The record-union., 1899-08-07
PHOENIXES DOWN ATHLETICS
LIVELY BATTLE BETWEEN THE
LOCAL TEAMS.
Proposition Made by the Latter to
Form q Local Amateur
League.

nine go down before the Phoenix
heavyweights at the Oak Park diamond
yesterday afternoon.
| And the game was for blood. Each
team believed in it's ability to defeat
the other, and so believing entered into
an agreement whereby the winner was
to take all the gate receipts and the
loser all the consolation to be derived
from telling what might have been.
Then, too, each team hung up $25 for
the winner to pull down, and because
| they were mutilated and scalped in the
| most approved style, there is mourn
! ing in the camp of the Athletes.
Six to four was what the Phoenix did
to the Athletes, and because they did
it their pockets are bullying and they
see the world through painted glass and
place choice laurel upon the brow of
the Goddess Fortune
The game was a good one. Not so
good as some put up by the hired stran-
gers who represent this city in the Pa
| cific Coast League, and great deal
| better than some. 1t was game play
ed by local amateur talent, and de-
served more patronage than it got.
In the first inning, Waterman, the
big first baseman of the Phoenix team,
was injured and retired in favor of
Ruser, and therein fortune befriended
| the Phoenix Ruser is stem winder,
and gobbled up all kinds of grounders
| and skyscrapers without apparent eff
fort. The work of Ruser at first and
Ridley at second were easily the feat
ures of the game. Ridley is improving
and he plays ball all the time. He
backs up everybody, from the catcher
to the left fielder, and in all of his
chances picked UP only one error,
which was on a hard chance.
Fitzgerald is a good one in the box,
and while he was a bit nervous at criti
cal times, managed to keep his head
and held the hard hitting Athletics
down to six hits Shields, too, pitched
good ball, and a majority of the ten
hits made off his delivery, at least half,
were on the scratch order.
Treichler at short had an off day, and
while he made some fanciful stops,
picked up three errors, all of which
were costly. But Fissell, the Red Bluffs
boy who watched the short station for
the Phoenix, had his share of misery.
He too had three errors chalked up to
but they were not costly George New
bert was wild in throwing to first, and
was responsible for a number of Phoe-
nix men anchoring at first.
The Athletics infield, with the excep-
| ton Of Will Newbert was listless.
They lacked ginger and too often for
got what to do with the ball when they
got it. 1t gave a poor exhibition of
team work and seemed to be without a
captain. Its players bumped into one
| another on several occasions and the
snap and go usually shown by them
was conspicuous by it's absence
On the other hand, the Phoenix boys
had an eye on the gate receipts and
the side bet from start to finish. They
never lost sight of the bag of ducats.
They were in the game all the time, and
an error meant a quick retrieve. There
is only one thing to be said concerning
them, and that is that they outplayed
the Athletes.
The Phoenix boys began to play the
game early. In the second, Ruser and
H. Theilen each slashed safe hits into
the outfield, and scored on Buffers
long fy-out to Harmon.
Again in the fourth, Theilen banged
a safe hit into right field and pur-
Joined the second cushion a moment
later. Butler hit down to George New
bert and was safe, Theilen on third.
Lagomarsino Succumbed to Shields
curves and shoots. Butler stole sec
ond and went to third on Treich-
ler's tumble of Fitzgerald's drive,
and Theilen scored. Ridley flew
to Wiseman, who promptly muffed it,
and the bases were full. Fissell drop
ped safe one into the center garden,
and Butler and Fitzgerald crossed the
plate, while Ridley was getting
pinched between second and third.
The Athletes took three of their four
runs in the fourth. Pope sent one to
Butler and was safe on the tumble,
took second on Treichler's safe drive
to center field, and third on Payen's
grounder to second, where Treichler
was pinched and scored on Cowden's
wild throw to shut him out at third.
Wiseman struck three times and out:
Mott was hit and walked, and Han
non hit safe to center field, scoring
Payen and Mott.
The Phoenix took their last tally in
the eighth, and the Athletes wound
up with one in the ninth.
The Athletics are undaunted. They
suggest that a series of games be ar
ranged, to take in the Athletics, Phoe-
nix, Masons and Folsom teams, and
that each aggregation hang up 500.