Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-25
VERY ROCKY BALL.
THE SENATORS PUT UP THE WORST
OF THE SEASON.
They FAN Before stockton, and There.
fore Lose the Ten Per Cent.
Salary Increase.

Yesterdays ball game was woeful series
of "rattles" on the part of the Sacramentos,
while the visitors played with ginger and
snap all the way through. The home nine
wasn't in it'' for a minute, and it would
have taken but very poor amateur nine
to put them to shame in such contest. 1t
was the poorest game of ball the Sacra-
mentos have put up, and it will stand as a
big black mark in their record as club.
Roberts was sick and couldn't play in
right field, and McHale tried to fill the po-
sition, but signally failed. He had to come
up behind the bat, while Bowman went
into the left garden. Smith played in
right field, AID it was no fault of his that
the nine lost. Zeigler disheartened his
men, and they in turn disheartened him.
The Stocktons batted him hard, and, to
make the victory more complete for the
visitors, the home nine made error after
error, McHale's bad work standing out con-
spicuously.
1t is not known whether Zeigler tried to
pitch, or whether he didn't care to be
effective; at any rate the Stocktons lined
his pitching ~ out beautifully. True, he
was very poorly supported, but he should
never have given up as he did. The cranks
in the private boxes and special stand were
all almost willing to bet their lives that
they could smash any one of the balls
Zelgler was tossing over the plate. There
was no pretense of curves to them, and the
greatest wonder is that some of his fielders
didn't die of exhaustion chasing the leather.
The balls he pitched are known among the
sports as house balls"-that is, they come
over the plate looking so big that a bats
man can hardly get the ash out of the way
to let the sphere go by. Ten hits were
made by the Stockton nine in the first four
innings, and these, coupled with most in
excusable errors by the Sacramentos, netted
them eleven runs.
Hapeman was well supported, and kept
the eleven hits made off his delivery so
scattered that only five runs were scored.
Every one OF the Stockton nine played well,
and Kelly, their little short-stop, slugged
the ball like Trojan. Fogarty was him
self again on second base, and Selma
guarded the initial as he always does, catch
ing everything thrown to him.
The only players in the Sacramento nine
who were not really ratified were Bowman,
Cedar, Stapleton and Smith. Reitz posi-
bly, wasn't but he made an error, and the
audience thought it something terrible.
On five occasions, when the ball was hit
into the air, three or four of the team ran,
stopped and stood like lot of statues and
watched the ball drop. Then there was a
rush to see who could pick it up first
The audience Missed Sheridan in the
second inning for what they thought to be
a rank decision made by him, but regarding
which there was no question as to the cor
RICHNESS. Swan was on second base and
Cabill on first. Holiday had three balls
called on him and one strike The next
ball pitched was ball." but Bowman
caught it and threw to third base, and
Cedar touched Swan, who was running
there. There was no question about
Swans being touched off the bag, but then
Holiday had been sent to first on balls,
and this forced Swan to third. He need
not have been in hurry to get there. The
audience, however, couldn't see through it,
and Sheridan was made the object of I'M
just criticism. The fact is, he very seldom
makes mistake.
If the Sacramentos had won the game
their salaries would have been raised 10
per cent. Following is the score