The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-09
FRESNOS WERE THE VlCTORS
DEFEATED THE GILT EDGES BY
ONE RUN.
A Large Crowd Witnesses the Best
Ball Game Of the
Season.

| such baseball been seen in this city as
that played at Snowflake Park yester-
! day between the Gifts and the Fresnos,
and though the local people met with
! defeat it was defeat without disgrace,
and the craft went down with it's colors
nailed TO the mast. Score-Fresno 4,
! Gilt Ed~es 3.
/ 1t was swift, breezy, snappy play
| throughout, and many grand stand eff
! forts were appreciated by the 800 peo-
pie present. And there was nothing
! certain about the game until the last
ball had been tossed and the last
| batsman had spat in his palm before
! gashing the atmosphere The visitors
won out, not by superior play, but by
lucky punching of hits at a critical
moment, and by the inability OF the local
! people to do anything with Thomas
! curves when hits were needed
! Thomas, by the way, pitched a steady,
winning game, and while he was
! touched up for eleven hits, they were
widely scattered. Pretty Charley Doyle
| did wondrous We'll for the Gifts, and
| the visitors touched him safely only
| seven times, but as a majority of those
touches were made in the seventh in
| ming, he was responsible for the three
runs ~athered in.
1t was great baseball, and while the
| local people picked up one, and the
/ Fresnos two errors, neither of the three
was responsible for a tally.
| Little Mangerina, the lightning back
stop of the 'Raisin Belters," had the
crowd with him from start to finish. and
richly did he deserve the applause he
| received of &c J,a-
nomenal. At the bat he was equally
successful, and in the seventh inning
raped out a three Dagger that brought
in Tawney and Thomas, and virtually
| won the game for his people
! Stanley played his usual clever game
| behind the bat and in the fifth inning,
when the visitors had the only run made
Borland, the prince of left fielders,
! shunted one far into the corner of the
! lot for a home run. Lochhead and
| Courtney both put up excellent games
at short, and out of dozens of hard
chances picked up only one error each.
! Until the fourth inning no blood was
! drawn, though number of beautiful
hooks were landed and some elegant
swings We're evaded, but in the inning
mentioned the Fresnos let out a link
and landed safe on the home plate
! More opened up proceedings by fool
| ishly sending a fly to Borland, after
which he watched the game from his
| nice seat on the bleacher. Then Fergu-
son slipped one over Peoples head for
life, and Britain dropped one over
Pop Lochhead for two bags and Fer
guson romped home. Tawney sent
hard one to Lochhead who was equal
| to the emergency, and he died at first,
| and Thomas put an end to the misery
| by flying to Buck" Hughes, and the
first run of the game was rung up.
But in their half of the fifth, the
| husky Gifts took sweet revenge. Loeb
head rolled a beauty to More and was
shot out at the initial, and then Bor
land faced the music and belted a hard
one far out over the center field ''Raisin
| Belter's' head and played horse all the
way around until he spiked the home
! plate with the only home run of the
game.
But the fun was not yet over. Harvey
! dropped one to Britain and was out
| and then Dennie rolled one to Thomas
| who threw over Held's head at first
and Dennie finally cast anchor on third
Then Buck slashed a safe one along
! the initial, and while he was sprinting
| for first, Dennie rang the bell. Henesey
polxed one to Courtney at short, and
| Buck was shut out at second and
| the score stood to l with the locals
on the long end.
Again in the seventh the Gifts pegged
one, and did it this way: Borland
popped an easy one to Thomas and was
an easy mark, and Harvey followed suit
by rapping one down to Early at Sec
ond. Then Dennie came up. He had
his eye with him and sent nice one
over second for life Buck" poked
safe one into the right meadow, and
Dennie sprinted down to third Henesey
sent one into the center fielders coun-
try, and Dennie again crossed the rub
ber Peoples flew to Held. and the
crowd began to think the locals had
an almighty cinch on the game, but
Oh! what a difference when the tribe
from the raisin country got through
with their half of the round. 1t looked
easy enough when Britain tipped an
easy one to kid" Peoples and stopped
when half way to the first station. but
then the trouble commenced. Tawney,
the center field brave, slid one into
>
raped one along second and was safe
-Tawney at second.
1t was at this point that little Mango
rina got in his deadly work He dug
his spikes into the dust and sweat
around the plate, and lifted flyer over
Borlands head, and when he stopped at
third to get his second wind, Tawney
and Thomas had both reached the
promised land and the score was tied
3 to s.
But there was another jolt left in the
Fresno nine, and when Early faced
Charlie Doyle he registered an oath
an emphatic one. toto bring in little
Mangerina or break a bat And he kept
his oath. and also broke the bat, and
when the ball stopped it was far over
Buck" Hughes head, and the warm
mixture" alias hot stuff" little back
stop was in with the winning run
Score-Fresno 4, Gilt Edges 3.
Further efforts We're futile, and when
the last hope had been sped. and Har-
vey's last horrid gibe had been hurled
along the coaching line-and Harvey.
Old Silent. has degenerated into one of
the noisiest coachers in the league
the odds and ends of the conflict were
gathered into the fold and packed down
for future reference, as follows:
Gilt Edge. alb. r. b.hs.b.p.o a. e.
R R Rsssssy' E E + :::::5 s 3
Peoples, 30 .......-... 0 o 0 3 0
Stanley, -.......... q 0 8 @ 0
Doyle. p ......-.--... q 0 0 g
Lochhead. SIS ........ 0 l 0
Borland, II ........... 0 0 o