The record-union., 1898-12-12
AG0OD-HUMORED BALL GAME
gifts VICTORIOUS OVER THE
ATHLETIC TEAM.
Xhe Game Was for the Benefit OF
~ Buck" Hughes and Tim
XII
Shanahan.


made a patch on the fun at Snowflake
Park yesterday afternoon, when por-
ton Of the Gilt Edge ball-tossing ag-
gregation and the Sacramento Athletic
Club team, with Jay Hughes as KING
pin, met to play an exhibition benelt
game, the proceeds to go to Buck
Hughes and Tim (Old Hoss) Shanaban,
both of whom in time past have often
by their individual efforts brought VIC
tory to Sacramento when defeat SEEM
ed certain. Both Buck and Tim are
incapacitated, and it was to tide them
over their hour Of adversely that yes
ferday's game was played
And those who loved the sport went
away satisfied, for while there have
been better and more evenly contested
games in this city during the season
recently closed, there were none IN
which such jolly goodfellowship was
seen between the members of the con-
testing teams.
The score at the finish was 9 to / in
favor of the Gifts, but nobody seemed
to care about the score, and the six or
seven hundred people who shivered and
followed the sunshine around the lot
laughed and grew fat and cheered the
players on to greater efforts.
Jay Hughes, the redoubtable young
ster who did the phenomenal work in
the pitchers box for the Baltimores
during the season just closed, pitched
the first five innings for the Athletics
and then went out in the field and
chased flies and backed up every man
on the diamond, and Ambrose Shields
twisted the horsehide sphere. But it
was all to no purpose. The champions
would light on TO Shields whenever they
wanted to, and they had taken four
falls out of Jay before he vacated,
while the Athletics-sturdy players
though they are-would let fast, greasy
balls slip by.
And Pitt, the od-time wonder of the
Northwestern League, was as much of
wonder as when in the halcyon days
of yore he plunked holes through Ore
gon mist and won out for the team be-
hind him. He was a stemwinder all
wool, etc, and kept the Athletics guess
ing as he shot the ball over the plate
for the Gifts. Accidental hits were
made off his delivery, it is true, but
his nerve was all right, and regardless
of the fact that he has had virtually
no practice for year, he put up one
or the prettfest games of the season
The Gifts were never worried, and
kid" Peoples and Bobby McHale and
some Of the other old-liners were lazy.
but when in the ninth inning they woke
up and played ball, it was patent that
the Athletics had no business in the
same lot with the pennant winners
In the eighth inning Tommy Sheehan.
who had put up such a pretty game
at short for the gifts, slipped on the
base at third while trying for a home
run, and falling heavily severely
wrenched the tendons of his left elbow.
He was taken to the Sisters Hospital
for treatment
Michael Angelo Fisher did the detec-
tive work on stolen bases, foul tips,
etc, and added to the merriment Of the
crowd by changing his decisions a num-
her of times. He was all right. how
ever, and the Sacramento baseball pub
lie is always glad to see him with his
war paint on.
A number of neat plays were made,
and besides two rafting double plays
Jay Hughes gave a pointer on the game
when he batted with his hand a bound
ing ball to George Newbert at second
thereby getting it there in time to re-
tire the runner. Pony" Walker made
a great, long dive for a ball close in,
and fell prone on his dinner-box, but he
got the fly.
The greatest play of the day, how
ever, was the last Will Newbert sail
ed long, hard fly to left center, and
Borland went after it. While on a
dead 1un he put up his left hand and
from some mysterious cause the ball
lodged in his fingers, and the game was
over
The subjoined diagram tells the tale