The record-union., 1899-07-23
CRABS WERE TOO FAST.
+ THE sACRAdENTos IN A
CLOSE GAME.
tn Pitchers Had an OF Day
OConnor's First Appear
ance Here.

1OOh We'll Ou paper, bdI
4oohs are deceptive. The game was as
Slow as ninety DAYS on the chain gang,
ana as tedious as the rule of three to
q beginner.
Even Brick Devereaux, with all his
ginger, could not lift the contest above
coniinonplace, and at times let it drop
Tar below it.
several things were at fault. In the
nrst place the grounds were as hard
as Pharoahs heart and hits which ordi-
Aarlly would have been easy outs
touched earth only to bound over the
heads of the fielders and hide in the
Iennel Had the grounds been in con-
dltion the score would have been diff
1erent, but the result would have re-
manned the same. The Grabs out.
played the local people at nearly every
point, and that is not saying much in
their favor.
And the gunners were easy. The boys
from the cove where the little waves
frolic landed on Harvey's curves with
utter abandon reckless freedom and
with them there was evidently pre-
concerted conspiracy to knock him out
of the box. And the conspirators did
their work well. They Strengthened out
the curves offered up by the blonde
boy from the side-winder country, and
kept the local people hopping around
to the tune of base hits.
So it happened that at the end of tho
fifth round the visitors having taken
thirteen hits, which netted them seven
runs. and which included an over-the-
fencer by the irrepressible Devereaux
Harvey went out into the right garden
to think it over. and Charlie Doyle, the
married man, oiled the slab for the re-
mainder of the game.
But Balsz, the redoubtable Louis, was
also in distress. While Harvey had
been touched for thirteen safe ones,
Balsz was only one behind. Seven OF
these, however, were made in the fourth
inning, four being infield bunts which
Louis ought to have captured, but fail
ed to connect with. Those seven hits
netted the locals six runs, and as up
to that time the Grabs had spiked
the plate but twice the cranks rested
easy, imagining that it was all over.
but it wasn't. In their half of the
fourth the visitors pegged one, and in
the fifth, with two men out and two
on bases, Harvey gave Arrelanes base
on balls, filling the cushions. Then the
fireworks began. Kleiber, the lugger-
rugged shortstop, smote the ball over
Hennie Stulz for a base and Clark and
brennan crossed the chalk. Balsz toed
the scratch and tore off a two-bagger
into center field, scoring Arrelanes and
Kleiber, and the score was to q, with
the Santa Cruz boys to the good.
And so they remained until the end.
In the sixth they fattened their string
by two donations, on Streib's safe drive
g. I. l. <1T nrn,
mans grounder, a passed ball by STAN
ley and Haynes strong drive to center
field That was all done while Pretty
Charlie was engineering the curves, but
the inning gave him the necessary
practice, and thereafter the Beach
ascombers scored TO more at ALL
In the ninth inning the local inno-
cents tried to lift themselves from the
mine hole and very nearly succeed
ed Eagan dropped one in the center
garden for life. and Stanley poked one
to the right field for a base, anchoring
Truck on second. Shanahan next
placed a safe one over second base and
Eagan scored. Stulz flew to brennan
and Stanley scored, and Shanahan
knocked out the chance of tieing the
score by getting caught at third.
O'Connor the big local first baseman,
put up a good game. and was we'll re,
ceived by the crowd, while Stulz at sec
ond got in the game and did some re-
markably clever work. But the star of
the day was Drennen. the center fielder
for Santa Cruz. 1t was his day. The
chances fell to him thick and fast and
he took all of them. He is a reminder
of Bobbie McHale when the latter was
in his baseball prime, and it is owing
to such men as he that Santa Cruz
leads the league and took yesterday
game from Sacramento.
The annexed chart tells the story
from the official scorers point of view: