The record-union., 1897-12-20
THEY ARE BASEBALL PiGMIES
SORRY SHOWING BLYTHE BUSH
NELL-ALERTS.
They Were as Juveniles in Compe'
tition With the Gilt Edges
Beaten 20 to J..

A set of alleged baseball experts IIoill
San Francisco, known as the Bushhell
Alerts, invaded this city for the nrst
time yesterday, with the avowed lnteh-
ton OF showing the Sacramento puplc
how the national game should be play
ed.
During the past season the Sacfa-
meuto public has read accounts Oh the
alleged wonderful playing of the salo
Bushnell Alerts, and of how they DAT
tied so nobly for the purse hung by
a San Francisco newspaper, and came
within an ace of winning.
The aforesaid Sacramento public had
also read from San Francisco Journals
that when the Bushnell Alerts should
visit this city and meet the Gilt Edges
on the diamond there would be SOUNDS
of mourning in the local camp, and the
name of the Gilt Edges would be heard
no more in the land.
All of this the Sacramento
public - gullible at times swal
ance. and believed with men
tai reservation, and fully 1,5O0 of that
same public shivered and followed the
sunshine at Snowflake Park yesterday
afternoon when the alleged wonders
Bushnell Alerts-lined up for action
against the men who beat the Balti
moras.
But that the Bushnell Alerts had
bitten off more than they could chew
was apparent from the very start
Compared with the rotund, husky men
who guard the baseball honors for the
Capital City, they were pigTnies, and
might it is believed, have given the
local Cherub Teas a close tussle.
To give a detailed account of how
the little fellows from San Francisco,
alias tho Bushnell Alerts, tried to make
runs and didn't would be a wearisome
repetition, a fiat sameness of the same,
and the several thousand Sacramento
baseball goers who were not present
viii be considerably spared the agony.
One run was what the Bushnell Alerts
got oat of the mixup and when it is
known that it was given them in the
first inning, probably to give them
heart to play out the game, those not
present will understand
Then too it would be sort of tor
ture-a sweet torture, perhaps-to tell
how the men who beat the Baltimores
swatted the ball into the fullness of the
ether and pranced around the bases
twenty-three times, and in view of the
fact that the Bushnell AIerts did the
best they knew how. and really thought
they were playing ball the torture will,
in a spirit of generosity, be omitted.
a young gentleman named Mr.. Mos
kiman was in the pitchers cage for the
Alerts, and he came heralded as one of
the best twirlers in the State. The
Sacramento public is just now wonder
ing where he got his reputation, and
how much it cost him. He was an
easy one for the local people, who took
twenty-five base hits from his delivery,
and eased UP when they saw he was
hurt at his reception. Moskiman, how
ever. did as we'll as he could. and ought
TO be given due credit for doing It, He
wore out catcher Hammond. and took a
lew hard ones out of Fl. Krug, and al
together allowed his reputation to filter
away and go back to San Francisco
Where 1t was manufactured.
In the first inning the men who
beat the Baltimores piled up three
runs, in the fourth ten runs. in the
sixth eight runs, and in the eighth two
runs, and those who have not already
had enough may figure out minute
details from the attached problem: