Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
ALE FOR aAUGHT.
THE BASEBALL EXCURSION A Sue
CESS, BUT NOT THE GAME.
Tin-Horns Caliopes and Cow-Bells Could
Not Win the Game for
the Sacramentos.

A crowd of over 400 people, plentifully
supplied with cahopes, cow bells. tin horns
and number of other indescribable instru-
ments of no earthly use but for making
noise, went down to San Francisco yester-
day morning on the baseball excursion
train, ostensibly to give the Sacramentos a
grand rally when they accomplished the
defeat Of the Oakland aggregation OF base
ball players.
The excursionists were merry party,
and fortunately noEe of the rowdy element
was present to mar the jollity of the occa-
sion. About one fourth of the party were
ladies, and all voted the trip delightful
affair, but the unanimous verdict was that
it would have been ten-fold more so had
the game resulted differently.
who won the gsme?' was the question
! asked of the Sacramento people by dozens
after the contest was over.
The general reply TO such questions was ::
''Oh We don't know; we haven't been
out to see it." Everybody was mum, and
the crowd of Sacramento people left the
metropolis as quietly as was possible. The
COW bells were slowed away in eyercoat
pockets and stuffed with paper. The horns
were doomed, and altogethers silence reigned
supreme during and following the mem
orable game in which the OaklanGs rolled
the Sacram eptos in the dust and then
rubbed it into them. The Sacramento club
was certainly out Of luck and was probably
never before defeated in such disgraceful
manner as they were yesterday. The nine,
with one or two exceptions, played like a
lpt IF SphnnlhnyC tho majority M TN 10
players seemed TO have bad case of
''rattles" Their practice work was hor-
rible, and improved upon but little during
the progress of the game.
The OaklaEds slugged Kilroy's curves,
and also improved their batting records
considerably when Hoffman attempted to
pitch. Reitz took hand at twirling, and
still the ball was kept moving with the
same regularity. The Oaklands won sim
ply because they played perfect ball and
batted harder than they usually do. In
their un-getting they were aided greatly
by the weak playing Of the visiting team, a
fact which only four earned runs out Of the
fourteen goes to prove.
Bowman appeared to be the only cool
man in the Senatorial team, but ON &C.
count of an accident which happened to
Stapleton, he did not catch during the en-
tire game, being changed to play first base
This necessitated several other alterations
in the positions of the players.
Stapleton retired in the firstinning, when
Dooley, one of the Oakland players who
claimed to have brought out some new
Eastern tricks, ran into him On first base,
striking him in the side with his knee and
so ipjuring his kidneys that the Sacra-
mento first baseman was not able to stand
on his feet again. The greater portion of
those present believed (sni it certainly
looked. as if they were right that the act
on Dooley's part was Intentional. Staple
ton vas not in his way at all, but Dooley
deliberately ran out of The line into Staple
ton to prevent his making a double play.
After Play bad been resumed Dooley
walked to his seat smiling and he was
roundly Missed by the crowd.
About 1900 people witnessed the game,
and it was probably one of the greatest
gatherings that has ever met in the ball
park. The train reached home at 1870
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