Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-21

rsPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
CLEVELAND, August 20.-Pitcher Staley
was the medium of Cleveland's defeat to-
dav. The young man was invi1cible, and
when Cleveland men were on bases the
Babies tried Intellectually to hit the ball.
The ieft-on-base column Of the score amply
proves this. Beatin, on the contrary, was
hit pretty freely. He seems to have lost his
cunning, for even the weak hitters of the
Allegheny team found the ball often. The
fielding was sharp all round, but Dunlap,
McAleer, Sunday and Stricken distinguished
themselves and received loud applause. Over
LOO people saw the game. A chance was
offered the visitors to score in both the first
and second innings, but accurate fielding kept
them from sending runs over the plate.
JoCKo's GOOD HIT.
Staley the first man at the bat in the third,
batted swift grounder, which glanced OF
Gilks' knee, bounding toward Stricken, giving
the runner safe at first Carroll then lined the
ball to left for two bases. sending Staley to
third. Rowe was out on pop hy to Stricken.
Beckley hit to Gilks. who threw Staley out at
the plate Beckley was safe at first and stole
second. Fields then singled to left, scoring
Carroll and Beckley. Hanlon's fly out to
McAleer retired the side. The seventh netted
Pittsburg four runs, settling the game In their
favor Beatin would not let Carroll, the first
batter, touch small portion Of the ball, and
sent him to first on balls. Rowe duplicated
Staley's hit of the third and Carroll went to
second. Beckley singled to right, advancing
Carroll and Rowe base Fields protested
that he had not struck at three balls, but the
umpire sent him to the bench.
HANLoN's HOME RUN.
Hanlon came to bat, caught one of Beatin's
slow balls fairly on the end CT the bat and sent
1t past Twitchell to the left field fence Han
Ion was at the plate when the ball was helded
into the diamond and three runners preceded
the center fielder to the plate. This ended the
fun for the visitors In the eighth, after two
men were out. Carroll sent a triple to left, but
Rowe left him on third on an easy fly to Gilks.
Sharp fielding prevented the Clevelands from
scoring in the first, third, fourth and fifth in
nIngs. Big Beckley allowed Radford's grounder
in the first to bound against him and then roll
into Sundays territory. Stricken was given
his base Two men were on bases with no one
out when Mexican, the clubs leading batsman,
stepped up to the plate. He couldn't find
ball that he could hit and strike out was &C.
corded Staley. TwltchelI was soon out on
foul to Fields, and Tebeau was retired at
first on
DUNLAP's BRILLIANT PICKUP
and throw. After Beatin had been called out
on strikes in the third Radford was given his
base on balls stole second and went to third on
stricker's single past Rowe; Dunlap cared for
McKean's high fly, and felded TwItchelPs
grounder to Beckley. With one out in the
fourth McAleer hit safely to left and stole sec
ond but Gilks was out on Dunlaps catch and
Rowe fielded thinner out at first. In the fifth,
with two out, Stricken singled but Mexican was
out on Kuehne's pickup and assist. The
Clevelands scored their only run in the ninth,
Twitchell led of with a single to center. Fields
moved back to the back stop and Twitchell
ambled to second, Tebeau retired at first,
TwitcheIl going to third on the out and home
at his leisure. The score: