The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-10
GREAT PITCHERS BATTLE

| GREAT PIICHERS' BATTLE.
The second game, which was really
battle between Borchers and Harvey,
was played like this:
In the first inning Peoples and Doyle
each touched Borchers for a hit, but
the old fellow Strengthened out and
held the Gifts back in good shape, and
their portion was a cipher In the
Stockton's half Nick Smith found Har-
vey for a safe hit, but it all amounted
to nothing, as the silent boy famed out
| the next men up.
| In the second inning the Gifts went
out in one two, three order, Borchers
hanging Shanahan's scalp to his belt.
In their half of the inning the visitors
efforts at run-getting were futile, and
| they went out as they came to the
bat.
In the third inning the Gifts Holled
up aothex.goos egg, and did it as cas-
lily as shooting fish, and the Stocktons
duplicated the performance, neither
side getting man. to the initial.
In the fourth inning the Gifts again
succumbed to Chief Borchers in reg
ulation order and in their half the Wis
| itors followed suit, and the crowd
| awoke to the fact hat they were wit
Messing a pitchers battle, and that as
yet there was small chance to choose
between the two heavy men,
In the fifth Lochhead landed on the
| ball for base, and Walker was given
life on Smiths tumble. Shanahan
| flew high one which Billings dropped,
but got it to third in time to pinch
Lochhead, after first retiring Walker at
second. Billings was playing ball and
redeeming himself for the blunders
made in the first game. Borland died
at first and Borchers had failed to go
to pieces" as the crowd predicted he
would do. Hutchinson questioned the
umpire's decision in calling Walker out,
and persisted in his kick and gesticu-
lated pretty freely with his hands, and
Umpire Mcconnell ruled him off the
diamond. Hutchinson kicked again and
DELAYED the game for ten minutes,
when minutes counted, but his kick
failed to connect, and Jimmy Denny
went into right field and Charlie Doyle
went to second.
The Stockton people went out easy
| in their half of the inning and at the
beginning of the sixth there was
poor outlook for runs.
In the sixth Harvey took first on
Whites error but the next three men
up died easily. The visitors started In
healthy White, the first man up,
rolled one into the left garden and
camped on the third bag. Selma rolled
one to Harvey and was an easy out
at first, and an instant later Knell also
tripped up at first Smith foolishly
tried Walker, and the prospect for
runs faded into the perspective.
In the seventh Doyle got to first, but
Pace and Selma doubled up a second
later and the try resulted in disaster.
In the Stockton's half Pace hit out
clean one past second for a
base, and second. when Billings
took base on balls. Borchers hit out
to Peoples, and Pace was forced at
third. Peoples tried for Borchers at
first, but was slow, and Billings was
on third Borchers stole second a mo-
ment later, and Rice struck out. Then
Muller, afer striking twice, welted the
leather into the back yard, and Bill
lings and Borchers crossed the plate,
bringing in the first runs Of the game.
In the eighth Borland hit hot one
over second for base, and went
around to third on some wild throw
ing and bad stops. An iD>tant later
Harvey dropped one into Rice's hands
and Borland came home on the out,
making the score 2 to l in favor Of the
Stocktons.
In their half of the eighth Selma was
hit and walked. Knell hunted safe and
Selma moved up bag. Smith hit out
safe one and the bases were full.
They were touching Harvey for ell they
were worth, and when Pace rolled one
to Lochhead, who put it to Stanley, who
dropped it, and Selma scored. the crowd
groaned. Another Jolt by Billings, and
the great Gilt Edge aggregation went
to pieces. They were as wild as Gu
| bans and threw the ball around at
random, while Knell and Smith con-
tinued to play ball, and the score was
to /.
In the ninth the Gifts tried for a fly
| ing finish, and Doyle, after neat exhi-
bition of sprinting, scored on Loeb
heads drive to short, but 1t was the
| last squirt and the Stockton people took
the game by a score of 5 to 2, with an
inning TO spare. in one of the greatest
pitchers battles ever fought out on a
| Sacramento diamond.
| The annexed plat shows in detail how
| defeat settled down on the Gifts:
Gilt Edge alb r. bh. sb. DO. a. e.
Peoples. Sd b.. 9 | ! 9 9
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