The herald., 1897-11-22
ON THE DIAMOND
Brother Joe Pitches for Baltimore.
State League Games

State League Games
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21.-"Brother
Zoe" Corbett made his first appearance
with the Baltimores in his native town
today, and won the game against the
All-Americas. Corbett's reception was
equal to that which Bill Lange received
when the big center-fielder came to bat
In his first game Of the present series.
Many bouquets and immense floral de-
signs from admiring friends were
brought to the home plate when Cor
bett came to bat, and the young pitcher
lined out clean hit in response. Cor
bett pitched good game. though at
times he was wild. In the first three in
nings there was a series of accidents.
Nash was hit by pitched ball, which
seemed to take all the life out of his
work at second. He was then put on
first base, and in the next inning col
lided with Donovan, hurting his arm and
stunning Donovan. Kelly was hit in the
side by pitched ball, and in the same
inning Jennings collided with Smith at
the plate, knocking the catcher down
and stunning him so badly that the game
was delayed ten minutes waiting for
him to recover. The weather was cloudy
and mild; attendance. 5000. Score:
Baltimore.....1 0 8 0 l 0 0 x-9
Hits 10. errors s.
All-Americas.. 2 0 0 0 o 2 %
Hits 6, errors 6.
Batteries - Corbett and Donahue,
Powell and Smith.
THE STATE LEAGUE
SACRAMENTO, Nov. p. The Gilt
edge baseball team beat the Stocktons
this afternoon by a score of to /, the
latter team escaping a whitewash on
errors by Nethercott and Stanley in the
ninth inning. The feature of the game
was the phenomenal pitching of Harvey
for the Giltedges, only one doubtful
scratch hit being made off his delivery.
He was ring puzzle for Stockton's
heavy batters, striking out ten men,
while he gave but one base on balls.
Stanley of the Reliance team did the
catching and put up fine game. The
Giltedges gathered in two runs in the
first and four in the sixth inning, three
of them being earned. Harper. for the
Stocktons, pitched steady uphill game.
and the work of Peters behind the bat
has not been excelled here this season.
and Stanley; Stocktons. Harper and
Peters. Attendance, 1000.
San F'rancisco-At Central park today
the Will & Fincks defeated the Heesa-
mans in the tournament bali game They
led from the first inning and retired
their opponents for the first four trials
without a tally In the fifth the Oakland
boys made two runs The Will & Fincks
crossed the rubber once in the first,
twice in the fourth and twice in the
eighth The only feature of the game
was double play from Farron to Keat-
ing to Stutt Score, 8 toe
Santa Cruz-The local baseball team
defeated the Olympics Of San Francisco
here this afternoon Score: Beachcomb-
ers II, Olympics 4
San Jose-The California Markets de-
feated the Santa Clara baseball team to-
day in a close and exciting contest.
Score: Markets II, Santa Clara 10.
A CYCLE CLUB LEAGUE
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 81. = The
Cycle Club baseball league is now an
accomplished fact. H. D. Hadenfelt has
been elected president. and Harry Lar
kin secretary. The league is composed
Of teams from the following nine clubs:
Acme. Bay City Wheelmen, California
Cyclers. Garden City Wheelmen, Impe-
rial Olympic Cyclers, Olympic Wheel
men. San Francisco Road club, and
Turnverein Cyclers Of San Jose.
The league will formally open its
games on the first Saturday in January,
playing three games each week there
after until each club has played with
each of the Ot herS