The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-10-11
PILOTS OF The new LEAGUE.
GILT EDGES BLAZING THE
WAY FOR THE OTHERS.
Yesterdays Game With the Stock
tons Was Streaked, but the
Gifts Won 1t.

Nineteen to ten, and the Stockton
team on the short end. That was the
way things looked when yesterdays
game of ball at Snowflake Park was fin
ished, and the Gilt Edge aggregation
now holds first place in the new State
League.
About 2. 500 people witnessed Farrell
make two errors, each of which cost
tallies, and between 300 and 4OO
Stocktonites who arrived on a special
train to witness the game, alternately
howled and wept as the tide of battle
swung to and fro The game was an
agony long drawn out, and from start
to finish the time was hours and 30
minutes.
The game was one of the wonders Of
the season, and each Of the various
kinds of cranks had a chance to howl
All kinds of runs were made, and all
kinds Of errors spoiled the score
There was good, bad and Indifferent
ball played, and it would be difficult to
say which variety was in the lead
In the first inning Peters, the back
stop for the visitors, was hit by the
ball, and had finger ripped open, and
the accident necessitated a change in
business all around. A boy named
Billings-suspecte of being some rela-
ton to "Josh'-went behind the bat
and did excellent work A long, slim
Stocktonian stuck to the initial bag and
did noble work, and a little fellow,
called II. White, put up the greatest
game at third base that has been seen
here this season, but there were no 9TH
ers
Poor Monahan, who used to play with
the San Francisco Markets, and who
assisted Goslinsky in doing the kicking
act, was out at short and the short
plays he made would give an Old Leak
er dyspepsia. He was easy game, and
when the Gilt Edge men needed a tally
they merely rolled the ball into his
section, and then galloped around.
Little Manuel de Costa was in the
box for the Slough City people. and did
some effective work, but the support
given him was wretched, and he wear
led of it before the close. Then the
local men had habit of lighting on
his delivery for hits of all descriptions,
and this wearied him again.
There were two savIors for yester-
days game, and they were Pony"
w AlkeF ana LOcknedu- 1uty play GU
ball and warmed the cookies in the
hearts of the people who understood
the game. Others of the Gilt Edge
boys plugged along and played sure,
safe game but they filled only minor
parts. while Walker and Lockhead fill
ed the places of stars.
Pony Walker is the best left-fielder
in the State, and one of the surest base
runners, and he has developed wonder
full batting propensities, which justly
place him in the front rank with
Spike" Henesey and Nick Smith, while
old man Lockhead thinks nothing but
baseball from the beginning to the close
of the game.
Near the close of the game Walker
sent the ball far out over the right field
fence-the first event of the kind in the
history of Snowflake Park.
For some unknown reason, Eddie
Nethercott sat on the bleachers while
Buck" Hughes let the balls slip
through his fingers at third base. And
Hughes was not the only man in the
team who had creased fingers. 1t was
really a comedy of errors played on
baseball diamond.
The Gilt Edge men piled up six runs
in the first inning, and interest in the
result tagged from that time. Follow
ing is the score: