The record-union., 1898-04-25
VERY NEARLY A VVHITEWASh.
BUT ONE RUN FOR THE BEACH
COMBERS.
The Gilt Edge Aggregation, Ho w
ever, Piled Up No Less Than
Fifteen.

There was a promise Of top-notch |
baseball at Snowflake Park yesterday |
afternoon, and until wen nigh the close
Of the game that promise was fulfilled. !
When the smoke of battle rolled away !
the blackboard showed: Sacramento /
10, Santa Cruz l.
The Santa Cruz people came up tull or
snap and vinegar and played bau, ana
the Gilt Edges, who owing, 1t IS saId
TO the diplomacy Of Henesey, We're ali
on the diamond except Shanahan, who
is sick, played in their usual form; ana
the crowd Of about 1000 people were
treated to a sight Of baseball as It ought
to be played.
Harvey and Stanley, in the points
Tor the Gifts. worked hard and made a
great showing. but the locals were al
most totally unable TO locate The right
hooks sent in by Louis Bdlsz (WhO
learned to play ball in Secramentc),
while Daubenbis, the husky bacllstop,
slaughtered every man who attempted
20 slide to second or anywhere else.
For four innings neither team got a
man over the plate, but in their half
of the fifth the local people spurted,
and, a streak of luck coming their way,
they made the first tally. 1t was done
this way:
Stanley rolled one to Devereaux at
third, who fumbled 1.-THE first error
made-and the Gilt Edge catcher was
safe LOckhead was retired on three
strikes. and while he was doing it stan
ley tried for second, but DaubenbiS shot
him out. Borland drove one into the
she south bleachers for two bases. and
Harvey dropped d safe over the inheld.
Borland getting home. Dennie boboed
one to Balsz, and was out.
In the sixth the locals piled up three
more runs. and the dissatisfaction
which finally ruined the game broke
out. The Santa Cruz men declared the
umpires We're giving them the short end
of the deal, and some persons in the
crowd-not many-thOught likewise.
Stanley was running to third base,
and he and DevereauX ran foul Of one
another Henesey claimed that Dev-
ereaux had held Stanley. the crowd
agreed with Henesey, and Umpire Crit
fin agreed with the crowd, and Stanley
walked home and added one to the
string Though the Santa Cruzans
We're sore they kept saving wood even
though the score was / to o.
In the visitors half of the sixth Balsz
picked uD one Of Harvey's drops and
hatted it out of the county and far
over the fence, and walked around the
bases-a home walk. The crowd rose
at Balsz. ard he was beyond question
the hero Of the game.
It was in their half of the seventh
that the visitors made the kick Of
the season and stopped playing ball,
ali
ton they agreed to slouch around in
the field so as to get their portion Of
the receipts. and allow the crowd to
yen when the locals would slash out Il
ball that nobody would go after
In the seventh it began to look as
though the visitors We're out To win
the game. McGrath flew an easy one
to Doyle in center field, whose fingers
were greasy. and it slipped through.
Fitzgerald flew a hard one to Borland.
who gobhled it UP. Daubenbis hit safe
into Doyle's garden. and McGrath was
on second He started for third but
changed his mind and beat the ball
back to second. Hughes heaved the
ban to first. and the umpire declared
that Daubenbis was out.
There is no doubt that the visitors
had ground for a kick. The play was
a remarkably close one. and the fact
that the baserunner is entitled to the
doubt if any exists. seems to have been
lost sieht Of by the Umpires.
Every man of both teams was on the
middle Of the diamond a minute later,
and if one of the umpires did not call
''time' there seemed to be a tacit un-
derstanding that the game was off.
NcCrath Ioitered around the second
cushion. waiting for a settlement Of the
point, and showed no inclination to
walk around to the plate.
After five minutes of wrangling Nc
Grath punched up with the mob. and
when the visitors finally agreed to call
Daubenbis out a Gilt-Edger got a ball
from somewhere and poked McCrath
in the short ribs. and the umpire called
him out because he was off his base
and "time" had not been called.
Some people at the game thought the
visitors did not get q square deal at The
hands of the Umpires - not many,
though.
At any rate. the Santa Cruzans walk
ed from the field and packed their ef-
fects They declined to play out a game
in which they maintained they were
given no chance to win. And then the
Gilt Edges-all except Henesey-w
ed the visitors share of the receipts
withheld and added to their string and
for another quarter of an hour nothing
was done
AT the end of that time the men from
the sea-ball-players every one Of them
walked out into the field. But the life
was out Of them. They merely went
ont 70 get railroad fare and not to play
ball. Balsz. their crack pitcher, went
over to third and saved his arm. -
while Devereaux threw. some straight
easy ones at the Gilt Edges. who
knocked them all about the field at
viii. McGrath. the man who was called
out at second. and Who had played
great ball at first would merely wait