Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-08
HONORS WERE EVEN,
The Pittsburgs Win the First
Game and Lose the Sec
Ond to the Giants.
TERRY PITCHED BIG BALL,
But Red Ehrets Curves Were Pound
ed All Over the Lot.
THE SPIDERS WIN AND LOSE.
Boston Defeats St. Louis and the Phillies
Down the Reds.
DETAILS OF THE DAYS SPORT
DETAILS OF THE DAYS SPORT
Tho Penuant Race.
A VICTORY FOR PiTTSBURG.
Elmer Smiths Fielding and o'Rourke'.
Error Were Responsible.

Elmer Smiths Fielding and ORourke's
Error Were Responsible.
NEW YORK, Aug IL Special THE
1,599 persons who went to the Polo grounds
to-day saw four hours of as exciting base
ball playing as the most exciting crank
could ask for They saw the New Yorks
lose the first game after a splendid uphill
fight, and judging from the phenomenal
luck that follow ed the Pittsburgs, each one
of them must have been provided with the
left hind foot of rabbit killed in a grave
yard.
The spectators then saw the New Yorks
do some very artistic hitting. They bat
ted the curves OF Ehret till the spectators
asked for a new pitcher. The Pittsburg
manager however, had no more pitchers to
sacrifice and Ehret was compelled to face
the cannonading to the bitter end.
In the first game Terry, once known as
the Brooklyn Adonis, but now a plain
Pittsburg Pirate, pitched for the visitors
and he unbottled some of the patent shoots
with which he has been surprising the Bos-
tons and other rising baseball organizations.
Somehow, Terrv's tortuous delivery had
no terrors for the Giants They hit the
ball with force and accuracy that would
nave dSsureu Victory, Uut .lOI Tie euortS Vi
young man of the uncommon name of
Smith, who stood over in left field and
shaded his eyes with a capacious hand while
waiting for line hits
Elmer Smith Did Well.
He took in five hard driyes, one of which,
q screamer by Doyle, was collared right on
the left foul line Had this hit escaped
Smiths clutches, Pittsburg would surely
have lost the game. Tine New York's were
hitting grass cutters that obligingly bounded
into felders' hands, and twice were they
doubled up on line drives into the hands OF
felders. Despite all this unfortunate work,
the New Yorks would still have won but
for an ine1cusably bad play by O'Rourke
in the fifth inning, when the score stood
tie
The New Yorks had scored a run in the
first by Harry Lyons reaching first on Beck
ley's tumble, stealing second and scoring on
Dovle's pretty double to left. Then in the
second, the Pittsburgs tied the score on
Beckley's bunt hit, passed ball and Full
ler's miss of Bierbauer's grounder. In the
fifth inning Bierbauer opened by an out at
first. Terry was sent to first on balls and
Kelly hit safely to right
o'Rourke's Fatal BIunder.
With men on first and second, Miller hit
ran in to meet the ball, and he picked it up
clearly just as Terry was turning third. 1t
was plain case of out at the plate, but
O'Rourke, balanced the ball in his hand,
looked two or three wavs in an indecisive
manner, and then when it was too late
threw to the plate. Terry scored, and as
Donovan went out at first Kelly came home
on the sacrifice, then Miller, who had
moved to third, came in on passed ball.
Had O'Rourke thrown the ball when he
picked it up, not a run would have been
scored.
In the seventh, Rusie made himself
famous. Dovle's terrific hit to left was
taken by Smith, but d. Lyons and Nc
Mahon hit for bases O'Rourke struck at
three wide balls and sat down Boyle was
sent to first on balls, and then Rusie
pounded three-bagger to right center
clearing the bases and tying the score
Fuller wss unable to send Rusie home
The Pittshurgs got the winning run in the
ninth on Donovan's double, Smiths sacri-
fee and wild pitch The score: