The record-union., 1899-05-21
DOWN, DOWN, DERRY! DOWN.!
THE GILT EDGES IN A BOTTOM
LESS PIT.
Those Sugar Beet Ball Tossers Hold
Them Down to the Tune
of S to 1.

Them Down to the Tune
of 5 to 1.
The banner bearers" took another
shy at the toboggan yesterday. They
were up against the real thing again,
but they went down fighting. Score
Watsonville 5, hits Z, errors /; GILT
Edges l, hits D. errors 4. No flowers,
no tears, no regrets.
1t was George Harper's game, and ne
played 1t to the end. The veteran was
too Wiley for Mr.. Kripp's hlred
strangers. He worked the husky gifts
to perfection, and had he not won his
SPURS many years ago he would nave
done so yesterday. He was an enigma
and when the fact is stated-sorroW-
fully stated-that Charley Doyle-Pret-
ty Charley Doyle-"Truck" Eagan and
Hennie Stulz, the hardest hitters in the
team, each faced the music thrice, and
each thrice went down before his
curves, unhonored and un-hung, the
story is told Harper pitched the great
est game seen here this season, and
only "Old Hoss' Shanahan's scratch
hit in the seventh inning saved the
was touched for five hits, struck out
ten men and gave four men bases on
balls.
Harvey was just a bit wild and was
ragged in his field work. He picked up
one error and was at times as awkward
as a member of the Courthouse team.
He was touched for seven clean hits,
three falling in succession in the fifth
INNING His aJ1rVPS however were eff
fective, and he retired seven sugar beet
men on strikes, and gave four of them
a base on balls.
But Harper had a. stone wall behind
him and Harveys support was stringy.
Only one error was chalked up to the
visitors, that being picked up by Nc
Carly, who took a dozen other chances
without a skip. The Gifts took four
errors, but regardless of that the visit
ors took the game by clean, hard hit
ting and by the inability of the locals
to connect with Harper's streaks. The
game was played this way:
Stulz hit to McCarty and died an easy
death at first Silent" Harvey flew to
McCarty and was a shining mark
Whalen hit to McCarty and beat the
ball to frst-according to the umpire,
s though the crown Was lIlcllUeQ TO play
the part of Peter who was a
doubter. Charley Doyle went to the
plate, and Whalen stole second, doing
the trick neatly Doyle ended the trou-
BILE by flying to Courtney, who took the
chance, and the Gifts took a goose egg.
For the Watsonvilles Brockoff, who
is we'll known here dropped one to
Harvey and took a nap on the bench.
McCarty, the nimple short stop, waited
till the balls passed by and walked, and
Courtney repeated the performance.
Harvey was just bit wild, but looked
savage. Selma came up and Courtney
was caught off first. The rally ended in
his being safe on second, with McCarty
out at third Stanley doing a neat bit
of head work. Selma then hit to first,
and beat the ball out and Courtney
scored. Flake hit to short and Selma
died at second, and the score was l to o.
Eagan in the second took a base be-
cause Harper couldn't see the plate. He
went to second on Stanley's sacrifice,
and to third passed ball Nc
Laughlin drove one into Harper's stom-
ach and was safe on first Harper was
badly knocked out. but recovered, and
continued the play, and Brick was
credited with "a hit Shanahan faced
the music and Mclaughlin stole second.
Shanahan flew to Hayes in left field
who shot the ball to the plate shutting
out Eagan, and the chance was over.
Morrow for the visitors failed to con-
meet with Harvey's curves, and the
latter was given the first strike out.
Hayes hit safe into the right garden for
a base and stole second without an ef
fort Rice fouled to Mclaughlin and
Harper took base on balls. Brockoff
flew to Sheehan and the gloom was dis
sipated.
In the third. Tommy Sheehan for the
Gifts popped one into the air which
McCarty gobbled Stulz took three
strikes and out. Harvey hit safe over
second base for a bag, but a minute
later was caught between first and sec
ond and was an easy game, Harper
carrying off the honors of his demise.
For the visitors McCarty flew a hard
one to Truck Eagan and quit early,
and Courtney hit the wind three times
and rested from his labors Selma ended
the trouble by flying out to Sheehan.
Whalen was the first to face Har-
per's music in the fourth and hit safe
into the right field, while Harvey
waved his red sweater and howled
along the coaching line. Doyle covered
a patch of Harpers uniform with glory
by tanning out. Eagan came up and
Whalen stole second. Eagan succumbed
TO Harper's curves, and Stanley popped
a high one to Rice.
In the visitors half of the fourth,
Plake could not touch the Harveyized
curves and was out. Morrow hit an
easy one to Stulz and died at first, and
Hayes hit to Harvey who beat him to
first.
In the first half of the fifth. Brick"
Mclaughlin hit to Selma and was out
on first. Shanahan flew a foul one
which Rice took in out of the damp,
and Sheehan ended matters by striking
out.
For the Watsonvilles Rice struck out
and Harper poked the ball over Shana
hans head for two bags-the first of the
game. Brockoff hit safe to center field
and Harper scored. Brockoff taking
second on the throw-in McCarty also