Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-31
FORT WORTH BEATEN.
The Result of the Ball Game at Dallas
Yesterday.
The Hams Play in Good Iuck-A Drizzle Pre-
vents Intense EnjOyment-NOt Much Enjoy
ment for Fort Worth Anyway.
THE GAZETTE B UREAu.
OF HIN AJIINEE1Ig
DALLAS. TEX. March 30. 1890.

DALLAS, Tex. March 30, 1880.
The excursion train which reached
Dallas this morning from Fort Worth
brought in about 400 cranks from the
latter city, who helped swell the attend
ance on the baseball game this after
noon to about 1000. The weather had
been threatening all day, and the pros
poets of rain no doubt prevented an at
tendance of twice 1000 if the weather had
been favorable.
TRULY did not play with Fort Worth.
His place was taken by o 'Connor, whose
field was covered by Tobias.
The result of the game was in favor of
Dallas by score of 10 to 1.
To say that it was a surprise is express
ing it N Idly. Fort Worth sports were
sure OF dead thing, and were eager to
plac. large bets on their team, but Dali
las hackers were not out numerously.
Dallas was not banking high on her
team. Stock went away up Yesterday,
though. There was but little betting.
Fort Worth could find no takers.
The causes of Fort Worth's defeat
were various. The important one may
be attri buted to the battery. Mallory
did good work at first, showing that be
still retains his former ability, with
something added to it, but in the fourth
inning he began to let down, and from
then on he was sWlped all over the field.
Lack of practice-late reporting for duty
at Fort Worth, is given as the cause OF
his weakness.
Then Bellmsn was not himself behind
the bat. He stopped the balls all right,
but when It came to getting them down
to second he was weak. Even Tub
Welch stole a couple of bases. O'Conn or
was not brilliant success on second,
which may account IN part for Bellman's
seeming failures.
Such, in fact, are he causes of Fort
Worth's defeat. The boys played good
ball all the way through, but luck was
against them.
The Dallas team play ed good game.
They have some good men. Holland, the
short stop manager, is as fine player of
that position as has been seen IN the
Texas league, making neat pickups and
firing the ball over to first with the un-
erring celebrity of a rifle. Drauby, on
first base, is another fine player. He
has thorough grip on the ball and is
fine batter.
For the first four innings everything
went smoothly. Dallas got a couple Of
runs in the first inning, but Fort
Worth got one in the same inning, and
so it continued, both teams playing
closely, until Dallas had had her half Of
the fifth inning, when the rain began to
pour down. There was an application to
the umpire to call the game, but he re-
fused, and the play went on. In the
fourth inning Armstrong got a
hit off Mallory, but he died on second.
In the sixth WEIGH made a hit, and was
brought to second on Holland sacrifice,
but he was caught trying TO leg home.
In the seventh there was general fall
ing on Mallory delivery, and four hits
we're made and five runs, putting Dallas
far in the lead. In this inning an error
is charged against Money. The error
consisted in the muf of
fly, but 1t was an eXcusable muff, as
Mack had to run long distance, and
only succeeded in getting his hand on
the ball after hard effort. In the ninth
inning Dallas made three more runs off
of three hits, giving that side total of
ten, while Fort Worth never got beyond
the little one scored in the first inning.
How do the Fort Worth boys stack
up? First rate. The team displayed
ability to-day which when properly di-
rected will WIN ball. They need prac-
tiee. The Dallas victory can safely be
attributed to the fact that the Dallas
men had had a fortnight's more practice
than the Fort Worths.
The Official record is as follows: