Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-07
ONE For TIE + PAINTERS.
They Beat the HOustOns IN a. Fine
TwelVe-Inning Contest.
sulliTaYk Released on Bond, Awaits His Trial.
Galveston Esses Game from Aus
Observation-Disclosures.
1t was the twelfth inning.

- II was the UWelIIn inning.
1S4Col. William Joyce was stationed at
sec64$, ;. aHd Lieut. Col. Sunday COM
manding tic light flank.
Maj. Welkart was operating the guns
of battery Number
Suddenly a mighty yell went up from
fine asand stand, which was caught up
and |rFs3aeiloed-, from the bleaching
boards.
1t was yell of triumph at the appear
ance of Croean, who sliced mighty
wand Of ash and stepped to the plate.
& ! eo4Skofs determination was on his
County WickieW, face, as he gently hefted
his bat and Wiped the peyspiration from
his hands on the bosom efsshis knicker-
bOckers. H.'.5s-.E,SI r.
Not man present-nor a KaIf %baked
boy-but felt that this was the supfesnS
m8meRt.
CGG3alier. Crogan tapped the rubber
with his tfuR, land shot look of defiance
at the battery where. guns were trained
upon him. :, r.'.-S
IIAR decisive moment has arrived.
MaSsSSe izart twists himself -Hp,in an
shoots outS ty4u& with the force
of stone shGrIed from
catapult the leathef-t6tered speeds
through the air. Straight as an arrow
it flies, cleaving the atmosphere directly
over the heart Of the plate.
WA heshit it?
a hundEea s1sarts stand in a hundred
Threats untiI-ttecansweE shall be known.
lone strfRe.'' calls the sssPiro.
= Ehe ball is returned.
- Again it comes hustling through the
evening Fsit{E Through which the mellow
light of the'sebRAsS sun is casting It's vel
a.irll2sy ttints. Sst<'
BSa tho chevaIier is realty Iog. it.
With a tgtl6eye be measures fts"helght
and speed, &GAeia steady hand and
brawny arm he weilds.his pat, and smites
it full and fair. -,
With the swlftness of an arrow, it. flies
along, touching the ground as though
'Esss5tg sgurn it.
zgazee.n makes a dashing effort to
head il off. 49,,
A child may guid6 aR elephant, a twig
may hold an avalanche and keep it
from dashing down the mountain, sside,
carrying ruin into the volley below, But; .
even cOl0uel cannot stop ball which I
he cannotFeaah.
Not untiI-LibJttn Col. Sunday came up
VAN lliC LIZ III " ~ lLG bGIliDiO iii
petuosity of the flying psjssiIe checked, |
and then Mr. Grogan wasIsafe at the |
first station.
Needless to tell of how Hill and Fo-
garty ana Welsh and Motz slugged and /
slammed the ball until four runs had .
been fairly e39paq end piled up to the |
credit of the home teast -,
one run had been nSattss by 3IcYey in
the first inning on two errors aQd
stolen .IIRses.and FIaherty for Houston
had made a-Tl5fl.i IL the third on an error
and a wild pitcIr3-
The game from thatsoifIl TO the final
twelfth had been full of Brilliant plays
and desperate attempts to score -. a
numBfe- ST times men were on second
and thiidSS Gh3, sometimes when nobody
was out, but bkg ss.SGhers were steady,
the fielding superb and%EQRS impossible
Three singles, q two bagger-aRd.a muff
by KieHZle'qf Eogarty S fly all came in the
twelfth, aHdSfheE we're too much for the
Bayou City cham4)ieifs, r'In the visitors
half the twelfth, with Raterty out,
Peoples hit safe for a bag, bun. tried to
make second and was put out THEN
Sunday fQfpe5ged with hit, but
Wekart 5 fy Esstss taken by Crogan and
the game was dOne.%SE so
France s pitching was>str baStj>ss > He was
hit safely ter times, but they were~reat-
tered, and h+sslh9ad was so cool and his
hand so steadysSt, ,sRitical junctures as TO
more than make up foEsfhe hits made.
EeiIlart was only hit twice iin,the first
and eleventh innings, but the four
punched in the twelfth did the business
ana won the g2fiIe.
Long George M4Ilg51F viii 60 in for the
locals to-day, and eithers&eCey or Bald
win Tor the visitors. -
Following is the official score:
- 81 FbRT WORTH.
"a y, In 81 pn J