The record-union., 1898-06-20
THE GIANTS WERE NOT IN II
ANOTHER VICTORY PEGGED UP
FOR THE gifts.
In Somewhat Ragged Game the
Score Was Fourteen to
Seven.

That was variegated baseball at
Snowflake Park yesterday afternoon
and the crank who at some stage of
the game did not see playing to suit
his fancy is hard to please
Ine game was composed of good in
different, bad and yellow playing, and
IL the yellow StreakS were broader than
| usual, and II the individual players
showed decided tendencies to loiter
around and take things easy, it might
nave been because a foregone conclu-
sion is void of interest.
When seen on the local diamond sew
eral weeks ago the San Francisco team
showed some good points, and through
a chain OF lucky happenings managed
to carry off a scratch victory. But
the mighty have fallen, and instead OF
improving with practice they have de-
teriorated sadly.
When weak team goes up against
a strong one its only chance to win
out is by getting the big fellows to
rattle themselves, and while at one
stage of yesterdays game the locals
got the worst case of rattle" ever seen
on Sacramento diamond their lead
was too great to swing them into the
line of the vanquished, and the next
inning the chance had vanished, and
Richard was himself again"
Fourteen to seven, with the visitors
on the short end, was the way the
bulletin board looked when the last
shot had been fired, and while the Gilt
Edge craft had been punctured for sew
en- tallieS, it was still afioat, and like
the great American patriot (he Eng
liSh called him pirate" for change),
John Paul Jones, it had only begun to
fight
The locals piled up two runs in the
first inning, one each in the second and
third four in the fourth, and two in
the sixth, while the visitors worried
hard to call the turn but drew blanks.
But in the sixth the great Gilt Edges
stopped over and went wrong. kid
Peoples started the ball rolling by
missing an easy one, and then a husky
boy from the Bay unwound one OF
Pretty Charley Doyle's curves for two
bags, and the man whom Peoples had
given life crossed the bag, and the
crowd of about loo people shouted
long and loud.
But that poor run was only the begin
ming of the trouble. Old Phil Knell
got to first on somebody's error, and
then started in to liven things up. He
was a bold criminal and stole bag after
bag. and while he played the game the
Gilts got wilder and wilder. They
threw too high and too low, or they
did not throw at ALL and the San Fran
cisco men played all kinds of horse with
them until they had spiked the home
plate six times, and the jangling of the
scorers bell kept time with the cheers
for the visitors and the groans for the
locals which the crowd turned loose.
Shay. who had been doing the box
work for the visitors, and who had
been roughly handled by the locals,
was turned out to pasture in the sew
enth inning, and the old stem-w;nder,
Phil Knell, took his place and succeed
ed in shutting out the locals the first
time up. and in the latter half of that
inning the San Francisco boys pagged
another hole.
But in the eighth the locals gathered
themselves together tore the dreadful
rattle from their midst and piled up
four more tallies, just to prove to
Knell that his corkscrew curves and
manzanita twists We're of no avail.
The bad break made by the locals in
the seventh inning only added zest to
the game, which without it would have
been featureless. 1t need hardly be
said that Charlie Doyle was not re-
sponsible for the visitors run-getting
He pitched sure, steady, winning ball,
and his support, except in the awful
seventh, was superb.
The visitors did some really clever
base-running, but otherwise their game
was stringy and woefully down at
heel. They, however, were cheerful
losers, and no kick" of any magni-
tude was made during the game. The
feature of the game was Harvey's phe-
nomenal catch of a long, low fly.
The result of the trouble viii be
found in compact form in the following
appendix: