The record-union., 1897-09-20
COT A TERRIBLE DRUBBIHG.
THE RELIANCES WALKED OVER
THE GILT EDGES.
a Bali Game in Which the Pets
OF the Capital City Were
Not In 1t.

Probably $500 people assembled at
Snowflake Park yesterday afternoon to
see the Reliance baseball team OF oak
land swab up the diamond with the
Gilt Edge aggregation to the tune OF
10 to 6.
All kinds of ball was played-good,
Indifferent and yellow" the latter va
riety predominating, and most of the
people perspired, and groaned, and
swore because the yellow streaks
showed plainest in the work of the local
team.
It was a scathing, blistering, bitter
dragging in the dirt of the home team,
and while several predetermined peo-
pie and the Oakland delegation hOwled
for the Reliance men, the vast ma
jority growled at the umpires and
yelled. XIII theml" and this, too, when
the local men got the best of the deal
on every close play.
The main trouble with the home peo-
pie was that the Oaklanders hit the
ball when and where they would. Left
swings and right hooks were easy
things for the Reliance boys. and they
seldom failed to land knockout blows
De Costa and Farrell played the
points for the local team, while Doyle
and Drews did likewise for the visitors
Neither side scored in the first two
innings, but in the third the Reliance,
with two men out, hit out safe and
scored Arlett and Russell. Dodge set
tied further chances by striking thrice
without connecting.
In the latter half of the third the
Gilt Edges wound themselves up and
hn
howled long and loud. It was well they
did, for throughout the rest of the
game they never had another chance.
The four tallies were the result of Wild
ness on the part of Doyle, safe hits by
De Costa and Spillman, and errors by
Mcintyre and Stulz. Neither run was
earned. During the inning Henesey,
Shanahan and Lochhead were hit by
pitched balls. and Walker was given a
base on balls when the bases were
full
In the first half of the fourth inning
the Reliance men got back at the
brewers in great shape, and when they
quit the score stood to 4 in their ia
vor From this time on Doyle kept his
head and was terribly effective at crit
icaI times, frequently tanning the third
man out when the bases were full.
In their half of the fourth the Gilt
Edges failed to count, and in the first
half of the fifth the visitors moved up
another peg, while the Gilt Edges did
nothing.
In the sixth the visitors were an easy
mark, and the locals gathered in two
more tallies, but that ended it. They
never slid up any more, while the Re
lance men rolled up one in the eighth
making the score s to 6.
But in the ninth came the awful
drubbing. The Oakland men let them
selves loose so as to leave no crank
room to talk about what might have
been. After Russell had got home De
Costa threw up the sponge and the re-
doubtable Jay Hughes was brought in
from the right garden to fan 'em out. "
But they didn't do a thing to him-only
Just light onto everything that came
in reach for all kinds Of baggers. Six
runs were all they did to him, but how
it was done cannot be recorded, for the
good and sufficient reason that cranks
and small boys spread themselves out
in front and shut off the view from
the press stand. If they had played
that card earlier in the game this dole
full history would never have been writ
ten.