The record-union., 1899-09-04
A SNAP FOR THE LEADERS.
SACRAMENTO TAKES ANOTHER
FROM THE WASPS.
Eitzpatrick's Curves Did Not Fool
the Local BattePs to Any
Extent.

Sacramento II, San Francisco z.
That was the score at the close Of
hostilities at the Oak Park diamond
yesterday afternoon.
IT was a snap Harris men were
ducks for Harvey, and on the other
hand Fitzpatrick was good thing on
which the Gifts fattened their batting
average.
There is one thing to be said in favor
Of the locals, they know a good thing
when they see it. Fifteen hits were
what they did to Fitzpatrick, eleven OF
which were singles, three doubles, one
triple and two home runs. Eagan and
Shanahan each succeeded in dropping
the bail over the left field fence, and
each received So 80 for their effort.
But Harvey was the same old ring
puzzle he was in '91. If a San Fran
cisco man touched him it was acciden-
tai His was an extra choice collection
of curves and shoots, and he was as
steady as clockwOrk. The blonde youth
of red sweater fame was himself again,
and there was only one Richard in the
game yesterday.
The fireworks commenced early and
the home team easily won the game in
the first inning, and then, just to show
how they could play Charley Horse
with the visitors, kept on pegging.
1t was a sorroWful sight to see Fitz-
patrick tie himself ileto knots in seven
teen different languages and then turn
loose a shot which would stop at the
plate and go rolling out to. against or
over the fence.
Uncle Harris wept. He expected
great things before the teams lined up,
but his expectations withered like corn
before hot norther. He sat upon the
bench with his players through half of
the trouble and then left attempting
TO conceal his sorrow behind a 3x5
smile, which only emphasized the dis
tress lines. Poor Uncle!'
Two men loomed up on the battle
lines as giants, and they alternated at
the second station. They were Stulz
and Brockoff Out of eleven chances
Stulz took ten, and out of twelve,
Brockoff took eleven, and while each
man slipped up on one, both errors were
excusable.
The San Francisco people have lost
nothing and gained much by the resig-
nation of O'Neill and the signing or
Brockoff and had Mr.. Harris secured
McCarty TO assist Krug, the erratic, he
would have had as strong a field as
there is in the league. Krug, by the
way, plays an excellent game at short
much Of the time, but when he has
day off, he is away off. He was away
off yesterday, and the way he man
aged to let grounders pass between his
legs was cause for great rejoicing
among the local cranks.
In the first inning Mclaughlin
started the trouble by rasDing out a
two-bagger to right field. Harvey
drove one to Krug and was out to Sui
livan, and O'Connor shot a safe
one between second and short and Nc
Laughlin scored. O'Connor went down
TO second on a passed ball, and took
third on FitZpatrick's wide throw to
Krug. Then Truckerino Eagan picked
out one of Fitzpatrick's incest offerings
and dropped It over the fence, for
home run, shooing O'Connor in before
him
In the third the locals piled up four
1allies, and in the fourth three more,
after which Fitzpatrick settled down
and pitched good ball, with the result
that only once again did the locals
cross the plate, and that was away
over in the eighth round, near the close
of the difficulty.
1t was in the third that "Old Hoss''
Shanahan. after Pretty Charley Doyle
had succeeded in getting accustomed to
the second cushion. sailed beauty
over the fence, to the CONSERVATION of
Muller, who did the left garden trick
Timothy 90 H." has been doing great
work of late, both at the bat and in
the field. and the fact that he is one
of the king pins of the team should
not for a moment be forgotten.
Mclaughlin. too, is connecting with
the ball regularly for long, safe drives,
and in fielding is a star actor. while on
the bases he is the pick of the flock.
With Mac in left. Tim in center and
"Old Silent or Pretty Charley" in
right. a stronger outfield would be hard
to find even when Brooklyn and Pitts
burg come together.
The San Francisco people gathered
in one run in the sixth and another in
the eighth inning but there they
stopped.
Sacramento has taken seven straight
games from San Francisco, and by 50
doing has passed the 500 mark in the
percentage column, and while Sacra-
merto has been moving no, Oakland
has been similarly employed, and while
the latter team is bearing the banner
with a bread margin between them and
the next ahead. it IS an even shot that
ahe Dudes land in second place. They
seem now to be the only people the
Gilts need to fear
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