Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26
MR. ANSON'S FRIEND.
His Name Is Mr.. McQuaid and He
Is Making 1t Hot for Our Slug
gers in a Western Town.
HRGIVESAGAME TO THE CHICAGOS,
And Orders Catcher Miller to the Bench.
but Rule Has Been Very
Flagrantly Violated.
TIE CONTEST WILL BE PROTESTED.
The Bostons Win Another Honest Game-Baseball
News Of General Interest.
TIE CONTEST WILL BE PROTESTED
The Bostons Win Another Honest Game-BasebaIl
News Of General Interest
,spEc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE p,srArcH.1

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DfSPlTCH.1
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-Tommy Burns made
slide over the home plate to-day that will
live in baseball history. 1t was a headong
plunge through a cloud of dust. 1t was
slide that tied the prettiest fought game of
the wear on the home grounds, and it
panned out as a slide, too, that Won the
game, because Catcher Miller swore with a
mighty oath that it was an out, while Um-
pire McQuade declared with a shake of his
head that it was safe. Then Reilly ran in
from third hot and excited. ''That man cut
third" he yelled, ''and his run don't
count" BY this time the umpire was sur
rounded by the Pirates, who chattered like
magpies. Miller used insulting language
and was ordered out of the game "And
YOU will go out, if you don't keep still,
said McQuade to Reilly. Miller strutted
angriIy toward the bench. He tore his
heavy glove from his hand and threw it at
the bleachers. Then Manager McGunnigle
strobe up TO Miller. He ordered him back
into the game again. But Umpire Nc
Quade wouldn't have things that way.
HE PRODUCED 4 WATCH
He borrowed Pitcher Luby's silver time
piece. 'I'u give you one minute to get
out of the game" he said to Miller: but
Miller laughed and leered at the umpire
and made faces at the audience. 1.-The
game is forfeited to Chicago" was the next
thing the umpire said. With that the Chi
cagos rushed from the field, and the Pirates
sulkily followed after.
McGmnigle followed Anson up the club
house steps. ''Let us finish the game" he
pleaded. cts already ours" snapped
Anson. Then McGunnigle and his boys
drove from the ground followed by howl
ing mob Of men and boys. It was the most
stubbOrnly fought game of the year, and it
seemed up to the lucky eighth inning that
Chicago could not possibly win out The
Colts PLAYED magnificent uphill game and
were about to snatch victory out of the
Jaws OF defeat when Miller had to make his
famous kick, which resulted in the forfeit
ing OF the game. The Pirates played like
fends incarnate, and to intensity the ex-
citement the figures on the bulletin board
showed that the Phillies were as dough in
the hands of the Boston.
PittsburC earned all four of her runs bv
honest hitting. In the third inning Addi-
son c. Gumbert was knocked out of the
box and Nickerv finished the game He
was in fine form, and struggle as they
might the Pittsburgs could not solve his in
shoots Tor a safe hit.
IT WAS GREAT PITCHING.
1t was due to his superb work and fault
less fielding of the Colts that the Pirates
were unable TO score anv more runs. Gum
bert started in like three-time winner.
After Bierbauer and Shugart had been dis
posed Of III the first, Miller smashed the
bail over the garden wall into Loomis
street That was run the first 1t was in
the third that the Pittsburgs fell with
pile-driver shock on Gumbert Corkill
started the excitement by a clean single
into center Then Old Horse Calvin |
electrified the crowd by daisy shot
over second. Bierbauer sacrificed the base
runners along and then Shugart sent
tinkling grounder into right, scoring Cork
hill and Calvin and reaching second. Home
run Miller next landed on the ball with
resOUnding thUd, and while Dahlen was rum
ming ii down he skipped to third and Shu-
gart cantcred home That made three more
runs with a total of four, all of them earned
While Miller regained his breath on third. |
Anson walked up to the box, relieved Gum |
bert of the troublesome ball, and waived |
Vickery into the game. That was the turn
ing point, and from that time on the visitors
did not slug the ball.
COULDN'T HIT SAFELY.
If they did hit the sphere it fell into the |
waiting fielders' hands Vickery used his |
slow curve with tantalizing effect 1t was |
not until the third that the Chicagos scored. |
Calvin was great stumbling block, and in |
the early stages il was impossible to bunch |
hits. In the third, after Vickery's out,
Ryan polled hit into center, and then |
Reilly fUmbled Cooney's hot grounder |
Dahlen forced Cooney out at second, and |
old man Anson dropped the ball out of |
CorkEill's reach. scoring Ryan, with two
men on bases. Carroll drove the ball over
the right wall. The crowd yelled with de-
light, but the ball was foul, and the score
was not tied until later on. Then for three
innings the visitors played an out-of-sight
game. a base on balls to Schriver cleared
the trouble for Calvin in the seventh. Wick
cry forced his catcher out at second, and
then before "Jeems" knew what was hap
pening Ryan and Cooney fell upon him for
singles, and Schriver's run went upon the
board. The score stood + to in Pittsburg's
favor. Bostons had won. Could Chicago
pull out of the hole? Anson started to
answer the question in the eighth, when he
sent the ball over the left field wall
THE sCHEMING WORK.
Carroll few out to Lally, and then came
the star play of the game Burns who had |
helped himself TO two singles now grabbed |
off a double. He had to slide TO make it.
but he got there. Pfeffer, after numberless
fouls, sent hot grounder to Bierbauer He
handled it slow, and before he got it to first
Burns had passed third and was dashing
like mad for home Then came his head
long slide and the tieing of the score While
Umpire McQuaid favored Pittsburg to the
eighth inning, his decision at the home
plate was InanifeStly wrong and should have
gone against Chicago. McGunnigIe has de-
cided 20 protest the game Oh the ground of
an unjust decision, and that McQuade had
no right to cripple the team by ordering
Miller off the field The score: