Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

One of the things that baseball cranks
need rot, and probably do not, expect is to
see frst-class ball playing when an amateur
aggregation and a National League team
come together in an exhibition contest If
such expectations exist in the minds of en-
thusiasts of the national game those expecta-
tions must have been badly blighted at
Recreation Park yesterday, providing such
expectants were at the park. The East
End Athletics, the champions of the county
league tested conclusions with the Pitts
burg League delegation, and were simply
taught the lesson that there is much in base
ball of which they know little.
But aside from the feature of good or bad
playing, there is an interesting feature in
contest between the two teams named, that is
if both teams are playing in their best FORM 1t
is to be feared however, that the County
league champions were not up to their stand
ard yesterday. At any rate it is sincerely to be
hoped they were not because If they were their
work says very little indeed, for the quality of
playing among the County league clubs. The
'amateurs" could hit but little, their pitching
was bad and their fielding was extremely
lamentable.
TWAS VERY oNESIDED.
All these shortcomings combine tended to
make the game SO onesided that it was
more of burlesque than anything else.
However, there were palliating features as
far as the amateurs were concerned. 1t is safe
TO say that scarcely man in the nine was calm
and steady enough in mind to tie his shoe when
the game started. Almost everyone seemed to
have the nervous tremor, and as a result the
most r1dicu Gus mistakes were made. This
was so much the case that in the first inning
seven runs were made while only one little
scratch hit was made. Dillon started in to
pitch, and was an absolute failure. He couldn't
get the ball across the plate. and he retired to
third base at the end of the second inning.
Oliver going into the box. Undoubtedly Dill
Ion can do better than he did, but be and other
amateurs discover a big difference between
facing players such as compose organizations
like thel County league and those who make
up the National League. Players in the latter
body generally demand the pail to cross the
plate or else it's no go. 1t is different in ANA
teur organizations, whose batters swing away
at almost anything. and as a result we hear
about phenomenal pitchers.
FEW GOOD PLAYERS.
There were two or three pretty steady players
among the amateurs yesterday, notably
Schoyer, Gumbert and Lauer. But it is only
fair to say that the Athletics work of yesterday
ought not to be taken as a sample of their best
playing. 1t is certain that they can do much
better or else they could not have beaten a
team in the County league.
The game was a very uninteresting one
About 200 people sat in the cold and watched
it. There were many changes during its pro-
gress. In the second inning Miller was struck
on the hand and retired at the end of the Sec
ond inning Hess taking his place behind the
bat Hess did nothing worthy Of praise. At
the end of the third inning Staley retired and
Maui went in to pitch To tell how the runs
were made would be weariSOme Bases on
balls and fielding errors almost accounted for
all of them. Had the pitching of the "ama-
teurs" been better, Ger tainly the hitting OF the
professionals would have been heavier Bases
on balls and wild pitches, however, were what
batters seemed to wait on. Following is the
score: