The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
UNION MONDAY. SEPTEMBER g. 1897
GILT EDGES AGAIN vICTORS.
THEY DEFEAT THE RELIANCES
SIX TO THREE.
Several Thousand Spectators Wit
ness a Great Game OF
Baseball.


and everybody, including dyspeptic
cranks and chronic kickers, admitted as
much.
/ 1t was the game the populace had been
waiting for, and the populace, that hy
dra- headed affair that usually carries a
dissatisfied, disgruntled element with it,
howled during tbs progress Of the game,
and grinned at the conclusion.
1t was between Sacramento's pets, the
| Gilt Edges, and the Reliance team of
Oakland, and even the small boy who
viewed the game from his exalted perch
on top of a telegraph pole. knew that it
was for blood The people from the Bay
district, and there were many of that
ilk on stand and bleacher, cheered the
oakland men on to do a little better
| than their best, or bust, and they did it.
But the pace was too rapid. They would
have won the game, no doubt, if it
| hadn't been for-the brewers. Ton
notch ball was that put up by the Re
lance men, but they were not to blame
because Nick Smith got under every fly
| that dropped into the left territory. or
because Walker and Shanahan and Rice
persisted in capturing everything in
sight. They may have been responsible
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in the atmosphere in trying to connect
with the ball, but there were those who
said it was all on account of the man
ner in which Jay Hughes gIared at them
before he started the leather on it's
1 journey.
Two brass bands were on hand to
drown the noise produced bv the fish
horns and cow-bells of the rooters, and
/ the nlncia AiCNnI1rca6
and imposing, and those who had ex-
pected to see hot time in the old town,
went away with hopes realized.
LANCE, the visitors third baseman.
heaped up some errors which made the
men from Oakland weep. but in the
seventh inning he made amends by rap
ping hot grounder to the end of the
left garden, and GALVANIZED around the
bases like a colt, never stopping until he
had set his spikes into the plate for a
home run. It was not earned, how
ever, for Walker got in the way and
had not an insignificant straw got be-
fore the sphere, the plucky Ieft-felder
would have shut the Reliance Captain
off at first. TT might have been" but
it wasn't.
Fully 1900 people witnessed the game,
and fully 400 of the number yelled at
the players until they-the yellers-
We're red in the face They had good
reason to yell, for such a game has not
been seen in the Capital City this year.
1t was diamond cut diamond, and but
for the few errors made by the visitors
no man could have chose the winners,
except by a scratch. There was not a
single earned run.
MCGUIRE the visitors short-stop. went
| to the bat, struck viciously at the first
three balls that curved along. and then
sat down, and the crowd yelled and the
rcOters rooted. Then Mcintyre, who
guarded the center plat lodged back
and the umpire said striker Then two
balls and then another strike, but at last
he rolled one to Pitcher Hughes, who shot
| him out at the first station. Then
Lange, the reckless third baseman,
spun out a safe liner into the country
governed by Shanahan and as Nealon,
the right-felder, came forward and
made his bow, LANCE sneaked down to
the second bag. NealOn struck at the
first thing that came along, and Lange
slid down to the third stop without ac-
cident. Then Hughes got his distance
and hit NealOn a jolt, allowing him to
do the walk act. He got to first and
then, in a general mix-up, for which no
body in particular, and everybody in
general, was responsible, Lange got over
the plate and Nealon sat down on the
second bolster. Doyle foolishly sent a
long fly out to Shanahan, and the Re
liances went out with one run to their
credit.
Ed. Hughes was the first victim up
for the local men. He took two balls
and a strike and then flew out to
Nealon. wellington Hennesey wait
ed until the balls passed by and then
walked to the initial point Jay Hughes
hit a baby grounder to LANCE. who was
Just too slow. Hennesey being safe on
second and Jay standing at first. Nick
Smith hit to McIntire, who dropped it
because it was hot and the bases We're
full. Shanahan whacked out a safe one
between short and third, and Hennes-
sey got in-bases still full. Next
Lochhead, old safe and sure" thump-
ed a safe hit between first and second,
and Hughes came in, with Smith tramp
ling on his heels. Rice was hit by
Pitcher Milwain, and walked, and
Walker struck three times and outs
runs.
In the second, third and fourth in
nings only great big ciphers We're put
on the score board, and the tally bell
maintained a rigid silence, but in the
fifth Gilt Edge stock went booming
The visitors went out easy, but when
Lochnead came up and hit over third
base for two stations the home people
howled with delight. Rice flew out to
Mcclure. Walker hoped one to
Pitcher Milwain and was retired at
first, and then the features of the home
people began to perspire A high hot
one passed Farrell, who was at the
bat, and also Drews, who was behind
it. and Lochhead came in safe and was
promptly run over by Drews and left
the diamond with blood on face, hands
and uniform. He bloomed afresh how
ever, later on. Drews fumbled the next
ball and Farrell got to first Then Ed
Hughes hit out a liner to the left side
and Farrell got home. Hennesey poked
one INTO center field and Hughes got
to third Jay Hughes hit to LANCE.
who let it go by and Ed. Hughes came
in. Smith hit to Lange who threw Jay
out at second, and the inning was over
with three more runs for the home
team.
Neither side scored in the sixth, but
in the seventh, Doyle of the Reliance,
hit to the south fence for two holsters
Wilson hit to Ed. Hughes, who threw
low to Hennesey, and Doyle went to
third Stulz hunted to Jay and went
out at first. Drews flew out to Shana-
han, and Doyle came in. Milwain
famed out run.
Again in the eighth the visitors start