The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-18
National League.

1t was not much of a trick yesterday for
the Hustlers to get the better of Ollie
Boards crowd and keep in the lead for the
pennant race. The men from east Of the
mountains put up clever fielding game,
but couldn't do execution enough with
the stick to make them dangerous. Gus
McGinnis faced them in the box, and
proved the same unsolved riddle. He al
lowed but seven hits, which were gen.
orally too far apart to do any good, and
kept up his strike-out record by retiring
ten of his opponents in this way. In the
second and seventh innings all of the outs
were on failures to touch his curves.
George Borchers pitched q steady game
for the visitors, but was not a hard nut
for the Hustiers to crack. 1t was their
day to hit. and as rule they smashed out
the ball when it was needed. Billy Earle
took the lead in this respect. After ex-
perimenting with poor success In trying
to find bat that suited him, the little
captain nailed his old broken one together
and started out in earnest after base hits.
What he captured was a triple, two
doubles and a single. Gil Hatfield also
did himself proud with the stick. getting
in three clean singles. He also had three
steals marked to his credit. But Charlie
Irwin won the greatest applause by his
lucky home run hit over the fence. In
fielding the whole team worked cleverly,
and put up almost perfect ball.
One of the surprises Of the visitors play
was the way in which Lew Gilliland COW
cred first base. The big fellow was full of
life, and made number of clever stops
and pickups. He led with the stick, too,
getting two out of the teams seven hits,
one of them slashing drive to the right
field fence for three bases. Raymond and
Beard both did some pretty Unfolding, the
shortstop accepting twelve chances with
out break.
The run getting did not begin until the
third inning. Then. with one hand out,
Billy Earle sent liner into right field for
two bases. Langes sacrifice sent him to
third. and he scored on Danny Mime
han's single over second.
In the fourth the Hustlers seemed bent
on driving Borchers out of the box for a
time, but were checked up in time to pre-
vent such a disaster. After Polhemus
went out on q grounder to Borchers, Hat
field drove the ball to left for single.
Then Charlie Irwin started the ball high
in the air in the direction of the woods
back of left field fence. Fitzgerald gagged
its flight and backed up against the fence,
but to no purpose. The goddess of for
tune seemed to have taken the ball in
charge. 1t struck on top of the uppermost
board and bounded over on the outside,
while Hatfield and Irwin trotted around
the bases amid the cheers of the stands.
Letcher was next up and reached first on
a poor throw of Reccius to first after
handling slow grounder cleverly. Then
''Glnger Bill'' drove the ball out between
Mari and Klopf for three bags, sending in
Letcher. Lange retired the side on a
grounder to Raymond
The visitors destroyed the chance for a
shut-out by squeezing in an earned run in
the fourth, although the hitting which &C
complished it was on the scratch order.
Gilliland led off with a little fly which
either LANCE or Letcher could have cap
tured, but allowed to fall safe through a
misunderstanding. Beard hit grounder
toward short, but Hatfield, misiudging it,
and eager for q double play ran to second
base, leaving the ball for Irwin. The
third baseman also held back, and the ball
went safely over the exact spot where Hat
field had been standing a moment before.
On Wilson's infield. hit to Hatfield Gill;
land scored. Reccius flied out to Pol
hemus, and, after Borchers was given a
base on balls, Fitzgerald went out on a
fly to Lange.
In the fifth Seattle scored on Mime
hans single, Hassamer's sacrifice and
hit by Poihemus. on which the latter was
thrown out at second.
In the ninth Billy Earle came in with
another run. He led off with a two
Dagger, and took third on Gilliland's muff
of Lange's fly. Minnehan hit to Reccius
and double play resulted, but meantime
Earle scored. The score:
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