened the third inning BY sending several
fouls over the grand stand and finished by
driving line hit under the right fields seat
FOR A HOME RUN.
Ewing followed with single to center and
Connor moved him upa base on sacrifice
from White to first. Ward flied to Morris and
Richardson to Kuehne. There was nothing
done in the way of run getting after this until
the New Yorks sixth inning, when they scored
one run. Connor and Ward made single hits
and Richardson sacrificed at first from Kuehne.
O'Rourke hit to White and while the latter
was trying to put out Ward, Connor scored.
Whitney got base on balls but was left on
0'Day's out from Rowe to first
In the seventh Gore flied to Fields. Tiernan
made double to right, and Ewing put the ball
over Miller's head for three bases, Herman
scoring. Connor hit to Miller, and Ewing
scored. Ward fouled to Carroll Richardson
opened the eighth with two-bagger to center,
and 0'Rourke singled to right. A fy to Miller
by Whitney allowed Richardson to score
O'Day doubled O'Rourke on a fly to Rowe.
In the eighth Hanlon got base on balls, and
Rowe hit to center, moving Hanlon around to
third Rowe going to second on the throw in
Richardson threw Buckley out at frst Han
Ion scoring. Rowe second on Wards throwing
Carroll out at first.
FIELDS MADE A DOUBLE
to center and went out in trying to reach third.
Ewing forced Gore at the plate, Tiernan going |
TO third. from which point he scored on Morris |
balk. Ewing going TO second on the play. Buck |
stole third and came home on Connor's hit to |
center. Hanlon felded the ball wildly home |
and Connor went around to third, where he |
was left on Wards fouling out to Carroll and |
Richardson's fly to Miller. The visitors ended |
the game with two runs White got base on |
an error by Ward Miller hit safe, but was |
forced at second by Kuehne. Morris sacrificed |
at first and White scored. kuehne,scored on a /
two-base hit by Hanlon. Rowe ended the game |
by going out at first from Richardson.
THE OTHER SLAUGHTER.
The second game was a walk-over for the /
home team. The Smoky City players were un-
able to do anything with Keefe's curves when |
hits were wanted to bring in runs, while the |
New Yorks hit both hard and timely. Calvin
had good control of the ball, but he was power I
less to prevent the champions from hitting the
ball when hits were needed to bring in runs
Gore led in the batting for the home team with
Tiernan and Richardson close behind him,
Brown took Ewings place behind the bat in the
second inning and caught perfect game. Not
only were there no stolen bases made
off him, but no attempts were made in
this direction. Keefe was at his best and
moved down the men that faced him in great
shape. The field work of the New Yorks was
of the very best, The two errors charged
against them did not count for anything The
visitors, in addition to their inability to hit the
ball. played loosely in the field. and to their
errors are due most of the runs scored by the
New Yorks Captain Hanlon was taken ill in
the third inning and was forced to give way to |
Sowders. The change gave the New Yorks at |
least one run, as Sowders misjudged the first
ball hat to him and it counted for two-base hit.
MADE RUSH.
The New Yorks opened with rush. Gore
shot grounder at Beckley, which the latter
stopped nicely, but he could not get back to
the base in time to catch the runner Tiernan |
sacrificed from Kuehne to first. Brown hit to
White, who caught Gore between second and
third, but he threw wild, enabling Gore to
score and putting Brown on second. Connor
got base on balls and Ward flied to Fields.
Richardson hunted. There were three men on
bases now with O'Rourke at the bat. Jim
popped up a foul or two, and then Calvin
came near laying the lawyer low
by hitting him in the back with
the bali The play forced Brown home.
Whitney brought both Connor and Richardson
line 0'Rourke was slow in getting to third,
and was thrown out by FIELDS The visitors
made good dash to cut down the lead, but
failed to score. Hanlon put darning needles
on the ball and sent it at Richardson. Danny
handled the ball all right but he did not have
two bases and Hanlon tried to score on the hit,
but went out O'Rourke to Whitney and
Brown. There was
A GREAT Kick
over the decision, the visitors claiming that
the ball was blocked, but the decision went
BeeKley was hit by the ball. and Powers then
tried to even things up by not calling strikes
on Carroll. IL made no difference, for Carroll |
hit fly which Richardson got. He made a
double play on Rowe at second and ended the |
inning without run for the Smoky City lads. |
The visitors third showed a fine chance to
score but they did not. Calvin struck out |
Hsnlon made a short infeld nit Ward fum-
bled Rowe's grounder, and Richardson
treated Beckley's grounder in the same
way With three bases Carroll flied
TO Richardson and Fields to Gore. At this
pom; Hanlon complained of being sick and
gave way TO Sowders. Blanks fell to the share
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