Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-12
The League Record. .
IT WAS A GREAT ONE.
Our Sluggers Play an Exciting Tie Game
With the Cleyelanders.


With the Clevelanders.
Whoever wants to see baseball game
where every performer is looking out
for the gore of an opponent, only needs to
see game between the home team and the
heroes of Cleveland. These two aggrega-
tions met once more at Exposition Park to
trv and settle the series of the season, and
when it is said that the game was called at
the end of the ninth inning with the score
4 and 4, it can easily be imagined that
matters were very hot. And it was hot
time and no mistake, because probably
there were never two teams more equally
matched than the local and Cleveland
teams The latter had fortune on their side
considerably yesterday and that saved them
from defeat.
VIII Meet Again To-Day.
But they will have to settle the argu-
ment to-day. Each team has won three
games of their seasons series, and as to-day
is an off-day they will try again for the odd
game.
There were Q, 100 people present at the
game yesterday, and more enthusiastic
crowd was never in ball park. There was
everything to make people excited. Clark
son and Terry were pitching like demons,
ard, if anything, Umpire Gaffney's de-
clsions favored the visitors, particularly his
decisions on balls and strikes. Still, taking
everything into consideration, Gafney did
well.
He had hard game, one of the hardest
to umpire, and his position was difficult
one, indeed. 1t is safe to say that if he
erred he did not mean to do so and the
kicking of the visitors was entirely uncalled
for. And they are ball players of the first
quality.
Up to the eighth inning the score stood
one to one. That was close enough and the
excitement of the 2, 100 people knew no
bounds.
There Was Lots of Excitement.
There was a wild scene in the eighth
when Van Haltren knocked the ball down
the left toul line and the ball bounded into
the bleachers. Burkett leaped the fence
like cat and had the bail speedily. Van
was thrown out at third base. Everybody
thought that it was q home run as the ball
was out of sight, but Gaffney called the
runner out
In the first inning the visitors started to
score. After Two men were out, Davis
u
and reached first. Mexican followed with
single to right and Tebeau made one to left,
scoring the run.
In the fourth inning Miller led off with a
three-bagger to left and scored on Beckley's
sacrifice. The cheers were tremendous.
The eighth inning came round and it was
a sad one for the home patrons. Childs
started off the second half and got his base
on balls. He reached second on Burkett's
sacrifice, and then Davis was given his base
on balls, apparently by very bad Judgment
on the part OF Gaffnev. Mexican flied out,
and really the side should now have been
out. Tebeau followed and knocked the ball
past Miller to short
A Piece of Bad Fielding.
Both Van Haltren and Smith felded it
extremely bad and Tebeau got home with
two runs in front of him. The hit should
not by any means have been home run.
But the ninth inning cheered the local
partissns up. After Beckley was out Smith
got to first on a muffed throw by Clarkson
and reached second on a wild pitch. Mack
made a single, scoring Smith, and he
scored on Bierbauer's two-bagger TO left
The yells were now deafening. Terry's
sacrifice sent Bierhauer to third, and when
Patsy Donovan made one of his artistic in
field safe hits the crowd went wild as Bier
bauer crossed the plate with the tieing run.
Hats were thrown in the air and men and
women stood up and shouted like frantic
people Farrell retired the side by send
ing fly to O'Connor.
The visitors then made tremendous howl
about darkness and wanted the game called.
Umpire Gafney insisted on the game pro-
ceeding, and it did. The visitors went out
in order and the game was called. The
score: