The morning call., 1891-08-02
HOW M'CLOSKEY'S
MAVERICKS LOST.
Pitcher HOffman's Record Was
Badly Disfignred.
A 0ne-Sided Contest Which Frisco Won With
the Bat-San Jose Bested the Colonies.
Two Games To-Day.

Sitting through ball game that ends with
score of 10 to is like trying to be sociable
with bar-rOom monograph. The CONVEX
satiOn is too one-sided to be interesting. No
man likes to have the other fellow do all the
talking or singing, such as 1t is. and the same
conditions hold good in baseball.
Eighteen head of young men of different
degrees of proficiency in their respective
positions and with weather cracks in their
hands and faces engaged in an affair of the
bat and ball yesterday afternoon at Haight
street. When the turmoil ceased Harris
congress of home-run hitters withdrew with
fifteen TALES, while McCloskey's mavericks
got out of il with six runs, ten errors and
$40 fine for back talk.
1t was j. Peck Sharp's doings that kept
the Steers from making all the runs they
wanted. Peck pitched for Otto Young, our
German cousin, who had aches IN his arm.
Sharp pitched two separate and distinct
kinds of balls. One of these kinds the
Steers hit and the other they tried to hit but
did not. and when they did hit the other
kind the felders got the ball and threw it to
Cartwright.
HOFFMAN WAS HIT HARD.
Hoffman tried to pitch for Sacramento.
II worked the string out, but his SecOrd
was sadly disigured when he got through.
Smith and Sharp each ripped out homo
runs, and Smith got triple besides. Every
body paid his respects to Hoffman but Brit
tan. and the stick work resulted in total of
twenty-three bases, while the visitors Sc
cured but twelve.
Smith got his triple in the first inning
during which Frisco scored three runs In
the third with one run In and man on sec
ond, Smith swatted the ball in the middle,
and started 1t out to where McClOskey
holds forth. He thought the ball was conf
ing directly into his hands, but the sphere
had different intentions.
McCioskey discovered this fact when it
was tuo late, and he and the ball had race
TO the clubhouse. 1t was close heat, but
the bali had the best of 1t. Sharp made his
home run IN the ninth inning on drive to
center, which McCioskey started to meet,
but it took frightful bound over his head,
and went down to the clubhouse again.
sHORN OF HIS COUPONS.
1t seems as if McCloskey had suffered
enough for one day without having SO
worth. OF coupons shorn from his hard
earned wages. But when man tells poor
but honest umpire that he talks like band
of wild horses he must abide by the conse-
quences. Bill Stevens will allow no trifling.
IL there is any tritling 10 be done he will do
it himself.
No one heard what McCloskey said to
Bill, but the movement OF his finely chiseled
Perhaps it might have been cattle instead OF
horses. At any rate he said something and
Bill fined him $40. Bill has an eye like a salt
mackerel and can pass judgment on a play
that McCloskey couldn't settle with the aid
Of Lick telescope, so Bill thinks.
Tue play that caused the trouble between
Mac and Bill took place in the eighth in
ming. Nick Smith, acting under instruc-
tons from headquarters, tried to steal sec
ond. The ball was thrown to ODay, who
has got another job with Sacramento. He
caught the sphere and jabbcd in against
Smith, and also butted him with his brow
10 make sure. All this happened several
feet on the wrong side of second base, but
Bill said the runner was safe.
Naturally, McCloskey got hot at Bill, and
came in from the pasture to tell him about
it. Bill, however, told McCloskey that his
remarks, in great measure, emanated
from his hat, and that it was one of the
most costly modes Of expression known to
the pr0feSh.
Sacramento and Frisco will play two
games to-day, the afternoon game at Haight
street beginning at 2:50 o'clock. Following
is the score: