Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-22
HOFRHAH'S FIRST CAKE.
sAcRAMENTos NEW PITCHER MAKES
A GOOD BEGINNING.
He Aids Materially in Applying a Coat
of Whitewash to the Youths
From Oakland.

Oakland couldn't make run in yester-
days game, and nine goose-eggs decorated
their score on the blackboard at the Park.
There was very large Saturday crowd in
attendance, the greater portion of whom
were ladies, and they were treated to one
of the prettiest games of ball ever played
here, though it is but Just to say that Sac
ramento has had more than her share of
the good games played this season. The
people here haven't seen poor CONGESTION
so long that they always attend with the
expectation of witnessing a hard-fought
game.
Hoffman, Sacramento's new man, was
in the box, and it was on account of his
steady work and the clubs almost faultless
playing that the visitors could not get
man across the plate. Hoffman is not.
apparently, wonderful pitcher; but he
appears to be good, everyday twirler.
who can be depended upon to do his share
If his tielders support him properly. He
has plenty of speed, and noisy coaching
doesn't appear to bother him in the
least. He pitched better ball yester.
day when men were on bases than
he did when there were none. He did not
appear to be watching the bases yesterday;
that is, he did not try to catch any runner
mapping, but it was quite noticeable that
the runners did not take any chances by
playing off too far. He loses no time in
delivering the ball, by unnecessary swing
ing of the arms, and base-runner is not
apt to get much of lead on him. Lehman
NJ m lu 10 &lox
base yesterday, but it was after Bowman
had caught foul near the special stand
and could not recover himself in time to
throw the ball to second base. The new
twirler is also somewhat of a batter, and a
sacrifice fly ball knocked by him into CEN
ter field yesterday allowed Reitz to score,
Carsey pitched good ball, but was very
poorly supported. DUNCAN dropped hy
ball when there was chance for a double
play, and the infeld, with the exception OF
shortslop O'Neill, made errors. The latter
played a fine game, and his stop of Rob.
erts' lightning ground hit, near third base,
brought forth burst of applause from the
grand stand which lasted several seconds.
Lehman had his arm with him and
threw to bases with telling effect. Twice
he threw out from behind the plate) run
ners who were playing too far off second
base. Roberts and McHale were the vic.
tins, and Mcdonald had them touched
out almost before they knew the ball was
going down. Stapleton would have been
caught at another time had Mcdonald held
the ball.
Bowman made difficult catch in the
ninth inning, which made the third out.
Carsey knocked the ball high in the air.
and Hoffman waited for it. Bowman
wanted to take it, and both appeared at
loss to know which should attempt to take
the ball. 1t had almost reached the ground
when Bowman, noticing that Hoffman was
going to let it go, jumped and caught it.
L! was splendid catch
Daily being crippled, Farrell played at
short, and had but three chances He re-
ceived an error for failing to hold a line
hit. 1t would have been a difficult catch
had he held the ball.
The nine as whole played top-notch
ball, and Stapleton led at batting.
In several of the innings it looked as if
the visitors might score and in the fifth,
particularly, they had an excellent oppor-
tunity. G. O'Neill led off with three
Dagger and it would have taken but sac
ri6ce for them to have scored a rum
Hoffman, however, struck out the next
two batters, and the third man knocked a
grounder to Stspleton and was out at the
initial.
John Stafford nmpired the game, and did
very well. He showed no partially ard
was generally correct on close base decis-
ions. Following is the score: