The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-04-01
THEY ARE /" CORKERS."
The Sacramento Baseball Team Makes
Good impression.
Veterans of the Diamond Who Think
the Other Teams are Prob
ably 6 Not In It's

The San Francisco and Sacramento
baseball admirers have taken liking to
the big fellows in the Capital City team,
and the press is unanimous in the opin-
ion that they are s'corkers'' when it comes
to batting, even if they cannot put up a
gilt-edged fielding game every day in the
week. Their style of coaching and the
continuous prattle kept up during game
has caught on" with a vengeance.
1t is the general opinion that the other
clubs in the League will not be in the race
at all unless they secure two or three
''phenemenals" in the list of pitchers,
who will be able to keep the Sacramento
giants from hitting the ball.
he KNEW THEM.
Tip O'Neill, the Captain of the Oak
lands, admonished pitcher Stevens last
week to throw the ball over the plate and
not try to fool the batters SO much.
Stevens reply was rather amusing. He
fetorted: "See here, Tip, if you knew
these men as well as I do, you wouldn't
dare to throw the ball anywhere near the
plate. They'll kill it.''
Manager McCloSkeyi is entirely satisfied
with the team and confident smile
overspreads his face whenever anybody
talks baseball to him. This is the way he
talks about his club:
You see, we're not in condition
yet, and won't be for a few games; but
even then I won't say that the bows are
going to put up errorless games. All that
l expect Of them is good, earnest fielding
work, and when it comes to batting
there's where we expect to win our
games. We're. liable to win match in
one inning, and | expect to see the tables
turned many time in our last turn to
fhn hat Fn,r in Inn fl,o
third man is out.'
McCloskey says he never played before
such grand crowd of people as he did at
San Francisco last Sunday. He thinks
they are the most impartial lot of people
he ever saw on q ball ground.
SHERIDAN CoMPLIMENTED.
Jack" Sheridan, the umpire, cannot
be praised or estimated too highly, in
McCloslIey's views. There's man, y
he says, that is the king of all of them.
I've played ball all over the United States
and I've seen Gatfney and the other cele-
brated referees, but in my judgment
Sheridan is a head and shoulders over ali
OF them. There's something about him
that commands respect, and l believe
he's as fair and conscientious an umpire
as ever posed as emperor of the ball
field. l don'S want to dispute him on
any point, because / think ne has the
best of judgment"
Tom Powers and Pete Sweeney, two
ball-players whom patrons of the game
in Sacramento know well, passed through
this city at noon yesterday on their way
East. Powers goes to captain the Balti-
more club during the season of 1891, and
Sweeney will be found a situation by
Spalding's right-hand man. Sacra-
mentans need not be surprised if, in the
near future, the announcement is made
that Bowman and Reitz are signed TO play
IN Powers team. 1t is likely that they
Will accept the terms offered them.
Powers thinks Sacramento has a great
team, and Sweeney says of them:
HARD ON PITCHERS.
They'll kill all of these right-handed
pitchers out here inside of two months.
and that first-baseman Dooley, of San
Jose, Will get his leg knocked off some
time when he amt looking. Did you
notice them, Tom, at the Bay, yesterday +?
, Why, for the first three innings they
stood straight up when they batted and
then they commenced to lean away back
and smash with all their might. They're
enough to take the sap out of any pitcher y
There Will be games here on Thursday
Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this
week. They will be between Sacramento
and San Jose, and on Sunday two will be
played, making five in all. France will
pitch tomorrow, and Hoover will do the
backstop work.
pleasing incident at Sundays game,
says the Post, was the presentation of a
huge floral piece to McGuirk, of the Sac
ramentos, when he went to the bat The
emblem was conveyed to him by eight
little children, all sons and daughters OF
officer Green, an old friend and admirer
OF McGulrk. The big pall-player shook
hands with all the little ones and kissed
the youngest, little tot not UP to his
knee, and the ladies warmed to McGuirls
in moment.