The morning call., 1890-10-03
SECOND PLACE AGAIN.
The Colonies Do Some Heavy Bat
ting and Crush the Senators.

The Oaklands by defeating the Sacra-
mentos yesterday boosted themselves back
into second place. twas fine day for ball
playing, the sky being clear and the wind
light. AN unusually large Thursday crowd
was in attendance.
The Sacramento9 did not have their full
playing strength in the field, Stapleton being
disabled. Bowman. who captains the team
in the absence of Stapleton, played first
while Ward, the new man, was behind the
bat, and Jack DAILY in his old position at
short
Ward is a clever little backstop, fully
alive to the duties of his position, and al
though but a youngster handles himself like
veteran. In appearance he is second
edition of DAILY.
Bowman played very acceptable first
base, and while the team generally put up
a good fielding game their work was devoid
of the dashing style that characterized their
earlier contests.
The Colonies put up strong game be-
hind Shaw, who was nervous and cratic
all through. Lehman did great service be-
hind the bat, being kept on the jump all the
time and his effective throwing was again
feature. The ipfeld played like fends, and
a one-hand catch in short left off Good
enOugh'S bat by Mcdonald was one of the
prettieSt pieces of fielding ever seen on the
grounds.
The Sacramentcs started off auspicious!y.
In the first inning Goodenough cracked out
the second ball pitched for beautiful
double to right but was caught between
Second and third on R0bertS'ihit to Shaw.
Roberts WAS thrown out attempting TO steal
second. The next three men were sent to
their bases on balls, and all scored on
Reitz's long hit to the target, which Sweeney
got under and then misjudged. Three runs
and brilliant opening.
In the second they got another on HGff-
mans base on balls and Bowman's ground
hit, which Mcdonald OveTrun. Light hit
ting and good fielding of the OaklandS shut
them out for the succeeding nve innings,
but they scored one more in the eighth,
making five for the game. Cedar reached
first on his base on balls and went TO second
on RelH single To center. Ward then bit TO
Mcdonald, forcing Reitz out at second, but
permitting GUGar 10 get to third. Ward
tried to steal second, but WAS caught De-
tween bases, and while he was being chased
up and down the line Cedar tIilled
The OaklandS scored AS follows: In the
first inning Cantllllun was awarded his base
on bal and went 10 t.iird on Donley's
double, which bounded away from Cedar
Lohn,an's single scored beth men. la the
third Godar's error of Loltman's greunder, a
steal and Hatfman's wild throw to hrst TO
catch c. ONeill allowed another rdn.
In the fifth they did thrir tremendous
stlek-work. Sweeney led eff with triple
to left aud scored on Dungan's double. Z.
O'NciiI took his base on balls, and McDon-
AIDS two-cush!ou shot sent the two fielders
across the plate. Tip O'Neil then picket
out pretty ball and sent ii on a .oug pill
grimage almost to the clubhouse, making
the entire circuit and the fifth run of the in
ming.
A hit by Sweeney, his steal and DuDgan's
hit TO center, which Goodenough let pass,
gave them another run in the sixth. In the
seventh base on balls, a sacrifice and
two more runs; and Dnngan's force bit and
safetes by Lehman, c. ONeill ana Shaw
sent three men across the rubber IN the
eighth, making fourteen runs for their side,
half of which were earned. The score: