Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-27
UHEARTaED 4 PHENOMENON.
A NEW UMPIRE WHO CAN GIVE sHERI
DAN LESSONS.
The Crowd at the Ball Park Yesterday
Received a Rare Treat-The
Game.

By all odds the feature of yesterdays
game between the Sacramentos and Oak
lands was the umpiring.
Neither Donahue nor Sweeney put in an
appearance at the ball park, and Bowman
and O'Neill, the captains of the respec-
tive teams, hunted high and low IN the
grand and special stands in search OF
suitable person to do the referee work dur
ing the contest.
Clay Chapman was asked to officiate, buI
he positively declined, stating that he
would not umpire a game in which Norris
O'Neill took part.
While the two captains were endeavor.
ing to persuade different persons to accept
the position, the RECORD UNION society re-
porter strolled into the park. Hearing of
the perplexity in which the clubs were
placed, and desiring a genuine sensation
for the next issue OF his Taper, he hunted
I'D the authorities and volunteered his
services. After considerable persuasion,
he induced the respective captains 10 allow
him to act. He then informed police
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and asked him to be near at hand in case
a riot should break out in the grand stand.
READY FOR BUSINESS.
Having taken these precautions he made
his appearance on the field, and almost at
the same instant there was a commotion.
It was caused by couple of sports who
had been engaged in wrangle over bet
they had, and who thought one of the reg
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they could refer the matter.
The bet was Immediately declared off.
Scorer Young rang time however, and
the memorable game began. The grand
stand spectators restrained themselves until
the fifth inning, and then they let loose.
"Strike' called the umpire on II ball
that foated over the home-plate about five
feet above Dungan's head. 'Strike!" was
the next announcement when the ball
whizzed by the batter, knocking one of the
buttons off his shirt. DUNCAN saw there
was no use, so he struck at the next ball
and got his base on hit.
When Cantillion came up the first ball
pitched was, of course, a strike, though the
batsman could not have reached it with
one of Flints hop poles. The batter
"ki,ked," but to no avail He got another
strike called on him for disputing the UNI
pire's decision. Cantillion looked daggers
at the umpire and with telling effect. The
next ball pitched was a beautiful strike,
but for self-preservation the referee called
it ball And then Harper was mad.
The batter smoothed matters over by hit.
ting the ball, which was fielded in good
shape.
SHOULD SIGN HIM.
These are only few instances given to
illustrate the least glaring decisions made.
Those who saw the game of course saw the
rest of the umpires errors" Cedar act
ually tried to pull McDonald's legs from
under him TO prevent the fielding of ball,
but the decision in this case was to the eff
feet that the fielder when he saw Cedar
running from second to third, should not
have attempted to stop the ball. The UNI
pire, in fact, threatened to fine Mcdonald
for getting in Godars way. Dooley made
q terrific howl" at this decision, and came
near succeeding in having the decision
changed to suit him. If Bowman had not
come to the rescue the stslwart Oakland
first baseman might have had it all his
own way. The game at last ended and the
umpire walked off the field to receive the
congratulations of his friends for his mar
row escape from injury.
The game itself was good one, and the
crowd was the largest that has assembled
in the park for nearly two months. The
two clubs always play an interesting con-
test and yesterday was unusually exciting
Oakland made her first run in the first
inning Dooley went to base on balls, was
advanc d to third on Sweeney's hit and
came home on Dungan's sacrifice.
In the fifth the visitors scored two more
runs. Cobb and Cantillion hit for singles
The former scored on Hoffman's error in
failing TO stop McHale's throw to second
base to catch Cantillion.
Dooley knocked out a hit, and Cantillion
scored.
The last run made by the Oaklands was
in the seventh inning. Mcdonald went to
first on balls, ran to third on Harpers wild
pitch, and scored on n. O'Neilrs sacrifice
Sacramento made two tallies in the
eighth inning and one in the ninth. In
the eighth, Ward went to the initial on
balls. Godar's hit placed two men on
bases. Reitz then raped out another hit
and the bases were full. Ward scored on
Hoffmans force hit and Cedar crossed the
plate while Dooley and Cantillion were
trying to catch Hoffman on the line be-
tween first and second base.
Roberts made the run in the ninth with
out assistance. His hit Was a home run.
The score shows that the Sacramentos
got ten basehits and two errors, while
the 0aklands hit safely but five times and
made four errors; yet strange as it may
seem the home team lost the game.
Oaklards new men showed up to fair
advantage, though no plays of especial
merit were made. Cobb pitched steady
game and so did Harper, and both pitchers
were excellently supported behind the bat
Bowman played a neat game at first and
succeeded IN picking number of low
thrown balls off the ground. Reitz had
his batting eye with him and also tielded
to perfection. Ward, the new man, &C.
cepted one chance nicely. and proved to be
quite handy with the bat.
The game resulted in score of to in
favor OF Oakland. The details are shown
in the following summary.