The record-union., 1891-04-20
OUT OF THE FIRE.
The Sacramentos Win, After Bad
Uphill Start.
Captain McCloslzey Has a Tilt With
the Umpire, and 1t Costs
Him Money.

IL is no wonder the audience Missed the
Sacramento team yesterday in the first
inning Of the game with Manager Har-
ris' aggregation OF ball-tossers. In the
first place, France appeared not to be try
ing to pitch, and runner actually stole
from second to third base while he was
holding the ball in his hands. Then
Ward and Sunday commenced a dispute
as to which should have fielded ball hit
into the air in the direction of right field.
Immediately afterward France made a
wild throw to second base, and the San
Franciscos, by smashing out five hits,
found no difficulty in sending four run
ners across the plate.
The spectators got in bad humor right
| away, but just as soon as the players
livened up in the next inning and showed
that they did not consider themselves de-
teated, by any means, the audience began
to grow enthusiastic again, and by the
sixth inning the cranks were shouting
for the home team as loudly as they
could.
! Four runs stared the Sacramentos in
the face when the first inning was out,
but the team started in with determine
| ton to close the big gap. Peoples banged
the ball for three bases in the second in
ming, and France, the next batter, hit tc
| Van Zandt, and would have made the
base but for a stupid bit Of base-running
on his part. Spies came to the rescue,
| however, and knocked out a neat two
base drive, scoring Peoples. A cannon
ball liner off Sundays bat gave Spies an
| opportunity to score, and he did so.
! Neither side scored in the third inning
| In the fourth, however, Spies home run.
Sundays three-bagger and Wards hit
added two more runs to the Sacramentos'
| score, but the visitors also made squirt
| and crossed the plate with two men.
After two outs had been made Cart
wright hit to Ward, who frlmbled, but
| threw to first. The ball and Cartwright
reached there at the same time, and Sher-
idan properly called the runner safe A
| portion of the audience commenced to
Van Zandt made a hit and Levy followed
suit. Two men scored before the side
was retired.
When McCloskey came to the bench he
addressed d remark TO umpire Sheridan,
who promptly fined him $40. Another
$40 was plastered on him when lie con-
| tinued to talk back. The fines were i'm
posed directly in front Of the grand stand.
and half the audience commenced to guy
| Sheridan. The latter paid no attention
! to the crowd for a few minutes but
turning around suddenly he saw
| Bill Hall, the colored slogger, making
noisy demonstrations, and he ordered
McCloskey to have Hall removed from
| the grounds. The Sacramento captain
refused to heed the umpire's order at
| first but when Sheridan pulled out his
watch and gave McCloskey five minutes
TO have the man put out, under penalty
of declaring the game in favor of San
! Francisco, matters began TO look serious,
| and theSacramento manager saw that he
a lD1 hi fy
! by holding out. He accordingly had
Hall marched out of the ball park.
The game was resumed amid mingled
! applause and Kisses directed at the
umpire. Sheridan had done exactly what
was right, and there was not the slightest
| provocation for the insults cast at him by
! many III the audience.
In the sixth inning the Sacramentos
tied the score. Ward reached first on
! balls, went to second on Sundays sacrifice
| hit, and scored on McGuirk's drive, The
latter came home on Hustin's hit along
/ the third base line.
From the sixth inning to the end of the
| game it was grand struggle for victory,
and the SacramentOs proved too much for
i their opponents. They made one run in
/ the seventh, one In the eighth and two in
! the ninth innings. In their last turn to
the bat Hustin knocked the ball over the
! right field fence and scored a home run.
/ w OIkS, WHO Hdu Tedcn6u UfSL on DaliS,
also tailed on the hit.
| The San Franciscos made one run in
| the ninth inning, and the game ended in
| their defeat by a score OF 10 tot.
Both pitchers We're batted hard, twenty
six hits being made in the game. Spies
work as catcher and his batting were both
/ loudly applauded. Sunday also had his
! eye on the bail, and kept banging out hits
and fouls that fielder would only at
tempt to stop at the risk of his life. Nc
| Guirk made a brilliant stop of red-hot
! liner, and McCloskey caught hard drive
| by Cartwright into center field.
The San Franciscos played about as
good a fielding game as did the Sacra-
mentos, bat they were not lucky in
punching their hits often. Cartwright
played great ball at first base, and little
| Danny Sweeney was applauded every
time he came to the bat. Following is the
score: