The record-union., 1899-08-27
FIRST GLASS BALL PLAYING.
AND THE wATSoNvILLEs PUT
TT ON THE LOCALS.
The Score Was Three to Two, and
1t Was Anybody's Game Up
to the Last.

The Sacramentos were up against the
real thing yesterday afternoon. IheT
string of victories was uncermoniously
snapped in twain, and the Watsonvllle
Infants did the swapping. Ten innings,
with the score of ) to Z.
The big braves from the sugar beet
district are not strangers. They nave
been here before and have seldom fall-
ed to leave sorrow in their track. They
are rather a cyclonic parcel of infants,
and have a peculiar habit of calling
the turn which is not good for the
nerves of Sacramento rooters.
1t was great ball by great artists and
while it is a sorrowful task to tell a
tale of defeat, the bitterness is lessen
ed by the knowledge that it came from
strong hands. The Watsonville people
have no license to defeat the locals,
but on the other hand the locals have
no cinch on the Babies. They are no
toothless lot of squallers, as their title
would indicate, but a husky, decent,
gentlemanly crowd who play ball all
the time and never say die until it is
all done and laid away.
No individual player was entitled to
bouquets at the expense of his fell
lows. 1t was star game played by
stars, and the few errors picked up
were as sauce to the turkey. Ball
games, like lives, would be dreary af-
fairs if no errors were chalked up, par
ticularly when both pitchers are enig
mas of the deepest dye. All of which
leads to the text: 'It was a pitchers
scrap
The silent blonde from the land of the
sidewinder never in his life did neater
work than he panned out yesterday,
and that the game was lost was no
fault of his. His curves, shoots, drops
and streaks were things to tell about
on winter evenings, and his wonderful
control and speed were never eXcelled,
even by Our Jay" Harvey is still the
same wonder he was in '97-only he
knows more. Up to the eighth inning
the visitors had not even the suspicion
of a hit off his delivery, and only
one man, Brockoff, had reached first
by the free transportation line. Four
hits We're all the Watsonvilles did to
Harv, and while they were at it he
scalped eight braves at the plate.
And Jimmy Whalen was a close sec
ond. He is no slouch if his clothes
don't fit, and the kind of work he did
yesterday would warm the cookies in
the gizzard of even the most calloused
crank. He is past master in the art
when he doesn't get ratified, and Nor
row and Brockoff helped him keep his
head yesterday. Six hits were all the
hard-hitting locals got from him, and
he succeeded in striking out four of
them. He was given excellent support
by his team, and pitched winning ball
from start to finish
Just one double play was made in
the game, and for it, Brockoff. the
jolly third baseman of the Watsonvilles,
was responsible He picked up
smoky grounder. touched out a runner
between second and third and dropped
the ball into Selna's nit in time to
catch the batter. Brockoff is fast be-
coming a favorite with the Sacramento
cranks. He is a good coach, never loses
his temper and smiles though the fates
frown
Harvey cracked out the only two
base hit of the game-the only hit of
the game, in fact which landed cafe
in the outfiefd
Though the locals had chances for
runs in the third and fourth innings.
they stunned the audience by falling to
connect, but in the fifth they man
aged to get a man over the rubber
Shanahan flew long one to Courteney,
who muffed it, and as Stulz squared
off the "Old Hoss' stole second Stulz
struck the wind three times and took
a nap on the bench, and Sheehan bat
ted hot liner through Whelan's
fingers and was safe; Shanahan on
third. Mclaughlin sent long one to
Courteney and 80. H" scored on the
out
Up to the eighth it looked as though
the score would be / to O with Sacra-
mento on top, but looks are deceptive.
In their half of that inning Watson
Vile tied the score and did it this
way: Morrow hit one down to Sheehan
and beat the ball TO the initial Bill
ings went against the atmosphere
thrice. and Morrow purloined the Sec
ond bag. Hayes hit down to O'Connor.
who first fumbled the ball and then