The record-union., 1891-11-06
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
The Senatorial Combination Defeated
at the Bay.
Manager Finn Said to Have His Eye
on Sacramento for the Ball Sea-
son Next Year.

The Sacramento baseball team went to
San Francisco yesterday and got wal
loped by the Oaklands by score of to
4. The Senatorial combination is billed
to play San Francisco four games before
the series is closed, and the prospects for
their making a very strong rush to the
front are exceedingly dull. The club.
however, has been severely handicapped
at most inopportune time, and will
have to struggle through the season
with no higher hope than that of coming
out third in the league race.
Goodenough, one of the most timely
hltters in the league, and as reliable a
fielder as any of the outer-garden sharps,
has not been able to lend his assistance to
the team for over a week. on account of
| meeting with severe accident in San
francisco; and Spies, Sacramento's
catcher, whose peer has never played
ball on this coast, is disabled for the re-
malnder OF the season. He will be under
the doctors care for several weeks yet.
IL Spies financial circumstances are
not comfortable Though the contrary is
SAID to be the case) he ought to be given
benefit, and it is safe to say that if a bone
| lit game were to be played one of the
largest crowds that ever assembled at
the park would be there Spies unpre-
tentlouS manner and wonderful work
behind the bat have won him hundreds
of admirers in Sacramento. and thew
would undoubtedly be eager to show
their appreciation of his work. were an
opportunity offered.
Some have said that had Spies worn his
protector the accident would not have
happened. This is not a fact however
The ball struck him in a place where the
i YlyT tnp tf1H I.x-D i
lection. If the ball had gone couple of
inches higher it would have passed over
his shoulder or glanced on his mask. and
had 1t struck few inches lower, the pro-
tector Of he had worn one) would have
repelled the force of the ball. But he
was struck squarely on the shoulder
blade, quite, close to the neck, and the
bone had to snap. The day before this
Spies was struck squarely in the chest,
| but he simply gulped down a sigh and
continued to play ball
For several weeks past the members
! OF the Sacramento club have missed
money from pockets in their clotbinU
which was left in the dressing-room dur
ing games at the park, and efforts to cap
tufe the thief had been unavailing until
last week, when a boy was caught. and
he confessed to having taken $40. He
was allowed to go on a promise from his
father that the money would be returned
The last time Manager Finn was in this
city he stated that he would like to man
age team for Sacramento next year He
said he believed that if the right parties
We're behind the organization and the
team was properly managed, it would be
amply supported by patrons of baseball
in this city.
There will be but three more league
games OF ball played in this city this sea-
son, and they will be on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday of next week. The San Fran
ciscos will either bethe victors or victims.
Manager Finn says that if he wins the
pennant he will probably sign Hoffman
| as substitute pitcher for the series with
Portland. He would prefer Cobb, but
the latter is going away as soon as the
! season Closes