Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16

Mitchell was called in to fill up the breach.
This was an unfortunate filling up for the
Pittsburgers, as Mitchell really had an of
day as an umpire. True, he did the best he
could, but it was extremely unfortunate
that his very bad decisions were almost all
costly to the home team. Had these bad
decisions not been made the home team
might still not have won, but their chances
would certainly have been better.
Mitchell Was Considerably OF.
Mitchell was completely at sea on balls
and strikes and Ehret was the great sufferer.
He had men struck out, but bad judgment
gave them bases on balls Ehret is not a
kicker by any means, but Mitchell really
caused Red to object yesterday. And in the
ninth inning. with two men on bases and
nobody out, Shugart beat an infeld hit to first
There was no doubt about it, but Shugart
was called out, and it is needless to say that
there was any amount of hooting and howl
ing bv the crowd. Mitchell's work was
bad, to say the least of it.
But Killen was the greatest difficulty the
local PLAYERS had to encounter He pitched
very effectively and hit the ball hard. Our
siucgers could do nothing with him and
that was the chief cause of their defeat
umpire invariably has wonderful effect.
Killen seemed to have the local players at
his mercy and he was very well supported
But he was evidently ratified in the ninth
inning, and had Shugart been declared safe
it is difficult to say what the result would
have been, because Killen Is not the sweet
est of young men with three men on bases
and nobody out
Ehret Pitched in Good Form.
Ehret also pitched splendidly, and it was
no fault of his that the game was lost The
fielding was not of the best, and a ridicu-
lousy wild throw by Farrell in the seventh
inning had a very disastrous effect. Shugart
was not in the best of form, either, al
though once or twice he made brilliant
plav.
The visitors went to bat first and were re-
tired in order, but in an unusual way Rad
ford led off with a scratch inield hit and
he tried to steal second. He got a good
start, but was nabbed fully six feet from
second base. A wild throw by Farrell al
lowed Dowd to reach first, and he was forced
out by Hoy. The latter tried to steal sec
ond, and he also was cleverly thrown out by
Mack.
In the second half Miller got to first on
balls and he soon stole second aided by a
passed ball. Donovan knocked fly to
Richardson and was out. Miller then stole
third without much trouble and scored on
Mack's sacrifice hit.
No more scoring was done until the sixth
inning and up to that stage it looked as if
the game would end one to nothing in favor
of the home team so we'll were both pitchers
performing. But change came Killen led
off in the sixth and he got fairly onto
good one and whacked the ball clear to the
right center fence. He did not venture to
make home on it and stopped at third
Ehret struck Radford out and had two
strikes on Dowd when the latter made lit
tie hit to right, scoring the run.
Where the Game Was Lost.
In the next inning M;lligan led off and
made a single to left. Berger followed
and tried to bunt the ball. He did bunt it
eventually, and Farrell got the ball and
could easily have thrown Milligan out at
second, but there was nobody there to cover
the base. Farrell threw the ball to first and
it went clean over Beckiey's head, Milligan
scoring and Berger reaching third. Nc
Guire made a single and Berger scored
Richardson's sacrifice sent Mcclure to
third and then Killen was given his base on
balls, although he was fairly struck out
Radford's sacrifice scored Mcclure
In the second half of the ninth inning
Kelly led off with a single and got to second
on wild throw by Radford Beckley got
his base Oh balls and then Shugart knocked
the ball between Killen and Richardson.
Killen ran for it and fumbled it, When he
picked up the ball, close to first base, and
threw it Shugart then had his foot on the
bag. Shugart was called out and there was
lots of kicking. Bierbauer Rocked q long
fly to right, which Dowd caught, and Kelly
scored on the throw in. Farrell loomed up
to try to save the dav and nearly did it,
He knocked the ball far into center and it
looked like homer but Hoy made great
each and nabbed it brilliantly, and the Jig
was up. Score: