The morning call., 1891-08-14
RELUCTANT RUNS.
nessrs. meclosley and necuirk
in Hard Luck.
Their Makeshift Combination Nearly Smoth-
cred by the Local Team Yesterday-0ak-
land and Sacramento To-Day.

Two small reluctant union-made runs was
all that MeSsrs. McCloskey and McGairk,
sole proprietors and managers of the Sacra-
mento federated ball team, could turn out
yesterday afternoon in game with Harris
employees. 1t would have taken sixteen
more to win the game, but the new ccmbi-
nation was not equal to the task.
Before the play had proceeded many
minutes the new magnates realized the
trials, tribulations and vexations of spirit
that invariably beset the proprietor, and
they doubtless wished themselves members
of the masses again. Their makeshift team
caused them no end of annoyance, and it is
not to be wondered at when little babies in
the grand stand cried aloud in anguish.
OF the five men who took the places of the
strikers big Bill Stevens was the only one
who could hit the ball. He got one good
swipe out OF four times up, scoring the sec
Ond and last run Tor Sacramento. The
other three hits made off Cobb are credited
TO McCiOskey, McGulrk and Hoffman. and
they were not within baiiing distance of
each other.
OPENED THE WRONG CURVES.
Frank Hoffman started in to pitch. For
merly when Mr. Hoffman opened up pack
| age of curves, and they happened TO be the
wrong kind he was Immediately taken out
of the box. This was not done yesterday as
Messrs. McCloskey and McGuirk had no
other pitcher. They would doubtless
| have made some other changes had it been
| within their power TO do so.
SO Harris men kept pegging away at the
| ball until they had touched off fourteen hits,
| including home run by Hassamer, and
| couple of doubles, which, with steady
| sprinkle Of errors. netted seventeen runs.
| The locals scored in each of the first seven
innings, making all The way from one to
| five before being retired. Still Mr. Hoffman
| kept on pitching and did the best he could,
| though his heart was nearly breaking.
Had the support been such as TO inspire
| Mr.. Holman with an atom OF confidence Of
| the cheapest kind he could have done great
| deal better than he did. When ball team,
| however, plays third baseman who is SO
new that the other players don't know his
name they must expect to get mixed up at
| critical moments.
| PLAYING AN UNKNOWN.
| The young man who played third for the
| proprietors has a name, but no one knew
| what il was until about the middle of the
| game when someone said he WAS called Me-
| Cormick. Beyond this meager information
but little is known of Mr.. Mccormick. He
| must be doubtful young man rs the other
players refralned from throwing the ball at
| him except in cases of absolute necessity.
| In the fifth inning he executed brilliant
hitching-post assist on fly ball, which car
! omed off his person and rolled to the bag
| runner. who was heading that way.
Britain, who has made The round of all
| the uniforms in the professional and anna
| teur leagues already this season, played
short for the proprietors and escaped with
| one error, but it was responsible for two
runs. Otherwise he fielded the position
| well. ODay made several clever plays, and
| Stevens and AlcHale, in right and left field,
behaved much better than did McCloskey
| in the middle.
With the exception of Smith, who erred
on hard chance, the locals played clean
| game. Cobb was effective and has recOv-
cred his batting eye.
| THEIR TWO RELUCTANT RUNS.
Sacramento got the first of their reluctant
runs in the first inning when Stevens
| grounder. Nick has jobs comforter on
| his nigh leg which pains him at every move,
| otherwise he would have smothered the
| ball. McGuirk was next up and drove
| single TO right on which Stevens scored.
In the third inning Hoffman smashed
triple The next two men went out aud it
third, but Stevens rescued him from
! his perilous predcament with timely
drive to center. From this time
resulted in succession of blanks. In the
| sixth, with two men out McCioskey raped
! out three Dagger O'Day got a base Oh
/ balls and Britain retired the side ON q
| grounder to Cobb.
Frisco scored three in the first. two in the
next, three in the third and so on, scoring
| five in the sixth on four singles and HASA
| mer's hOme-run drive. During the next
| three innings the visitors pulled together a
| little better and stopped the run-getting.
This afternoon Sacramento and Oak land
will play at the Haight-street grounds.
| Shanahan will probably pitch for the Wis
| itors, with Spies for backstop. Basz will
do the twirling for Oakland. Following is
| the score: