The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-07-04
DOWNED THE STOCKTONIANS
THE GILT EDGES STILL PLAY
WINNING BALL.
"A Good Game at Snowflake Park
With q Score Of Twelve
to Six.

IL Is barely possible that the bomb
hAo something to do with it. but most
people would lay it to other though no
less violent causes. AT any rate, the
Gilt Edges doubled up on the Stockton
paSepaillsts at Snowflake Park yester-
Jay, and when the last gibe had been
hurried along the foul lines and order
ana quiet had come out of the chaos
and pandemonium, the score stood II
to 6.
The bomb was beauty, and when
up-ended it stood nearly as high as
Kid Peoples, who logged it onto the
diamond after Umpire Charley Swee-
ney had called game and made a
lew preliminary f1ourishes across the
gable end of his uniform with a worm
out match, preparatory to firing the
fuse. Sweeney promptly vacated and
made an elegant sprint for the bleach :
ers, remarking that he didn't know the
bomb was in the game. But it was,
and when the Kid found the ancient
match was minus sulphur Tim Shana-
han found good one, and the bomb
was properly exploded, much to the
delight of the small-boy contingent
and the man whose nervous mother-in-
law occupied a ceat in the grand stand.
The crowd properly cheered the
bomb, but when the husky locals went
out in one two, three order the first
time up there were groans in the camp
of the faithful; and when in their
half of the inning the boys from the
City of Sloughs knocked the peeling off
the ball for five great, big runs the
groans changed to walls, and sackcloth
and ashes were the prevailing colors.
The people, ever superstitious, said it
was the bomb.
But later in the game, when the Gifts
got out of the slough of dependency
and began to touch up Kid Whalen's
curves for all kinds of hits, the crowd
grew more cheerful, and when at last
the lead of the Stocktonites was over
come and the locals pressed the enemy
at all points, the sackcloth and the
ashes were cast aside and the purple
of royalty again donned, and again the
people said it was the bomb.
Old Pop Lochhead, the kingpin
shortstop in the State, was not at his
accustomed place, and it is said he will
play no more with the locals. In his
place was Karl Krug, who has played
many a game on the local diamond
with visiting teams, and is as spry as a
colt. 1t is moderately certain that
Krug, when he gets steadied down and
learns that Buck Hughes and kid"
Peoples are thoroughly competent to
cover the ground at second and third
bases, will put up clean, strong game
and go a good way toward filing the
gap left open by Lochhead
Then, again, Willie Caverly, who for
the past month has been lettering
around the first cushion, has been re-
tired, and the veteran, Tim Shanahan,
left the center pasture and held down
initial; and, while he failed on a hot
grounder or two, had the crowd with
him and made some phenomenal stops.
Whalen for the Stocktons pitched
fairly good ball, but his support was
ragged at every corner, and along
about the seventh inning, when Drews
failed to stop two of his hot shot, and
as a consequence two runs were chalk
ed up for the locals, Nick Smith, who
captains the Stocktons, made a Wild
eyed bluff at the Kid He waltzed
down to the box and said he was Of a
mind to punch the nose of Whalen, and
the latter quit He walked out and
peeled on his sweater and-the crowd
was with him. It was only after Man
ager Campbell had smoothed down his
ruffled feelings that he consented to so
into the box again and finish the game.
But Whalen had the crowd, and he
was cheered at every turn, and had not
Smith been a calloused campaigner he
would have wilted under the Kisses and
boots hurled at his subsequent efforts.
Drews and Stanley both put UP ex-
cellent games behind the bat, and Selma
at first played faultless ball Doyle,
with the exception of the first inning,
pitched winning ball, and Silent" Har-
vey hung around in the center garden
and successfully got under everything
that came along.
Several double plays caught the
crowd, and when, with two men on
bases. Borland Che of the funny feat