Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-05
THEY CAME OUT EVEN
The Home Talent Tackle the
Giants Twice and
MEET VICTORY AND DEFEAT
Some Very Shaky Playing by the
Local Team.
CHICAGO GETS TWO GOOD GAMES.
Results of ALI the Allegheny County League
..-, Games. -...
,HICAGO GETS TWO GOOD GAMES.
GENERAL BASEBALL NEWS OF THE DAY

There was more baseball enthusiasm in
the city yesterday, than there has been for
q long time. There were two games played
between the New York champions and the
oeaI. Representatives, and the Eastern
champions were very lucky. indeed, to get
one Of them. The first contest was a grand
victory for the local men, and that caused
an interest in the entire days proceedings,
that otherwise it would not have exerted.
TheHew Workers are iavorites here, but
there is not so much generous feeling in
their favor among Pittsburgers, even on the
Fourth of j July. to wish them not to be beaten.
They are a very dangerous lot of fellows
from a baseball standpoint, and depend
upon it, it is an honor to beat them. How
ever, as Intimated above, the visitors really
should not have won game at all, because
the gams that,fell to their share was q mis-
erable exhibition as far as the home players
were concerned. Still everybody in the
vast crowds seemed to be out to have some
fun, and they had it despite who was los
ing or who vas winning. In the first game
the actual attendance was 5275, and in the
figures of 1850. Altogether there were more
than lS, 600 people at the two games, and that
WAS EXTREMELY GRATIFYING
to the officials of the teams. Each club won
game, and that kept kept honors easy on that
score, so that there was nothing to mar the
jovial feeling of everybody concerned. The
weather was excellent until near the close of
the second game. when rain began to fall. 1t
did not stop the contest however.
In the morning game Morris and Fields were
the home battery and Crane and Ewing looked
after the interests of the Giants. The contest
was exceedingly interesting to look at from
the Pittsburgs point of view, because the home
club always had considerably the best Of II.
Crane was fearfully wild, and had it not been
for the good work of Ewing behind the bat the
home players might have been scoring yet.
Carroll faced Crane five times and got to first
on called balls each time. Altogether Crane
gave ten men bases on balls and made wild
pitch. He as usual displayed remarkable
speed.
Morris pitch ed admirably FOR the home play
ers, and the visItors couldn't touch him. He
showed his old-time form, and was well sup
ported by Fields. The fielding of both mines
was excellent. and many corking hits that
seemed safe beyond a doubt were gobbled' up.
Big Roger Counor banged the ball clear against
the left field fence. The ball struck within an
inch of the top of the fence. and bounded back
into the field. Almost everybody thought that
it had gone over, but what might have been a
great home run was only two-bagger.
SOON GOT DOWN TO WORK.
The home team commenced run-getting as
soon as they opened the game Hanlon led off
so did Carroll. Millers single brought Hanlon
nd nm ms oari-
flee hit In the second inning Fields single and
Morris two-bagger, together with the outs,
netted another run, and no more were scored
until the eighth inning Kuehne got home
with run, which was made on an out a wild
pitch and extremely good base running.
The visitors also made a run in the tiirst
inning. Gore got to first on balls, and aided by
two outs and a bad tumble by Kuehne. reached
home. In the ninth Connor made his long
two-bagger, and O'Rourke's single brought
him home.
The second game was, to some extent, weari-
some; it seemed to be slow, and the general
play was far behind that of the morning for
quality. A large portion of the crowd were
compelled to fnd seats on the grass. and a
''limit' was roped of. A ball that reached the
crowd was deemed a three-bagger, and New
York got two of them. Keefe and Ewing
were the visitors battery, and Calvin and Mil
Ter we're at the points for the home players.
There any amount of confidence in the
air that another roast was in store for the big
diamond like a two-year colt when the game
started, but before it was over, be showed the
crowd thatit
WASN'T ENTIRELY JEEMs' DAY.
He pitched a very tame game compared to
what he has been doing lately. He was wild
and ineffective. The Giants also had a
borrowed mascot in the shape of a small boy,
But this mascot and the moderate pitching of
Calvin were probably not SO disastrous as two
errors that the home flelders made in the first
two innings. These two errors cost four runs,
and that really settled the game. They were
very stupid errors, and it was hard to under
stand how such mistakes could be made.
Keefe pitched very well, indeed, except IN
the third inning. when he was touched up very
lively. At critical stages the great Sir Timothy
was on hand, and did business to the Queens
taste. The visitors, generally speaking. fielded
ton. played good game. 1t may be noted
that Dunlap and Sunday made two brilliant
catches of flies, and effected double plays.
Hanlon also in deep center. that is near where
the crowd was lined, made a brilliant one
The visitors were first to score, and they
made two runs in the first inning. Gore reached
first on being hit by a pitched ball, and Tier
nan made a scratch hit into the middle of the
diamond. Both me- gere advanced a base by
Ewings sacrifice to Carroll, and Connor got first
made a wild throw to third to nab Gore, and
Tiernan scored.
o'RoURKE CAUGHT MAPPING.
In the next inning O'Rourke led off with a
hit to left, but was splendidIy caught mapping
at first by Calvin. Hatfield was retired at first,
but Whitney made a single to left.
Then Keefe reached first on Smiths
bad tumble. Gore got his base
on balls Tiernan's crack to middle for sin.
gle brought in two more runs, and things
looked blue for PiJtsburg Connor commenced
the third inning. and thumped the ball into
the crowd in right field for three bases and
Richardson's single brought him home. After
Connor was out in the fifth inning Richardson
uhacked the ball into the left-feld crowd for
three bases, and got home on ORourkes sac
rihce hit. That ended the Giants run-getting.
The home players tied the score in the third
inning and there was tremendous excitement
They banged Keefe all over the lot, making
four runs three of which were earned. Han.
Ion led off with a single to middle and Sunday
went to first on balls. Carroll knocked long
fy to O'Rourke, and Miller's sacrifice ad.
vanced Hanlon and Sunday to third and sec
ond. Dunlap brought them both in by hit
to right and Kuehne's double brought Dunlap
home. Then old Pop Smith loomed up with a
double and Kuehne scored, but Fields retired
the side by a hy TO Gore. After the third in.
ming the home players had no show at all with
Keefe. They never got another hit. AcQuaid
did not give satisfaction. Score: