San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-04
GILPATRIOH WAS AN EASY MARK
FOR THE SAND GRABS.
Tom Hayes Pitched For Galveston and
Our Men Died At The Plate With
The Bases Full.
BASEBALL BAROMETER.


Now here is an unpleasant task.
Must do it, though, for there are two
thousand baseball rooters in this town
that want to know what happened at
San Pedro park yesterday, afternoon.
Everybody has heard about it, but on
ly few know how it really happened.
Now listen, while we sob. Well, you all
know Thomas Hayes, of Missouri-we
used to call him big Tom" for short
and you also know Jaudge Fitzpatrick,
the boy wonder. Well, Jaudge was not
so wonderful while Hayes-yes, Big
Tom-was simply outersite. But sad
to relate, Hayes rs no longer one of us,
and yesterday he was dead agin' us.
We tried to laugh it off, but Big Tom
only laughed back at US and then we
sobbed. AS for Fitzpatrick, alias GIL"
he was the easiest Happy Jack Huston
and his merry, merry Sand Crabs
never saw merry Sand Crab, did you,
but they were yesterday-had met for
some time. oh they had a feast, and
fitzpatrick was the feastful. His curves
were made to order and they fitted the
Sand Crabs bats to perfection. Smash
went a single, slash went a double,
crash went a homer and kersplash
went the Bronchos with Gil in the
splash. oh, you ought to have seen it.
And the rooters howled and growled
and Mike swore and tore, while Gil
put them over to the symphonious tune
of the visitors bats.
All of this happened and it is not a
bit exaggerated. OF course, everybody
has his troubles, and the Bronchos are
no better than the rest. In the face of
all this bombardment, Gilpatrick did
not lose his head, but put the ball over !
the plate, and the only sad thing about |
it was that the balls were hit where |
could reach them. In a nut |
shell, the visitors were meeting them" |
They met Fitzpatrick for seventeen safe |
drives with a total of twenty-three |
bases. 1t was in the third inning that |
Gil was caught out of his cellar, and he |
was whirled away in a cyclone Of seven |
hits, including a double and a four |
Dagger, yielding five runs all earned. |
The total number of earned runs made |
by the visitors was eight.
In the seventh inning Jake Volz, a |
young local amateur, was put in to |
pitch. O'Connor has had the young |
ster out for practice the past few days, |
but for fear that he was too wild and |
nervous he did not venture to put him |
in the game before. He knew that |
Volz couldn't do any worse than Gill |
patrick and gave him a trial. The |
had good speed, but appear |
ed nervous in the beginning. He soon |
steadied down, however, and with that |
star little backstop, Matt Stanley, to |
guide him and such old heads |
as Weber and O'Connor, and that great |
jollier, Win Clark, nothing could rat
tie him. The visitors couldn't do any
thing with him and they were shut out
the last two innings. ........
But what has all this to do with our
batting department? Just a little |
stickwork, and we would have won the
game anyway. We did get eleven hits |
but they were not enough. Look at
this, and you will think so, too. In the
fifth inning with the bases full Bailey
struck out, retiring the side, when a
hit would have meant a run. The same
thing happened in the ninth, when
Mike O'Connor struck out with
three men on the bases. Neither Web
er or Keefe, who had preceded Mike. |
could fetch a run, and both went out |
on little pop flies to the infeld.
The visitors led the score from the |
start and in the fifth inning it was six
to four for Galveston. In the sixth
Galveston scored four more runs on
five hits and an error. In the eighth
things began to look interesting. Bal
ley started off with a double, Stanley
went to first on balls, Volz hit a lucky
single over third and Bailey scored.
Kohnle hit for two bases to right and
Stanley and Volz scored Then Kohnle
scored on Keefe's hit to second Web
er. Clark and Knau went to first on
balls and with the bases full and two
out Bailey hit to second, retiring the
side The ninth inning we had the
bases full again, but here is where the
Mighty Mike struck out and there was
sorrow in Rooterville
The Bronchos have taken a. slump in
their batting of late but this will soon
be over, and once they get their eyes
on the ball again. baseball managers
VIII be working the wires for new
pitchers.
So cheer up, wen strike our gait
agaln-eVen If 1t is a barn door, Eth.
Jaudpao