The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-29
NINE EARNED RUNS.
Sacramento Beaten in a Spirited
Contest.
The Home-Run Record Broken by Cartwright
Pete Sommers First Game Notes Of
the Diamond

A quiet double baseball elopement took
place from Sacramento on Wednesday even
Ing. Frank Ward, second baseman of the
Senators, became deeply enamored Of an
other job and SILL that had temporarily
transferred their affections from Manager
NcCloskey to the player. Being unable to
decide between the two charmers, Ward
nestled the cherished object of his love in
his bosom, and hied him away to ST. Paul.
Jack Huston, the pitcher also got to wind
ward of McCloskey for S124, and elOped
with that amount taking the same route as
Ward
But the absence of these two giddy
youngsters from the team made no differ
ence in the result of the contest at the
Haight-street grounds yesterday afternoon.
Their places were admirably filled; but
somehow or other the game went against
the SOlons. Two factors entered largely
into the result. One OF these was the ina
bility of the Senators to land safely on
Little Pete SOmmers' curves. and the other
was the vicious way in which the locals
damned the ball away out where the
earth and sky seem to meet.
HOFFMAN HAMMERED HARD.
1t was harsh and brutal, too. the way they
jumped onto Hoffnan's delivery. Some of
the spheres got tired and withdrew entirely
from the game. Cartwright was particu-
larly feroci0us in feeling around with his
club and plucked couple Of red ripe home
runs. Pop SWEET got his usual three-bagger
and the other fellows punched out singles
and doubles to fill In the waits.
In the third inning for Frisco, with the
score tied and one man out, Cartwright t0ed
the rubber. With wicked CLEAN in his
eye the big man swung the bat with all the
force of his huge ayOirdupois and hit the
unhappy ball square In the face.
With low. SAD, soulful, Soughing sob the
sphere sped away from the mounting mob,
far out DER the greensward meadow strip,
gone on long. elOud-clawlng trip
YIELDED TO DISBURSEMENT.
SO discouraged was the ball over the re-
suit of its encounter with the bat that II i'm
mediately took OFF its overalls and quit. 1t
was the longeStan highest drive ever made
on the grounds. The ball cleared the fence
to the right of the big tobacco sign in center
field aud Cartwright narrowly escaped max
lug $50 by knocking the eye out of that old,
white-h haired gent in Quaker garb who is
complaceHtly smoking Pet cigarette on
the sign beard. SWEET followed with
three-bagger and scored on Hassamer'S
sacrifice.
This clever stick work gave the locals a
l6aQ OF TWO Ialll6S. IN Tue HIlH lHe Nl>itOT5
cOaXed one man out of bad combination.
Twice did they fill the bags, mostly through
balls and errors. Hoffman was presented
with base by his esteemed contemporary,
MIR. SOmmers, who edits curves for Harris;
was advanced by a sacrifice and more called
balls, and scored on Sweeney's mutf of
Works fly.
FIVE EARNED RUNS.
In the eighth the heavy batters of the
home team charged in a body on Pitcher
Hoffman hitting him for home run, four
doubles and one single, which Melted five
runS-all earned. Cartwright started the
disaster with his second home run, sending
the ball bounding over the fence back of
the carriage drive. Hassamer, Smith, Som
mers and Sharp supplied the doubles and
Clark the singles. which brought in Sharp
with the last tally of the inning.
A base on balls, single, an error,
double and one sacrifice gave the Senators
three runs in the ninth. ending the contest
by score of 10 to Z. 1t was a decidedly in
tereSting game from start to finish.
sOMMERS WAS WILD.
Pete Sommers pitched good ball while he
! pitched, butwhen sending men down the line
! on called balls his work did not seem to
| meet the approval of any one except the
! Sacramento people. He has good speed at
! times and an effective inshoot that puzzled
! the Senators not little. Up TO the seventh
! inning they had but three hits with large
! blank spaces in between. With better con-
| troll of the ball Peter will prove winner.
! He sent ten men to first on balls, but sharp
/ fielding prevented the evil result OF his con-
! duet from becoming too manifest on the
score board The score follows:
AT SAN FRANCISCO, MAY %, 1891