The San Francisco call., 1898-03-18
HOW THE LOCAL
 BOYS WERE FOOLED
Riordan and Kilgallon De- feated by Champion Casey
 and Partner.
An Exciting Handbal Contest Be- tween Famous Players of East
 and w est.

One of the most interesting games of handbau played in this city in years was witnessed yesterday by an enthusiastic gathering of peasure-hunters in Phil Ryan's court on Howard street.
 According to rumors, it appears that when Champion Phil Casey of New ork and his partner, James Dunne, had played their inaugural game in this city last Sunday John Riordan, the local champion. took very close observations of the -astern players as they play ball.
 Riordan hunte~ up Kilgallon. the regu- lar smasher and a..-round destroyer of handballs, Sunday evening. an. quietly informed him that it would be a great feather in their caps if they could wipe the eyes" of the Eastern experts at the old Irish game.
 Well, Jack, don't you know that we can do that trick without any grec ef- fort if Casey and Dunne cannot put up any better ball than we saw to-uay,'' said the little rat man from Denver with a chuckle
 Put it there, like, old boy" retorted "Champion Jack" as he proffered hls "big Inch of tiVeS' to his prospective partner who shook it heartily. Yes, we can do .--em brown, Mike, and IlI tell you how the trick can be accomplished. LiSteni
 You take a. of the outside play, un- derstand, and keep Casey on the jump by long plays. lie cannot last long If you smash the balls Tn your usual style and keep them in ne out corner of the court all the time. l will look ou- for the inside plays, you know, and 1t will be no trick for me to kill anything that Dunne will send my way.
 Why, this is the best thing we've struck in long tune, Mike, and won't it sound local champions of the West fooled the two big guns of the East on St. Patrick S day?"
 its a go, Jack; shake again, old boy said kilgallon as tears Of delight trici.ed down his rosy cheeks.
 Don't say a word about this now expostulated Riordan, until we see how the wind blows after throwing out some feeIers.
 Not a word, Jack: not word, me boy. l will leave it all to you" and the local chumps. shook lands again.
 Casey somehow learned of the proposed challenge, and on Tuesday evening he asked Kiordan if the report was true. kiordan would not deny nor affirm it, SC doubt by stating that with hIs partner Dunne he would be in the court at Z 0 CLOCK st. PatrlckS day ready to play Riordan and Kilgallon any kind or a game.
 me contest was witnessed by a large crowd, and Champion Casey proved be- yond a doubt that he Is s.hl master oI handball.
 At out play he smothered Kilgallon, and Dunne surprised Riordan by swift and accurate plays within the short line which were frequently applauded. Caseys easy style of returning hard balls from the back wall was greatly admired, and .'the killing was always accurate.
 Riordans overland plays were very poor owing to Jacks weak style of hit Lng. hls fancy strokes were undoubt- edly pretty to look at, but the ball gen orally struck the floor before it reached the front wall
 One of the interesting features of the game was the easy manner in which Casey returned balls that came from the angle of the back walls and the distress in which Kilgallon appeared to be when the champion challenged him to a dodge at long service. But now the local play CTS have learned that older men are their masters and that practice makes perfect
 The result of the match is as follows s The first three games went to Casey and Dunne, and through courtesy they permitted their opponents to have the last one. The scores were as follows: 21-15 21-16, 21-6 and 21--11 Tomorrow Dunne and T. r. Bonnet will try conclusions with Casey and J. C. Nealon.
 As kind of warmer up there was g contest of three games between w. Nc. Guire and R. Murphy and E. Toy and J White The former team won by the fol. lowing score: 21-9, 2l-20 and 21-19