Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-19

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Palmer O'Neil saws they will land. And it
NAV not be W de OF the mark to say that If
the local sluggers just keep on going as they
are going now they will soon be on the
Top of the Heap.
They are Just beginning to prove that they
are very dangerous people for young men in
the way of pitchers to fool with, and the
best of twirler5 are at all times liable to
speedily have their nerves shattered when
facing the Pittsburg terrors.
There was one thing quite apparent in
Yesterdays contest at Exposition Park be-
tween our champions and the aggregation
from Philadelphia. The worth of good hit
ting was never palmer to be seen. The oil q
man was touched up quite merr1ly: in TACT
hard enough to win many games. But the
home sluggerS were out to 90 business IN
that line themselves and they did 1t to the
queens taste. And that is just where the
local team will always be dangerous. In
using the stick they are able to steadily nave
sweet revenge on any other team VINO are
bold enough to take much liberty with our
pitchers. At all stages good hitting covers
q very large amount of shortcomings, and
when our Taw-boned specimens of humanity
let themselves loose a freight car load OF
errors have comparatively little effect on
the result. In Yesterdays game the nlttlng
was really enjoyable to those whose sym
pathies were in favor of q home victory.
Some Lively Scenes.
The crowd was an excellent one, there
being more than $500 people present, and
the majority of those were in the grand
stand This shows what good profits there
are awaiting the club if the team only keeps
in line. As usual the crowd was certainly
demonstrative and every day the feat be-
comes palmer that the patrons particularly
on the '|bleachers'' are becoming more
boisterous than has ever previously been
the case in PiUtsbuTg. As result the patrol
Inn lodi on
two men, Young men, were hustled off to
the lookup. Their offense was gambling.
One was charged with being stakeholder
and the other with betting. During
the last few days the extensive system of
betting which has been carried on among
the patrons of the right field bleachers has
caused several fights and unpleasant scenes:
certainly scenes that cannot be tolerated in
a League ball ground. If bets or wagers on
the ground cannot be made without the dis
graceful rows that have recently taken
place, then betting under any circumstances
on the ground must be entirely prohibited.
Ifharsh means have to be used to Quell the
disturbances attendant on the betting those
who are the promoters and encouTager5 of
those disturbances only have themselves to
blame. One thing is absolutely certain, that
respectable conduct VIII be demanded OF
every spectator OF the game who goes into
the grounds.
Yesterdays game was little too one-sided
to be very interesting. At the start off mat
ters were a little close and continued so for
a few innings. But the home players as
sumed such commanding lead that the re-
suit was a forgone conclusion even with
Gleason in the box Gleason pitched pretty
fair ball, but the local hard hitters were too
much for him. His colleagues, too, did not
play brilliantly in the field by any means.
Good An-Round Play.
The home team did very well all round
and the three errors they made did not con-
tribute toward any run-getting. The visitors
used the stick so effectively that they earned
five of their six runs. The unearned tally
was the result of a base on balls. As usual
Bicrbaucr played a great game at second and
Miller and Reilly also did well. The error
credited to Miller was very pardonable
one. Calvin threw the ball to him to head
off a runner at second. The throw was not
one OF the best, but George got the ball into
his hands and dropped it,
The visitors were first to get a run in.
After two men were out in the first inning,
Gray made a nice single to right field, and
that agricuIturGl-like citizen, Sam Thomp-
son, appeared, and banged out three-bag-
ger to the right field fence.
In the next inning the home players took
the lead, and never relinQuished it. Bier
bauer made n three-bagger to left field, and
1Ianlon was put out at first. Mack-the re-
liable Mack, who invariably cracks in run
followed, and scored Bierbauer by fine
single to left field. A passed ball sent Mack
TO second. Reilly knocked a grounder to
Myers and the latter made a very wild throw
TO first allowing Mack to score, and Reilly to
reach third. Calvin struck out, and Reilly
scored on AIiller's single. Beckley followed
with a hit, but Browning's fly was caught by
Thompson.
Where They Banged the Ball.
Mack's single, and Reilly's sacrifice and
Galvin's single scored Mack in the sixth.
Then came the seventh inning. Browning
led off with single. Carroll got his base on
balls. Bierbauer made a single; and so did
Hanlon; Mack got TO first on a life hit,
shindle making a wild throw to the plate,
and Reilly closed the hitting by humping
out home run to left field All this hitting,
together with the error mentioned, and
errors by Hamilton and Allen, Noted six
runs, four of them being earned. A muffled
fly 10y Hamilton and single by Carroll scored
the last run for the home players.
The visitors made their second run in the
second inning on "A two-bagger by Clements,
a single by Brown and a sacrifice by Allen.
In the seventh single by Gleason, a three
bagger by Hamilton, a base on balls, single
by GRAY and another twobagger by Glenn
ents sent in four runs, three of them being
earned. The score: