Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-08


White Stockings, let down as the red-stock-
ing batsmen peppered his curves, and gain
ing this advantage, the athletes from Pitts
burg drew away toward victory.
LOOKED LIKE WINNERS.
At the end of the fifth inning they were
one run ahead and when the Chicagos
opened the ninth the score was: Pittsburgs,
10; Chicagos, z. The batting was to open
with the weaker end of the team, and defeat
being almost sure, hundreds of spectators
had jumped into the field and were cutting
across toward town. O'Neil stood on the
right coaching line in perfunctory attitude.
thinking perhaps Of what might have been.
Latham straddled the opposite line, but his
clownish chirp was silenced and his usual
song-Snd-dance gyrations gave place to uu-
doubted sadness. "Long John" Tener was
pitching for the Pittsburgs and for five in
nings had held the Chicago batsmen in his
wise of pEzzling curves and shoots Comis-
KEY, with bat across his shoulder, stood at the
plate to begin the end of the supposed
thrashing his men were receiving. He al
lowed two halls to pass over the plate with
out move.
THE FUN STARTED.
In the next the great first baseman de-
tected weak spot as it neared him, and
aiming true he lunged at it with sufficient
force to send the leather over second.
O'Neil looked up and Latham tried to
smile. Darling waved his club in the air,
caught Tener's very first attempt and placed
the ball safely into right, reaching first,
while the captaIn held down third. a wave
of noise in the stand and pavilions showed
that something might yet happen. O'Nell
found his voice and began coaching vocifer-
ously, while Latham unbuttoned his blazer
and begged OF Farrell "to Tor heavens sake
hit the ball" Farrell hit the ball, and
when be did the home goers rushed back to
their seats. O'Neil fell in heap from joy
and Latham turned handspring. 1t was a
long time between the hit and the descent of
the ball, which landed within 20 ieet of the
center fence and struck the wheel OF an on
nibus. With a clear path Farrell would
have made home run, but 70 avoid disaster
he stopped at third.
AN AWFUL DISASTER.
By this time. Comiskey and Darling hav-
ing scored, the spectators were in a whirl of
excitement. No one was out when Bastian
shook his bat mockingly at Tener. The tall
pitcher shot the ball but once at the little
most tender spot and raced from bag to bag
as the ball sped on and on over right field.
Farrell scored the tying run amid noise
that drowned even Latham's best effort to
howl. Bastian rested on third base and still
no one was out. Then Mark Baldwin, who
had not vet touched the ball with a bat,
rushed a sereecher into left, and was SO sur
prised that he got only as Tar as second,
while Bastian crossed the plate with the
winning run. Latham wept as Beckley
caught his cruel oul fly. Baldwin was still
on second when Duffy's attempt to sacrifice
failed, but he came home, welcomed like a
hero, when Ryan hit safely over Robinson's
head. Five runs had now been scored and
earned, but O'Neil continued the lombard
ment by squirting the globe into right and
sending Ryan to third. Comiskey was tenth
man at bat, but was felded out, and re-
markable game had been won and lost. In
one inning Tener had been touched up for
seven hits, with total OF II bases. The
score: