The record-union., 1897-07-26

playsmnCanon to Ilgner-2; Doherty to Ilg-
her Two base hits-Canon Stanley. UNI
pfe-Caroll. Scorer-Martin. Time 30.
THE OLD STORY.
The Courthouse aggregation of ball
players again went up against the dis
clples of Blackstone at Agricultural
Park yesterday morning, and again
went down like heavy man on ba-
mana peel. They made heroic efforts to
land the game safe and sound, put
while they proposed, the lawyers dis
posed. OF one thing, however, the
courthouse men are proud, they did
their best.
me game didn't start off right-to
suit the Courthouse men. The lawyers
Knocked the leather off the ball the
hrst two innings, for fifteen tallies, and
the Courthouse nine made great big
/ ciphers.
/ Arthur z. Miller was in the box for
the lawyers, and did some spectacular
pitching for the first two innings, but
IN the third and fourth the Courthouse
players found his straight curves and
smashed the ball in the jaw for eleven
points
( Then Miller retired. He knew when he
had enough, and had too much sagaci-
( ~ to press good thing-for the other
side When he stepped down and out,
sullivan clambered into the box" and
! the Courthouse began TO look blue. Sui
/ livan was not a very good locker, but
he was full of business. He bored his
/ left heel into the ground, twisted him
/ self out of shape, gave a heave, and
stuck his right toe into the ground, and
then the ball skipped over the bag. and
the umpire yelled strike" and the
/ Courthouse man raised the wind"
with the vigor of his swipe
! John Y. Powers, who, besides being
! stenographer for the Code Commission
has right to add LII. D. to his name
! If he wants to. was behind the bat for
! the lawyers, and made a number of
| great throws to third-great, high
| throws-w the baseman could not
have stopped with a barn door. Nev-
! ertheless, John V. made a very good
/ backstop, and when he began to smile
the Courthouse men sweat blood
! The principal feature of the game
was the lump raised over Kidder's ear
where red-hot ball landed. Score
Lawyers. 81: Courthouse, II
| C4CIERS CAN PLAY.
At F1orin yesterday an interesting
! ball game was played between the
! Clondykes, a new aggregation formed
within the membership of the Capital
| City Wheelmen, and the Pacific Brew
ers of the strawberry metropolis The
gold hunters put up an exceptionally
| scientific game, there being so few err
rors that the scorer thought it a wflful
waste of time paper and pencil to
record them.
| Young, at short for the Alaskans was
a regular armor plate, taking without
fear every chance, however slight, that
offered, and never fumbled or failed to
promptly and accurately assist. The
| Goldbugs batteries were Armstrong
and Broils. and they could have fan
/ ned out the Brewers but for their
'magnanimity"
| The Brewers had occasion to make
two changes of twirlers, putting Room
ey and Thomas into the box, while Ba-
! ker Wore the mask the entire game.
and was their mafnstay
| Captain Milne of the Clondykes cap
tured the applause of the ladies by
daring and most brilliant one-handed
catch Of a fly. Chick" Futherson bat
ted the only three-bag ger in the game,
taking it from Pitcher Rooney's hop
vine curves
The star play of the game was made
by Ross, who stopped red-hot ground
er, and with a lightning like return
made successful double play
The score was-Clondykes, %; Brew
ers, II.
Yesterday morning the Van VOORHEES,
Club defeated the Athletics at Oak
Park by score of u to 10. 1t was
very close and exciting game.
At Agricultural Park the Railroad
Storehouse team defeated the Freight
Shed aggregation in an excellent game
by a score of 2 to 0.
The Columbus of the Merca ntile
League played at Grass Valley yester-
day with the Monarchs of that place.
The Sacramentans won by a score of
16 to 10 The feature of the game is
said TO have been the home run OF
! Just of the Columbias He knocked
the ball out Of the grounds and so far
into the adjacent hills that it couldn't
be found. The runs by innings were:
Columbus ......4 zoo 81 Ole
Monarchs .......2 20 2 % 3 3 DO