The record-union., 1899-08-28
AN ELEVEN INNING GAME.
WITNESSED BY AN IMMENSE
CROWD OF PEOPLE.
The Sacramentos Make a Stand-OR
With the WatsonviI1e
Team.

Sacramento 5, Watsonville 4. Eleven
innings and no extra charge. 1t was
a checkered game of baseball, that at
Oak Park yesterday afternoon, and
the local people should return thanks
for the errors picked up by the Babies
! from the beet district Rube Levy
should also come in for a bouquet.
The game was won and lost four or
five times, and the great crowd enjoyed
the sport. There was excitement to go
around and some to spare, but when
it was all over a majority of those
present wondered how it happened.
That Grandpa Harper did not win
| his game was the fault of his field.
The veteran, while he gave several of
the Gilts free transportation to first,
pitched steady sure, winning game,
and except for stupid blunders of the
men behind him, would have won out,
hands down. He was found for a half
dozen hits only, and while he retired
only two men on strikes, the locals could
do little effective business with his
shoots and curves. Had Harvey and
his hoodoo been in the box instead OF
Doyle and his cupid, Grandpa would
! have had a walk-over The old man
served up q choice collection of offer
! ings
Doyle pitched a steady uphill game,
but his curves We're not what they
used to be- The Infants found him for
ten hits, many of which were made
when hits counted.
Stulz, McCarty and Brockoff were the
pick of the herd, and their lightning
work was a revelation. McCarty is
just a little the speediest shortstop who
has played here this season, and his
recovery after fielding a ball is mar
velous.
Stanley put up great game behind
the bat, while Morrow for the visitors.
did good work, but took desperate
chances and picked up two costly er-
rors
The local people took a good lead in
the first inning. Grandpa gave Nc
Laughlin a free pass to first, and
Harvey hit a slow bounder to Brock
off and beat the ball to the initial, and
while the try was being made Nc
Laughlin kept saving wood and got to
/
O'Connor faced the music and Harvey
started out to purloin the second bag.
Then Morrow lost his head. Forgetting
Sprinter Mclaughlin at third he threw
the ball over Billings head, and Court
eney, who was backing up the play, let
it roll out into the calf lot. Mclaughlin
had crossed the plate before the sphere,
and Harvey stumped around lazily,
with the second tally While Courteney
was dazing the audience with his jug
Cling act. Harper looked forlorn, but
kept his temper The rest was easy.
Big Mike" dropped one to McCarty,
Eagan went out at first via McCarty.
and Stanley was swamped by Hayes
out in left field. And then the locals
rested on what the had done. and took
no more tallies until the eighth.
In the second, the Watties took run.
With two hands out, Billings drove
a safe one to center field for a bag,
single. Then Harper dropped one to
Shanahan, who being in a big trance.
muffed it, and Billings scored.
Nothing of Importance happened un-
til the eighth when the locals fattened
their string by one button. Harvie
hoped a slow one to McCarty and was
at first ahead of the bag. He started
for second, and Morrow again did his
little act of exhibition throwing and
Harve went on to third. Harper gave
O'Connor a base on balls, and EagaE
sent one to McCarty, who nipped
O'Connor at second, but the latter
blocked the supple shortstops lead for
| a double. and Harvey scored.
But in their half of the eighth, the
Watties took sweet revenge Hayes hit
safe to the infeld for a life and took
third on Harper's safe drive TO right
field. Brockoff, for the sake of variety,
struck out and McCarty drove a hot
liner along second and reached that
station while the Sacramentos were
getting the ball to first in a futile at
tempt to shut out Hayes and Harper.
and the score was tied. Then Court
eney lined one to Stulz who first fun
bled it and then added to his sin by
throwing wild to first, and in the mean
time McCarty scored, and the FOCAL
| people were one point to the bad.
But in the ninth, Croll, the visitors
left fielder, lost the game for his peo-
pie. Stanley hoped a slow one to
Brockoff and beat the ball out, and
Doyle was out on his infield fly to Har-
per. Shanahan sacrificed to Harper,
landing Stanley on second, and then
! Croll did his grand spectacular Two
men were out and Stulz flew beauty
to Croll. who was in dream He looked
at the ball, lifted his hands to grasp it
and then watched it slip between his
fingers to the hard. hard ground. and
Stanley crossed the plate and the score
was tied.
In their half Of the inning the In
fants failed to do anything in particu-
lar, and the tenth inning passed with
out damage to either team Then came
| the finish.
Stanley sent nice one to Hayes and
viewed the rest of the contest from the
bench. Harper gave Doyle a base on
balls and Shanahan Topped a two
bagger to the left field fence. bringing
in Doyle. The visitors failed to score
and the game was over. The score fol-
! lows:
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