Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-11
RECEIVED A SHOCK.
Chicago Lightning Strikes
Pittsburg's Ball Team.
STALEYIS WALLOPEDHARD
Umpire Lynch Fines Him $40 for
Strategic Pitching.
A SCHEME TO SAVE THE GAME.
Senators Shut Out the Phillies and the
HoOsierS Win.
NEWS AROUT CLUBS AND PLAYERS
NEWS ABOUT CLUBS AND PLAYERS
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE Drsr1rcu.l

ESPECIAL TELEcRAM 10 THE DIsPATcH.1
CHICAGO, May 10.-Big yellow sulphur
GUS looking clouds were stacked up in the
west and north when the Chicago and Pitts
burg teams came out upon the field this aft
ernoon. The heat was oppressive. There
was breeze from the west, but it was the
same old sirocco that has been blowing over
Chicago for the last five days.
The game, which was a remarkable one
so long as it lasted, was begun in dead
calm. Forty-fve minutes later it was
broken up by furious storm of wind, rain,
hail, lightning and thunder. Perhaps the
terrific cannonading of the Chicagos drew
the yellow clouds over the city. 1t was
heavy enough TO draw most anything. For
half an hour the home howitzer and mortars
kept up furious fusillade against the brick
wall. Then the storm burst in all its fury and
spectators and players had to run for their lives.
The first inning passed without incident
Anson opened the second with terrific drive
to the left field for two bases. Pfeffer got his
base on balls and then both runners were ad-.
vanced base by wild pitch. Farrell raped
a single over Smiths head, and Anson and
Pfeffer scored. Farrell then tried to steal Sec
ond and was caught Burns followed with q
single, and old Silver Flint reached first on q
wild throw by Smith.
GUMBERT WAS CHEERED.
Gumbert, who made such a tremendous hit
in the second game, now came to bat He was
loudly cheered. With mighty sweep Of his
corn colored club he caught the ball on the
stitches and sent it flying to the farther end Of
the grounds, driving Burns and Flint over the
plate ahead of him. Ryan followed with
single, but was thrown out while trying to steal
second. Van Haltren retired the side with a
long fly TO Hanlon.
The Chicagos shut the doors on the Pitts
burgers in their half of the inning the feature
of the fielding being lightning double play by
Pfeffer and Anson. Staley must have been
pitching ball as big as a custard pie, for
everybody took a crack at it The first thing
Duffy did in the third was to knock the upper
crust of when he dropped the ball over the
Harrison street wall for a homer. Then old
Ans, with face leaking from his exertion in the
deadly heat, lifted the plate and what was left
of the pie over the Congress street wall for an
other home run. Pfeffer got his base on balls,
stole second and scored on Fllnt's single to
right
The visitors went out in order in their half of
the inning The clouds were now hanging low
and there were flashes of lightning in the
North. The Pittsburg men began to play for
rain. They moved about the field with grave
deliberation and cast anxious glances at the
sky. Staley went into the cupboard and brought
out another pie. He passed it down to the
plate where RYAN stood. The shortstop tore
both crusts of and sent the filling against the
porches and stoops in Harrison street Staley
now began to take his time. The thunder was
rumbling and the sparrows we're chirping in
frightened way. The Chicagos, on the other
hand, we're nervous and excited. They wanted
to clinch their victory before the storm came.
Van Haltren struck out as fast as he could.
This made Staley mad. He began to pitch the
widest balls he knew how in order to fill the
bases and keep the side from going out. Um.
pire Lynch
FINED HIM TEN DOLLARS
for his strategy Then Duffy struck out.
Anson, however, was out for all there was in it
and made a swipe for two bases. The Pitts
burg 1elders did not care about fielding the
old man out, so he scored on a combination of
errors by Kuehne and Miller. Pfefter retired
the side with ground ball to Smith.
For Pittsburg Carroll got his base by being
hit by pitched ball. Dunlap followed with a
single, and after Miller and Kuehne had been
retired Pop" Smith cleared the bases with a
high driver over the left field fence for home
run. Farrell got as far as third base for Chi
cago in the fifth inning. For Pittsburg Sunday
made clean drive to right Hanlon's fly was
caught by Duffy Then Beckley sent furious
grounder to Anson. who fumbled it, the runner
reaching first.
Then the rain, which the visitors had longed
for, began to fall. 1t came down in big drops
and drove everybody to cover. Captain Anson
looked worried He was out of humor. 1t
looked as though the game would have to be
postponed.
IT FAIRED UP TOO SOON.
Fort minutes the rain fell furiously. Then
the clouds drifted away ana the game was re-
sumed against the protest Of Captain Dunlap,
who declared that rain was still falling Car
roll made safe hit filling the bases. Dunlap
popped up short fly to Farrell and Miller re-
tired his side without run, with little fly to
Gumbert.
The Chicagos had Just finished the sixth
inning without scoring when the storm burst
pionship flag from the Congress street pole and
shattered the flagstaff at the club house. The
horses hitched TO the posts at the farther end
of the ground became unmanagable In the roar
of the storm and ran in every direction. One
cab and a buggy were wrecked inside the
grounds while three cabs were overturned and
shattered in Congress street. Rain and nail
fell in binding sheets. The grand stand
rocked in the gale, spectators in the private
boxes scrambled downstairs the best way they
knew how, some of them narrowly escaping
being blown down. The wind scooped the mud
out Of LOomis street and plastered it over the
stand. For three minutes the storm ragged
with terrific violence. Then it ceased, but the
grounds were by this time under the water.
The score: