The morning call., 1891-04-13
Clever Fielding Wins a Game for
The Senators.
THE SAN FRANCHISES SHUT OUT.
me Morning Contest al EmnTT7illH Captured BY
The Home TGam-LGVY Hits The Ball Over
the RightFiGld FGlGH-A OleSidGd Affair
IN The Garden City in Favor Of FiIl'S
Msl-Sal Jose in The Lead.

Few people at the backgrounds yesterday
afternoon begrudged the Senators their vic
tory, but the home enthusiasts would have
been better pleased if San Francisco had
not been shut out The Senators bad been
playing in poor luck, losing the five pre-
oedlng contests, and to return to the Capital
City with a straight string of defeats would
have increased the ill-feetng existing in
Sacramento against the players.
They won the last game of the series,
however; won it fairly and sQuarely, and
won it after a hard-fougbt battle. II was
a victory that had q great deal OF glory at
tached to it, and the result should in a meas
IRE wipe out the stain of the preceding
defeats.
1t was the first opportunity afforded Sun
day patrons to see the two teams battle,
and there was another great OutpOuring Of
the cTanks, despite the gloomy weather in
town. The bleachers were crowded and
there were but few vacant seats in the grand
stand. The audience was biased in favor Of
the visitors, and every play above the aver
age was rewarded with warm applause.
While the spectators seemed anxious that
Sacramento should win, the home players
were not sighted, as several outbursts of
cheering attested, and the favortes were
never overlooked when going to bat.
Manager McCloskey, speaking Of the new
team before the season opened, said his men
would play only an ordinary teidlng game
and expected to win their battles by heavy
stick work 1t now appears that the Texas
manager underestimate the abilities of his
felders. They have been playing fir t-class
games recently, and yesterday afternoon
put up an extraordinary game. The score
declares that the FIiscos made four safe
hits of the pitching of France, but figures,
off r n
not always, in baseball. tell the whole
story. CHANGING at the score alone. one
would imagine the home players had batted
Ike schOOlboys, yetshow they did slug that
BALL They hit to almost every portion II
the Outfield, but il was well-nigh impossible
to do so safely. The moment the sphere
left a Frisco stick pair OF red-stockinged
legs began TO move over the green sward in
q hurry, and while the spectators were
watching with baited breath the course
OF the ball, the batsmen sped
around the bases. but wound
up his course by suddenly checking himself
and trotting toward the bench. A sudden
cheer announced that the ball had been
caught SWEET and Clark were the only
players that succeeded in biting safely TO
the Outield. The greatest catch Of the day
was made by McCloskey, who was standing
IN left field territory, and after hard run
EraSped the ball near the score board
The inteld work of the team was almost
perfection, Peoples doing the cleVerest work
Of the quartet One of his plays deserves
mention. In the fourth inning Sweeney
was on third base, with two men out Van
Zant hit q hot grounder to third base, and
the ball went through Hutchnson's hands.
Peoples picked up the ball in deep field, and
by long and quick throw threw out Van
Zant at third. BY the play he prevented
Sweeney from scoring and saved Hutchin-
son an error.
Lyons started in to pitch the game for the
bone team, but retired in the third inning,
and Cobb twirled out the contest. Cobb
pitched mastery game, allowing but one
did some neat work about second base. His
errors were on very hard chances. The
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