The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-17
GALVESTON II. HOUSTON !.

GALVESTON II, HOUSTON l.
Galveston, Texas. August l6.--lt was
Just awful; hut 1t couldn't be helped. The
Buffaloes did tho best they could, 50 d.
the Sand Grabs. and it resulted in crush
ing defeat for the former
The Houston rooters came down here In
fun force ito Jolly the Scasiders along"
as they termed IT. They bade the But
taloes sail in and make 1t three straights
They We're confident that such would be
the result. but there Is where they were
off. The way the Galveston team played
was a surprise to them, and they went
away amazed The Houston rooters
have been N the habit of coming to cal
weston for the Sunday games In which
the Buflalocs figure with great regularity.
They have been accustomed 10 seeing their
favorites victors and they can scarcely
realize that the Houston team was beaten
today.
But 1t was clean. straight, uuqueston-
| able victory for tho Galvestouians a vie
tory 10y such a large majority of runs
that there is no room left for contention.
| 1T looked for "A while like ii WAS going
| 10 be IL 10 / game, and the SLY rites
! in the grand stand those residents of Cat
/ Nefl9n, of course Anticipated that such
\ would he the result. When me score
stood at the most familiar coupling of
/ numerals n the world today. the Bryan
men n the crowd got up waved their hats
! ana cheered ii To ana the 10y Orator 81
thc Platte"
! 1t was an intensely Interesting game. at
least the first five innings We're. houston,
/ although suffering defeat, play I'd well.
: l'ut Galveston play ed better. ina is thc
reason they won
J The defeat Of the BuffAloe4 is attribute
9bla to the fact that the sand q lbs found
/ i}as2 early W tn" action aud pounded
/ him u over the lot, to the fact mat the
| FEEDERS in thc.r oVor-cnthusidStir attempts
/ to capture lilies collid"d and lost the bail,
/ 10 the fact that Galveston had perfect
/ team work and that Houston was some
/ whai deficient in this rcspc Il. and las.
| hut not least. to the tact mat turtl- "utk
VS. In direct contrast TO hat OF l5alsz
ana the Bunalces couldn't hit him 10 ef-
fleet.
ON the subject of tom work. Manager
| pcrmodY of Galveston denies mat inc
Statement WHICH appeared in tn 5 morn
Iirg's Post 20 the effect that there were
| internal dssersions in the team had any
foundation However that may be, the
| work OF the team this afternoon showed a
Iporfcct symuathy,and comm'hddplt con-
galveston failed to score in the first
! inning Then Houston follow ed, max ing
/ their only score. II was secured in this
/ way, After Slage had hit safe INTO l'tl,
/ shaffei sent a not liner TO Burris, VINO
could not hold 1t. 1t bounded from Stcin-
fcldts hands and Siace got to second.
Shnffer was thrown out at second on
Cotes ground,r to pitcher. Slagle scored
on Reds double H. left field. AMI that
o,,ded the r,iu-setting on the Houston side.
Rood IN aitemIilrg 10 stretch his two.
Dagger into a three was thrown out, and
after Jacobs had gotten base on balls
he attempted to got IN the chase for
cc,r's benefit hut Belt was too quick ana
Cote was thrown out retiring tho s'de.
During the remaining seven innings
Oh barj a., Ioasi tbrv worked until tho
stxtb is',,tr,e nm they " re unable TO get
! a man 20 frst ma innings going out in
one two, three order
Tn. Wv Inc Stud crabs bnttcd Balsz
an ,m'i tho runs nm in ihe second. third
fourib fifth an1 sixth innings was a
r"ut{o, ~ Rsnk1 S'' nrSyNntoi them from
r',l Vo ,aiiy in mo srvonth.-tn,t was
u'Si'r, Sba ffnr w.nt IN the hon in place of
a. .,,rn and Immediately changed the
~" Nan 90 pla Az a beautiful game in CEN
ter. accept nc and capturing ave chances.
VI rlsn corrind ar IN. hitting Icuors
with i single and three doubles, Stein
folst Wa@kbeSker Hoover, Huston and
lSrott also batted to eood effect, while
h,utlS pI r.'iI ,nI Us tvtc. 81, n,k Inv
n 'dat,,h w., = XII "''''
r'hcre are Nose who indulge the opi1I-
srio.s se.inc defeat was in..vltablo, threw
,iy, ,,resantad galveston with The game
THIS could scarcely haN@ p'TH tn"r PUT
poS" Is que norv ,hay ,yern n' nn SiIa
to do any better in the nf'h 70 r.gnt1
innings than in the pre- ing one. IN ~
the scour aEcuent of tn. sore at thii
t ca OF the no, fouF Fnr t Of y hS rs.ors
to r'maTk iiiy the game va thr9wn By 4
PLAYER in the Houston team. This IN sun
y nor. fanatiraI conclusion and there
was nothing TO Justify IT. me truth f.
3 Galveston defeated lioustOa 10y super or
81 mon