The record-union., 1898-08-08
CASE OF THIRTEEN TO SIX.
AND THE FRESNO TEAM WENT
DOWN IN THE DUST.
The Gilt Edges Strengthen Their
Position In the Pennant
Race.

Fifteen hundred people gazed and
yelled and changed position and filled
their best clothes with splinters from
the bleacherS for two mortal hours and
thirty-five fleeting minutes at Snow
flake Park yesterday afternoon, as it
took the Gilt Edges just that period
of time to wallop Fresno's variegated
ball team to the tune Of 13 to 6.
| At the first glance, 13 to 6 might
not seem to be strictly inspiring
theme, but that it received more ap-
plause than was ever given by like
sized crowd when Is to 1 appeared on
the bulletin boards, leaves suspicion
that it was popular
1t was all kinds of a game and it
would take connosseur to determine
which kind was in the lead at the wind
up. There were great, big, long hits;
there were bright, snappy, gingery
| plays; there were errors enough to
make a Second-street Terror hang over
the fence and cast his dinner to the
winds; there We're the rankest decis-
| ions ever made by an umpire on
Sacramento diamond (though the UNI
pire, poor man, was evidently doing the
| best he knew how, and divided his
blunders up pretty evenly between the
| two teams), and last, but not least,
| there was a victory for the Gilt Edges,
won because George Borchers, when
touched for two hits in the sixth inning,
| went into the air.
| Borchers is just as he was when he
played with the old Atlas years and
years ago. He was then great until
somebody got a hit off his delivery,
and then he became as wild as an in
surgent, and kept on insurging worse
and worse until hopeless defeat came
to his nine. He followed the usual
course yesterday. Borchers, by the
way, signed with Stockton yesterday,
and will do the insurgent act with that
aggregation the remainder Of the sea-
son.
And the Fresno people had Buck"
Hughes in their ranks, more'S the pity.
They started in to play him in right
field, until their left fielder slipped up
on an easy one, when he was sent over
into the important territory. But
alas, and alack. Buck is not and
never was a success in the outfeld He
had four beautiful chances, one Of
which, with the aid Of his capacious
chest, he captured. The other three
escaped. Had the Fresnoites played
Buck" at second, the result might
have been different
Little Mangerina, who stood behind
the bat and picked up the streaks that
Borchers sent in, was the idol Of the
crowd. He is plucky, courteous and
smiling. and beyond all he plays ball.
Up to the sixth inning the visitors
had the game well in hand, and the
Gilt Edge rooters were on uneasy seats.
They groaned and squirmed and did
the sackcloth and ashes act, and be-
tween whiles said it was "all Off" The
'raisin belters'' had four bulky, SUBJ
stantial runs chalked up to their cred
it, while the locals had one puny tally.
But in the sixth the break came.
Borchers again demonstrated that he
could not stand punishment, and the
score was tied.
In the first inning Kid Peoples took
the initiative by going up against the
wind three times and then taking
seat on the stool Of repentance. Hutch
inson raped a safe one into the left
garden for two bases and purloined the
third cushion without detection. Doyle
flew to Thomas and Hutchinson scored
on the out.
In their half of the inning the Wis
men out, Buck" Hughes got a base
on balls, and Borchers dropped safe
one between short and third. Conrad
also lined out a safe one, and the bases
were full. Moore also lit onto Harvey
for a safe hit, and Buck and Borch-
ers crossed the plate, and the score
was to l.
From that time until the awful sixth
the Gifts were unable to connect with
the shells sent in by Gunner Borchers,
but in their half of the third the
Fresno people distributed more gloom
in the Gilts' camp, and they did 1t this
way:
Courtenay flew out to Charlie Doyle,
who demonstrated how to drop a warm
one, and the batter was safe on the
second cushion. Buck" landed on
nothing in particular, and then sat
down. Borchers got a base on balls,
proving that a waiting game is often
a good one, and Conrad hit to Hutch
inson. who tossed the ball to Shana-
han, who dropped it, and the bases
We're full. Moore struck out, and Har-
vey gave Thomas a base on balls, fore
ing Courtenay over the plate. Man
gerina fired a hot one to Lochhead,
who fumbled it, and Borchers scored.
and the score stood 4 to L.
But in the sixth, with two men out,
the locals gathered a full crop of glory.
Lochhead sent one to Courtenay, and
was safe on the latter's low throw.
Dennie drove one into center field for
two stations, and Lochhead scored. |
Then Borland, the star fielder, tried to
loosen a board on the rear fence and |
swung around to third, and Dennie |
pegged one, and a moment later |
Peoples rolled one between Courtenay's |
legs, and Borland romped home.
In the seventh the Gilts rolled up I
three, in the eighth four, and in the |
ninth two, while the visitors We're bat |
ting out two in the eighth.
The locals touched up Borchers for |
thirteen hits, and made two errors, and |
the visitors pounded Harvey, who had |
an off day, for nine hits, and made |
eight errors.
The accompanying map will show |
where the thirteen-inch shells landed,
and give other information respecting