The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
THE "KIDS
 WERE KINGS Worried All Ball-PIayerS Except Hennie. AND THE FRlSCOS WON OUT. BEACHCoMBERs WERE TooANx- IoUs TO SWAT THE BALL. Nevertheless It Was a Rattling 4 to Game at Recrea-
 tion Park-To-Day's
 Contest.
AND THE FRlSCOS WON OUT.
BEACHCOMBERS WERE TOOANX-
 IoUS TO SWAT THE BALL.
BY JOE cORBETT.

It was children'S day at Recreation Park yesterday afternoon and they were there in full force making as much noise as possible and making 1t very unpleasant for some of the play CTS with their jeering and at times very sarcastic remarks. Handsome" Hennie Krug was the only one on the diamond capable of winning them over. They would cheer him every time he made a move, and whether 1t was his good looks or his great playing that was re- sponsible for the applause he received from these little ones I am unable to state, but it was fact that Hennie put up a game at third base which was simply beautiful to gaze upon. It would be utterly impossible to play better game. No infielder ever threw a ball with such speed and precision, picked up grounders with such grace and pulled down flies which such ease as did -aroundplaying Hennie. Alto gether he accepted twelve chances without an error, and some of them were very hard chances, one in partic- ular causing those little boys-who, by the way, know good play when it oc- curs-to sit down and whisper. It oc- cured at the fifth inning, when, with one man out, Captain Blanco Dever- eaux endeavored to bunt. He succeed ed. so far as dropping the ball was con- cerned, but when dashing Hennte who was playing unusually deep for such a play. came tearing in. and picking the ball up with one hand. shot it over to first in time to put Big B1li out, it was really time to drop pencils,
 
 show Henry by tearing a few boards out of the stands that his good play ing was being appreciated.
 The game was a very good one, ana, as usual, the unexpected happened. It looked like a walk-over for santa Cruz. and evidently they were laborlng under such an impression. After knocking Wheeler's shoots all over the lot in the second inning and scoring three runs they appeared to have step ped into oblivion, and on retiring found themselves defeated by a score of to 8.
 A game of baseball Is never over un- til the last man Is out, ana II those "salted almonds" from explosive vile" had but remembered that old say ing. played ball, and scored runs when they had a chance, without waiting for batters to knock the ball over the fence, there undoubtedly would be different story to tell. MT. Balsz, how ever, was really responsible for the loss of the game, he making two wild throws to bases, each of which cost a run. Outside of this MT. Balsz pitched a magnificent game, striking out six men and allowing but seven hits. Wheeler on the other hand pitched good game save in the second inning, when the "Beachcombers" got their eve on the ball, and 1t looked for ta;1o oc wOIlld making base hits. Hennie Krug, how ever. came to the rescue by knocking down base hit and throwing run ner out at the plate. After this inning he steadied down and pitched excel lent ball, also accepting five chances.
 The San Franciscos deserve more than ordinary credit for yesterdays victory, being sadly crippled without their star players, Murphy and Mona ham, They went into the game, how ever, as they always do, determined to win or die in the attempt, and al- though Mir. Balsz was unreasonably generous with his wild throws when they would do the most harm. that fact should not lessen the glory of the victory. Never give up until the game Is over" is the motto of the Frisco team, and playing to win when the game was apparently lost is what land- ed victory on their side. To Dunleavy is due the credit of making the hit that won the game, and what pretty hit it was, going clear to the right center field fence. It happened in the seventh inning, the score at this stage being to in favor of Santa Cruz. Pyne, the first man up, led off with a clean hit to right field, and made second while McGrath was fumbling the ball. Egan, the next man in order, hit the ball to Balsz, who picked it up and threw it ten feet over Devereaux's head, en- deavoring to catch Pyne, who was making for third. Before the ball was recovered Pyne had scored, and Eagan rested on third. Then came Dunleavy, who strengthened out one of Baltz's curves for two bases, sending Eagan home with the winning run. It was a