The record-union., 1891-05-18
DOWN /!
Went the Sacramentos to the Bottom
of the Ditch,
Dressed in Their Best Suits Of Clothes
How They Got in and
WalIowed.

There was a vast difference between
the playing of the Sacramentos on Satur-
day and their work yesterday afternoon.
A stranger witnessing both games would
have supposed that some 'jay-town"
team had been hustled into Snowflake
Park yesterday afternoon as substitutes
for the Sacramentos, to afford amusement
for the audience. The home players,
dressed in their new gray-and- blue uni
forms, looked like lot of strange men,
and their playing was greatly changed
for the worse.
Something was up. Either the uni
forms were "hoodoo," or the absence of
Sundays canine, Annie Rooney"
caused the calamity.
The team could not hit the ball safely
enough times to do any good, nor could
Ward nor Hoffman play their positions
without making disastrous plays of the
lneXcusable variety. McGuirk made an
error on high thrown bail. He ought
70 have caught it, and yet Ward deserved
half the error If the scorer were allowed
10 divide it into halves. Ward fumbled
the ball in the first place, and iii his
hurry TO head off the runner he threw a
tribe wild, and-McGuirk muffed it.
Then France looked as though he was
completely tired out, when in reality it
was only the second game he had pitched
i'll more than week It was supposed
that the fine, warm day would tIraw out
his pitching arm, but it did not, and
tended il anything to make his twirling
more unsteady and less effective He
allowed only six hits, it is true, but they
were punched, and by giving two or three
men bases on balls in one inning it can
be imagined what disastrous effect a hit
would have.
in the seventh inning he gave Clark
first base on balls, and then allowed
Sweeney 10 make single, Levy Il double
and Cartwright a three-base hit-au Of
which melted the San FTanciscos three
runs.
The Sacramento team can never expect
to win game unless they bat harder
than they did yesterday. Three hits will
not count for much when the opposing
team is doing good fielding work, and
the san FranciScoS did not fail TO take
advantage OF every chance yesterday.
CODD was III his element, and took a great
deal OF satisfaction in watching his field
ers wait for the tly-balls, which they
pulled down every time.
The game ended by u score Of to i'll
favor OF the visiting CLUB. The Sacra-
meHtoS claim, however, that they are en-
Cltled 10 one run on account Of a wrong
decision made by Sheridan. 1t was III
the first inning. Hutchinson reached
hrst base on hit. Then Sunday came
to the bat and drove out a three-base hit,
and hutchinson ran around TO the home
plate. Everybody thought run had
been scored, bat when the San Francisco
second baseman got the ball and touched
second base, Sheridan called Hutchinson
out, on the ground that III running he
had failed to touch the base by about
foot. Hutchinson protested that he had
touched the bag, but Sheridan declared
that he had not, and ordered him to cease
arguing the question.
The crowd Kissed the umpire severely,
for everyone thought the run should
count. Some claim that they saw Hutch
lnson touch the base, but Sheridan was
certainly the nearest to the bag, being
about ten feet away, and therefore was
better able to judge than those in the
stand. He may have been mistaken,
however, in his decision.
Works made a magnificent catch of q
long Fight into left field by SWEET. and
was loudly cheered. Sharp, for San
Francisco, played brilliant game at sec
ond base, and SO did Hassamer at short.
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