The record-union., 1898-04-11
THEY PUT Up A GOOD GAME.
TWOTHOUSAND PEOPLEATC OAK
PARK YESTERDAY.
The Sacramento State League Team
Defeats San Jose by
Is to IL.

It was a case of Greek meeting Greek
when the Sacramento and the san jose
baseball teams came together at oak
Park yesterday in the opening game OF
the California League, and the -poo
people present had occasion to howl
themselves hoarse in nearly every IN
ming. The score was 13 to i, with
Sacramento on the long end.
1t was q genuine battle between gl-
ants, and brilliant plays came 50 thlcK
and fast that the spectators never
knew what to expect next, ana had no
time to think of the beauties OF one
until another cropped up.
It was not an errorless game by any
means. but errors counted for little
when three-baggers, home runs and phe-
nOmenal pick-ups were made ana ap-
parently impossible flies were captured
The visitors were not one whit behind
the locals. and shared the applause
which momentarily broke from the oc-
cupants of the bleachers and the grand
stand The fielding of Reitz was su-
perb. and that of Bob McHale was fully
up to his old style. Van Norden, who
did the honors for the visitors in the
left hand rye patch took everything
to be one Of the finest felders this city
has seen in many moons. And while
Van Norden was doing grand-stand
work his center-deld associate, Kelly,
made himself popular by a hard one
hand running catch Of a wicked fly.
The batting Of both teams was of the
phenomenal order, and while the home
team thumped eleven safe hits out of
touched up for thirteen. Goodwin a
new man the San Joses sprung on the
locals. proved to be the surest and hard
est hitter in the bunch, and out OF four
times at the bat hammered out three
bagger and two singles.
Sykes. the tall first baseman for the
San Jose club. battered out home run
in the seventh inning, bringing in two
of his confederates who were on bases,
while Caverly, to even up matters, also
drove a long one over the bicycle track
and cantered around to the plate like
colt. The visitors picked up seven er-
rors. and the locals eight.
The game caught the crowd and held
it to the end, and until the last ball
was pitched nobody could name the
winner. The score was tied half
interest was unfagging.
The visitors were a gentlemanIy set
throughout, and got what is seldom ac-
corded to visiting teams-unstinted ap-
plause from the spectators.
The visitors went first to the bat, but
succeeded only in getting a lonely life
size cipher Then Henry Reitz took
up the cudgel for the locales. and re-
ceived the applause of the gallery and
a base on balls. McHale stepped up,
and Reitz slid around to third on
wild pitch by Wheeler. Then Bob hit
out to Sheehan and beat the ball to
first, while Beitz scored.
Edwards got a thump in the ribs and
a free ride to the first cushion, and
Caverly hit to Collins. who caught Nc
Hale at third and doubled up catching
Edwards at second, and the crowd
hcwled with delight. HOagland pOked
one out into right field. and Goodwin
shot him out at the initial, and the To-
Gals quit with a mark to their credit
Neither team scored in the second
but IN their half of the third the visit
ors forged ahead and did it this way:
Wheeler pumped one to Ridley at short
who threw over Caverly's head and the
curve-maker went on to second. Ford
hit down to Newbert, and was out at
first, but Wheeler went down to the
last station Collins raped out a safe
one over first and Wheeler romped in
tieing the score.
Then Goodwin. the strong boy whom
nobody knew, shot out a long one over
McHales head for three bags, and
Collins went home. Kelly hit to New
bert who caught Goodwin at third
and Sykes hit to Newbert and died at
first. and the visitors had two runs to
their credit.
In their half through their hard hit
ting. and several inexcusable errors.
the locals piled up eight runs. and things
looked blue for the visitors Reitz got
a jolt on the head and took first, and
MCHale was also hit, though not on the
head, and he. too, walked the line. Ed
wards flew to Van Norden, and Reitz
and McHale moved up a notch on a
Wild pitch. Caverly hit through Shee-
han and Reitz got home. McHale on
third. Hoagland poked one to Sheehan
and McHale got home via a long, hard
Slide.
Newbert added variety by striking
out. and Caverly got home on another
of Wheeler's wild pitches. Sullivan hit
to Wheeler, who threw to Ford to shut
Hoagland out at the plate. Ford drop
ped it and the Kids" effort counted.
Ridley sailed a safe one between first
and second, and Sullivan scored. Pitt
hit safe over second for a life, and
Reitz sailed one into deep right field
and Ridley and Pitt scored. McHale
hit safe over second and Reitz got home.
Edwards hit to Sheehan. who fumbled,
and CaVerly rolled one to Goodwin, died
at first, and the slaughter was over.
The visitors rolled up two in the
fourth and three in the fifth inning, and
in their half Of the seventh tied the
score. and they did it this way:
Collins lined out a safe one for life
and Goodwin drove a long fly to Nc
Hale, whose fingers We're buttery. and
1t slipped through, and Collins was on
second Kelly drove one to Newbert
and Collins died at third.
Then Sykes mo relation to Bill Skyes.
who figured in Oliver Twists history
came up with blood in his eye. He spat
vengefully in his right palm and