The record-union., 1899-11-26
The LOBSTERS NOT IN IT.
A COLD GAME ON A RATHER
COLD DAY.
Gilt Edge Men Take Hard FAN
Out of the Santa Cruz
Ball-Tossers.

Regardless of the cherries gray
clouds driven before the searching South
wind, good sized Saturday crown
gathered at the Oak Park diamond yes.
terday afternoon and watched the 1ii'
Edge people wipe up the grouho VIII"
+. Brick Devereaux's ''Lobsters.
Seven innings. Score-Gilt Edge Io'
Santa Cruz 2, and nobody seemed TO pe
sorry when Umpire Jack OCohlle'i
closed down proceedings on account VI
the approaching night.
1t was a cold, raw, breezy, disagree
able day, and the spectators klcheu tic
benches and howled to keep warm.
Devereaux, it is true, tried to Joliy mat
ters along, and succeeded fairly Wei'
but the game his aggregation Oh nlslilS
put up was on par with the Weather
raw. 1t was a game between the Gilt
Edges of Sacramento and the Santa
Cruz Comedy Company, with DeVe-
reaux in the title role.
The sand Crabs are not what they
used to be- A number of finds have
been picked up who do not add to the
strength of the combine, and great
deal of the playing put up by the visit
ors was ragged to the verge of awful
ness.
The husky locals didn't do thing to
Andrews, who did the pitching for the
visitors. They landed at will ana base
hits and double headers were the rule,
instead of the exception. Fifteen hits,
seven of which were two-baggers, net
ted fifteen runs, and that virtually tells
the story of the game. Doyle was very
effective and kept the few hits made
off his delivery we'll scattered.
While the local people put up a good.
strong game, there was not that snap
and vigor about it which would have
followed had there been doubt as to the
outcome. The two runs made by the
visitors were in the nature of gifts.
The Sacramentos won the game hands
down in the first inning, when by time
ly hitting they brought in four runs
And the fireworks never ceased. In the
second inning they rolled up three more
and then for variety they let down in
the third and fourth and contented
their souls with goose EGGS. In the fifth
they limbered up and took two more
and in the sixth they let oalt another
link, taking four, and winding up in the
seventh with another pair. Had the
game lasted the regulation nine innings
and had the locals tried themselves it is
they would have made.
The "Lobsters'' took their runs one
in the third, the other in the seventh
inning.
Harvey and Whalen will do the pitch
ing at to-days game, and the silent,
fair-haired youngster from the land of
the sidewinder and horned toad will be
presented with valuable diamond stud
as a testimonial of the esteem in which
he is held among his working mates.
Mike O'Connor was not in yesterdays s
game. Early during the week, while
practicing, he succeeded in breaking a
finger and Menaffee, who during the
season played with the Rocllin team,
guarded the initial and did *ery well
considering the company he was in.
Before the game commenced Captain
Frank Ruhstaller, who since it's organ
ization has stood sponsor for the club,
showed his appreciation of the work
of the boys in very substantial man
ner Each member of the club was pre-
sented with a purse containing 500
$500 in ALL
The diagram appended hereto shows
just how completely the Gilt Edges
wiped up the earth with the 'Lobsters":