The record-union., 1897-11-15
GILT EDGE ALL THROUGH.
SUCH WAS ITS QUALITY AND
THE RESULT.
The Best Ball Game Of the Season
in Which the Home Team
Won Out.

4 Idt was great DaSeDalI pldyeu a.
snowflake Park yesterday afternoon
The greatest seen in Sacramento LOT
years-and the 1.500 lovers of the ma
tional game who shivered on the bleach-
eIs howled with delight from the begin
ming to the end
The score was 5 to 4, with the Git
Edges on the long end, when the storm
was over, but the men from Oakiaho
had put up a great battle and went
down with their colors flying.
Until the almost last ball had been
pitched it looked as if the visitors hao
the game, and at the end of the elSheh
round the Gilt Edge rooters scowleo,
groaned and moaned as they admtten
1t was "all off, But in the last nan
of the ninth, when the great GeorSe
Van Haltren went to pieces, the GOWN
cast home rooters plucked up courage
and actually rooted victory out OF what
seemed dire defeat.
There was no single player Who car
ried off a surplus of the honors. Ii the
Reliance men played a good game, the
Gilt Edge fellows followed suit, and
when in doubt they led trumps.
Van Haltren, and Riley, and Lange,
and Stulz and all the rest of the visit
ors did noble work, and while the
mighty Henesey picked up an error, and
Lochhead and Jay Hughes did like
wise, they We're all excusabl The Gilt
Edge people had profited by experience,
and Borland, the Oakland man who
took care of the seats in the left pas
ture, was not troubled with long flies
1t simply meant murder to try him, and
the locals stood from under.
Harvey was in the box for the Local
people. and the first man up-and thai
chanced to be Van Haltren-swlpec
three vicious gashes through the at
mosphere and then looked foolish ano
sat down, while the crowd howfed with
delight Then Mr.. Riley, front mains
"Josh," tipped an easy one to Loch-
head and stopped early, and the ir-
repressible Lange came up ano
waited till the balls passed by, and took
his seat on the initial cushion. He was
there but a moment and then made a
long sliding dive for the second step
and got in on time.
Next Mr. Stanley, whose ancestor
went "on'' when Chester charged.
drove out a hot liner over Lochhead'
head, and Lange took desperate
chance for tally, but was thrown out
at the plate by Walker-and nobody
was hurt.
In their half the Gilt Edges died easy
Buck Hughes, Spike Henesey and ths
new third baseman, Mertes, each hit to
Mcclure. who played short for the
Oakland people, and all stopped running
before they arrived at the first stop.
In the second inning Chance, the
Fresno man, who played backstop for
the locals. warmed up and shot Me-
Guire out at second while he was at
tempting to commit theft, while Josh
Riley won the plaudits of the crowd by
making a wonderful stop of Harvey
hot grounder.
No runs were made in either the Sec
ond or third rounds, but In the fourth
the trouble commenced. The Reliance
people failed to make more than in
their half, and then Henesey came VI
and swatted the ball with body blow
for a pass to first. Mertes sent one
into the right garden, and Henesey
given free transportation on called balls
and the bases We're full.
Then Chance chanced one to Bor-
land, and Henesey came in on the
out Lochhead came to the plate, and
Mertes was caught sleeping on third
and presented with a bed on the bleach
ers. Then Lochhead ended the trouble
by farming out.
In the fifth the Reliance men again
failed to connect. Harvey of the home
team hit to Mcclure. who threw &c
Stulz who dropped it because 1t was
hot. Walker Kissed one to Mcclure
and Harvey was retired at second
Then "Old Hoss'' Shanahan poked one
into the ribs of the south potato patch
for three stations, and Walker frolicked
home Buck Hughes hit to Riley, who
threw Shanahan out at the plate. Hen
esey was given a life on called balls
and Mertes hit to Riley, who shot Hen
esey out at second. And the score stood
, to in favor of the Gilt Edges.
But in the sixth round the Oakland
ers took sweet revenge. Umpire
Michael Angelo Fisher, he whose locks
grow sparsely on top, excused himself
for n moment, and Henesey insisted or
Riley doing the honors. Riley did
Lange took a base ON balls, and Stan
ley famed out. Then Mcclure. who
had finally found his batting eye, welt
ed the leather solar plexus" for three
bags, and Lange romped in.
There was some doubt as to the