Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-27
REPUDIATED.
CAPTAIN sTAPLET0Ns INDIGNATION
OVER THE TALK ABOUT FAKES.
He Declares that the Sacramento Ball
Team Has Not Been Treated Fairly
President None.

Captain Stapleton, of the Sacramento
baseball team, is indignant over the insinu-
atoms contained in published commune
cation, to the effect that the local club in
tentionally lost the game at San Francisco
last Saturday.
"Pm pretty confident" he said last even
ing to a RECORD UNION reporter, that
can locate the writer of that communities
ton. and he's not merchant, either. But
let's lust look now at the truth of the mat
ter. Last Saturday we were defeated badly
by the Oaklands, the score being % to 4.
That was the only bad beating we have re-
ceived this season, yet here's great howl
about our alleged Indifferent playing. The
day before that game we played the Oak
lands on their own grounds, and beat them
to the tune of 20 to 5. Did you hear any
howl about that? Did anybody send COM
munications to the papers about the Oak
lands indifferent playing? No, not
much. The Sunday preceding that
game we beat the Sar Franchises
by score of IL to 8. Nobody
accused them of throwing down the game
Jul Lie COnLIdIy, oil SOItS VI dpOlOBicc
were made for them. They were called
the "cripples.'' and it was promised that
they would do better when the nine got
into working order again. On the day be.
fore that game we beat the Stocktons by q
score of Is to 4, but there was plenty of
sympathy for Stockton and no condemna-
ton. And so it has been running all sum-
mer. We walked ahead of them all, and
then, when we suffer one bad defeat, we
are accused of taking and of playing in
differently. It's an outrage, and very dis
couraging to the players, can assure you"
A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
Captain Stapleton, continuing, referred
10 the magnificent work done by the club
since May last. WHY said he, 1--WE
started off in the beginning of the season
by losing nine games straight, and the
other teams were so far ahead of US that
people said we would never be in it. But
in the latter part of May we turned loose
and won game after game, until by the
first of July we were as far ahead
of the San Franciscos as they were
ahead of us early in May. That
does not look like Indifferent or fake play
ing, does it? For the past few weeks the
San Fran eiscos, because they were losing,
were termed the 'cripples'-one or two of
their men were on the sick list But what
has happened to our nine in the past week?
Four men-Roberts. Cedar, Bowman and
myself all laid up. They didn't make any
apologies for us or call us the cripples. On
the other hand they accuse us of taking"
sTAPLEToN AND NONE.
At the request of the reporter Mr.. Staple
ton gave some details of last Saturday s
alleged fake at the bay.
1.-THE opposing nine," said he, "began to
bat Harper hard from the start. was too
i'll TO play myself and was attending to the
gate. At the end of the sixth inning l
knew we were beaten-the score then
standing u to l in favor OF Oakland-so l
sent word to Harper to retire and let Reitz
take his place. You see we had to play two
games the next day, and wanted Harper
to pitch one of them, so l took him out
of the box to save his strength. Well, Reitz
went in and began putting the ball over
the plate. The Oaklsnds, however, had
finer base-hit bats with them, and banged
Reitz' delivery about as hard as they had
Harper's None, the President of the
League, came running up to me and de-
manded that put Hoffman in the box in
place of Reitz. l declined, because l
wanted to save Hoffman for the next day
as much as Harper. Manager Finn, of
the San Franciscos, Clipped in, and said
/, we would ruin the gate-receipts with such
playing, but when | reminded him of the
style of baseball he and his nine had been
furnishing in Sacramento for the past three
months, he shut up. None came after me
again, bat when he saw was losing my
temper he walked off saying he would re-
port me to my managers. None then ran
to the reporters and tried to get them to
burn me up. and here is a sample of his
success
Stapleton handed the RECORD UNION
man the following clipping from one Of
the Bay papers:
Stapleton did right in not putting in Hoffman
Saturday after Harper had been bat ed out o.
shape The club had two games to play Sun
day and Hoffman was to pitch in the first one
and there was no use in putting him in to finish
cut game that was already lost.